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Celebrates conservation programs in 42 communities, that are saving natural areas, farmland and open space using such methods as development rights transfer, open space taxes, and preservation of species efforts. Communities include Pima County, Arizona.

Synopsis: For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use-or could use-the spaces where they live and work. In this revolutionary book, Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses to reconfigure unworkable cityscapes into the landscapes he believes they should...