Humanize : a maker's guide to designing our cities

Summary: Our world is losing its humanity. Too many companies care more about their shareholders than their employees or customers. Too many politicians care more about elections than the people who vote for them. And too many cities feel soulless and depressing, designed for business, not for us. So where do we find hope? From one of the world's most innovative designers comes a fiercely passionate manifesto on why so many places have become miserable and boring and how we can make them better for everyone. Drawing on thirty years of making bold, beautiful buildings, Heatherwick takes us on a journey-full of vivid stories and hundreds of images-that will inspire us to see how we can make our world differently.

Record details

ISBN: 9781668034439 (hardcover)
Physical Description: print
495 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2023.

Content descriptions

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Part one. Human and inhuman places -- Human places -- The hundred-year catastrophe -- The anatomy of a catastrophe -- Part two. How the cult of boring took over the world -- What is an architect? -- Meet the god of boring -- How to (accidentally) start a cult -- Why does everywhere look like profit? -- Part three. How to re-humanize the world -- Changing how we think -- Elephants in the room -- Changing what we do -- (Likely to be) frequently asked questions -- Letter to the passer-by.