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Britain is abandoning its cities and sprawling over green fields. Crime, congestion and inequality are getting worse. Is there an alternative?
After two years' work for the Urban Task Force, architect Richard Rogers and Professor Anne Power set out the problems of cities and propose radical solutions. Suburban sprawl, over-use of energy, environmental damage, depleted inner cities and marginalised communities will force us to waste less and live more compactly. We need cites for a small country.
This book follows the celebrated Cities for a Small Planet, weaving together architectural and social perspectives. Future generations will inherit our cities and land: we must make them work.
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While there are many good books currently in print which look at cities, few are as concise and as readable as this. And yet alongside the text is a wealth of diapgrams, facts, figures and amazing prohotgraphs which will keep every urban 'stato' happy.
This is one book which suceeds in mixing both the exciting potential of urban life in this country, with the very real difficulties faced by those who live there and those who are responsible for planning a better future.
All this, and a trendy cover too. What more coud you want :-)
The section on waste disposal towards the end is really really weak - he seems to think that burning waste to produce energy is somehow different from incineration. Does make me rather worry about whether other parts are as ill-informed. Rather optimistic about what New Labour is going to do for Britain's cities - wonder what he thinks now?
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