Trouble with City Planning - by Kristina Ford (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A groundbreaking look at the successes--and great failures--of city planning, from New Orleans' former director of city planning</b><br /><br /> After the vast destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans faces a rare chance to rebuild, wit<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A thoughtful, engaging, and cautionary account of the interaction of professional planners, politicians, developers, and citizens in contemporary American cities. The message that planning can and must do better with respect to daily decision making, as well as big and recalcitrant but now urgent problems, and that informed citizens are crucial to this, is timely and important."--Alan Plattus, Yale University --Alan Plattus<br><br>"Kristina Ford makes sense out of the misguided planning efforts that have bedevilled post-Katrina New Orleans, and provides valuable suggestions for how our cities should be planned in the future--more democratically and more effectively."--Witold Rybczynski, author of "Last Harvest"<BR><BR>--Witold Rybczynski<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Kristina Ford</b> is Visiting Professor of Public Policy Leadership at the University of Mississippi. In 2010-2011 she was the chief of staff to New Orleans' deputy mayor, who is responsible for all efforts to rebuild the city and to plan for its continuing development.
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