  | Book Details Title: The Art of Classic Planning: Building Beautiful and Enduring Communities |
Book DescriptionReview “This is truly the mother of all urban planning books.”―Léon Krier, author of The Architecture of Community“A much-needed and heroic corrective to the grandiose techno-narcissistic dogma that has turned the American landscape into a wilderness of free parking, anxiety, and ennui. Nir Buras’s The Art of Classic Planning presents a new template for a human habitat with a plausible future.”―James Howard Kunstler, author of The Geography of Nowhere and The Long Emergency“In the face of the triple threat of rapid urbanization, climate change, and natural resource depletion, we urgently need to relearn the art of building beautiful and enduring communities, as set out in The Art of Classic Planning, to ensure future generations can prosper.”―Ben Bolgar, The Prince’s Foundation“A veritable bible of urbanism, Nir Buras’s The Art of Classic Planning is a formidable challenge to modernist principles.”―Hillel Schocken, Azrieli School of Architecture, Tel Aviv University“This compendium should be understood not as an attempt to constrain urbanism to the classical, but rather to extend the range of urbanism to include the classical. Why on earth would an urbanist want to be without this trove of knowhow on the table?”―Andrés Duany, FAIA, CNU, recipient of the Driehaus Prize and coauthor of Suburban Nation Read more About the Author Nir Haim Buras is an architect and city planner with over thirty years of experience in strategic planning and transportation design. He has worked on the East Side Access at Grand Central Terminal in New York City, the International Terminal at the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, the Tel Aviv Metro, and the US Capitol Senate and House Office Buildings in Washington, DC. Buras founded the Washington, DC, chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art and visited 100 cities worldwide to write The Art of Classic Planning. Read more Customers Review:Undoubtedly with the best of intentions every new idea under the sun has been thrown at them for the past century to solve the many problems they face. During that time no other author has taken up the subject of Classic Planning. In the Art of Classic Planning Dr. Nir Buras unpacks for the reader the embedded wisdom of the previous 5,000 years of city building that carries many a legacy of beautiful places created to meet the aspirations of their community. All of the above is conveyed in a common sense approach that is free of jargon and readily accessible to the professional planner, city official, and engaged citizen alike. The Art of Classic Planning is not merely a “must have” book for the old library, it is a once in a generation treatise that contains within its pages the power to heal the world. – Patrick Webb | |
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