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  title info:
    title: Urbanism Without Effort
    sub title: Reconnecting with First Principles of the City
  name:
    name part: Wolfe, Charles R.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 155 p. 1 illus. online resource.
  abstract: "A plea for a renewed commitment to authentic urbanism and an invitation to learn from history as our cities enter a future of unprecedented change." Alex Steffen, author of "Carbon Zero: Imagining Cities that Can Save the Planet" "One of Chuck Wolfe's great gifts is an extraordinary photographer's eye for capturing visual images of everyday, but evocative, city life. Another is an uncommonly strong intellectual grounding in urban planning theory. In Urbanism Without Effort, he combines the two in unique fashion to show us how unplanned places can often teach us more about great placemaking than planned ones." Kaid Benfield, senior counsel, environmental strategies at PlaceMakers, LLC, and former director for sustainable communities, NRDC "Chuck's work is what happens when art meets science in placemaking. His talent for capturing places being themselves is so important in the placemaker's toolkit, yet can be missed if we are not paying attention. Lucky for us, Chuck is always paying attention and this book is the proof." Dr. Katherine Loflin, The City Doctor "This is a must read for those who want to understand in words and pictures what stands behind great cities. We're proud to see a Seattle native son helping to show the way." Mike McGinn, Mayor of Seattle, founding Executive Director, Seattle Great City Initiative "Wolfe provides something rare in contemporary urbanist writing-rich illustrations and examples from real life-both historical and current. His writing about the past and the future of urban form offers readers inspiration, historical context, and a better understanding of how a sustainable, inviting urban environment is created." Eco-Libris "Nicely put. If you like thinking about the intersection of people and place, you may like this attractively priced book a great deal." NRDC's The Switchboard blog "Readers will come away motivated to find, experience and document their own favourite places and find ways to apply effortless urbanism in their own n…
  note: by Charles R. Wolfe.
  subject:
    topic: Urban geography
  subject:
    topic: Urban planning
  subject:
    topic: City planning
  subject:
    topic: Environmental policy
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable architecture
  subject:
    topic: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)
  subject:
    topic: Urbanism
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Politics
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings
  classification: GF125
  classification: 307.76
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9781610919623
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-962-3
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    record creation date: 190618
    record change date: 20191026022111.0
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