LEADER 04674nam 22006615 450 001 9910254114003321 005 20200630021801.0 010 $a1-61091-758-8 010 $a1-61091-759-6 024 7 $a10.5822/978-1-61091-759-9 035 $a(CKB)3710000000837647 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-61091-759-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5576293 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5576293 035 $a(OCoLC)957582231 035 $a(PPN)194802280 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000837647 100 $a20160822d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWhat Makes a Great City /$fby Alexander Garvin 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aWashington, DC :$cIsland Press/Center for Resource Economics :$cImprint: Island Press,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (Approx. 345 p.) 311 $a1-61091-757-X 311 $a1-61091-824-X 327 $aPreface: 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. 330 $aWhat 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, London, New York, and Vienna. For Garvin, greatness is not just about the most beautiful, convenient, or well-managed city; it isn?t even about any ?city.? It is about what people who shape cities can do to make a city great. A great city is not an exquisite, completed artifact. It is a dynamic, constantly changing place that residents and their leaders can reshape to satisfy their demands. While this book does discuss the history, demographic composition, politics, economy, topography, history, layout, architecture, and planning of great cities, it is not about these aspects alone. Most importantly, it is about the interplay between people and public realm, and how they have interacted throughout history to create great cities. To open the book, Garvin explains that a great public realm attracts and retains the people who make a city great. He describes exactly what the term public realm means, its most important characteristics, as well as providing examples of when and how these characteristics work, or don?t. An entire chapter is devoted to a discussion of how particular components of the public realm (squares in London, parks in Minneapolis, and streets in Madrid) shape people?s daily lives. He concludes with a look at how twenty-first century initiatives in Paris, Houston, Atlanta, Brooklyn, and Toronto are making an already fine public realm even better?initiatives that demonstrate what other cities can do to improve. This volume will help readers understand that any city can be changed for the better and inspire entrepreneurs, public officials, and city residents to do it themselves. 606 $aSustainable development 606 $aRegional planning 606 $aUrban planning 606 $aCity planning 606 $aLandscape architecture 606 $aSustainable Development$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/U34000 606 $aLandscape/Regional and Urban Planning$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/J15000 606 $aUrbanism$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/K18006 606 $aLandscape Architecture$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/K16003 615 0$aSustainable development. 615 0$aRegional planning. 615 0$aUrban planning. 615 0$aCity planning. 615 0$aLandscape architecture. 615 14$aSustainable Development. 615 24$aLandscape/Regional and Urban Planning. 615 24$aUrbanism. 615 24$aLandscape Architecture. 676 $a338.927 700 $aGarvin$b Alexander$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0275529 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910254114003321 996 $aWhat Makes a Great City$92525176 997 $aUNINA