Bøker av Nan Ellin

Identifies the obstacles to creating thriving environments, and presents a six-step process to overcome them: prospect, polish, propose, prototype, promote, and present. The author illustrates the process with ten projects, from Envision Utah to Open Space Seattle. It is suitable for planners, urban designers, community developers, and students.

A theory of urbanism, this work offers a different model of urban life. This model stands as an antidote to the pervasive problems engendered by modern and postmodern urban planning and architecture: sprawl, anomie, a pervasive culture - and architecture - of fear in cities, and a disregard for environmental issues.