Where We Want to Live
eBook - ePub

Where We Want to Live

Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities

  1. 255 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Where We Want to Live

Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities

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

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Notice
  4. Dedication
  5. Preface
  6. Chapter 1: As Many Gains as Losses
  7. Chapter 2: “Infra-Culture”
  8. Chapter 3: Cycles of Change
  9. Chapter 4: There’s Nothing Wrong with Sprawl
  10. Chapter 5: Tough Love
  11. Chapter 6: An Idea with Ambition
  12. Chapter 7: A Wide-Open Place
  13. Chapter 8: An Expandable Vision
  14. Chapter 9: Breaking Ground on Hope
  15. Chapter 10: Catalyst Infrastructure
  16. Chapter 11: An Infrastructure for Health and Well-Being
  17. Chapter 12: An Infrastructure for Economic Prosperity
  18. Chapter 13: An Infrastructure for Equity
  19. Chapter 14: An Infrastructure for Civic Identity
  20. Chapter 15: Up Ahead
  21. Notes
  22. Index
  23. Acknowledgments
  24. About the Author
  25. Newsletter Sign-Up
  26. Contents
  27. Copyright