{"product_id":"9781580934855","title":"Citymakers: The Culture and Craft of Practical Urbanism","description":"\u003cp\u003eCities are where solutions to the twenty-first century’s key challenges—addressing inequality, fostering political participation, responding to climate change—will be tested. And as cities adapt to new developments in technology, infrastructure, public space, transportation, and housing, so too must urban practices and our understanding of how to effect positive change evolve. In \u003ci\u003eCitymakers, \u003c\/i\u003eCassim Shepard offers a vivid survey of how urbanism today is no longer the domain of just planners, politicians, and power brokers removed from the effects of their decisions, but an array of citizens working at the vanguard of increasingly diverse practices, from community gardeners to architects to housing advocates.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Drawing on six years as the editor of \u003ci\u003eUrban Omnibus,\u003c\/i\u003e one of the leading publications charting innovations in urban practice (launched in 2009 by The Architectural League of New York),\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eShepard explores a broad variety of projects in New York, a city at the forefront of experimental and practical research: a constructed wetland in Staten Island, a workforce development and technology program in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a public art installation in a Bronx housing project, a housing advocacy initiative in Jackson Heights, Queens. These and a wide variety of other examples in \u003ci\u003eCitymakers\u003c\/i\u003e comprise a cross-disciplinary, from-the-ground-up approach that encourage better choices for cities of the future.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e By blending intimate portraits of individuals and projects with incisive social analysis, \u003ci\u003eCitymakers \u003c\/i\u003ereports from the front lines of urban practice with up-to-the-minute examples and arguments that reframe our understanding of urbanism. With original photography by Alex Fradkin, the book fuses the rich visual and graphic sensibility of architectural publishing with the informative readability of sophisticated, long-format journalism. Revising traditional notions of urban intervention and providing new directions for the next generation of citizen-practitioners, C\u003ci\u003eitymakers\u003c\/i\u003e is a lasting document of the perspectives driving cities today, and tomorrow.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Monacelli Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031043424496,"sku":"9781580934855","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781580934855_p0.jpg?v=1763800842","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781580934855","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}