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During his three terms as mayor of Curitiba, Brazil in the 1970s and ‘80s, architect and urbanist Jaime Lerner transformed his city into a global model of the sustainable and livable community. From the pioneering Bus Rapid Transit system to parks designed to catch runoff and reduce flooding and the creation of pedestrian-only zones, Lerner has been the driving force behind a host of innovative urban projects. In more than forty years of work in cities around the globe, Lerner has found that changes to a community don’t need to be large-scale and expensive to have a transformative impact—in fact, one block, park, or a single person can have an outsized effect on life in the surrounding city.
In Urban Acupuncture, Lerner celebrates these “pinpricks” of urbanism—projects, people, and initiatives from around the world that ripple through their communities to uplift city life. With meditative and descriptive prose, Lerner brings readers around the world to streets and neighborhoods where urban acupuncture has been practiced best, from the bustling La Boqueria market in Barcelona to the revitalization of the Cheonggyecheon River in Seoul, South Korea. Through this journey, Lerner invites us to re-examine the true building blocks of vibrant communities—the tree-lined avenues, night vendors, and songs and traditions that connect us to our cities and to one another.
Urban Acupuncture is the first of Jaime Lerner’s visionary work to be published in English. It is a love letter to the elements that make a street hum with life or a neighborhood feel like home, penned by one of the world’s most successful advocates for sustainable and livable urbanism.
- Sales Rank: #558354 in Books
- Published on: 2014-09-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.13" h x .70" w x 5.25" l, .80 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 160 pages
Review
"This set of musings, a translation of the original Brazilian Portuguese book, pulls you in with its natural, intimate tone; it’s like you are sitting and having a conversation with Lerner over a glass of wine in a cafe."
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"Urban Acupuncture captures Lerner’s philosophy, expansive mind, and his dynamic personality through a series of anecdotes, musings, even a poem. Most are short — think of them as haikus for the urban planner — and thought-provoking. An unusual book from an unusual thinker, but with lessons that have broad application." (The Nature Conservancy's Science Chronicles)
“Urban Acupuncture is a book that enlightens and inspires through eloquent prose explaining common sense solutions.� To this end, Lerner concludes the book with a guide to how each of us express our love for the city and some small steps or ‘pinpricks’ we can take to apply urban acupuncture ourselves.” (Spacing)
"Joyful, uplifting book… As the author proves through his wonderful anecdotes, the heart of a city is made of individuals who know and love it, who care for it and work and live in it. With obvious fondness and even delight for the topic, this lovely little guide expresses the joy felt in cities, great and small, that stay human because of these small points of care." (San Francisco Book Review)
"...a smart, quick read that urges urban residents to take a closer look at their everyday surroundings and find small but significant ways to improve the urban landscape..." (Oculus)
"[Readers] will come away from this read with their heads overflowing with ideas, inspired to do something themselves in the belief that a better world really is possible." (New York Journal of Books)
"Jaime Lerner’s Urban Acupuncture delves deeply into urban life and what makes cities tick. Drawing on his success as both a designer and politician, Lerner sets out a series of insightful concepts and practical recommendations for enriching urban life....Do not open this book expecting maps, formulas, and detailed instructions. Instead, look at it as a conversation with a wise, influential, award-winning thinker who reveals his hard-won secrets for improving city life...At its heart, this slim book is a love letter to the colors, sounds, sights, places, and memories of the quintessential city." (Urban Land)
"...treasure of a book... Informative and fun, it sparks the imagination for small ideas — “pinpricks” — that can spread and have large impacts on a city." (PublicCEO)
"This is the best of Jaime Lerner, a lover of cities and as true an expert as there is in understanding what makes them tick and how to make them better. To read him is to hear him speak, with gusto, love, humor, deep caring, and inspiring ideas. Urban Acupuncture should be required reading for all students of city planning and for anyone who wants to make a difference in their city." (Allan B. Jacobs author of Great Streets and other books)
"An architect, planner, and politician of great skill, Jaime Lerner has another talent, on clear display in this lively book: a deep and hard-won understanding that architecture, planning, and politics do not alone make our cities great." (Jeff Speck author of Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time)
"This book is like having a dinner with a good friend where the conversation just flows, one story after the other, good examples that will stick with you when you go home. One of these evenings where you go home inspired to do something yourself, believing that change can happen." (From the foreword by Jan Gehl author of Cities for People and Founding Partner, Gehl Architects)
"Jaime follows in the tradition of Jane Jacobs, William Whyte, and many other visionaries who have illuminated the world’s thinking on cities. Urban Acupuncture is a work of fierce love for real, living, people-filled cities and cities for people." (From the preface by Carol Coletta VP/Community and National Initiatives, The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation)
"In his first book in English, Lerner’s brief essays consider successful or innovative urban interventions around the world." (Landscape Architecture Magazine)
"Pragmatic, idealistic, poetic, and humane, Lerner's book is both a primer and a manifesto on the necessity and indispensability of the metropolis. The author poignantly encourages the reader to save, heal, and love cities." (Architectural Record)
About the Author
Jaime Lerner is a renowned architect and planner who served three terms as mayor of Curitiba, Brazil and two terms as governor of the State of Paran�. He has won numerous international awards, including the United Nations Environmental Award in 1990, and was nominated as one of Time magazine’s 25 most influential thinkers in the world in 2010. Lerner is Founder of Jaime Lerner Associated Architects, served as President of the International Union of Architects from 2002-2005, and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the World Resources Institute.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
with a great political acumen
By Fernando Belmonte Archetti
I was surprised to see this book published in English, as I have read it Portuguese not too long ago. Jaime Lerner was the mayor of my city and the governor of my home state, Paran�. His administrations, especially as a mayor of Curitiba, where he was able to implement many of his ideas and gained international renown almost immediately. His mayorship was, and is to this very day, recognised as one of the bests in Brazil's recent history. It gave Curitiba an outlook that distinguishes it from the typical scenario of major Brazilian cities: utter chaos, to put it bluntly. He was not only a very innovative, but rather perceptive and agile. He was able to implement his solutions, which were, at times, surprisingly simple and intuitive, with a great political acumen. In Brazil, if you only have good ideas, but no political acumen, hardly ever will you be able to put them into practice.
Lerner is today criticised, especially by the left-wing, on account of the way he did things in his administration, as well as because he may have not have given the proper attention to social aspect of the city. While this is truth in parts, it is easy to criticise him in hindsight. Today, one of the best known symbols of Curitiba, is a pedestrianised central street, which was done in a weekend, something rather hard to achieve in a democracy. I do not give much credit to most of these criticisms, because they miss the big picture of Brazilian politics. In some cases, Lerner was merely wise enough to pick the right people and put them in the right places, so there was a lot of cohesion in his administration, something which enabled him to implement his plans. However, it must be recognised that some of the things he was able to achieve then would be hard to do in today's Brazil, especially if you consider the most radical views of democracy.
As for the social aspect of the criticism, that is an eternal discussion in Brazil, a structural problem, but Curitiba has long been known for one of the most robust middle classes in the entire country, and that is quite an achievement, I'd say. Of course Lerner could not solve structural problems in his limited tenures, nor could he avoid the challenges the city would inevitably face in the future, so some of these criticisms are simply misplaced. The municipal administrations that followed have failed to live up to the challenges and pressures today's cities face, and so the quality of life in Curitiba has fallen sharply, even though the ''mark'' of Curitiba remains very much alive. Brazilians have not yet learned how to be democratic, and the discussions are very polarised on both sides - in the society and in the local administration. Recently, we can see some changes, timid, however.
But this book is not only about Curitiba. It has the trademark of Lerner's thoughts and solutions. He believes in the simplicity to solve some of today's cities problems, initiatives that generate a positive chain of actions that eventually transform a city - that is what urban acupuncture is about.Today, we see a lot of endless discussions about how to solve problems, challenges, and how some people put forward some pseudo-complex propositions, which all eventually come to naught or end up worsening the situation.
I think that Lerner's message is simple, because he likes simple solutions, which is not the same as a superficial. It's a light, easy to ready book, bringing several cases of urban acupuncture around the world. Sometimes, to start the recovery of a city, all you have to do is to start this chain of reactions with a good urban acupuncture. The recovery will come in time, if the city and the people react accordingly.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
how everyone can add something to their city to make it a better place.
By Margaret
The stories in this book are charming and inspiring.
Each chapter is short with one example (from around the world) of an urban intervention that has made a difference.
The colour photos are great.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
one that will leave you full of new ideas-- and that's what good leaders can do
By DC Book Angel
This book provides brief glimpses, almost vignettes, of the possible in examples from around the world. The basic premise that not all projects need to be done on a grand city- or state- wide scale is particularly important to recognize. In turn, it can help us all recognize where small changes can make a big difference. It is a quick read, true, and at the same time, one that will leave you full of new ideas-- and that's what good leaders can do.
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