Fixing Your City
Creating thriving neighborhoods and adapting to a changing world.
In his groundbreaking book, Fixing Your City, urban architect George Crandall reveals how to produce city plans that mitigate climate change and create healthy places to live, work, and play.
This is not a theoretical book about cities--it is a practical book based on Crandall's wide experience transforming cities in the U.S. and Canada over the last 40 years.
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Fixing Your City isn’t another tome packed with theory and utopian dreams — it’s a hands-on book that provides a strategy for meeting the unique needs of any city. Fixing Your City is a must-read for both city planners and concerned citizens who want real solutions to complex questions and ethical dilemmas. The book:
identifies a planning process that guarantees the implementation of solutions to critical urban issues
addresses climate change and congestion with an integrated land use/transportation strategy that eliminates and shortens auto trips
proposes a new class of professionals, urban architects, who would design cities that work, both for residents and for our endangered earth