My kind of city : collected essays of Hank Dittmar / Hank Dittmar.

Main entry:

Dittmar, Hank, author.

Title & Author:

My kind of city : collected essays of Hank Dittmar / Hank Dittmar.

Publication:

Washington, DC : Island Press, [2019]
©2019

Description:

xxii, 227 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Part I. My kind of town -- Part 2. The cavaliers vs. the roundheads -- Part 3. Continuity and context -- Part 4. Bouquets and brickbats -- Part 5. Sustainability and tradition -- Part 6. On Christopher Alexander's Athena Award -- Part 7. Urbanism in late-stage capitalism -- Part 8. Lean urbanism: making small possible -- Part 9. About London -- Part 10. From place to place.

Summary:

"In My Kind of City, Dittmar has organised his selected writings into ten sections with original introductions. His observations range on scale from local ("My Favorite Street: Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London") to national ("Post Truth Architecture in the Age of Trump") and global ("Architects are Critical to Adapting our Cities to Climate Change"). Andres Duany writes of Hank in the book foreword, "He has continued to search for ways to engage place, community and history in order to avoid the tempting formalism of plans." The range of topics covered in My Kind of City reflects the breadth of Dittmar's experience in working for better cities for people. Common themes emerge in the engaging prose including Dittmar's belief that improving our cities should not be left to the "experts"; his appreciation for the beautiful and the messy; and his rare combination of deep expertise and modesty. As Lynn Richards, CEO of Congress for the New Urbanism expresses in the preface, "Hank's writing is smart without being elitist, witty and poetic, succinct and often surprising." My Kind of City captures a visionary planner's spirit, eye for beauty, and love for the places where we live"--Publisher description

ISBN:

1642830364 (hardcover)
9781642830361 (hardcover)

Subject:

City planning.
Architectural design.
Design architectural.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 307728
Call No.: BIB 253210
Status: Available

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