Urban Acupuncture : celebrating pinpricks of change that Enrich City Life. / txt
Jaime Lerner.
- xvi, 143 p. ill. ; 22 cm. book
Collection of short essays and poems on different aspects of city life and city planning. "This is not a technical or theoretical book; it is a book filled with poetry and magic that communicates the importance of dreaming and, at the same time, being pragmatic and making things happen; to always ask if we have the right solution or if there is a better, maybe a simpler way."--Foreword.
Contents: Preface by Carol Coletta, Knight Foundation -- Foreword by Jan Gehl -- Introduction -- 24 Hour Shopkeepers in New York City -- The Old Cinema Novo -- Rescuing a River -- The Forbidden City -- Cali -- Do Nothing! Urgently -- Around the Clock or The 24 Hour City -- Urban Kindness -- Musical Acupuncture -- Continuity is Life -- Street Sounds, Colors and Scents -- Good Recycling -- People in the Streets -- Smart Car, Smart Bus -- Commitment to Solidarity -- Draw Your City -- Instructions for Performing Urban Acupuncture -- Creative Leisure vs. Insdustrious Mediocrity -- Self Esteem Is Good Acupuncture -- Light Is Good Acupuncture -- Aqua puncture -- The Mobility Card -- Eco clock -- Arborescence -- Produced Memory -- Of Parks, Squares and Monuments -- The One Page Guide -- Urban Cholesterol -- Buildings with Dignity -- Acupuncture of Silence -- Ramblas and Galleries -- A Pinprick Doesn’t Hurt -- Trompe L’oeil -- A Letter to Fellini -- How to Find Someone in a City -- The Presence of Genius -- Markets and Street Fairs -- The Bar Counter -- Love for the City --
"As Mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, architect and urbanist Jaime Lerner transformed his city into a global model of sustainability and livability. During more than forty years of innovation in cities, he has learned that changes do not need to be large-scale and expensive to transform -- one block, park, or person can have an outsized effect on life in the surrounding city."--Provided by publisher.
Translated from the Portuguese.
9781610915830
2014944763
Urban renewal City planning Civic improvement.--Brazil. Civic improvement.