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Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Forest Planning 7
The Case of the Fake Forests 9
Garbage In, Gospel Out 15
A Process of Natural Selection 23
Analysis Paralysis 33
The Return of Fire Dominance 41
Why Planning Fails 45
Radical Doctrine or Rational Decisionmaking? 47
Human Barriers 57
Planning Is Not Necessary 69
Land-Use Planning 73
Urban Renewal 75
Turning Portland into L.A. 83
How Smart Is "Smart Growth"? 93
Smart Growth as Oppression 105
Homeownership 111
Housing Affordability 117
Housing Bubbles 127
It's Supply, Not Demand 133
Portland Housing 137
Smart Growth and Crime 143
Portland Planning Implodes 149
Why Planners Fail 157
The Planning Profession 159
The History of Planning 167
The Ideal Communist City 171
Urban Renewal in the United States 179
From Radiant City to SmartGrowth 185
Typical Planning Methods 189
Transportation Planning 195
Planning vs. Chaos 197
The Benefits of the Automobile 203
Costs Exaggerated 221
The Panic Over Peak Oil 227
Planning for Congestion 237
Building Auto-Hostile Streets 243
The Rail Transit Hoax 249
Transportation Myths 267
Why Government Fails 279
Power and Rationality 281
Legislators: Seeking Reelection 289
Special Interests: Looking for Handouts 293
Bureaucrats: Maximizing Budgets 297
The Executive: Distracted by Detail 303
Courts and Voters: The Last Lines of Defense 307
Instead of Planning 311
246 Varieties of Cheese 315
Make the Market Work 319
Turn Open-Access Resources into Property 325
Protect Public Goods with Trusts 329
Understand Government's Limits 335
Reforming Public Land Management 339
Reforming Transportation 343
Reforming Land Use 349
The American Dream 353
Notes 357
Index 393
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reviewed Best-Laid Plans: How Government Planning harms Your Quality of Life, Your Pocketbook and Your Future on August 28, 2008
Best-Laid Plans
You want to read a book with very very detailed examples of how the government has royally screwed up, and is still screwing up? This is it. Not very thrilling or fun, but very very specific. Want to know how the government has royally botched the national forests? This is your book. Want to know how city planners screw up cities over and over? This is your book. The list goes on and on...
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