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Dittmar, Hank.

My kind of citycollected essays of Hank Dittmar /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	My kind of cityby Hank Dittmar.
Reminder of title:	collected essays of Hank Dittmar /
Author:	Dittmar, Hank.
Published:	Washington, DC :Island Press/Center for Resource Economics :2019.
Description:	xx, 227 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	City planning.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-64283-037-8
ISBN:	9781642830378$q(electronic bk.)

My kind of citycollected essays of Hank Dittmar /
Dittmar, Hank.

My kind of citycollected essays of Hank Dittmar /[electronic resource] :by Hank Dittmar. - Washington, DC :Island Press/Center for Resource Economics :2019. - xx, 227 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

Note from the Publisher -- Foreword by Andres Duany -- Preface by Lynn Richards -- Part 1. My Kind of Town -- Part 2. The Cavaliers vs. the Roundheads -- Part 3. Continuity and Context -- Part 4. Bouquets and Brickbats -- Part 5. Sustainability and Tradition -- Part 6. On Christopher Alexander's Athena Award -- Part 7. Urbanism in Late Stage Capitalism -- Part 8. Lean Urbanism: Making Small Possible -- Part 9. About London. Part 10. From Place to Place -- About the Author.

"Hank Dittmar said that Christopher Alexander changed his life. I'm happy to say that Hank changed mine. It's hard to describe how enriching it was to work alongside such an insightful leader and observer of our built environment. Fortunately, for future generations of urbanists My Kind of City reveals some of Hank's finest thinking, especially the ways in which he delighted in the complex interactions between people, culture, design, and place. Don Chen, President, Surdna Foundation "This book of essays is a joy to read. Hank's writing is smart without being elitist, witty and poetic, succinct and often surprising. Hank's approach to life-and to cities-was to embrace the 'messy'-a word he uses to good effect in key passages in this book. As he notes in the opening section (a series of love letters to complicated places), cities are 'hard to plan, easy to ruin, yet surprisingly adaptable and resilient.' Adapted from the preface by Lynn Richards, President and CEO, Congress for the New Urbanism "Hank shows a rare sensibility within his profession: He has obviously been much moved by beauty. In these essays, he has contributed to the emerging belief that there are certain aesthetic constants across culture, time, and class, and that these can be objectively apprehended and taught. From the foreword by Andres Duany, Partner, DPZ Partners.

ISBN: 9781642830378$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.5822/978-1-64283-037-8doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

208378
City planning.

LC Class. No.: NA9040 / .D58 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 711.4

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