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For Most Of The Past Century, Urban America Was Dominated By Top-down Policies Serving The White Business And Cultural Elite, The Suburbs, And The Automobile. At Times These Approaches Were Fiercely Challenged By Reformers Such As Jane Addams And Jane Jacobs. Yet By The 1980s, Mainstream Policies Had Resulted In A Nation Of Ravaged Central Cities, Sprawling Suburbs, Social And Economic Polarization, And Incalculable Environmental Damage. In The 1990s, This Entrenched Model Finally Yielded To Change As Local Citizens, Neighborhood Groups, And Other Stakeholders, Empowered By A Spate Of New Laws And Policies, Began Asserting Their Own Needs And Priorities. Though Hampered By Fiscal Crises And Internal Disagreements, These Popular Initiatives Launched What The Author Terms A New Era Of Humane Urbanism Marked By A Determination To Make Cities And Suburbs Greener, Healthier, Safer, More Equitable, More Efficient, And Generally More People-friendly. In The Process, The Mayors, Architects, Engineers, And Bureaucrats Who Had Previously Dominated Urban Policy Found Themselves Relegated To Supporting Roles. As Rutherford H. Platt Points Out, Humane Urbanism Can Take Many Forms, From Affordab

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Author

Platt, Rutherford H.

Publisher

University of Massachusetts Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781613762851

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Science