| | TITLE | A Country of Cities | IMPRINT | Metropolis Books | PRICE US | $29.95 CDN $29.95 | ISBN | 9781935202172 TRADE | FORMAT | Hbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in., 252 pgs, 150 color. | CATALOG | SPRING 2013 p. 3 | DISTRIBUTOR | D.A.P. | PUB DATE | 5/30/2013 | STATUS | Forthcoming | STOCK | Awaiting stock |
| “In a world in which cities become more important each year, Chakrabarti has written a wonderful book about the potential of America’s cities. He argues convincingly how the country would benefit economically and environmentally if the suburbs started to move back to the cities, and he offers specific policy suggestions to accomplish that objective. Read this book, and you’ll want to live in a city.” – Former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley
“Few things are more important to our environmental future than working cities. This book demonstrates with clarity, beauty, and great impact both why and how urban policy could change our prospects for the better.” – Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
“A Country of Cities is a brilliant intervention in the debate over the future of the American metropolis. Chakrabarti offers a compelling case for a dense yet elegant urbanism that really works, and an innovative plan for getting us there. It should be required reading for all who care about cities and the survival of our planet.” – Jennifer Wolch, William W. Wurster Dean, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley
| NEW & FORTHCOMING Edited by Barbara Steiner. Text by Peio Aguirre, Kit Hammonds, Tone Hansen, Oliver Klimpel, Jaroslaw Lubiak, Filip Luyckx, Lena Prents, Esra Sarigedik Öktem, Joanna Sokolowska, Miko uvakovic, Christian Teckert, Jun Yang.
JOVIS Edited by Ana Jeinic, Anselm Wagner. Contributions by Ole Fischer, Maria S. Giudici, Rixt Hoekstra, Christiane Irxenmayer, Tahl Kaminer, Ana Llorente, Olaf Pfeifer, Andreas Rumpfhuber, Ana Jeinic, Oliver Ziegenhardt, Gideon Boie.
JOVIS Edited by Margitta Buchert, Laura Kienbaum. Text by Margitta Buchert, Verena Brehm, Felix Hoepner, Laura Kienbaum.
JOVIS Edited by Iwona Blazwick. Text by Iain Aitch, Paola Antonelli, Iwona Blazwick, Nigel Coates, Emma Dexter, Tom Greenall Rosy Head, Jonathan Hill, Claire Jamieson Anna Minton, Rowan Moore, Jake Moulson, Richard Noble, Lucy Pengilley Gibb , Fiona Raby, Alex Smith, Noam Toran, Anthony Vidler, Gilda Williams.
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| | | A Country of CitiesA Manifesto for an Urban AmericaBy Vishaan Chakrabarti. Foreword by Norman Foster. Illustrations by SHoP Architects. In A Country of Cities, author Vishaan Chakrabarti argues that well-designed cities are the key to solving America's great national challenges: environmental degradation, unsustainable consumption, economic stagnation, rising public health costs and decreased social mobility. If we develop them wisely in the future, our cities can be the force leading us into a new era of progressive and prosperous stewardship of our nation. In compelling chapters, Chakrabarti brings us a wealth of information about cities, suburbs and exurbs, looking at how they developed across the 50 states and their roles in prosperity and globalization, sustainability and resilience, and heath and joy. Counter to what you might think, American cities today are growing faster than their suburban counterparts for the first time since the 1920s. If we can intelligently increase the density of our cities as they grow and build the transit systems, schools, parks and other infrastructure to support them, Chakrabarti shows us how both job opportunities and an improved, sustainable environment are truly within our means. In this call for an urban America, he illustrates his argument with numerous infographics illustrating provocative statistics on issues as disparate as rising childhood obesity rates, ever-lengthening automobile commutes and government subsidies that favor highways over mass transit. The book closes with an eloquent manifesto that rallies us to build “a Country of Cities,” to turn a country of highways, houses and hedges into a country of trains, towers and trees.
Vishaan Chakrabarti is the director of Columbia University’s Center for Urban Real Estate (CURE). In March 2012, Chakrabarti became a partner at SHoP Architects, where he will be working on such projects as the Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn. An architect and planner, Chakrabarti has worked in both the public and private sectors: as a top executive at Related Companies; a director at the New York City Planning Commission; an associate partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; a transportation planner for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
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