Rethinking the quality of urban environments: book review of ‘Good Urbanism: Six Steps to Creating Prosperous Places’ by Nan Ellin

Aisha Abubakar

Rethinking the quality of urban environments: book review of ‘Good Urbanism: Six Steps to Creating Prosperous Places’ by Nan Ellin

Aisha Abubakar

Architecture

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Abstract

Professional and academic advancement regarding the special link we have with our spaces and its effects on our wellbeing has been a journey of advocacy and knowledge over past decades. The book 'Good Urbanism: Six steps to creating Prosperous places' by Nan Ellin not only sits in this cadre, but expands the debate by addressing head-on, the issue of people-place-prosperity.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	230-233
Number of pages	4
Journal	ArchNet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research
Volume	10
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - 31 Jul 2016

Keywords

prosperity
Urbanism
city design
urban environments
people-place-prosperity
sustainability
people
cities
urban design

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