What Other People Said About the First Edition
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"Your book is terrific...a wonderful delivery system."
Andres Duany, |
| "Clear, to the point and constructive." Jane Jacobs, |
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| "After you've read your copy, send it to your city supervisors." J. Baldwin, |
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| "Each of my colleagues on the City Council ought to have
a copy." Jim Street, |
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| "City Comforts reminds one that there are literally
hundreds of little things — both functional and beautiful
— that make a successful urban place. The book's attention
to detail stands in contrast to the kind of "silver bullet" thinking
that has wrought so much destruction and failure in America's cities."
Peter Katz, |
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| "Just the kind of sensible manual that we need in this
country. Applause! Applause!" James Howard Kunstler, |
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| "An ideal reference for neighborhood planners, architects,
and urban designers." American Planning Association, |
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| "I've been sitting here...reading your book and enjoying
it immensely. You write wonderfully and your choice of details is very knowing." Philip Langdon, |
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| "A sensible field guide to urban spaces... City Comforts says more about what urban villages can be than the two-volume plan issued by City Hall." Terry Tang, |
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| "Some people look at things that never were and say 'Why
not?' David Sucher looks at things that are and says 'Good idea!' This twisted paraphrase of the famous Robert Kennedy quotation is as good a way as any to introduce Seattle planner/developer Sucher and his new book City Comforts." James Bush, |
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| "It's a real gem...would be a great resource for members
of local planning boards, and will help get them thinking more about what
makes places lively and enjoyable to be in." Wayne Senville, |
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| "Sucher has compiled for us, in a handheld-ROM, a bounteous
lode of tips and nods for looking at the built environment and fostering
our own good sense and sensibility about what is good and bad —
along with, should that be our bent, gentle suggestions on how improvements
may bloom under our loving care." John Young, |
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| "...a delightful little book...offers some rules, stated
almost as epigrams, for making buildings serve the city's character..."
Don Canty, |
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| "Here is a book for anyone who values urban living
and wants to save it from misguided policies or development —
and help make it better. Sucher has written a practical and accessible
book that shifts the dialogue away from urban planning formulas
and divisive quarrels over development to answer the question: 'what
works?' " Clair Enlow, |
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| "Your book is wonderful!! It is one of the friendliest, most positive, creative and humorous publications I've seen in a long time." Wendy Lochner, |
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| "...could be called 'City Common Sense.' Having sat through many meetings and interviewed glazed-over by design speak, I commend his straightforward, concise and witty approach. His advice to 'use small words to describe the landscape' should be etched into a frieze at every design and planning school." Michael Leccese, |
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| "I had the book in my hands for only ten minutes when I
found something we could use." Grant Natland, |
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| "Very visual, easy to understand training tool for building
livable neighborhoods." Ruth Scott, |
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| "No matter where you are, how much you have to spend or
how bad the landscape looks, this is a book you can use today to make
things better tomorrow! The best investment you can make." Pat Strosahl, |
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| Copyright © 1995-2003 David Sucher book@citycomforts.com |