My Kind of City

<div><br/><div><i>Note from the Publisher</i><br/><div><i>Foreword</i> by Andrés Duany<br/><i>Preface</i> by Lynn Richards<br/><br/>Part 1. My Kind of Town<br/>New Orleans is My Kind of Town, <i>Architecture Today</i><br/>Auckland: At Water's Edge<br/>I Could Learn to Love LA All Over Again, “Planetizena<br/>My Favorite Street: Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London, From Victor Dover and John Massengale, <i>Street Design:&nbsp;</i><i>The Secret to Great Cities and Towns</i> by John Massengale and Victor Dover<br/>&nbsp;<br/>Part 2. The Cavaliers vs. the Roundheads<br/>Style Wars are Irrelevant when Architecture is Reduced to Floor-plate Cladding, “Building Designa<br/>Southbank Scheme isn't Wrong, it's Just Bland, “Building Designa<br/>When Will Stirling laureates be allowed to quote from Wren?, “Building Designa<br/>People in Glass Houses, “Building Designa<br/>Continuity or Contrast: Take Your Pick, “Building Designa<br/>Three Classicists: Classicism in an Era of Pluralism, From <i>Three Classicists</i>, by Ben Pentreath, George Saumarez Smith, and Francis Terry&nbsp;<br/><br/>Part 3. Continuity and Context<br/>Continuity and Context in Urbanism and Architecture: the Honesty of a Living Tradition, “Conservation Bulletin 59a<br/>Linking Lincoln: Legacy, Ecology and Commerce, from “Pienza: Legacy, Continuity and Traditiona, Seaside Pienza Institute<br/><br/>Part 4. Bouquets and Brickbats<br/>London's Skyscraper Designers Should Aim High Like Chicago, “Building Designa<br/>An Urbanist's View of the Stirling Shortlist, “Building Designa Don't Students Need Proper Housing?, “Building Designa&nbsp;<br/>The Urbanists' Stirling Prize, “Building Designa Location Dictates the Success of Monument Design, “Building Designa<br/>It's Time for a New Serpentine Pavilion Design Brief, “Building Designa<br/><br/>Part 5. Sustainability and Tradition<br/>Sustainability and Tradition<br/><br/>Part 6. On Christopher Alexander's Athena Award<br/>&nbsp;<br/>Part 7. Urbanism in Late Stage Capitalism<br/>Post Truth Architecture in the Age of Trump, “Building Designa &nbsp;<br/>Finally Some Smart Thinking About Garden Cities, “Building&nbsp;Designa<br/>Garden Towns Need Some Garden City Thinking to Succeed, “Building Designa<br/>Here's the Detail That's Missing from All the Manifestos, “Building Designa<br/>Letter to Edward Glaeser in Response to “Two Green Visions: the Prince and the Mayor,a in <i>Triumph of the City</i><br/>Can Smart Urban Design Tackle the Rise of Nationalism? “Building Designa<br/>“2011 Founders Forum on the New Urbanism at Seaside, Floridaa, Contribution to an Unpublished Book<br/>Architects are Critical to Adapting our Cities to Climate Change, “Building Designa<br/>You've Got to Hand it to Post-Modernism, “Building Designa<br/>&nbsp;<br/>Part 8. Lean Urbanism: Making Small Possible<br/>A Lean Urbanism for England: Making Small Possible and Localism Real, LeanUrbanism.org<br/>Pink Zones Can Lighten Planning Red Tape, “Building Designa<br/>Big Ideas Don't Often Produce Great Architecture, “Building&nbsp;Designa<br/>Riding the Railroad to Revival, “Building Designa<br/>Urban Recycling and Doubling Up: How Cities Really Respond to Growth, “Building Designa<br/>How to Diversify Housing Delivery with Some Help from Architects, “Building Designa<br/>Seeing Empty Homes as an Asset, Not a Liability, “Building Designa<br/><br/>Part 9. About London<br/>London's Tall Buildings Bloopers, “Building Designa<br/>A Towering Mess that the Government has the Power'But not the Will'to Address, “Building Designa<br/>Just Because the Powell &amp; Moya Site is Available doesn't mean it's the right place for a Concert Hall, “Building Designa<br/>Old Street Will Need More than Money, “Building Designa<br/>We Need Real Homes, not Ivory Towers, “Building Designa<br/>Bigging up Battersea: A Progress Report, “Building Designa<br/>Are We Serious About Estate Regeneration?, “Building Designa</div><br/>London's Housing Problems are Beyond the Power of Market Forces to Solve, “Building Designa<br/><br/>Part 10. From Place to Place<br/>A Greener, More Pleasant Vision for Travel and Transport,&nbsp;<i>The Ecologist</i><br/>Why We Can't Afford to Miss the Train, “Building Designa &nbsp;<br/>Beauty isn't a Dirty Word, “Building Designa &nbsp;<br/>Highway Capital and Economic Productivity, Reconnecting America<br/>Testimony before US Senate Commerce Committee in Air and Rail, 2003, U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, &amp; Transportation, Amtrak<br/>Sprawl: The Automobile and Affording the American Dream, in&nbsp;<i>Sustainable Planet</i>, by Juliet Schor and Betsy Taylor<br/>Why We Need to Get Beyond the Automated Highway System, Presentation to the National Automated Highway System Assessment Committee, National Academy of Sciences<br/>Thinking Like a System: Operationalizing Sustainability Through Transportation Technologies, ITS World Congress<br/><br/><i>About the Author</i></div><br/></div>