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    What makes a great city / Alexander Garvin.

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    • Title:What makes a great city / Alexander Garvin.
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    • Author/Creator:Garvin, Alexander, author.
    • Published/Created:Washington, D.C. : Island Press, [2016]
      ©2016

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Public spaces.
      City planning.
      City and town life.
    • Description:xxvii, 312 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 23 cm
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9781610917575 (hardback)
      161091757X (hardback)
      9781610917582 (paperback)
      1610917588 (paperback)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: Defining the Public Realm
      Streets, Squares, and Parks
      Beyond Streets, Squares, and Parks
      Making Cities Great
      Open to Anybody
      Something for Everybody
      Attracting and Retaining Market Demand
      Providing a Framework for Successful Urbanization
      Sustaining a Habitable Environment
      Nurturing and Supporting a Civil Society
      Overwhelmingly Identifiable, Accessible, and Easy to Use
      Plaza Mayor, Salamanca, Spain
      Creating an Identifiable, Accessible, and Easy-to-Use Public Realm
      Paris Metro
      Federal Center, Chicago
      Piazza del Campo, Siena, Italy
      Squares of Savannah
      Sixteenth Street, Denver
      Keeping the Public Realm Safe
      Gran Via, Barcelona
      Piet Heinkade, Amsterdam
      Streets of Paris
      Feeling Comfortable
      Jardin du Palais Royale, Paris
      Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
      Kungstradgarten, Stockholm
      Via dei Condotti, Rome
      Via Aquilante, Gubbio, Italy
      Worth Avenue, Palm Beach
      Levittown, Long Island
      Forever Welcoming
      Reason to Return Again and Again
      Boulevard des Italiens, Paris
      Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris
      Washington Park, Chicago
      Having Fun
      Playgrounds
      Piazza Navona, Rome
      Animating a Multifunctional Public Realm
      Market Square and PPG Place, Pittsburgh
      Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place
      Central Park, New York City
      Passeig de Gracia, Barcelona
      Reclaiming Bits of the Public Realm for Public Use
      Plenty of People
      Using the Public Realm to Trigger Private Development
      Place des Vosges, Paris
      Revival of the Place des Vosges
      Regent's Park, London
      Avenue Foch, Paris
      Enlarging the Public Realm to Accommodate a Growing Market
      Administrative Center for the Modern City of Paris
      North Michigan Avenue, Chicago
      Responding to Diminishing Market Demand by Repositioning the Public Realm
      Kärntner Stra€e, Vienna
      Bryant Park, New York City
      Continuing Investment
      Alternative Frameworks
      Atlanta
      Dubrovnik, Croatia
      Rome
      St. Petersburg, Russia
      Paris Street Network
      Ringstrasse, Vienna
      Radio-Concentric Moscow
      Houston's Highway Rings
      Manhattan Grid
      Maintaining the Public Realm Framework
      Thirty-Fourth Street, Manhattan
      Determining the Location of Market Activity
      What Does It Take to Sustain a Habitable Environment?
      Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn
      Using the Public Realm to Create a Habitable Environment
      Boston's Emerald Necklace
      Long Island's Network of Parks, Beaches, and Parkways
      Reconfiguring the Public Realm to Improve Habitability
      Public Squares of Portland, Oregon
      New York City's Greenstreets Program
      Transportation Alternatives That Improve Habitability
      Union Square, San Francisco
      Post Office Square, Boston
      Congestion Pricing in London
      Congestion Targets in Zurich
      Ever More Habitable Public Realm
      Chicago Lakeshore
      Reviving the San Antonio River
      Operating the Public Realm
      Park Management in New York City
      Ever-Improving Public Realm
      Nurturing Role of the Public Realm
      Streets of Copenhagen
      Palace Square (Dvortsovaya Ploshchad), St. Petersburg
      Red Square, Moscow
      Ensuring That the Public Realm Continues to Nurture a Civil Society
      Times Square, Manhattan
      Public Realm as a Setting for Self-Expression
      Whose Realm Is It?
      Determining the Daily Life of a City
      Squares of London
      Minneapolis Park System
      Madrid Miracle
      Key to Greatness
      Patient Search for a Better Tomorrow
      Place de la Republique, Paris
      Post Oak Boulevard in the Uptown District of Houston
      Brooklyn Bridge Park
      Atlanta's BeltLine Emerald Necklace
      Waterfront Toronto
      What Makes a City Great.
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