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Urban Acupuncture

by Jaime Lerner
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Urban Acupuncture
Urban Acupuncture

Transformative small-scale urbanism insights and impacts.

If you're passionate about urban development and sustainability, "Urban Acupuncture" could be a revelation for you. Jaime Lerner shares his invaluable experience with micro-scale interventions that rejuvenate cities, demonstrating that sometimes the smallest changes can spark the most significant transformations. It's an inspiring read for anyone interested in how creative, low-cost solutions can profoundly impact urban life.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Urban Acupuncture

by Jaime Lerner
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ISBN: 9781610917278
Author: Jaime Lerner
Publisher: Island Press
Date of Publication: 2016-02-02
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Nature, Travel, Sociology
Related Topics: Social Issues, Social Justice, Politics, History, Travelogue, Environment, Nature, Travel
Goodreads rating: 3.67
(rated by 495 readers)

Description

During his three terms as mayor of Curitiba, Brazil in the 1970s and ‘80s, architect and urbanist Jaime Lerner transformed his city into a global model of the sustainable and livable community. From the pioneering Bus Rapid Transit system to parks designed to catch runoff and reduce flooding, and the creation of pedestrian-only zones, Lerner has been the driving force behind a host of innovative urban projects. In more than forty years of work in cities around the globe, Lerner has found that changes to a community don’t need to be large-scale and expensive to have a transformative impact—in fact, one block, park, or a single person can have an outsized effect on life in the surrounding city. In Urban Acupuncture, Lerner celebrates these “pinpricks” of urbanism—projects, people, and initiatives from around the world that ripple through their communities to uplift city life. With meditative and descriptive prose, Lerner brings readers around the world to streets and neighborhoods where urban acupuncture has been practiced best, from the bustling La Boqueria market in Barcelona to the revitalization of the Cheonggyecheon River in Seoul, South Korea. Through this journey, Lerner invites us to re-examine the true building blocks of vibrant communities—the tree-lined avenues, night vendors, and songs and traditions that connect us to our cities and to one another. Urban Acupuncture is the first of Jaime Lerner’s visionary work to be published in English. It is a love letter to the elements that make a street hum with life or a neighborhood feel like home, penned by one of the world’s most successful advocates for sustainable and livable urbanism.
 

Transformative small-scale urbanism insights and impacts.

If you're passionate about urban development and sustainability, "Urban Acupuncture" could be a revelation for you. Jaime Lerner shares his invaluable experience with micro-scale interventions that rejuvenate cities, demonstrating that sometimes the smallest changes can spark the most significant transformations. It's an inspiring read for anyone interested in how creative, low-cost solutions can profoundly impact urban life.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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