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Making Plans

How to Engage with Landscape, Design, and the Urban Environment

By Frederick R. Steiner

University of Texas Press, 2018

“Community and regional planning involve thinking ahead and formally envisioning the future for ourselves and others,” according to Frederick R. Steiner. “Improved plans can lead to healthier, safer, and more beautiful places to live for us and other species. We can also plan for places that are more just and more profitable. Plans can help us not only to sustain what we value but also to transcend sustainability by creating truly regenerative communities, that is, places with the capacity to restore, renew, and revitalize their own sources of energy and materials.”

In Making Plans, Steiner offers a primer on the planning process through a lively, firsthand account of developing plans for the city of Austin and the University of Texas campus. As dean of the UT School of Architecture, Steiner served on planning committees that addressed the future growth of the city and the university, growth that inevitably overlapped because of UT’s central location in Austin. As he walks readers through the planning processes, Steiner illustrates how large-scale planning requires setting goals and objectives, reading landscapes, determining best uses, designing options, selecting courses for moving forward, taking actions, and adjusting to changes. He also demonstrates that planning is an inherently political, sometimes messy, act, requiring the intelligence and ownership of the affected communities. Both wise and frank, Making Plans is an important philosophical and practical statement on planning by a leader in the field.

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Making Politics Work

Practical Lessons on Politics for Would-Be Education Reformers

Paul T. Hill and Ashley E. Jochim

University of Chicago Press, 2025

An expansive study shows how politics can work for, not just against, efforts to improve America’s schools.
 
The education reform project has always been about making America’s schools more effective for the children who attend them. In Making Politics Work, authors Paul T. Hill and Ashley E. Jochim show that this project cannot succeed without mastering what is the single largest constraint on its success: politics.

Drawing upon more than a decade of work with dozens of school systems, Hill and Jochim show how failures to secure political support or mitigate inevitable opposition dooms the education reform project from the start. But this outcome is not inevitable. By tracing the evolution of the “portfolio strategy” across 27 localities that implemented it, they uncover practical lessons that superintendents, state leaders, and foundation officials can use to increase the likelihood that their ideas for improving public education don’t join the list of once-promising initiatives that could not be sustained in the face of intractable political conflict.
 
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Making Space for Empire

Colonial Elites, Whiteness, and the Planning of Modern Puerto Rico

Joaquin Villanueva

Duke University Press, 2027

In Making Space for Empire, Joaquín Villanueva documents how white elites in Puerto Rico and the United States collaborated to produce the physical and ideological landscapes of the archipelago in the modern day. Throughout the mid-twentieth century, the Puerto Rico Planning Board worked to transform a tropical climate into an industrial one to attract US investors. This modernization produced a colonial economy fully dependent on US knowledge, capital, and interests for its survival. Drawing on the Puerto Rico Planning Board archives, Black geographies, and the work of Frantz Fanon, Villanueva shows how dominant conceptions of space, whiteness, and the tropics came together under a midcentury planning ideology that embraced dependent development models, defining Puerto Rico’s future through debt. He offers new insights into both the past and future of the archipelago, showing how seemingly simple acts like letter writing, strategic friendships, and the racialization of nature and space have sustained colonialism on the archipelago. Mapping how planning and imperialism shapes lands and ideologies alike, Making Space for Empire shows that Puerto Rico is not bound to its history. It can, and must, determine its own future.
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Making the Mission

Planning and Ethnicity in San Francisco

Ocean Howell

University of Chicago Press, 2015

In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, residents of the city’s iconic Mission District bucked the city-wide development plan, defiantly announcing that in their neighborhood, they would be calling the shots. Ever since, the Mission has become known as a city within a city, and a place where residents have, over the last century, organized and reorganized themselves to make the neighborhood in their own image.

In Making the Mission, Ocean Howell tells the story of how residents of the Mission District organized to claim the right to plan their own neighborhood and how they mobilized a politics of place and ethnicity to create a strong, often racialized identity—a pattern that would repeat itself again and again throughout the twentieth century. Surveying the perspectives of formal and informal groups, city officials and district residents, local and federal agencies, Howell articulates how these actors worked with and against one another to establish the very ideas of the public and the public interest, as well as to negotiate and renegotiate what the neighborhood wanted. In the process, he shows that national narratives about how cities grow and change are fundamentally insufficient; everything is always shaped by local actors and concerns.
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Managing Facilities for Results

Optimizing Space for Services

Cheryl Bryan

American Library Association, 2007

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Monitoring, Simulation, and Management of Visitor Landscapes

Randy Gimblett

University of Arizona Press, 2008

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Conventional methods used in the planning and management of human-landscape interactions fall far short of the needs of today’s land management professionals. Monitoring, Simulation, and Management of Visitor Landscapes presents a growing body of applied research that provides decision makers with tools to maintain the ecological integrity of public places by evaluating the impacts of humans in various landscapes across space and time. This timely volume, available in both print and electronic editions, presents the latest research in this field, specifically focusing on the intersection of research and applied techniques. The contributors examine environmental management from around the world, including river traffic analysis in Melbourne, Australia; wilderness solitude and land use in the backcountry recreation areas of North America; the spatial modeling of visitor behavior at recreational areas near Vienna, Austria; the application of visibility studies and data from automatic visitor counters to simulation models in Denmark; and the integration of recreation and biodiversity in high-use environments in the Netherlands. This invaluable reference will help land managers and policy makers construct strategies for evaluating interactions between humans and the environment and expand the model of land management to include social and geographic, as well as environmental, factors.
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