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1. Urban Design Reclaimed

   By Emily Talen

   There are two kinds of urban design: the kind that shapes skylines and the kind that shapes communities. For the past several decades, planners-who are trained to think about how communities function-have ceded their role in urban design to architects-who are trained to think about how buildings...

   Published April 14th 2009 by APA Planners Press
2. Design for Diversity

   By Emily Talen

   The city is more than just a sum of its buildings; it is the sum of its communities. The most successful urban communities are very often those that are the most diverse – in terms of income, age, family structure and ethnicity – and yet poor urban design and planning can stifle the very diversity...

   Published January 22nd 2008 by Routledge
3. New Urbanism and American Planning

   The Conflict of Cultures

   By Emily Talen

   Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

   New Urbanism and American Planning presents the history of American planners’ quest for good cities and shows how New Urbanism is a culmination of ideas that have been evolving since the nineteenth century. In her survey of the last hundred or so years of urbanist ideals, Emily Talen identifies...

   Published July 11th 2005 by Routledge