Our sense of scale rarely receives the attention it warrants. In Touching the City: Thoughts on Urban Scale, Timothy Makower delves into scale with an analytical eye, after many years of translating experiential observations into major projects, such as King's Cross Masterplan and Liverpool One. Highlighting what the urban dweller can learn from historic cities and contemporary insertions, he zooms between the macro and the micro, from Detroit to Chandigarh, via New York, London, Paris, Rome and Doha. The importance of drawing and of the process of design are informed by examining the 'dynamics and movement patterns of cities, the making of streets and skylines, and the formation of thresholds and facades'.
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