What Makes a Great City

• Main Author: Garvin, Alexander (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2016.
• Subjects: Environment.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Landscape architecture.; City planning.; Sustainable development.; Sustainable Development.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Urbanism.; Landscape Architecture.

What makes a great city? Not a good city or a functional city but a great city. A city that people admire, learn from, and replicate. City planner and architect Alexander Garvin set out to answer this question by observing cities, largely in North America and Europe, with special attention to Paris,...

Table of Contents:

• Preface: What Makes a Great City
• 1: The Importance of the Public Realm
• 2: The Characteristics of the Public Realm
• 3: Open to Anybody
• 4: Something for Everybody
• 5: Attracting and Retaining Market Demand
• 6: Providing a Framework for Successful Urbanization
• 7: Sustaining a Habitable Environment
• 8: Nurturing and Supporting a Civil Society
• 9: Using the Public Realm to Shape Everyday Life
• 10: Creating a Public Realm for the Twenty-First Century.