My Kind of City:

ISLAND PRESSISBN: 9781642830361

Collected Essays of Hank Dittmar

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Imprint: ISLAND PRESS
By: By Hank Dittmar
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HARDBACK
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251

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Note from the Publisher
Foreword by Andrés Duany
Preface by Lynn Richards

Part 1. My Kind of Town
New Orleans is My Kind of Town, Architecture Today
Auckland: At Water's Edge
I Could Learn to Love LA All Over Again, “Planetizena
My Favorite Street: Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London, From Victor Dover and John Massengale, Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns by John Massengale and Victor Dover
 
Part 2. The Cavaliers vs. the Roundheads
Style Wars are Irrelevant when Architecture is Reduced to Floor-plate Cladding, “Building Designa
Southbank Scheme isn't Wrong, it's Just Bland, “Building Designa
When Will Stirling laureates be allowed to quote from Wren?, “Building Designa
People in Glass Houses, “Building Designa
Continuity or Contrast: Take Your Pick, “Building Designa
Three Classicists: Classicism in an Era of Pluralism, From Three Classicists, by Ben Pentreath, George Saumarez Smith, and Francis Terry 

Part 3. Continuity and Context
Continuity and Context in Urbanism and Architecture: the Honesty of a Living Tradition, “Conservation Bulletin 59a
Linking Lincoln: Legacy, Ecology and Commerce, from “Pienza: Legacy, Continuity and Traditiona, Seaside Pienza Institute

Part 4. Bouquets and Brickbats
London's Skyscraper Designers Should Aim High Like Chicago, “Building Designa
An Urbanist's View of the Stirling Shortlist, “Building Designa Don't Students Need Proper Housing?, “Building Designa 
The Urbanists' Stirling Prize, “Building Designa Location Dictates the Success of Monument Design, “Building Designa
It's Time for a New Serpentine Pavilion Design Brief, “Building Designa

Part 5. Sustainability and Tradition
Sustainability and Tradition

Part 6. On Christopher Alexander's Athena Award
 
Part 7. Urbanism in Late Stage Capitalism
Post Truth Architecture in the Age of Trump, “Building Designa  
Finally Some Smart Thinking About Garden Cities, “Building Designa
Garden Towns Need Some Garden City Thinking to Succeed, “Building Designa
Here's the Detail That's Missing from All the Manifestos, “Building Designa
Letter to Edward Glaeser in Response to “Two Green Visions: the Prince and the Mayor,a in Triumph of the City
Can Smart Urban Design Tackle the Rise of Nationalism? “Building Designa
“2011 Founders Forum on the New Urbanism at Seaside, Floridaa, Contribution to an Unpublished Book
Architects are Critical to Adapting our Cities to Climate Change, “Building Designa
You've Got to Hand it to Post-Modernism, “Building Designa
 
Part 8. Lean Urbanism: Making Small Possible
A Lean Urbanism for England: Making Small Possible and Localism Real, LeanUrbanism.org
Pink Zones Can Lighten Planning Red Tape, “Building Designa
Big Ideas Don't Often Produce Great Architecture, “Building Designa
Riding the Railroad to Revival, “Building Designa
Urban Recycling and Doubling Up: How Cities Really Respond to Growth, “Building Designa
How to Diversify Housing Delivery with Some Help from Architects, “Building Designa
Seeing Empty Homes as an Asset, Not a Liability, “Building Designa

Part 9. About London
London's Tall Buildings Bloopers, “Building Designa
A Towering Mess that the Government has the Power'But not the Will'to Address, “Building Designa
Just Because the Powell & Moya Site is Available doesn't mean it's the right place for a Concert Hall, “Building Designa
Old Street Will Need More than Money, “Building Designa
We Need Real Homes, not Ivory Towers, “Building Designa
Bigging up Battersea: A Progress Report, “Building Designa
Are We Serious About Estate Regeneration?, “Building Designa

London's Housing Problems are Beyond the Power of Market Forces to Solve, “Building Designa

Part 10. From Place to Place
A Greener, More Pleasant Vision for Travel and Transport, The Ecologist
Why We Can't Afford to Miss the Train, “Building Designa  
Beauty isn't a Dirty Word, “Building Designa  
Highway Capital and Economic Productivity, Reconnecting America
Testimony before US Senate Commerce Committee in Air and Rail, 2003, U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation, Amtrak
Sprawl: The Automobile and Affording the American Dream, in Sustainable Planet, by Juliet Schor and Betsy Taylor
Why We Need to Get Beyond the Automated Highway System, Presentation to the National Automated Highway System Assessment Committee, National Academy of Sciences
Thinking Like a System: Operationalizing Sustainability Through Transportation Technologies, ITS World Congress

About the Author

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"Hank shows a rare sensibility within his profession: He has obviously been much moved by beauty. In these essays, he has contributed to the emerging belief that there are certain aesthetic constants across culture, time, and class, and that these can be objectively apprehended and taught."

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