Where We Want to Live: Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities

The Beltline is the most important infrastructure project in the country today, linking rich and poor neighborhoods to each other and to transit, and sparking billions of private sector investment already and tens of billions to come. A hopeful book with achievable goals.” Christopher B. Absolutely inspiring." - Allison Arieff, Contributing Columnist, The New York Times“Crisp and smart. Just as every metro area in the country adopted some form of belt highway, every metro will built a Beltline…surprisingly, Atlanta is doing it first. I don’t always think about these issues on a spectacular day of running or biking on the Atlanta Beltline with my three daughters. Sanjay Gupta, chief medical correspondent at CNN“Ryan Gravel’s new book starts with the premise that big infrastructure ideas can yield huge economic and social payoffs. As a doctor

"Inspirational and motivating for land use professionals" according to Andrea. Gravel has provided a great overview of urban planning and infrastructure solutions for the problems that we face post-sprawl. I live in the Pacific Northwest and work for local government in land use. I found this book to be both inspiring and professionally motivating. The everyday interactions that are experienced when we travel by foot, bicycle, bus or light rail are profound. They help us live our lives more efficiently, happier, and they trigger a feeling of community simply by seeing and experiencing our lives within a group. These moments are seeds of empathy and alter our world view. All of this really matters to creatin. Kay E. Stephenson said Thought Provoking for Planners, Designers, and Citizen Activists Alike. Being from Atlanta and familiar with Ryan Gravel and his vision for the Atlanta BeltLine, I thought I knew what I would find here. Not so. This book offers a wealth of historical perspective, from cities around the country and the world. More importantly we find a vision for the transformation of our cities and suburbs, and some ideas about how to start, what will work, and where the pitfalls might hide. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in building the place you want to live.. Read it! Robert Hammond As a co-founder of the High Line project I read a lot of these kinds of book but Ryan knows first hand what he is writing about. And this is not a dry academic treatise, its easy and interesting to read whether you are into this fields of cities or just a lay person. Read it!

A designer, planner, and writer, he is increasingly called to speak to an international audience on topics as wide ranging as brownfield remediation, transportation, public health, affordable housing, and urban regeneration. In September 2016, he was awarded the inaugural Judy Turner Prize. RYAN GRAVEL is the

In Where We Want to Live, Gravel presents an exciting blueprint for revitalizing cities to make them places where we truly want to live.. It connects 40 diverse Atlanta neighborhoods to city schools, shopping districts, and public parks, and has already seen a huge payoff in real estate development and local business revenue.Similar projects are in the works around the country, from the Los Angeles River Revitalization and the Buffalo Bayou in Houston to the Midtown Greenway in Minneapolis and the Underline in Miami. **Winner, Phillip D. Cities have the capacity to create a healthier, more satisfying way of life by remodeling and augmenting their infrastructure in ways that connect neighborhoods and communities. Reed Award for Outstanding Writing on t