Urban acupuncture / Jaime Lerner ; translated from the Portuguese by Mac Margolis, Peter Muello, and Ariadne Daher.
"As Mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, architect and urbanist Jaime Lerner transformed his city into a global model of sustainability and livability. During more than forty years of innovation in cities, he has learned that changes do not need to be large-scale and expensive to transform -- one block,...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English Portuguese |
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Washington [D.C.] ; Covelo ; London :
Island Press,
[2014]
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| Online Access: | Springer eBooks Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: | "As Mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, architect and urbanist Jaime Lerner transformed his city into a global model of sustainability and livability. During more than forty years of innovation in cities, he has learned that changes do not need to be large-scale and expensive to transform -- one block, park, or person can have an outsized effect on life in the surrounding city."--Provided by publisher. |
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| Item Description: | "Celebrating pinpricks of change that enrich city life"--Cover. "This is not a technical or theoretical book; it is a book filled with poetry and magic that communicates the importance of dreaming and, at the same time, being pragmatic and making things happen; to always ask if we have the right solution or if there is a better, maybe a simpler way."--Foreword. Collection of short essays and poems on different aspects of city life and city planning. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 143 pages) : illustrations (chiefly colour) |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 1610915844 9781610915847 |