Good city building is not created by complex statistics, functional problem solving, or any particular decision-making process. Successful cities instead come from people advocating easily understood human values and principles that take into account the sensory, tactile, and su…
Pt. 1. An introduction to city building -- pt. 2. Nine principles for twenty-first century city building -- pt. 3. The city of the future/the future of the city.
Over the past decade, planning books have focused on critiquing & remedying the suburban situation; but as cities revitalize & expand (or suffer and decay), it's important to rethink their direction.
"Cities are often viewed as the least-healthy environments for humans because they are centers of pollution, overcrowdedness, and waste. But the opposite can be true. A well-planned city can be a model of sustainable living. Good city building counters the sprawl of suburbia wit…