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Book Review: John MacDonald, Charles Branas, and Robert Stokes, Changing Places: The Science and Art of New Urban Planning

Book Review: John MacDonald, Charles Branas, and Robert Stokes, Changing Places: The Science and... Book Reviews 291 “capitalist hegemonic plot,” although Deener what gets built is determined more by what may be right that grocery store owners were sells than what works. This is not only unsci- not directly culpable. entific; it can be exclusionary, racist, and violent. Consider how much that basic moti- vating assumption of planning can sound RefeReNCeS equally like the words of a progressive com- Cronon, William. 1992. Nature’s Metropolis. New York: munity organizer or a midcentury autocrat W.W. Norton. like Robert Moses: “Real lives are changed in Steel, Carolyn. 2008. Hungry City. How Food Shapes Our Lives. London: Vintage. positive ways with thoughtful rehabilitations Wells, Christopher W. 2012. Car Country. An Environ- of places. Real lives are marred when we let mental History. Seattle: University of Washington places deteriorate and urban blight worsen.” Press. The quote in fact is neither, but rather the assertion of the authors in Changing Places Changing Places: The Science and Art of New Urban (p. 2). The key, they argue, is that we can and Planning, by John MacDonald, Charles Branas, and must use scientific research to figure out what Robert Stokes. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univer- actually works and how. sity Press, 2019. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Community (Fixed 2) SAGE

Book Review: John MacDonald, Charles Branas, and Robert Stokes, Changing Places: The Science and Art of New Urban Planning

Douglas, Gordon C. C.
City & Community (Fixed 2) , Volume 20 (3): 1 – Jun 7, 2021
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Book Reviews 291 “capitalist hegemonic plot,” although Deener what gets built is determined more by what may be right that grocery store owners were sells than what works. This is not only unsci- not directly culpable. entific; it can be exclusionary, racist, and violent. Consider how much that basic moti- vating assumption of planning can sound RefeReNCeS equally like the words of a progressive com- Cronon, William. 1992. Nature’s Metropolis. New York: munity organizer or a midcentury autocrat W.W. Norton. like Robert Moses: “Real lives are changed in Steel, Carolyn. 2008. Hungry City. How Food Shapes Our Lives. London: Vintage. positive ways with thoughtful rehabilitations Wells, Christopher W. 2012. Car Country. An Environ- of places. Real lives are marred when we let mental History. Seattle: University of Washington places deteriorate and urban blight worsen.” Press. The quote in fact is neither, but rather the assertion of the authors in Changing Places Changing Places: The Science and Art of New Urban (p. 2). The key, they argue, is that we can and Planning, by John MacDonald, Charles Branas, and must use scientific research to figure out what Robert Stokes. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univer- actually works and how. sity Press, 2019.

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