New Urbanism and Beyond: Designing Cities for the Future A Book by Tigran Haas books.google.com New-urbanist projects urbanismcitiesarchitecture
The boldest decisions In retrospect, many of the case studies have a striking common attribute: the boldest design decisions, whoever made them, have accounted for a high fraction of the goodness of the outcome. These bold decisions were made due sometimes to vision, sometimes to desperation. They were always gambles, requiring extra investment in hopes of getting a much better result. Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., The Design of Design Design with courage design