{"product_id":"unplanning-livable-cities-and-political-choices-paperback","title":"Unplanning: Livable Cities and Political Choices - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharles Siegel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Unplanning is a wonderful read! It is beautifully written, it takes up extremely important and timely topics, and it offers a new and concrete approach to democracy and sustainability. I enjoy going back almost at random to read and re-read pages and passages from it. It's very engaging and stimulating - and it should be read by every environmentalist.\"\u003cbr\u003e- Prof. Charles Derber, author of Greed to Green\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe conventional wisdom says that we need strict planning to build walkable neighborhoods around transit stations - even though these neighborhoods are like the streetcar suburbs that were common in America before anyone heard of city planning. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn reality, many of our greatest successes in urban design have occurred when we treated the issues as political questions - not as technical problems that the planners should solve for us. The anti-freeway movement of the 1960s and 1970s and the anti-sprawl movement of recent decades were both political movements, and citizen-activists often had to work against projects that planners proposed and approved. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book uses an intriguing thought experiment to show that, in order to build livable cities, we should go further than the anti-freeway and anti-sprawl movements by putting direct political limits on urban growth. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePolitical choices about how we want to live can transform our cities more effectively than planning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 140\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 08, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45892944167109,"sku":"9780978872854","price":17.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/sBLQDVUwcM9780978872854.webp?v=1771918997","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/unplanning-livable-cities-and-political-choices-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}