What’s Missing from City Plans? Everything That Matters, Says Economist

If planning is to be helpful it must see cities first as the economic communities that they were at their beginning.

To read a set of plans leads one to the inescapable conclusion that the practice of city planning has escaped reality. Its highly stylized form, apparently reflective of a settled professional culture, is first and foremost a political document disguised as a physical plan for a specific locale. Alexander Garvin captures the cynical nature of it all in his new book "The Planning Game."

Carl Schramm

Full Story: http://www.forbes.com/sites/carlschramm/2013/05/14/its-time-for-city-planners-to-adapt-a-new-model/