TY - BOOK AU - Shepard,Cassim AU - Genevro,Rosalie TI - Citymakers: the culture and craft of practical urbanism SN - 9781580934855 U1 - 307.1/21609747 23 KW - City planning KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - Land use KW - ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning KW - bisacsh KW - ARCHITECTURE / Sustainability & Green Design KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - "Drawing on six years as the editor of Urban Omnibus, one of the leading publications charting innovations in urban practice, Shepard explores a broad variety of projects in New York, a city at the forefront of experimental and practical research: a constructed wetland in Staten Island, a workforce development and technology program in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a public art installation in a Bronx housing project, a housing advocacy initiative in Jackson Heights, Queens. These and a wide variety of other examples in Citymakers comprise a cross-disciplinary, from-the-ground-up approach that encourage better choices for cities of the future"-- ER -