Redesigning Cities: Principles, Practice, Implementation

Barnett, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 1884829716 / ISBN 13: 9781884829710

Published by American Planning Association - Planners Press, Chicago, IL., USA, 2003

About this Item

This book and jacket are in fine condition. There are slight corner knocks on both the book and jacket but no tears or stains. The author shows how urban design can direct the time and money that goes into development toward a more positive result. Design can reshape suburban growth, revitalize older cities, and retrofit the places in our metropolitan regions where earlier development went wrong. The author shows good design practiced in a variety of places. There is an index, Proceeds from the sale of this book benefit environmental restoration and education.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Redesigning Cities: Principles, Practice, Implementation
• Publisher: American Planning Association - Planners Press, Chicago, IL., USA
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1884829716
• ISBN 13: 9781884829710
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

All too often, no one—neither the public, city officials, nor developers—is happy with the course of new development. But growing support for urban design and successful examples of redesigned cities are signs of positive change. In this book, Jonathan Barnett explains how design can reshape suburban growth patterns, revitalize older cities, and retrofit metropolitan areas where earlier development went wrong. He describes, in detail, specific techniques, materials, and technologies that should be known (but often aren't) by planners, public officials, and citizens—and, in the process, makes a valuable contribution to the development initiatives of the future.

About the Author

Jonathan Barnett, a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and the American Institute of Certified Planners, is a professor of practice in city and regional planning and director of the urban design program at the University of Pennsylvania. He has worked as an urban design consultant for many cities and is the author of Smart Growth in a Changing World, also published by the American Planning Association.