Best City Plan: Tell the World About It

Ideally, tell us about one that is actually being implemented, or maybe one that already is completed! How did politics, implementation considerations, or construction alter the plan? Did it anticipate what could go wrong? In retrospect, did it provide enough flexibility?

What makes the plan good? Is it partly attributable to the process by which it was derived, or was it strictly a product of professional genius? Is it specific, is it vague, is it policy-centered, or it is implementation-heavy? Long? Short? Goals, objectives, and policies, or just simple declarative sentences?

Maybe your ideal plan is simply a diagram or a rendering, so tell us why it's compelling.

As you can tell if you read elsewhere on this website, we especially like short, direct, gutsy, and principled plans that reflect lots of thought rather than lots of reflexive data collection that didn't prove to be necessary in the end. However, many great plans are based on extensive and literal use of the classic planning process, in which data and alternative collection, study, analysis, and ranking are accumulated.

Below is a form where you can give us a short--we emphasize short--narrative about why this is a good entry and what we all can learn from it. Also you can send a photo or a graphic of the finished product if you wish.

Should be interesting to read the results. It's too rare that those who do community and city planning actually are subject to verification from users and citizens. So this is your time, regardless of where you stand on the amateur to professional spectrum, to talk about the best city plan and to justify your opinion.

Would You Like to Promote Your City Plan?

Do you have an opinion about the best city plan you've seen? (When we say city, we mean community, neighborhood, or region, too.) Maybe you wrote it. LOL. Share your story, telling us why this plan is "the best."

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