" Urban Design for an Urban Centuryoffers a very thoughtful and worthwhile and simplified overview of the history of the key paradigms, principles, and process of urban design. It breezes by a reader in the first 100 pages. To the credit of the erudite authors, their sketch of urban design brings levels of political, sociological, and architectural analysis together in a readable synthesis." (Norman Weinstein, ArchNewsNow.com, September 2009)
"...its content does engage the history and chabges in attitude towards cities that will take forward in this century." (Perspective, July 2009)
"The first part is superb. Bits and pieces of it will be old news to many new urbanists, but on the whole, the initial five chapters are tremendously illuminating. It is rigorously organized." (New Urban News, March 2009)
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"The wisest, clearest introduction I know to the art and science of designing cities."-- Robert Campbell, Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe architecture critic Featuring projects that have won The American Institute of Architects' (AIA) National Honor Awards for Urban Design in recent years, this is a comprehensive book of tools and information on urban design. Endorsed by the AIA and written by the 2005 and 2006 chairs, respectively, of the AIA's Regional and Urban Design Committee, this unique guide provides urban designers, architects, and students with contemporary urban design paradigms and principles, processes, and design tools for various project types and scales, such as downtowns, neighborhoods, Main Street revitalization, waterfronts, and college campuses.
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