"These essays were previously published in Harvard Design Magazine, Harvard University Graduate School of Design; Peter G. Rowe, Dean, 1992-2004; Alan Altshuler, Dean, 2005-"--T.p. verso.
The return of urban renewal: Dan Doctoroff's grand plans for New York City / Susan S. Fainstein
Deadlock plus 50: on public housing in New York / Richard Plunz and Michael Sheridan
Democracy takes command: the new community planning and the challenge to urban design / John Kaliski
Can planning be a means to better architecture? Chicago's building boom and design quality / Lynn Becker
An anatomy of civic ambition in Vancouver: toward humane density / Leonie Sandercock
Paved with good intentions: Boston's central artery project and a failure of city building / Hubert Murray
Public planning and private initiative: the South Boston waterfront / Matthew J. Kiefer
Omaha by design-all of it: new prospects in urban planning and design / Jonathan Barnett
Is eminent domain for economic development constitutional? / Jerold S. Kayden
From new regionalism to the urban network: changing the paradigm of growth / Peter Calthorpe
Design by deception: the politics of megaproject approval / Bent Flyvbjerg.
Urban planning today : a Harvard design magazine reader. ISBN 9780816647576. Published by University of Minnesota Press in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.