Walking Home : The Life and Lessons of a City Builder - Ken Greenberg

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Walking Home

The Life and Lessons of a City Builder

By: Ken Greenberg

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Paperback | 7 August 2012 | Edition Number 1

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One of the world's foremost urban designers shares his theories and methods for rejuvenating neglected cities and argues passionately for the importance and possibilities of their renewal.

One of the world's foremost urban designers shares his passion and methods for rejuvenating neglected cities and argues passionately for the importance and possibilities of their renewal.

From a youth spent in the boroughs of New York City and other great cities of the world, to his beginnings as an architect in Toronto, Ken Greenberg has long recognized that cities at their best provide much of what we seek in a place to call home. Community, places of culture and business that we can walk to, mass transit and a wealth of amenities that couldn't be supported without a city's density- the mid-century drive to suburbanization deprived us of these inherent advantages of urban living. The realization of this loss, in tandem with pressing recent concerns about energy scarcity and global warming, has made us see cities with fresh eyes and a growing understanding that they can provide us with an unparalleled measure of sustainability.

Ken Greenberg has not only advocated for the renewal of downtown cores, he has for thirty years designed the very means by which that renewal can happen. Walking Home is both Ken's story and a lesson in turning the world's urban spaces back into places that can give us not only a platform to face the challenges of the future, but also a place we can call, with pride and satisfaction, home.

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"Walking Home arrives at a good time in Canadian urbanism. . . . If you've been intimidated by the confounding planning language in miniscule type used in those newspaper rezoning ads, Greenberg's guide to city building is refreshingly accessible and invites all of us to join in. . . . There's much hope in Walking Home."
--Shawn Micallef, National Post

"A book that feels hopeful and invigorating. . . . Smart, but accessible. And those that know little about planning history have nothing to fear, as Greenberg does the sweep through history picking up the usual suspects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Jane Jacobs on the way."
--Jake Tobin Garrett, Spacing

"An eloquent, personal, compelling and persuasive argument for more enlightened city-building, made all the more convincing by the Toronto-based author's 30 years of international experience as an urban designer and architect.."
--Winnipeg Free Press

"A highly readable and erudite book written by one of the foremost practitioners in the field of architecture.... Highly recommended."
--Edmonton Journal

"A visionary architect and planner with an international reputation, some of Ken's more notable assignments have focused on the transformation of problematic urban settings into new environments that not only serve the needs of his clients, but also succeed in reclaiming and enhancing the public realm for the benefit of all."
--Robert A. Brown, President, Boston University

"Ken is one of the most skilled and respected urban designers practicing in the world today. His greatest strength, however, is his ability to build consensus on even the most controversial of projects."
--Kairos Shen, Chief Planner of Boston

"I can say without hesitation that without [Ken Greenberg's] expertise and guidance, St. Paul would not be what it is today."
--Senator Norm Coleman, Former Mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota

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Introduction	p. 1
The City on the Ropes
Growing up in Cities and Suburbs	p. 14
The Pre-War Anticity Polemic	p. 21
Cheap Energy Fuels Personal Mobility: The Flight to the Suburbs	p. 31
A Toxic Convergence: Doubts Sown	p. 36
The City Rebounding
Action-Reaction: The Emperor Has No Clothes	p. 42
The Streams Merge	p. 48
Leaving for Amsterdam	p. 54
Arriving in Toronto: A Second Chance	p. 56
Jane Jacobs' Ideas Resonate	p. 66
A Tipping Point	p. 71
The Elusive Art/Science of City Building
A Unique Ability to Combine Things	p. 78
We Shape Our Cities and They Shape Us	p. 85
False Trails and Mirages	p. 93
A Revival of City Building	p. 105
New Tools and Teams
Epiphany in Prince Albert	p. 110
Testing a Method in Toronto	p. 114
Taking It on the Road to Saint Paul	p. 131
There Is a Time to Say No	p. 143
Optimizing the Whole, Not the Parts	p. 147
New Kinds of Collaboration	p. 152
A New Tool Kit	p. 158
Serial Creations	p. 169
Cities Perpetually Re-Invent Themselves
Shaping Forces in Our Time	p. 174
Doing More with Less	p. 186
Getting Out of Our Cars	p. 193
Retrofitting Infrastructure	p. 197
Greater Mix and Overlap	p. 205
Cities in Nature	p. 211
Universities as City Builders	p. 225
Back from the Abyss	p. 231
Suburban Transformations	p. 244
Reclaiming the Public Realm
Public Space Lost and Found	p. 254
The Revival of the Commons	p. 257
Back to the Water's Edge	p. 265
Urban Trails and Public Access	p. 273
Managing Change in Democratic Settings
The Wisdom of Crowds	p. 290
Getting to Scale: Subsidiarity	p. 295
How the Development Table Is Structured	p. 304
From NIMBY to YIMBY	p. 311
Political Space: Mayors and Councillors	p. 315
Redeeming the Promise of Cities
Turning the Corner	p. 326
The Case for Empowering Cities	p. 342
Notes	p. 348
Acknowledgements	p. 354
Image Credits	p. 356
Index	p. 358
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