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My Kind of City - Collected Essays of Hank Dittmar (Hardcover)
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My Kind of City - Collected Essays of Hank Dittmar (Hardcover)
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“Hank lived by the credo, `first listen, then design'.”
—Scott Bernstein, Founder and Chief Strategy and Innovation
Officer, Center for Neighborhood Technology Hank Dittmar was a
globally recognised urban planner, advocate, and policy advisor. He
wrote extensively on a wide range of topics, including
architectural criticism, community planning, and transportation
policy over his long and storied career. In My Kind of City,
Dittmar has organised his selected writings into ten sections with
original introductions. His observations range on scale from local
(“My Favorite Street: Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London”) to
national (“Post Truth Architecture in the Age of Trump”) and
global (“Architects are Critical to Adapting our Cities to
Climate Change”). Andrés Duany writes of Hank in the book
foreword, “He has continued to search for ways to engage place,
community and history in order to avoid the tempting formalism of
plans.” The range of topics covered in My Kind of City reflects
the breadth of Dittmar’s experience in working for better cities
for people. Common themes emerge in the engaging prose including
Dittmar’s belief that improving our cities should not be left to
the “experts”; his appreciation for the beautiful and the
messy; and his rare combination of deep expertise and modesty. As
Lynn Richards, CEO of Congress for the New Urbanism expresses in
the preface, “Hank’s writing is smart without being elitist,
witty and poetic, succinct and often surprising.” My Kind of City
captures a visionary planner’s spirit, eye for beauty, and love
for the places where we live.
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Imprint: |
Island Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2019 |
Authors: |
Hank Dittmar
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
256 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-64283-036-1 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-64283-036-4 |
Barcode: |
9781642830361 |
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