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The subject of this study is the perceived m ismatch between the aims of urban planning and the intergove rnmental systems that often make the planners work complex a nd difficult. The content is based on years of work in the f ield. '

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...successfully untangles the complicated intergovernmental system in the U.S. and suggests ways in which planners could take effective actions within the system on behalf of the public good...it is a must-read for planning students, practitioners, and policy makers. -- Sandeep Kumar Christensen's book is an unpretensiously solid, well reasoned, and worthwhile addition to planning theory. Her astute, nuanced view of government is a welcome corrective to the planners' too common view of the 'public sector' as a simple, unitary entity... -- Scott Campbell

...successfully untangles the complicated intergovernmental system in the U.S. and suggests ways in which planners could take effective actions within the system on behalf of the public good...it is a must-read for planning students, practitioners, and policy makers. -- Sandeep Kumar Christensen's book is an unpretensiously solid, well reasoned, and worthwhile addition to planning theory. Her astute, nuanced view of government is a welcome corrective to the planners' too common view of the 'public sector' as a simple, unitary entity... -- Scott Campbell

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