Urban acupuncture
By: Jaime Lerner ; translated from the Portuguese by Mac Margolis, Peter Muello, and Ariadne Daher
Contributors: Margolis, Mac, translator; Muello, Peter, translator; Daher, Ariadne, translator
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9781610915830
Subjects: Urban renewal; Civic improvement; City planning
Description: "As Mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, architect and urbanist Jaime Lerner transformed his city into a global model of sustainability and livability. During more than forty years of innovation in cities, he has learned that changes do not need to be large-scale and expensive to transform -- one block, park, or person can have an outsized effect on life in the surrounding city."--
Notes: Collection of short essays and poems on different aspects of city life and city planning.

"This is not a technical or theoretical book; it is a book filled with poetry and magic that communicates the importance of dreaming and, at the same time, being pragmatic and making things happen; to always ask if we have the right solution or if there is a better, maybe a simpler way."--Foreword.

Translated from the Portuguese.