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URBAN DESIGN
AND PEOPLE
by Michael A. Dobbins, FAIA, AICP
urban Design Community Neighborhood Citizen Activists Organizers Participation Community Benefits
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For students, at any level: A comprehensive introductory textbook on the theory and practice of Urban Design. What it is, and how it's done.


For practitioners, public and private: A reference book to the expertise and turfs of the multiple professional disciplines that must respect and work with each other to get any project done.



For citizens: A handbook on  citizen guided design -- people making people's places better through emerging understandings and practices like community benefit agreements.

Written with commonsense and humor URBAN DESIGN AND PEOPLE should be on the desks of those making better places and places better for years to come
Read an excerpt from the publisher and if you are an educator, they will send you an evaluation copy for free. The best price now is from Amazon.


Please help us get Urban Design and People into the hands of more people by bringing the price down.  Techie friends say this will happen  if you, reading this now, would Bookmark this page and enter it into emails, blogs, facebooks, whereever you feel comfortable doing so. And if you are kind enough to say anything about the book or Michael Dobbins -- critical is great, stimulate the debate -- please cc: me, irving@urbandesign.pro

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