Good Urbanism Six Steps to Creating Prosperous Places
We all have a natural nesting instinct—we know what makes a good place. And a consensus has developed among urban planners and designers about the essential components of healthy, prosperous communities. So why aren’t these ideals being put into practice?
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GOOD URBANISM Six Steps to Creating Prosperous Places NAN ELLIN
Washington | Covelo | London
Metropolitan Planning + Design Series editors: Arthur C. Nelson and Reid Ewing A collaboration between Island Press and the University of Utah’s Department of City & Metropolitan Planning, this series provides a set of tools for students and professionals working to make our cities and metropolitan areas more sustainable, livable, prosperous, resilient, and equitable. As the world’s population grows to nine billion by mid-century, the population of the US will rise to one-half billion. Along the way, the physical landscape will be transformed. Indeed, two-thirds of the built environment in the US at midcentury will be constructed between now and then, presenting a monumental opportunity to reshape the places we live. The Metropolitan Planning + Design series presents an integrated approach to addressing this challenge, involving the fields of planning, architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, public policy, environmental studies, geography, and civil and environmental engineering. The series draws from the expertise of some of the world’s leading scholars in the field of Metropolitan Planning + Design. Please see Islandpress .org/Utah/ for more information. Other books in the series: The TDR Handbook, Arthur C. Nelson, Rick Pruetz, and Doug Woodruff (2011) Stewardship of the Built Environment, Robert Young (2012) Governance and Equity, Marc Brenman and Thomas W. Sanchez (2012) Forthcoming: Reshaping Metropolitan America, Arthur C. Nelson
© 2013 Nan Ellin All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher: Island Press Suite 300, 1718 Connecticut Ave., NW Washington, DC 20009 ISLAND PRESS is a trademark of the Center for Resource Economics.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ellin, Nan. Good urbansim : six steps to creating prosperous places / Nan Ellin. p. cm. — (Metropolitan planning + design) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-61091-364-5 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 1-61091-364-7 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-61091-374-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 1-61091-374-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. City planning. 2. Community development, Urban. I. Title. HT166.E45 2012 307.1'216—dc23 2012022388
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To my parents, Carole & Morty
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