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`Cities need to be able to reinvent themselves,' Kriken writes. `They thus need the ability to define alternative futures, even radically different futures, without necessarily being disrespectful of the past.' It's a quiet call to arms - and one that doesn't always play so well in the author's hometown." --San Francisco Chronicle
"The book presents the idea that 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 sustainable qualities of environment and design in relation to what is the best of human endeavor.
Without good planning cities can be places of pollution, overcrowdedness, and waste. A well-planned city can be a model of sustainable living. Good city building counters the sprawl of suburbia with concentrated land use, replaces globalized design with regionally appropriate building types, and allows for livable, desirable neighborhoods." --andDesign Magazine
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