Shepard, Cassim
Citymakers
- ISBN 13:
- 9781580934855
- author:
- Shepard, Cassim
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Monacelli Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2017
- Pages:
- 256
- Dimensions:
- 25.3 x 19.5 x 2.2 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Arts & Photography, Architecture & Design, Urban Planning,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 6 working days
Description
Cities are at the forefront of addressing twenty-first century's key challenges. As cities adapt to new developments in technology, infrastructure, public space, transportation, and housing, urban practices and our understanding of positive change must evolve. In Citymakers, Cassim Shepard explores how urbanism today is no longer just about planners and politicians, but an array of citizens working at the vanguard of diverse practices. Shepard draws on six years as editor of Urban Omnibus, a leading publication charting innovations in urban practice, to explore projects in New York that showcase experimental and practical research. Examples include a constructed wetland in Staten Island, a workforce development program in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and a public art installation in a Bronx housing project. By blending intimate portraits of individuals and projects with incisive social analysis, Citymakers reports from the front lines of urban practice with up-to-date examples and arguments that reframe our understanding of urbanism.