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This book explains how cities actually work. It will serve as a guide and inspiration for planners to re-humanize our cities using the latest technologies and recent understanding from science and mathematics. It addresses the needs of professional urbanists, students and teachers, who wish to understand how and why cities are successful or not, depending on their form, components, and substructure.

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...an extremely timely exploration... AND ...a remarkable book, based on rational insights from science, yet focused intensely on achieving humane urbanism. It should provide much needed guidance to all those who care about cities and are concerned with the human-scaled urbanist project. Susan Parham, Chair Council European Urbanism, on the INTBAU site.

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"Nikos A. Salingaros is professor of mathematics at the University of Texas in San Antonio, and is associated with the faculties of Architecture at Delft University of Technology and at the University of Rome III. In addition he is a consultant for various American New Urbanist projects and for government planners in other countries (Mexico, Greece and Spain). Nikos Salingaros is a physicist and mathematician, as well as an urbanist. He applies his theoretical insights gained from physical systems and mathematical structures to structural form and principles in urbanism. Having collaborated with Christopher Alexander since 1983, Salingaros is combining Alexander's ideas with those of the New Urbanists into the developing ""network city."" Many see his work as providing a much-needed scientific basis for the innovative ideas in the new humanistic architecture, as well as a link to to the timeless values of traditional architecture."

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