Today's Comprehensive Plan, 9781642832860
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Comprehensive plans: dynamic tools for adapting to today’s challenges and growth.
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Today's Comprehensive Plan

An Adaptive Approach

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    192 pages

  • Release Date

    9 June 2026

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Summary

A new model of comprehensive planning as a living process rather than a static document

How does your community map out a long-term vision for the built environment? Most US cities and counties have long used the comprehensive plan for this purpose. While the plan was conceived to meet the existential issues of the twentieth century, too often today’s plans fail to consider fragmented political and market environments, how implementation occurs, and how plans should a…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781642832860
ISBN-10:1642832863
Author:John Zeanah
Publisher:Island Press
Imprint:Island Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:192
Release Date:9 June 2026
Dimensions:235mm x 156mm
About The Author

John Zeanah

John Zeanah

John Zeanah is the Chief of Development and Infrastructure for the City of Memphis, Tennessee. In this role, he leads a cross-functional team of agencies responsible for planning, housing, transportation, public works, and community and economic development.

Prior to this role, John served as the Director of the Memphis and Shelby County Division of Planning and Development for over seven years. Among his accomplishments, John led the development and adoption of the Memphis 3.0 Comprehensive Plan, the city’s first comprehensive plan in forty years and winner of the American Planning Association’s Daniel Burnham Award of Excellence for a Comprehensive Plan in 2020 and a Charter Award from the Congress for the New Urbanism in 2021.

John is Principal and Owner of Interval, LLC, a planning and policy advisory firm that specializes in helping public sector clients better understand, implement, and improve their plans, policies, codes, regulations, and processes.

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