Urban Architect's "Fixing Your City" Revolutionizes Climate Change Solutions

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Nov 14, 2018, 08:43 ET

PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- In his groundbreaking book, Fixing Your City: Creating Thriving Neighborhoods and Adapting to a Changing World, acclaimed Portland urban architect George Crandall reveals how to develop city plans that mitigate climate change and create healthy places to live, work, and play.

Fixing Your City isn't just another book packed with theory and utopian dreams — it's a hands-on book that provides a strategy for meeting the unique needs of any city. Fixing Your City is a must read for both city planners and concerned citizens who want real solutions to complex questions and ethical dilemmas.

Fixing Your City:

identifies a planning process that lays out solutions to critical urban issues and guarantees their implementation
addresses climate change and congestion with an integrated land use/transportation strategy that reduces carbon emissions by eliminating or shortening auto trips
proposes a new class of professionals, urban architects, who would design cities that work, both for residents and for our endangered earth

"Cities are going to have to transform themselves if we're to make the progress we need in the climate fight—transform themselves to deal with the trouble now coming, and transform themselves to cause less damage. George Crandall reminds us that along the way these kinds of repairs can also produce cities that are more fun to inhabit!"
— Bill McKibben, author The End of Nature, Schumann Distinguished Scholar, Middlebury College

"City planners and urban advocates take notice: This excellent debut book may be the solution to your most vexing problems ... Extremely pertinent and engrossing; essential reading for city planners."
— Kirkus Review

About the Author

For over 40 years, George Crandall has been involved in the life of U.S. cities, both as an architect and urban designer, and as a passionate and dedicated citizen activist. In 1998, he founded the Portland, Oregon consulting firm Crandall Arambula. Many of the firm's revitalization projects have received awards for their innovative and effective solutions to seemingly intractable problems. Crandall earned Bachelor of Architecture and Bachelor of Science degrees in civil engineering, both from the University of Arizona. He is active in numerous professional and civic organizations, and lives in Portland.

For more information, or to inquire about Mr. Crandall speaking at your event, visit fixingyourcity.com

Title: Fixing Your City: Creating Thriving Neighborhoods and Adapting to a Changing World
Author: George Crandall
ISBN: (Paperback) 978-0-996-1040-1-2 (Kindle) 978-0-9961040-1-2
Publisher: Fuller Press Website: www.fixingyourcity.com
Pub date: 2018 Pages: 149
Price: $19.95 Kindle Price: $8.99
Availability: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Powell's Online