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Mark Hinshaw is a city planner and architect with more than thirty years of public- and private-sector experience and a former commentator on planning and design for the Seattle Times. He is currently director of urban design for LMN Architects in Seattle and writes frequently for such publications as Planning and Landscape Architecture."Great cities and neighborhoods packed with people evoke our social side; arguably they make us fully human. Mark Hinshaw describes and celebrates some of the best - vibrant, glamorous, workaday, or gritty places, teeming with people and interest. True Urbanism is a lively assortment of such places, including strong new entries in America's once wild and rural West." - Neal Peirce, syndicated columnist for the Washington Post Writers Group"
Mark Hinshaw has a proposition for Americans: Come out of the bunker, throw open the gates, and meet the neighborhood. In this passionate appeal, he introduces those who have already done just that and explains what cities can do to make true urbanism possible. He rejoices in the growing number of people rejecting sterile, paint-by-numbers subdivisions in favor of vibrant and unpredictable urban neighborhoods. This vivid account of cities small and large emerging from the cobwebs of late 20th century development will show communities with lingering antiurban tendencies how to embrace density as destiny. A must-read urban design book for anyone who cares about cities.
Mark Hinshaw has a proposition for Americans: Come out of the bunker, throw open the gates, and meet the neighborhood. In this passionate appeal, he introduces those who have already done just that and explains what cities can do to make true urbanism possible.
1. Demography, Density, and Diversity 2. Different Cultures, Different Values 3. Constant Change, Many Choices 4. Commerce, Culture, and Quirkiness 5. Streets as Public Living Rooms 6. Urbanism and 7. Active Living 8. Density and Children 9. Public-Sector Investment, Private-Sector Response 10. Re-Forming Regulations 11. New Imperatives for a New Era