Citymakers : the culture and craft of practical urbanism 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