Citistate Seattle: Shaping A Modern Metropolis - Softcover

Hinshaw, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1884829228 ISBN 13: 9781884829222

Verlag: Routledge, 1999

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With style and humor, the author writes of special places in everyday Seattle. The author takes us to popular, high-profile landmarks like Pike Place Market as well as tucked-away gems ― cozy cottages, trendy pubs, gracious apartment buildings, and vibrant urban villages ― that flavor and enliven the city. The author shares his eye for unique, humanizing details of design, architecture, and function, bringing this colorful metropolis to life so vividly you'll practically smell the coffee they brew and sell on (almost) every street corner.

Along the way, the author explains the public and private decisions that helped Seattle avoid the urban desolation that plagues other American cities. The author introduces many of Seattle's movers and shakers ― mayors, developers, artists, and urban pioneers ― who took it upon themselves to guide metropolitan Seattle along a different path.

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Planning success depends on the support of city dwellers, builders, and workers. But few citizens understand why planning matters to the look, feel, and experience of daily city life. Most planners are at a loss to explain. Not Mark Hinshaw. He regularly brings the public face-to-face with real-life planning through his columns in the Seattle Times ?. Now, in ?Citistate Seattle ?, this respected architect and certified planner addresses a national audience by documenting planning's triumphs, near misses, and outright failures in one of America's most interesting boomtowns. Planners looking for a way to put a planning spin on familiar issues need look no farther than Hinshaw's example. With style and humor, Hinshaw writes of special places in everyday Seattle. He takes us to popular, high-profile landmarks like Pike Place Market as well as tucked-away gems-cozy cottages, trendy pubs, gracious apartment buildings, and vibrant urban villages-that flavor and enliven the city. He shares his eye for unique, humanizing details of design, architecture, and function, bringing this colorful metropolis to life so vividly you'll practically smell the coffee they brew and sell on (almost) every street corner. Along the way, Hinshaw explains the public and private decisions that helped Seattle avoid the urban desolation that plagues other American cities. He introduces many of Seattle's movers and shakers-mayors, developers, artists, and urban pioneers-who took it upon themselves to guide metropolitan Seattle along a different path.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1884829228
• ISBN 13: 9781884829222
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 180