
Where We Want to Live
Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities
- 255 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
**Winner,
Phillip D. Reed Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment**
**A Planetizen Top
Planning Book for 2017**
After decades of sprawl, many American city and suburban residents struggle with issues related to traffic (and its accompanying challenges for our health and productivity), divided neighborhoods, and a non-walkable life. Urban designer Ryan Gravel makes a case for how we can change this. Cities have the capacity to create a healthier, more satisfying way of life by remodeling and augmenting their infrastructure in ways that connect neighborhoods and communities. Gravel came up with a way to do just that in his hometown with the Atlanta Beltline project. It connects 40 diverse Atlanta neighborhoods to city schools, shopping districts, and public parks, and has already seen a huge payoff in real estate development and local business revenue.
Similar projects are in the works around the country, from the Los Angeles River Revitalization and the Buffalo Bayou in Houston to the Midtown Greenway in Minneapolis and the Underline in Miami. In
Where We Want to Live, Gravel presents an exciting blueprint for revitalizing cities to make them places where we truly want to live.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- Dedication
- Preface
- Chapter 1: As Many Gains as Losses
- Chapter 2: “Infra-Culture”
- Chapter 3: Cycles of Change
- Chapter 4: There’s Nothing Wrong with Sprawl
- Chapter 5: Tough Love
- Chapter 6: An Idea with Ambition
- Chapter 7: A Wide-Open Place
- Chapter 8: An Expandable Vision
- Chapter 9: Breaking Ground on Hope
- Chapter 10: Catalyst Infrastructure
- Chapter 11: An Infrastructure for Health and Well-Being
- Chapter 12: An Infrastructure for Economic Prosperity
- Chapter 13: An Infrastructure for Equity
- Chapter 14: An Infrastructure for Civic Identity
- Chapter 15: Up Ahead
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Newsletter Sign-Up
- Contents
- Copyright