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City building: nine planning principles for the twenty-first century

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Cities are often viewed as the least-healthy environments for humans: centers of pollution, overcrowding and waste. But the opposite is often true: a well-planned city can be the very model of sustainable living. By centering infrastructure to a limited site, creating pedestrian-friendly environments and otherwise lessening our footprint on the earth, cities have a great impact on both environmental and communal life. Good city building counters the sprawl of suburbia with concentrated land use, replaces globalized design with regionally appropriate building types and allows for livable, desirable neighborhoods..

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711.4 KRI c.1

Z. HANDIMAN

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711.4 KRI c

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New York : Princeton Architectural Press., 2010

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ix,260p,; 25 cm.

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English

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978-1-56898-881-8

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711.4

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CITY PLANNING - PHILOSOPHY

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