The Art of City Making (Hardcover)

Part I: Overture * Cityness is Everywhere * Part II: The Sensory Landscape of Cities * Sensescapes Part III: Unhinged and Unbalanced * The City as a Guzzling Beast * Urban Logistics * The Geography of Misery * The Geography of Desire * The Geography of Blandness * Part IV: Repertoires and Resistance * Urban Repertoires * Urban Resonance * Borrowing the Landscape * Urban Rituals * A Coda: Urban Resistances * Part V: The Complicated and the Complex * The Forces of Change: Unscrambling Complexity * Aligning Professional Mindsets * Opening Mindsets and the Professions * Blindspots in City-Making * Part VI: The City as a Living Work of Art * Re-enchanting the city * Rethinking calculations of worth: The asphalt currency * Reconceiving the city * Remapping the city * Redelineating urban roles * Retelling the story * Part VII: Creative Cities for the World * Ethics and creativity * The Management of Fragility: Creativity and the City * Ten ideas to start the creative city process * Part VIII: Endpiece * 'Why I Think What I Think' *