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The Trouble With City Planning
Kristina Ford
What New Orleans Can Teach Us
Yale Univ Pr
September 2010
On Sale: August 30, 2010
288 pages
ISBN: 0300127359
EAN: 9780300127355
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
After the vast destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, New
Orleans faces a rare chance to rebuild, with an
unprecedented opportunity to plan what gets built. As the
city's director of planning from 1992 until 2000, Kristina
Ford is uniquely placed to use these opportunities as a
springboard for an eye-opening discussion of the
intransigent problems and promising possibilities facing
city planners across the nation and beyond. InThe Trouble
with City Planning,Ford argues that almost no part of our
usual understanding of the phrase "city planning" is
accurate: not our conception of the plan itself, nor our
sense of what city planners do or who plans are made for or
how planners determine what citizens want. Most important,
our conventional understanding does not tell us how a plan
affects what gets built in any city in America. Ford
advances several planning innovations that, if adopted,
could be crucial for restoring New Orleans, but also
transformative wherever citizens are troubled by the results
of their city's plan. This keenly intelligent book is
destined to become a classic for planners and citizens alike.
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