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We have the knowledge, the tools, and the will to make good places. Yet, the actual delivery of these places remains challenging and all too rare. In Good Urbanism, Nan Ellin advances a basic strategy for clearing the path toward making good places consisting of six steps: prospect, polish, propose, prototype, promote, and present. Anyone can walk this path, experts in the field of urbanism and others alike. The only pre-condition for stepping onto it is a willingness to go someplace new. Malcolm Gladwell demonstrated in The Tipping Point what it takes to bring about transformation in society and Ellin explains what it takes to positively transform our places. Illustrated by fifteen case studies, Good Urbanism sets forth a process for imagining best possibilities and realizing them, including advice for navigating potential blind spots and pot-holes along the way. It instructs, incites, and inspires us to add a few instruments to our planning, design, and community-building toolkits that will enhance the health and well-being of places, as well as the efficacy and relevance of the professions dedicated to that goal.
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About the Author:
Nan Ellin is Professor of Urbanism, Chair of the Department of City & Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah, and author of Postmodern Urbanism and Integral Urbanism.
Review:
"[Good Urbanism] is one of a small set of books that go beyond the problem of determining what is desired in our urban environment and instead sets forth an agenda for how to achieve good urbanism."
(Journal of Planning Education and Research)
"Nan Ellin is an eloquent advocate for an urbanism of kindness. This book gracefully bridges the artificial divide between vision and practicality to show how we can co-create cities that produce and fulfill our desires for good lives—for 'prosperity'—by drawing inspiration from the gifts of our neighbors and our planet." (Michael Sorkin, President, Terreform, and Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Design, CUNY)
"Ellin has provided a much needed roadmap for achieving the kinds of places that urbanists aspire to create. She traces the route in six carefully delineated steps to destinations composed of vibrant, mixed use and well-connected metropolitan regions, cities, neighborhoods and blocks. Good Urbanism shows the way."
(Eugenie Birch, Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research, University of Pennsylvania)
"Good Urbanism is a strong addition to any collection focusing on urban planning and policy, much recommended."
(Midwest Book Review)
"Ellin ably bridges the divide between theoretical vision and practical reality that has seen many great ideas for our communities fall short in the past... Experienced urban planners and practitioners and novice urbanists alike will find several new instruments in Good Urbanism to add to their toolkits. These will help enhance the health and well-being of our places and move beyond sustainability to a path towards prosperity."
(Spacing)
"...the passion and relentlessly up-beat manner in which Ellin makes her case is refreshing, and reading Good Urbanism is undoubtedly a rewarding experience..."
(Urban Design)
"This book is a must read, now more than ever, for city planners, urban designers and architects as they vie to make cities around the world pleasanter habitats for their residents and visitors."
(Jon Lang, Emeritus Professor, University of New South Wales, Sydney)
"In another tour de force for the urban planning profession, Nan Ellin delivers a 'how-to' book with theoretical muscle. Ellin supplies six creative yet straightforward steps to make good places happen by tapping collective wisdom and mining the 'gemstones' embedded in every community."
(Emily Talen, Professor, Arizona State University and author of "City Rules")
(Journal of Planning Education and Research)
"Nan Ellin is an eloquent advocate for an urbanism of kindness. This book gracefully bridges the artificial divide between vision and practicality to show how we can co-create cities that produce and fulfill our desires for good lives—for 'prosperity'—by drawing inspiration from the gifts of our neighbors and our planet." (Michael Sorkin, President, Terreform, and Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Design, CUNY)
"Ellin has provided a much needed roadmap for achieving the kinds of places that urbanists aspire to create. She traces the route in six carefully delineated steps to destinations composed of vibrant, mixed use and well-connected metropolitan regions, cities, neighborhoods and blocks. Good Urbanism shows the way."
(Eugenie Birch, Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research, University of Pennsylvania)
"Good Urbanism is a strong addition to any collection focusing on urban planning and policy, much recommended."
(Midwest Book Review)
"Ellin ably bridges the divide between theoretical vision and practical reality that has seen many great ideas for our communities fall short in the past... Experienced urban planners and practitioners and novice urbanists alike will find several new instruments in Good Urbanism to add to their toolkits. These will help enhance the health and well-being of our places and move beyond sustainability to a path towards prosperity."
(Spacing)
"...the passion and relentlessly up-beat manner in which Ellin makes her case is refreshing, and reading Good Urbanism is undoubtedly a rewarding experience..."
(Urban Design)
"This book is a must read, now more than ever, for city planners, urban designers and architects as they vie to make cities around the world pleasanter habitats for their residents and visitors."
(Jon Lang, Emeritus Professor, University of New South Wales, Sydney)
"In another tour de force for the urban planning profession, Nan Ellin delivers a 'how-to' book with theoretical muscle. Ellin supplies six creative yet straightforward steps to make good places happen by tapping collective wisdom and mining the 'gemstones' embedded in every community."
(Emily Talen, Professor, Arizona State University and author of "City Rules")
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0415806526
- ISBN 13 9780415806527
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages192
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