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Article: Great neighborhoods.(The media beat)(The Great Neighborhood Book: A Do-it-Yourself Guide to Placemaking)(Brief article)(Book review)
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- March 1, 2008
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The best neighborhoods vibrant are places created by creative-minded residents who find satisfactory ways to deal with issues like local economics, crime, public space, traffic, recreation and connecting people. A new book called The Great Neighborhood Book--a Do-it-Yourself Guide to Placemaking (New Society Publishers, 2007) by Jay Walljasper provides us with a look at what many such residents have done for their neighborhoods in cities around the world.
This is a guide to creating public spaces that work--parks, markets, roads and sidewalks, transit stations, libraries, community centers, even derelict vacant lots. The efforts described are as spontaneous and ...