The Fourth Regional Plan
The Fourth Regional Plan: Making the Region Work for All of Us
Regional Plan Association, August 2019
Paperback | 8-1/2 x 11 inches | 406 pages | English | ISBN: 978-1642830705 | $25.00
Publisher's Description:
RPA?s Fourth Regional Plan is a long-term strategic plan to address the region?s most pressing issues?including housing affordability, overburdened transportation infrastructure, vulnerability to climate change, and failing governance structures.
The plan, originally released as a website in late 2017, has now been published as a beautifully designed book, an enduring point of reference for students, planners, community leaders, advocates, government officials, and armchair urbanists.dDAB Commentary:
The first regional plan produced by the Regional Plan Association (RPA), Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs, was released in 1929, on the cusp of the Great Depression. The Second Regional Plan followed in 1968 at a time of great social change in the United States and in other parts of the world, while the Third Regional Plan came in 1996, a year that eludes a similar historical marker. Last year saw the print publication of The Fourth Regional Plan, though it was actually published two years earlier in digital format. This present plan comes at a time of dramatic crises, most notably climate change and economic inequality, with global and local repercussions.
The Fourth Regional Plan also comes just over 20 years before its predecessor, which was...
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