Charles Landry

The Art of City Making

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City-making is an art, not a formula. The skills required to re-enchant the city are far wider than the conventional ones like architecture, engineering and land-use planning. There is no simplistic, ten-point plan, but strong principles can help send good city-making on its way. The vision for 21st century cities must be to be the most imaginative cities for the world rather than in the world. This one change of word - from 'in' to 'for' - gives city-making an ethical foundation and value base. It helps cities become places of solidarity where the relations between the individual, the group, outsiders to the city and the planet are in better… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-136-55496-4
EAN: 9781136554964
Produktnummer: 13869477
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 248 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 8'055 KB

Über den Autor

Charles Landry is founding director of COMEDIA, a cultural planning consultancy.Author of the highly influential The Creative City (Earthscan, 2000), he is an international authority on city futures and the use of culture in city revitalization.