Description: Everyone who has spent time in a city has seen it-small, temporary, unintentional, nondescript, though often frequented spaces, next to unified, expensive, permanent, & grand public developments that resemble ghost towns. Addressing the problems that plague the urban built environment, twelve innovative & fully illustrated essays by authors active in the world of architecture & urban design document & analyze in detail these urban locales. From inner-city neighborhoods to street-corner mini-parks, idiosyncratic garden environments to middle-class trash alleys, vacant lots to sidewalks & front yards, temporary street performers to an auto-body repair lot that transforms into a drive-in restaurant during dinner hours, Everyday Urbanism illuminates the lived realities of the city. This highly readable, evocative, & solution-oriented book is indispensable for both the design professional & the layperson interested in contemporary urban dilemmas.

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