The role of historic preservation — or “heritage” as it’s often termed overseas — is a conundrum faced regularly in the planning and development world. In rapidly changing cities with redevelopment incentives, “what to save” is front-page news, and the loss of special places is forever memorialized. I’ve often advocated getting down to the […]
Monthly Archives: February 2019
Melbourne, Australia, by the author. Island Press first published an e-book version of the book, Urbanism Without Effort, in 2013, and a released a revised, paperback version last week. This book set the stage for my later book, Seeing the Better City, which was designed to implement my ideas about how […]