Life Among Urban Planners: Practice, Professionalism, and Expertise in the Making of the City

A collection of ethnographic case studies of urban planners and their practices

Urban planners project the future of cities. As experts, they draft visions of places and times that do not yet exist, prescribing the tools to be used to achieve those visions. Their choices can determine how a city will merge its public transit and automobile traffic or how it will meet a demand for thousands of new dwelling units as quickly and with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812252284
• ISBN13: 9780812252286
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"