Product Description

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 the 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 alignment. Following the widespread success of "The Creative City", this new book, aided by international case studies, explains how to reassess urban potential so that cities can strengthen their identity and adapt to the changing global terms of trade and mass migration. It explores the deeper fault-lines, paradoxes and strategic dilemmas that make creating the 'good city' so difficult.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #282534 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 462 pages

Review
"'Charles Landry is one of the very few people with the experience and imagination to address the fundamental problems that confront cities today' Tim Campbell, The World Bank"

Clive Harridge, President, Royal Town Planning Institute, UK
Practical guidance combined with visionary insights and challenges
weave through every chapter ...

Dr Masayuki Sasaki, Dean, Professor of Graduate School for Creative Cities, Osaka City University, Japan
This book has power and art to evolve Asian and Japanese cities
creatively, and it is a bible for people interested in the future of a
city.