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082			_a307.342 _bGRE
100			_aGreenberg, Ken _945625
245			_aWalking home : _bthe life and lessons of a city builder
260			_aCanada _bRandom House _c2011
300			_aviii,384,ip.
505			_aCONTENTS Introduction i I. THE CITY ON THE ROPES Growing up in Cities and Suburbs 14 The Pre-War Anticity Polemic 21 Cheap Energy Fuels Personal Mobility: The Flight to the Suburbs 31 A Toxic Convergence: Doubts Sown 36 II. THE CITY REBOUNDING Action-Reaction: The Emperor Has No Clothes The Streams Merge 48 Leaving for Amsterdam 54 Arriving in Toronto: A Second Chance 56 Jane Jacobs' Ideas Resonate 66 A Tipping Point 71 III. THE ELUSIVE ART/SCIENCE OF CITY BUILDING A Unique Ability to Combine Things 78 We Shape Our Cities and They Shape Us 85 False Trails and Mirages 93 A Revival of City Building 105 IV.NEW TOOLS AND TEAMS Epiphany in Prince Albert no Testing a Method in Toronto 114 Taking It on the Road to Saint Paul 131 There Is a Time to Say No 143 Optimizing the Whole, Not the Parts 147 New Kinds of Collaboration 152 A New Tool Kit 158 Serial Creations 169 V.CITIES PERPETUALLY RE-INVENT THEMSELVES Shaping Forces in Our Time 174 Doing More with Less 186 Getting Out of Our Cars 193 Retrofitting Infrastructure 197 Greater Mix and Overlap 205 Cities in Nature 211 Universities as City Builders 225 Back from the Abyss 231 Suburban Transformations 244 VI- RECLAIMING THE PUBLIC REALM Public Space Lost and Found 254 The Revival of the Commons 257 Back to the Water's Edge 265 Urban Trails and Public Access 273 VII: MANAGING CHANGE IN DEMOCRATIC SETTINGS The Wisdom of Crowds 290 Getting to Scale: Subsidiarity 295 How the Development Table Is Structured 304 From NIMBY to YIMBY 311 Political Space: Mayors and Councillors 315 VIII: REDEEMING THE PROMISE OF CITIES Turning the Corner 326 The Case for Empowering Cities 342 Notes 348 Acknowledgements 354 Image Credits 356 Index 358
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