[ebooks] Travels in Intermedia[lity] (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture) by Bernd Herzogenrath in Arts-Photography

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Across the United States; issues such as sustainability; smart growth; and livable communities are making headlines. Planning for a New Century brings together leading thinkers in the fields of planning; urban design; education; welfare; and housing to examine those issues and to consider the ways in which public policies have helped createmdash;and can help solvemdash;many of the problems facing our communities.Each chapter identifies issues; provides background; and offers specific policy suggestions for federal; state; and local initiatives. Topics examined include: the relation of existing growth management policies to social equity; as well as how regional growth management measures can make new development more sustainable how an obscure technical procedure in highway design becomes a de facto regional plan ways in which local governments can promote environmental preservation and better-designed communities by rewriting local zoning and subdivision ordinances why alleviating housing shortages and slum conditions has resulted in a lack of affordable housing; and how that problem can be solved how business improvement districts can make downtowns cleaner; safer; and more welcoming to workers and visitorsIn addition; the book features chapters on public safety; education; and welfare reform that include proposals that will help make regional growth management easier as inner-city crime is reduced; schools are improved; and concentrations of extreme poverty are eliminated.Planning for the New Century brings together current academic research with pressing public policy concerns; and will be a useful resource for policymakers at all levels of government; for planners and architects; and for students and scholars of urban planning and design; and urban studies.