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Towards an Urban Renaissance [Kindle Edition]

The Urban Task Force
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The Urban Task Force, headed by Lord Rogers, was established by the Department of Environment, Transport and Regions, (DETR) to stimulate debate about our urban environment and to identify ways of creating urban areas in direct response to people's needs and aspirations. Their findings, conclusions and recommendations are presented in a final report to Government Ministers in Summer 99 and form the basis of this important new illustrated book.


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Complex, insightful and clear, the authors seem to have achieved the impossible. Responding to a call from government to find an answer to their political problem of countryside unease at the pressure of new house building on the greenbelt, the task force turned the "problem" on its head and instead offered solutions as to how to make cities more liveable, thereby stopping the flight to the countryside and the suburbanisation of Britain.

Excellently written (which must be to the credit to the task force secretariat if Rogers "Cities of a Small Planet" is a sample of his writing)it sketches out a future for urban life that although requiring resources, planning and absolutely singleminded, directed commitment is achievable. The alternative on the other hand is US style ghettos and sprawl with it social alienation , environmental pollution and unsafe and ugly streets. Buy this book!

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the graphics are not colored and this frustrated me very much. i didn't know before i buy it that it would be like in black and white.
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