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Seeing the Better
City
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PAGES: 256
PUBLISHNG: DECEMBER 2016
ISBN: 9781610917742

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n order to understand and improve cities today, personal

observation remains as important as ever. Seeing the
Better City brings our attention back to the real world right
in front of us, focusing it once more on the sights, sounds,
and experiences of place in order to craft policies, plans,
and regulations to shape better urban environments.
Through clear prose and vibrant photographs, Charles R.
Wolfe shows how to catalog the influences of urban form,
public transportation, and other basic city elements. He then
shares insights into how to use recorded observations to
contribute to better planning and design decisions.

Charles R. Wolfe

harles R. Wolfe provides a unique

perspective about cities as both a long
time writer about urbanism worldwide and as an attorney in Seattle, where he
focuses on land use and environmental law.
He is also an Affiliate Associate Professor
in the College of Built Environments at the

University of Washington, where he teaches

land-use law at the graduate level. Wolfe is
an avid traveler, photographer, and writer,
and contributes regularly on urban development topics for several publications including
CityLab, The Atlantic, The Huffington Post,
and Grist.org. He blogs at myurbanist.com.

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