The Livable City: Revitalizing Urban Communities
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An up-to-the-minute action guide, The Livable City: Revitalizing Urban Communities provides examples and strategies for improving the quality of life in urban, suburban, and exurban communities. Partners for Livable Communities, an organization noted for pushing the envelope of ideas on livability, has assembled the top names in urban planning and design to explore the New Urbanism's key issues, with over 50 best practices case studies, including international examples. A compelling chapter introduces you to the challenges facing cities in the next decade, with provocative ideas for meeting them. You'll discover new solutions to the thorny problems of achieving regional cooperation...keeping downtowns alive 24 hours a day...finding resources for improving the outcomes of at-risk youth...global competition and jobs for the next century...and housing and communities. A chapter on paying for the workable ideas rounds out a game plan for the livable city.
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Includes 50+ best-practice case studies
Put urban design policies and programs into action
The Livable City Revitalizing Urban Communities
Livability. It's open space, free-flowing traffic, historic preservation, attractive cultural and civic institutions, good housing, good jobs, good schools, and much more. It's downtowns that work, and regions that work alongside them. More than any other source, The Livable City makes this urban ideal a reality.
Based on over 20 years' experience in fostering broad-based coalitions that have enhanced livability in more than 300 communities, The Livable Citybrings together examples, methods, goals and working case studies, resources, and tried-and-tested techniques--all designed to enrich the quality of life in urban, suburban, and exurban communities.
Written by respected members of the premier nonprofit group promoting livability, Partners for Livable Communities (representing 1,000 organizations), The Livable City gives you innovative tools that help you get a handle on the problems of cities today: traffic congestion, urban sprawl, disaffected citizens, physical decay, institutional breakdown, crime.
The Livable City addresses every facet of improving livability--from building private, business, and governmental coalitions to obtaining funding--and provides a clear roadmap from urban nightmare to "Most Livable City" status. It's a valuable and much-needed resource for urban designers, planners, architects, elected officials, business leaders, civic leaders, landscape architects, students, and anyone concerned with the condition of urban communities, anywhere in the world.
The Livable City: Revitalizing Urban Communities,Partners for Livable Communities,McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing,0071359133,Architecture,Community development, Urban,General,Inner cities,Planning,Political Science,Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.,Public Policy - Regional Planning,United States,Urban Architecture,Urban Planning,Urban policy,Urban renewal
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