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Best Books About Land Use
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THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN CITIES The classical critique of urban renewal, official city planning, and monumental Robert Moses-style plans. more info... |
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• A New Deal For New York by Mike Wallace. Mike Wallace sets forth a bracingly optimistic program for regenerating not just Ground Zero but the whole metropolitan region. This mini-manifesto of fewer than 100 5-by-7-inch pages calls for an all-out government-supported program modeled after the sweeping initiatives of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. New York Times Book Review
• After The World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City by Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin (Editors). An architect and critic, Michael Sorkin, and Sharon Zukin, a sociologist at the CUNY Graduate Center, assemble a collection of 19 wide-ranging essays on reconceiving and reconstructing the site of the Twin Towers. New York Times Book Review
• City: Rediscovering the Center by William H. Whyte. In writing this book William Whyte is trying to come up with ideas on how to make public spaces more appealing without the use of abstract theory. He watches parks, bus stops, and town squares in an effort to figure out how to make them safer, more accessible, and cleaner.
• Out Of Ground Zero: Case Studies in Urban Reinvention by Joan Ockman (Editor). Architectural historian Joan Ockman has commissioned a superlative series of instructive case studies of cities that have suffered greater loss of life and property than New York did last year.New York Times Book Review
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