Categoría: Sociedad y cultura

summary of book

This book discusses why car use urban quality deteriorates; why high-rise residential buildings are inconvenient; what makes a street attractive to walk, why in a healthy city public spaces, not shopping malls are the place to abut. The author delves into such fascinating topics as the edges, and why we prefer to be on the edge of a square and not in the middle of it.The author's work is profoundly human