Making equity planning work: leadership in the public sector./ Norman Krumholz and John Forester.

From 1969 to 1979, Cleveland's city planning staff under Norman Krumholz's leadership conducted a unique experiment in equity oriented planning. This book provides a detailed personal account of a sustained and effective equity-planning practice that influenced urban policy

Foreword - Alan A. Altshuler Preface Part I: Experience 1. Planning in Cleveland 2. Inheriting a Staff and Building a New One 3. Writing the Policy Planning Report 4. Euclid Beach 5. Regional Issues and the Clark Freeway 6. Low-and Moderate-Income Housing 7. Tax Delinquency and Land Banking 8. Regional Transit and a Committed Planning Presence 9. The Downtown People Mover 10. A State Lakefront Park System for Cleveland 11. Helping Cleveland's Neighborhood Organizations 12. Improving Planning, Management, and Administration in Other City Agencies Part II: Lessons 13. Possibilities 14. To Be Professsionally Effective, Be Politically Articulate 15. Evaluation, Ethics, and Traps Index

Provides an account of a sustained and effective equity-planning practice that influenced urban policy. This book tells how, from 1969 to 1979, Cleveland's city planning staff under Norman Krumholz's leadership conducted a unique experiment in equity oriented planning. They not only survived, but accomplished impressive equity objectives.