Nicolas A. Valcik - City Planning for the Public Manager

City Planning for the Public Manager — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "City Planning for the Public Manager" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

1234567...84

City Planning for the Public Manager

Why should public administrators care about city planning? Is city planning not a field ruled by architects and public works personnel? Much of city planning in fact requires expertise in areas other than buildings and infrastructure, and with city planning expertise, urban administrators are empowered to make more informed decisions on matters that involve budgeting, economic development, tax revenues, public relations, and ordinances and policies that will benefit the community. City Planning for the Public Manager is designed to fill a gap in the urban administration literature, offering students and practitioners hands-on, practical advice from experts with diverse city administration experience, demonstrating where theory and practice intersect.

Divided into three sections, the book provides an overview of the life cycle of a municipality and its services, explores city planning applications for planners on a strict budget, and walks the reader through a real-life planning research project, demonstrating how it was formulated, implemented, and analyzed to produce usable results. Topics explored include justifications for specific city services, internal and external benchmarking used for city planning, common technical tools (e.g., GIS), legal aspects of planning and zoning, environmental concerns, transportation, residential planning, business district planning, and infrastructure. City Planning for the Public Manager is required reading for students of urban administration and practicing city administrators interested in improving their careers and their communities.

Nicolas A. Valcik works as the Director for Institutional Research at West Virginia University, USA.

Todd A. Jordan serves as the Director of Community Impact at United Way of Wyandotte County, Kansas, USA.

Teodoro J. Benavides serves as a faculty member of Public Affairs in the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences at The University of Texas at Dallas, USA.

Andrea D. Stigdon works in the Office of Strategic Planning and Analysis at The University of Texas at Dallas, USA.

American Society for Public Administration

Series in Public Administration & Public Policy

David H. Rosenbloom, Ph.D.

Editor-in-Chief

For a full list of titles in this series, please visit www.routledge.com

Mission: Throughout its history, ASPA has sought to be true to its founding principles of promoting scholarship and professionalism within the public service. The ASPA Book Series on Public Administration and Public Policy publishes books that increase national and international interest for public administration and which discuss practical or cutting edge topics in engaging ways of interest to practitioners, policy makers, and those concerned with bringing scholarship to the practice of public administration.

Recent Publications

Case Studies in Disaster Response and Emergency Management, Second Edition

Nicolas A. Valcik and Paul E. Tracy

Researcher-Policymaker Partnerships

Strategies for Launching and Sustaining Successful Collaborations

Jenni W. Owen and Anita M. Larson

Advances in E-Governance

Theory and Application of Technological Initiatives

Anthony Trotta

The Fracking Debate

Intergovernmental Politics of the Oil and Gas Renaissance, Second Edition

Jonathan M. Fisk

City Planning for the Public Manager

Nicolas A. Valcik, Todd A. Jordan, Teodoro J. Benavides, and Andrea D. Stigdon

First published 2017

by Routledge

711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017

and by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2018 Taylor & Francis

The right of Nicolas A. Valcik, Todd A. Jordan, Teodoro J. Benavides, and Andrea D. Stigdon to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

A catalog record for this book has been requested

ISBN: 978-1-4822-1456-7 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-10167-5 (ebk)

Typeset in Sabon

by Apex CoVantage, LLC

Nicolas Valcik would like to dedicate this book to Joe Valcik.

Todd Jordan would like to dedicate this book to his parents, who never hesitated to support and encourage him throughout the years.

Teodoro Benavides would like to dedicate this book to his sisters Irene M. Benavides and Patricia S. Benavides.

Andrea Stigdon would like to dedicate this book to her sister, Dr. Sharrah Pharr, whose unrelenting drive to improve the educational opportunities of disadvantaged children has been a source of inspiration.

Contents

by Robert Whelan

SECTION I
The Foundations of City Planning

SECTION II
Considerations with City Planning

SECTION III
Technical Information for City Planning

SECTION IV
The Economics of City Planning

SECTION V
Conclusion

1. i
2. ii
3. x

Guide

• The City of Juneau
• Amazon Under Attack
• The City of Washington, D.C.
• Urban Design for Phoenix
• The City of Pittsburgh
• The City of Sachse
• The City of Detroit
• The City of Buffalo
• 2016 and the Presidential ElectionA Tilt to the Right?
• Controversy of Detox Center in Residential Area
• Water, Water Everywhere!
• The City of ChicagoOHare Expansion and Modernization
• Hamilton County Housing Court
• The City of Honolulu
• Iowa City
• The Boston Combat Zone
• The City of Seattle
• The City of Madison
• The City of San Diego
• Integrated throughout the chapter or research

For many years, I advised MPA students at the University of New Orleans. A majority of these students worked in local government, or aspired to do so. The curriculum was composed, for the most part, of required courses. In choosing electives, I always recommended city planning. We had an excellent introductory course, with an outstanding instructor. However, a general acquaintance with city planning is not exactly what the city government administrator needs to know. City managers need to think about the intersection of city planning with other management concerns.

To some degree, I compensated for this gap in teaching my own courses. I was well acquainted with the city planning literature, and I served on a city planning commission for twenty years. However, there was one basic problem in teaching city planning to administrators: the lack of suitable course materials. The International City Managers Association (ICMA) had published a book, Management of Local Planning . Its publication date of 1984 is more than thirty years ago, at this writing.

Next page

1234567...84

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «City Planning for the Public Manager»

Look at similar books to City Planning for the Public Manager. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.

Nicolas Barreyre

Gold and Freedom: The Political Economy of Reconstruction

Nicolas A Valcik

Strategic Planning and Decision-Making for Public and Non-Profit Organizations

Zeger Van Der Wal

The 21st Century Public Manager

Nicolas Berdyaev

THE MEANING OF THE CREATIVE ACT

Joanna Hayden

Introduction to Program Planning in Public Health

Fr. Nicolas J. Laforet

Unbelief

Nicolas Hénin

Jihad Academy

Bentley Nicolas

How to be a Brit

Nicolas W. Proctor

Restoring the World, 1945: Security and Empire at Yalta by Nicolas W. Proctor

Nicolas Slonimsky

Dear Dorothy : Letters from Nicolas Slonimsky to Dorothy Adlow

Nicolas Dickner

Apocalypse for Beginners

Donald P. Crane

The public manager: contemporary challenges and responsibilities

Discussion, reviews of the book City Planning for the Public Manager and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.