Recapping the Launch: Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character

Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character focuses on how to understand the innate identity of an urban place. The book provides a catalog of techniques that emphasize “bottom up,” resident-based input. Such input includes local history, building forms, natural and open spaces, cultural assets and tradition, and related policy, planning, and regulatory examples.

The book has received positive attention during its “release season,” spanning American, Australian, United Kingdom, and European launch dates, and events via Zoom, podcast, radio, print, and online publications. We wanted to summarize these months of activity in one place.

Books are now readily worldwide at bookstores worldwide, through digital outlets such as Amazon and AmazonUK, or directly from the publisher.Review the special “landing page” for Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character here.

Below, please find an 8 August update on developments and release events for the book.

Place Parts

Initial book launch activity featured “Place Parts, A Sustaining Place Companion,” comprised of 18 short videos addressing book concepts and approaches-often with live guests-see the Place Parts series elsewhere on this site, and on the Place Parts YouTube Channel.