""A plea for a renewed commitment to authentic urbanism and an invitation to learn from history as our cities enter a future of unprecedented change.""
' Alex Steffen, author of ""Carbon Zero: Imagining Cities that Can Save the Planet""
""One of Chuck Wolfe's great gifts is an extraordinary photographer's eye for capturing visual images of everyday, but evocative, city life. Another is an uncommonly strong intellectual grounding in urban planning theory. In Urbanism Without Effort, he combines the two in unique fashion to show us how unplanned places can often teach us more about great placemaking than planned ones.""
' Kaid Benfield, senior counsel, environmental strategies at PlaceMakers, LLC, and former director for sustainable communities, NRDC
""Chuck's work is what happens when art meets science in placemaking. His talent for capturing places being themselves is so important in the placemaker's toolkit, yet can be missed if we are not paying attention. Lucky for us, Chuck is always paying attention and this book is the proof.""
' Dr. Katherine Loflin, The City Doctor
""Wolfe provides something rare in contemporary urbanist writing'rich illustrations and examples from real life'both historical and current. His writing about the past and the future of urban form offers readers inspiration, historical context, and a better understanding of how a sustainable, inviting urban environment is created.""
' Eco-Libris
""Readers will come away motivated to find, experience and document their own favourite places and find ways to apply effortless urbanism in their own neighbourhood.""
' Spacing
""...a book of inspiration and aspiration. It makes the reader yearn for places with soul.""
' Better Cities & Towns
""...a great ground-level look at how neighborhoods and communities can foster flourishing life in the city.""
' Can't Catch My Breath
