Cities For A Small Planet

It was a great read that provided a lot of solutions. Some of the data is outdated. It’s fun to do research and se the “where are they [the facts] now?” Optimistic, good diagrams, accesible vocabulary and relative short.

"Cities for a Small Planet give me the reassurance that there are influential people trying to reduce the destructive impact of human activities on the world. The case study of Curitiba, Brazil is particularly inspirational.Author Richard Rogers looks for ways to make city centers more sustainable and points out the importance of public space within a city. He makes a case against single-use developments, the sprawl of the suburbs and the need for automobiles. I can't help but to wonder, though, about the average family living in a suburb in their own house with a backyard garden, two dogs and a cat. Those average people are quite happy to be away from the city centers, from the panhandlers and predators, from unsafe feelings while riding public transportation, from the sounds of police sirens and honking horns. Will dense sustainable city developments change that?Not everyone is cut out to live in dense cities. A more appropriate question (at least in the United States) might be, "What can we do to make our suburbs more sustainable?"Just an aside: I found the font size of this book to be a bit on the small side, and the captions under the pictures to be small to the point of near unreadability.

Unusual and very well thought-out propositions for the architectural/urbanization problems that arise today as society everywhere struggles with increasing overpopulation. EWspecially noteworthy is the inclusion of small town issues, a topic normally overlooked by other architects/scholars who write on urban planning. Some interesting research, and of course the intriguing sketches and drawings I associate with Rogers, Foster, Piano, and all thoes other postindustrial architects. It's a small little book that is great for reading on the plane. Usually something not too common with architecture books.

It is a great book, very easy to understand, the author, Richard Rogers sets clear and useful examples, some built and others still in proyect but yet explains step by step.

Great book to help better understand the planet's cities we all live in - also very convenient to carry !

A very inspiring read.

There's probably a great truth in the fact that the last 50 years of planning have enrich few and impoverished many.Zoning is simple, clear, fast and economically definable, but it isolates the people who are destined to live there, and enslaves them to the use of car.Overlapping and dense urbanism is historically a step back, is more work for planners, more difficult to understand for the laymen and developers and will cost more, but it will ultimately favor humane contact, regenerate sense of community, diminish the slavery of people on machine and last but not least reduce pollution.We have to reconsider the word coined by the Polish American Architect Lubicz of Nycz: Urbantecture.Urbanism & architecture are very delicate matters, intimately tided they create the frame for the world we live in.This is a great book for planner, politicians and people, because everybody today is oblige to look at cities as sustainable places where life can prosper only in respect of nature.

It is a good book, small but with lots of information. It introduces in a simple form the urban problems of the world and tries to focus in it's solutions. After I read it I showed it to teachers at my school and they now quote it in class.

Handy little summary of the main findings of the 1999 Urban Task Force. A little too much like a manifesto for my liking (i.e. too generalized) but its heart was in the right place. A shame nothing came of it (how could it given the current blind acceptance of neo-liberal dogma). An updated version (to take account of more recent knowledge relating to key Anthropocene issues and scaled up low impact solutions, and a more aggressive stance on the menaces of urban motor vehicles) with some more tangible examples would not go amiss!

Description states ‘Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition’ yet there are handwritten annotations and markings throughout the book. Would not recommend.

An intriguing look at how cities shape our planet, would definitely recommend.

Libro pagato 0,99€ perché usato ma in perfette condizioni. È piccolino e molto scorrevole da leggere con molte immagini, con argomenti ancora molto validi e attuali.

I know the book is amazing, but this copy is terrible, returned