On 2008-05-06 J. Klerks, Rotterdam, The Netherlands wrote: If you are looking for a check list or the do´s and don´ts on how to become a better city, this book is not for you. In a way Landry is more of an urban psychiatrist who´s challenging cities and their inhabitants to make up their own minds on how to become a better urban society. The book is chock full of examples, stories and insights on the matter (hence the size) which a well informed Landry uses to picture the bigger and positive image without being pushy about anything, although the ´being creative´ gets a bit repeative after a while. All in all the book is an easy to read and feel good story about cities that want or should want to be a good city. . And summed up by saying On how to become a better city. Currently The Art of City Making has an overall rating of 10 over 10.
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Earthscan Publications Ltd. claimed City-making is an art, not a formula. The skills required to re-enchant the city are far wider than the conventional ones like architecture, engineering and land-use planning. There is no simplistic, ten-point plan, but strong principles can help send good city-making on its way. The vision for 21st century cities must be to be the most imaginative cities for the world rather than in the world. This one change of word – from ‘in’ to ‘for’ – gives city-making an ethical foundation and value base. It helps cities become places of solidarity where the relations between the individual, the group, outsiders to the city and the planet are in better alignment.Following the widespread success of The Creative City, this new book, aided by international case studies, explains how to reassess urban potential so that cities can strengthen their identity and adapt to the changing global terms of trade and mass migration. It explores the deeper fault-lines, paradoxes and strategic dilemmas that make creating the ‘good city’ so difficult.
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