1st Edition
Planning the Great Metropolis The 1929 regional plan of New York and its environs
Preface to the Paperback Edition. Preface. 1. Introduction 2. The Making of the New York Metropolitan Region 3. The Emergence of a Planning Tradition 4. First Steps Towards a Metropolitan Regional Plan 5. The Search for Scope and Substance 6. Technological and Ideological Inputs 7. From Survey to Plan 8. Conflict Amidst Planning: Three Decisions 9. Carrying Out the Plan: 1929 to 1941 10. Plan and Reality: 1965 11. The Regional Plan as an Artefact and Process
Biography
David A. Johnson, FAICP, is Professor Emeritus of Planning at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is a past President of the Fulbright Association of the United States and has directed educational projects in Slovenia, Brazil, and Portugal. Professor Johnson also has served on the staffs of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, the Washington National Capital Planning Commission and the Regional Plan Association of New York.
'Deals with matters of major interest both to geographers and to planners...a fascinating...vivid and spellbinding story...I strongly recommend this well-written and provocative book. The answers about events and ideas of seventy years ago are relevant today.' - Environment and Planning, 1998
...provides the reader with a detailed case study of the plan-making process...a rich resource...Professor Johnson is to be commended for the meticulous research and interesting writing and presentation..." - Town Planning Review
