In "A Country of Cities," author Vishaan Chakrabarti argues that
well-designed cities are the key to solving America's great
national challenges: environmental degradation, unsustainable
consumption, economic stagnation, rising public health costs and
decreased social mobility. If we develop them wisely in the future,
our cities can be the force leading us into a new era of
progressive and prosperous stewardship of our nation. In compelling
chapters, Chakrabarti brings us a wealth of information about
cities, suburbs and exurbs, looking at how they developed across
the 50 states and their roles in prosperity and globalization,
sustainability and resilience, and heath and joy. Counter to what
you might think, American cities today are growing faster than
their suburban counterparts for the first time since the 1920s. If
we can intelligently increase the density of our cities as they
grow and build the transit systems, schools, parks and other
infrastructure to support them, Chakrabarti shows us how both job
opportunities and an improved, sustainable environment are truly
within our means. In this call for an urban America, he illustrates
his argument with numerous infographics illustrating provocative
statistics on issues as disparate as rising childhood obesity
rates, ever-lengthening automobile commutes and government
subsidies that favor highways over mass transit. The book closes
with an eloquent manifesto that rallies us to build "a Country of
Cities," to turn a country of highways, houses and hedges into a
country of trains, towers and trees.
Vishaan Chakrabarti is the director of Columbia University's Center
for Urban Real Estate (CURE). In March 2012, Chakrabarti became a
partner at SHoP Architects, where he will be working on such
projects as the Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn. An
architect and planner, Chakrabarti has worked in both the public
and private sectors: as a top executive at Related Companies; a
director at the New York City Planning Commission; an associate
partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; a transportation planner
for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
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