Good Urbanism: Six Steps to Creating Prosperous Places

摘要

Nan Ellin's newest book, Good Urbanism, has a place within multiple sets of publications. It is the latest publication in the Metropolitan Planning + Design series, a collaboration between Island Press and the University of Utah's Department of City & Metropolitan Planning. It is one of a small set of books that go beyond the problem of determining what is desired in our urban environment and instead sets forth an agenda for how to achieve good urbanism. Third in Ellin's series on "Urbanism," it follows Integral Urbanism (2006) and Postmodern Urbanism (1996). While Good Urbanism is topically and structurally more similar to her most recent book, it shares the theoretically rich language of Postmodern Urbanism. It appears as if Ellin has come full circle within the topic.