Repairing the American Metropolis is based on Douglas Kelbaugh’s Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design, first published in 1997. It is more ti

In America today we see rampant development, unsustainable resource exploitation, and commodification ruin both natural and built landscapes, disconnecting us f

Shaping Places explains how towns and cities can turn real estate development to their advantage to create the kind of places where people want to live, work, r

Bringing together for the first time many well known and emerging voices in urban design theory and practice, this volume argues for a progressive and engaged d

Since the end of the nineteenth century, city planners have aspired not only to improve the physical living conditions of urban residents but also to strengthen