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Charles Wolfe and Tigran Haas are passionate about the culture and character of cities, and their book Sustaining a City's Culture and Character is a relevant contribution to the knowledge how to maintain the identity of our urban places. The principles of public space identified in the book are free of nostalgia and go beyond mere concepts of heritage conservation. The book gives guidance how to avoid the trap of urban renewal that is out-of-scale, context, and character the kind of development that has destroyed so much of the distinctive place attributes and ignored or diminished the differences of our urban places--Steffen Lehmann, Professor of Architecture, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (USA) and University of Portsmouth (UK), Author of The Principles of Green Urbanism. Transforming the City for Sustainability Nothing is more important in planning and urban design than understanding what makes successful places work. Charles R Wolfe is a master of the art of observation and interpretation, and his new book generously shares his insights.--Rob Cowan, author of The Dictionary of Urbanism

Charles Wolfe and Tigran Haas's wonderful book Sustaining a City's Culture and Character: Principles and Best Practices invites us to see place intimately, expansively, physically, culturally, and through time, and in so doing to better understand our communities and their place in the unfolding of civilization.--Jonathan F. P. Rose, author, The Well Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations and Human Behavior Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life In this third book, Chuck Wolfe is at his best as raconteur of city life, places, and people. Drawing from a large swath of urban history and crisscrossing the 'pond' (and beyond) with gusto, Wolfe entices the reader with numerous lively examples of places that have kept culture and character over long periods of time. He and Tigran Haas offer useful ways for the reader to test and practice the book's central idea of sustaining a city's culture and character. Coming out during the Covid-19 pandemic, the book will bring hope and joy, reminding us how vibrant our cities have been and surely will be again. The text is further enriched with remarkable photos by the author and selected artist depictions of urban places.--Anne Vernez Moudon, Dr es Sc, professor emerita of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington, Urban Form Lab In Sustaining a City's Culture and Character: Principles and Best Practices, Charles Wolfe and Tigran Haas share forward-looking techniques for identifying and nurturing the complex culture of a city. Eminently readable, the book deepens our understanding of authenticity and heritage, but perhaps most importantly, highlights the possibilities unleashed by listening to citizen expertise.--Thompson M. Mayes, chief legal officer and general counsel, National Trust for Historic Preservation Sustaining a City's Culture and Character urges those of us who work with cities to re-embrace respect, learning and listening as fundamental starting points for our work. It calls us to engage in a practice built on better relationships with our cities--relationships anchored on understanding instead of superficial projection or copy-and-paste urbanism. It then tantalizes us with compelling examples of what we might gain in doing so. A nice reminder for the professional seeking fresh inspiration, and compelling introduction for students involved in urban studies, planning, and other city-building disciplines.--Laura Tate, PhD, consultant and co-editor of Planning for AuthentiCITIES, and author of Post-Rational Planning: A Solutions-oriented Call to Justice Wolfe and Haas ask one of the biggest questions of our time: What is place? What is culture? In a post-covid world, places will be driven by local experience, authenticity and, importantly, identity. This book is an important guide for anyone designing human-centered places.--Lucinda Hartley, cofounder, Neighbourlytics, Melbourne, Australia This thoughtful book offers us a timely reminder of the vital importance of urban context. Context not in a simple hankering for the past, but instead in a recognition that by choosing to carry traces of the past into the future we can ground ourselves today in a more fulfilling present.--Matthew Carmona, Professor of Planning and Urban Design at The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London Charles Wolfe and Tigran Haas are passionate about the culture and character of cities, and their book Sustaining a City's Culture and Character is a relevant contribution to the knowledge how to maintain the identity of our urban places. The principles of public space identified in the book are free of nostalgia and go beyond mere concepts of heritage conservation. The book gives guidance how to avoid the trap of urban renewal that is out-of-scale, context, and character the kind of development that has destroyed so much of the distinctive place attributes and ignored or diminished the differences of our urban places--Steffen Lehmann, Professor of Architecture, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (USA) and University of Portsmouth (UK), Author of The Principles of Green Urbanism. Transforming the City for Sustainability Nothing is more important in planning and urban design than understanding what makes successful places work. Charles R Wolfe is a master of the art of observation and interpretation, and his new book generously shares his insights.--Rob Cowan, author of The Dictionary of Urbanism

Charles Wolfe and Tigran Hass's wonderful book Sustaining a City's Culture and Character: Principles and Best Practices invites us to see place intimately, expansively, physically, culturally, and through time, and in so doing to better understand our communities and their place in the unfolding of civilization.--Jonathan F. P. Rose, author, The Well Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations and Human Behavior Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life Charles Wolfe and Tigran Haas are passionate about the culture and character of cities, and their book Sustaining a City's Culture and Character is a relevant contribution to the knowledge how to maintain the identity of our urban places. The principles of public space identified in the book are free of nostalgia and go beyond mere concepts of heritage conservation. The book gives guidance how to avoid the trap of urban renewal that is out-of-scale, context, and character the kind of development that has destroyed so much of the distinctive place attributes and ignored or diminished the differences of our urban places--Steffen Lehmann, Professor of Architecture, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (USA) and University of Portsmouth (UK), Author of The Principles of Green Urbanism. Transforming the City for Sustainability Nothing is more important in planning and urban design than understanding what makes successful places work. Charles R Wolfe is a master of the art of observation and interpretation, and his new book generously shares his insights.--Rob Cowan, author of The Dictionary of Urbanism

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Charles R. Wolfe is a London-based, multinational urbanism consultant, author, visiting scholar in Sweden, recent Fulbright specialist in Australia for an award-winning project, and long-time American environmental/land use lawyer. He holds a graduate degree in regional planning and has 34 years of experience in environmental, land use, and real estate law. He has held leadership positions in both the legal and planning professions. He has represented public and private clients in property redevelopment, regulatory entitlements, drafting and brownfield remediation issues in Washington State and other venues. He is founder and principal advisor of Seeing Better Cities Group, has practiced at several law firms, and has served as a long-time affiliate associate professor in the College of the Built Environments at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he has taught land use law and contributed to major research efforts addressing urban center and brownfield redevelopment. He has written regularly for many publications, including The Atlantic, The Atlantic Cities/CityLab, Governing, CityMetric, Planetizen, The Huffington Post, Grist, and Crosscut. He blogs at myurbanist.com. He is the author of Seeing the Better City and Urbanism Without Effort . Tigran Haas is associate professor of urban planning and urban design, former director of Civitas Athenaeum Laboratory (CAL), current director of the Centre for the Future of Places (CFP), and the director of the Graduate Program in Urbanism at the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. He has studied in the United States, former Yugoslavia (BiH and Croatia), and Sweden and has also completed postdoctoral fellowships at MIT, Boston, UC Berkeley, and the University of Michigan. Haas holds advanced degrees in architecture, urban planning and design, environmental science and regional planning. He has written more than fifty scholarly articles, thirty-five conference papers, five books, four research anthologies, and has been involved in teaching in international educational programs.

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