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Book SynopsisFrom 1969 to 1979, Cleveland's city planning staff under Norman Krumholz's leadership conducted a unique experiment in equity oriented planning. This book provides a detailed personal account of a sustained and effective equity-planning practice that influenced urban policy.
Trade Review"No planner, I predict, will be able to consider his education complete during the next decade or so who has not grappled vicariously with the dilemmas Krumholz faced."—
Alan A. Altshuler, from the Foreword
"Fascinating, illuminating war stories from the nation's most creative and progressive (ex)municipal planning director, capped by an intelligent and useful set of 'lessons.'"—
Chester W. Hartman, Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies, and Chair, Planner Network
"In this extraordinary book, Norman Krumholz and John Forester team up to enlighten those seeking a progressive approach to planning on how to interpret the Clevland experience. Krumholz provides an analytic chronicle of his role as Cleveland's planning director under three mayors and of his efforts to plan on behalf of the city's impoversithed majority. Forester examines the Cleveland story from the perspective of a planning theorist whose focus is how planning can serve people with relatively little political influence. Together the authors identify the opportunities that exist within the urban governmental structure. They conclude that planning and politics are not antithical and that an astute political strategy depends on sound professionalism. This well-written book is required reading for both students and practitioners of planning." —
Susan S. Fainstein, Rutgers University
Table of ContentsForeword - Alan A. Altshuler Preface Part I: Experience 1. Planning in Cleveland 2. Inheriting a Staff and Building a New One 3. Writing the Policy Planning Report 4. Euclid Beach 5. Regional Issues and the Clark Freeway 6. Low-and Moderate-Income Housing 7. Tax Delinquency and Land Banking 8. Regional Transit and a Committed Planning Presence 9. The Downtown People Mover 10. A State Lakefront Park System for Cleveland 11. Helping Cleveland's Neighborhood Organizations 12. Improving Planning, Management, and Administration in Other City Agencies Part II: Lessons 13. Possibilities 14. To Be Professsionally Effective, Be Politically Articulate 15. Evaluation, Ethics, and Traps Index
