Urban Planning in the 1960s: A Design for Irrelevancy

by Marshall Kaplan

Nathan Glazer has called Marshall Kaplan "the best social planner of the 1960s" and asserts that this book "does for 1973 what Herbert Gans's People and Plans did for 1963." Kaplan states at the outset that "it can be said that one need not look far for evidence, even if anecdotal, to show that the impact of the planning profession on the quality of urban life has been marginal at best and, at times, negative. Certainly, twenty years of federal planning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262610183
• ISBN13: 9780262610186
• Release Date: March 1974
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.2" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher