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Book Reviews Book Reviews 115 A Book Review Essay: Healing the World: The Necessary City by Roberta Weisbrod The Code of the City: Standards and the Hidden Language of Place Making by Eran Ben-Joseph (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005) Pp. 263, $25 (Paper) The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream by Christopher D. Leinberger (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2008) Pp. 224, $25.95 (Paper) Architecture of the Absurd: How “Genius” Disfigured a Practical Art by John Silber (New York: Quantuck Lane Press, 2007) Pp. 98, $25.50 (Cloth) The Cities Book: A Journey through the Best Cities in the World (London: Lonely Planet, 2006) Pp. 428, $50.00 (Cloth) Some people travel to see great art, For the first time in history, more others go for natural wonders. I than half its human population, 3.3 travel to cities to see how people billion people, will be living in UN Population Fund live now and to read how they lived urban areas. A world of over six in the past. I travel with an active billion now has 20 mega-cities, purpose and engage in business urban centers with populations of with peers. And thus I have seen over ten million. Most are http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Urban Technology Taylor & Francis

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Journal of Urban Technology , Volume 15 (2): 7 – Aug 1, 2008
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Taylor & Francis
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Book Reviews 115 A Book Review Essay: Healing the World: The Necessary City by Roberta Weisbrod The Code of the City: Standards and the Hidden Language of Place Making by Eran Ben-Joseph (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005) Pp. 263, $25 (Paper) The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream by Christopher D. Leinberger (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2008) Pp. 224, $25.95 (Paper) Architecture of the Absurd: How “Genius” Disfigured a Practical Art by John Silber (New York: Quantuck Lane Press, 2007) Pp. 98, $25.50 (Cloth) The Cities Book: A Journey through the Best Cities in the World (London: Lonely Planet, 2006) Pp. 428, $50.00 (Cloth) Some people travel to see great art, For the first time in history, more others go for natural wonders. I than half its human population, 3.3 travel to cities to see how people billion people, will be living in UN Population Fund live now and to read how they lived urban areas. A world of over six in the past. I travel with an active billion now has 20 mega-cities, purpose and engage in business urban centers with populations of with peers. And thus I have seen over ten million. Most are

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Published: Aug 1, 2008

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