David Sucher

The book shows examples of small things -- City Comforts -- that make urban life pleasant: places where people can meet, methods to tame cars and to make buildings good neighbors, art that infuses personality into locations and makes them into places. Many of these small details are so obvious as to be invisible.

How to Build an Urban Village

City Comforts

Kevin Kane

To order or for information call CITY COMFORTS PRESS at 1-800-942- 2489. A lively & informative compendium of hundreds of planning, design & landscaping techniques all geared towards making neighborhoods & cities more comfortable. CITY COMFORTS: HOW TO BUILD AN URBAN VILLAGE provides ideas to improve residential streets, public plazas, commercial centers, sidewalks, transit centers & more. The fourteen chapters cover topics ranging from how to create meeting places & crime-free neighborhoods to how to calm traffic & restore habits. An illustration or photograph accompanies each technique. An ideal reference for neighborhood planners, architects & urban designers. From the Planners Bookstore Catalog of the American Planning Association. "Clear, to the point & constructive."--Jane Jacobs, Death & Life of Great American Cities. "After you've read your copy, send it to your city supervisors."-- J. Baldwin, Whole Earth Review. "Each of my colleagues on the City Council ought to have a copy."--Jim Street, Member, Seattle City Council. "Just the kind of sensible manual that we need in this country. Applause! Applause!"--James Howard Kunstler, The Geography of Nowhere.

David Sucher

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