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Planning the Great Metropolis - The 1929 regional plan of New York and its environs (Paperback)
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Planning the Great Metropolis - The 1929 regional plan of New York and its environs (Paperback)
Series: Planning, History and Environment Series
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As the Regional Plan Association embarks on a Fourth Regional Plan,
there can be no better time for a paperback edition of David
Johnson's critically acclaimed assessment of the 1929 Regional Plan
of New York and Its Environs. As he says in his preface to this
edition, the questions faced by the regional planners of today are
little changed from those their predecessors faced in the 1920s.
Derided by some, accused by others of being the root cause of New
York City's relative economic and physical decline, the 1929 Plan
was in reality an important source of ideas for many projects built
during the New Deal era of the 1930s. In his detailed examination
of the Plan, Johnson traces its origins to Progressive era and
Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago. He describes the making of
the Plan under the direction of Scotsman Thomas Adams, its
reception in the New York Region, and its partial realization. The
story he tells has important lessons for planners, decision-makers
and citizens facing an increasingly urban future where the physical
plan approach may again have a critical role to play.
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