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Humane urbanism can take many forms, from affordable housing and networks of bike paths to refurbished waterfronts and urban farms. Often spontaneous, low-tech, and self-sustaining programmes, their shared goal is to connect people to one another and to bring nature back into the city. This examines both sides of this historic transformation: the long struggle against patricians and technocrats of earlier decades and the recent sprouting of grassroots efforts to make metropolitan America more humane and sustainable.

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Humane urbanism can take many forms, from affordable housing and networks of bike paths to refurbished waterfronts and urban farms. Often spontaneous, low-tech, and self-sustaining programmes, their shared goal is to connect people to one another and to bring nature back into the city. This examines both sides of this historic transformation: the long struggle against patricians and technocrats of earlier decades and the recent sprouting of grassroots efforts to make metropolitan America more humane and sustainable.
Autorenporträt
Rutherford H. Platt is professor emeritus of geography at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Among his publications are The Ecological City: Preserving and Restoring Urban Biodiversity (University of Massachusetts Press, 1994) and The Humane Metropolis: People and Nature in the 21st-Century City (University of Massachusetts Press, 2006). The fourth edition of his textbook Land Use and Society: Geography, Law, and Public Policy will be released in 2014.