City Comforts How to Build an Urban Village

To order or for information call CITY COMFORTS PRESS at 1-800-942- 2489. A lively & informative compendium of hundreds of planning, design & landscaping techniques all geared towards making neighborhoods & cities more comfortable. CITY COMFORTS: HOW TO BUILD AN URBAN VILLAGE provides ideas to improve residential streets, public plazas, commercial centers, sidewalks, transit centers & more. The fourteen chapters cover topics ranging from how to create meeting places & crime-free neighborhoods to how to calm traffic & restore habits. An illustration or photograph accompanies each technique. An ideal reference for neighborhood planners, architects & urban designers. From the Planners Bookstore Catalog of the American Planning Association. "Clear, to the point & constructive."--Jane Jacobs, Death & Life of Great American Cities. "After you've read your copy, send it to your city supervisors."-- J. Baldwin, Whole Earth Review. "Each of my colleagues on the City Council ought to have a copy."--Jim Street, Member, Seattle City Council. "Just the kind of sensible manual that we need in this country. Applause! Applause!"--James Howard Kunstler, The Geography of Nowhere.