Cities for a Small Planet (An Icon Edition)

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future.......2007-05-08

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.

...But I like my life in the suburbs.......2006-05-24

"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.

small in size, large in wisdom.......2000-05-31

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.

well designed and with great insight.......1999-12-08

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.

excellent, innovative interesting ideas.......1999-05-05

After reading this book, I wanted to pack my bags and head to London to study with Richard Rogers. His observations on the importance of balancing population, resources and the environment is right on. He identifies the need for compact cities, but seeks to reinvent the dense city model to be a cleaner, greener, more integrated place. Rogers pays specific attention to positive social changes that compact cities can make, and he addresses the importance of regionalism to acheiving sustainability goals. Also, he explains how proximity allows for creative reuse of resources and efficient building design. The book is unique; Rogers makes concrete suggestions and offers actual examples of ways to acheive sustainability.

Ciudades Para un Pequeno Planeta / Cities for a Small Planet

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Ciudades Para un Pequeno Planeta / Cities for a Small Planet
Richard Rogers , and Philip Gumuchdjian
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Small Blue Planet - The Cities Below (The Aerial Atlas of America MAC/MPC V.1.4)

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Small Blue Planet: The Cities Below
Publishing Cambrix
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Cities for a Small Planet.(Review) : An article from: Journal of the American Planning Association

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Cities for a Small Planet.(Review) : An article from: Journal of the American Planning Association
Kheir Al-Kodmany
Manufacturer: American Planning Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Journal of the American Planning Association, published by American Planning Association on June 22, 1999. The length of the article is 886 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Cities for a Small Planet.(Review)
Author: Kheir Al-Kodmany
Publication: Journal of the American Planning Association (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1999
Publisher: American Planning Association
Volume: 65 Issue: 3 Page: 336(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Not bad for the $, but not the world's greatest paint/paper.......2002-12-21

I purchased this book on impulse while browsing the art section. It seemed to be everything I wanted: instruction, paint, brush, and paper - all in one convenient package for a nice price of $$$. Here's where the old adage "you get what you pay for" starts to ring true.

Don't let the size fool you. Inside the hard cardboard covers is an instruction manual and eight sheets of watercolor paper approximately 3.5 inches wide by 7.5 inches tall. That's not at all a large canvas to paint on, and having now compared the sheets to other watercolor paper, I can attest that it is of extremely poor quality.

The instructions on the other hand, are quite good despite the diminutive size of the manual. It covers stretching paper, techniques such as laying a wash and spattering, colors, composition and perspective. Not bad for a book that would literally fit in your back pocket or pocket book provided you're willing to rip it from the binding.

The paints are small half-pans (roughly half the size featured in the cover picture), though that's not a problem since the wells are deep. The paint quality is poor, but you're unlikely to notice unless you've had experience with more costly paints. For some reason, they provide burnt umber in a tube instead of a half-pan, but it's still rather grainy.

The water bottle is a neat little addition, though newbies may prefer to use a paper cup filled with water. The paintbrush will probably be the first item to be thrown away since it doesn't retain its shape and loses hairs easily. The built in mixing wells (there's four of them, not six like the cover shows) are truly too small to be of any use, but a simple plastic plate will serve as a palette so it's no great loss.

Overall, if you've never tried watercolors before, it's not such a bad purchase. If it turns out watercolor is not for you, it's much better to have spent $ on a book with all the supplies, than $$$ on paints alone (not including brush, paper or instruction manual). If you discover you like painting watercolors, you can rip the Pocket Studio manual out, throw the rest of the kit away, and get yourself some real supplies from your local art store. I'd give it 2.5 stars if amazon allowed 1/2's.

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