The Gaia Atlas of Cities

by Herbert Girardet

Extensively revised and updated for the Habitat II Conference, this work addresses key issues, analyzing the problems of expanding city populations and exploring the possibility of healing cities,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385419155
• ISBN13: 9780385419154
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Everybody, everywhere should read it

This is a book to be read by everyone, not just city planners, not just ecologists, not just politicians or city administrators, but every city dweller all around the world. It is not too simple, it is not too complex; it addresses most important issues not just on the present problems of cities but, more important, on how to face them and on how to make more livable cities. It seems no one knows where urban growth is taking us or the world as a whole; no one can tell but there are tendencies that tell us we may be sailing on and into unchartered waters; the author explores several of such tendencies, maladies and possible remedies, but above all, tells us, finally, that everyone of us is responsible (and how we are and what to do) for the future of our own cities and that there are ways to overcome problems so to make cities a joy to live in the near and the not so near future.