{"product_id":"civilizing-cities-an-analysis-of-the-major-political-issues-of-our-time-paperback","title":"Civilizing Cities: an analysis of the major political issues of our time - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Williams\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCities affect all our lives. Fernand Braudel identified their three functions, providing security, shelter and markets. Ideologists like Ebenezer Howard (garden cities) and Le Corbusier (monumental redevelopment) suggested how cities should work. Jane Jacobs showed how they actually work. \u003cem\u003eCivilizing Cities\u003c\/em\u003e expands considerably from these foundations in three parts: past, present and future. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e To improve cities, we need to replace 'normative' and 'market-led' planning ideologies based on the bulldozer, with pragmatic planning based on small-scale incrementalism and 'intensification'. We also need practical sustainable policies, which the \u003cem\u003eNational Planning Policy Framework \u003c\/em\u003esignally fails to provide. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e For this, we need politicians with the intellectual rigour, social understanding and felt need for fairness, like Clement Attlee, Lloyd George and, in Birmingham, Joseph Chamberlain. He or she will need to reset the balance between central and local government, make taxes more consistent (a bedroom tax just on the poor?) and reform the House of Lords as a Citizens Assembly. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Finally, the book briefly surveys the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the need to devolve more powers to local councils, covering education, health, transport and welfare etc. Planning must also return to its roots in public health, and create healthier cities with less pollution, inequality, unemployment and isolation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 404\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.83 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 18, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52483509944627,"sku":"9781911593799","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/TTdobXJBcnA0bTYxYUlaeGs0d2NpZz09.webp?v=1759759151","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/civilizing-cities-an-analysis-of-the-major-political-issues-of-our-time-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}