Main entry:

Lerner, Jaime, 1937-2021, author.

Title & Author:

Urban acupuncture / Jaime Lerner ; translated from the Portuguese by Mac Margolis, Peter Muello, and Ariadne Daher.

Publication:

Washington [D.C.] ; Covelo ; London : Island Press, [2014]
©2014

Description:

xvi, 143 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm

Notes:
Collection of short essays and poems on different aspects of city life and city planning.
"Celebrating pinpricks of change that enrich city life"--Cover.
"This is not a technical or theoretical book; it is a book filled with poetry and magic that communicates the importance of dreaming and, at the same time, being pragmatic and making things happen; to always ask if we have the right solution or if there is a better, maybe a simpler way."--Foreword.
24-Hour Shopkeepers in New York City -- The Old Cinema Novo -- Rescuing a River -- The Forbidden City -- Cali -- Do Nothing! Urgently -- Around the Clock, or The 24-Hour City -- Urban Kindness -- Musical Acupuncture -- Continuity is Life -- Street Sounds, Colors, and Scents -- Good Recycling -- People in the Streets -- Smart Car, Smart Bus -- Commitment to Solidarity -- Draw Your City -- Instructions for Performing Urban Acupuncture -- Creative Leisure vs. Industrious Mediocrity -- Self-Esteem Is Good Acupuncture -- Light Is Good Acupuncture -- Aqua-puncture -- The Mobility Card -- Eco-clock -- Arborescence -- Produced Memory -- Of Parks, Squares, and Monuments -- The One-Page Guide -- Urban Cholesterol -- Buildings with Dignity -- Acupuncture of Silence -- Ramblas and Galleries -- A Pinprick Doesn't Hurt -- Trompe L'oeil -- A Letter to Fellini -- How to Find Someone in a City -- The Presence of Genius -- Markets and Street Fairs -- The Bar Counter -- Love for the City.
Originally published in Portuguese. Rio de Janeiro : Editora Record, 2003. 9788501068514
Translated from the Portuguese.

Summary:

"As Mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, architect and urbanist Jaime Lerner transformed his city into a global model of sustainability and livability. During more than forty years of innovation in cities, he has learned that changes do not need to be large-scale and expensive to transform -- one block, park, or person can have an outsized effect on life in the surrounding city."--Provided by publisher.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents only

ISBN:

1610915836
9781610915830
1610917278
9781610917278

Subject:

Urban renewal.
Civic improvement.
Civic improvement Brazil.
City planning.
Urban Renewal
Rénovation urbaine.
Villes Aménagement et assainissement.
Villes Aménagement et assainissement Brésil.
urban renewal.
civic improvement.
Stadsplanering.
Städer - tillväxt.
Brazil.

Form/genre:

Essay
Poetry
essays.
poetry.
Essays.
Essais.
Poésie.

Added entries:

Margolis, Mac, translator.
Muello, Peter, translator.
Daher, Ariadne, translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287655
Call No.: BIB 228899
Status: Available