Martin Zimmerman

Martin Zimmerman writes from Charlotte, North Carolina, and is a frequent contributor to Urban Land on a range of smart growth, urban place-making and multi-modal transportation topics. His work has also appeared in numerous publications including the Washington Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, APA Planning, Urban Ecology, Landscape Architecture and Preservation magazines. He currently directs the City Wise Studio USA. He can be reached at [email protected].

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Resilience and Sustainability
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News
In Print: Public Produce: Cultivating Our Parks, Plazas, and Streets for Healthier Cities
This brief tome, a revised edition of a book by the same title published in 2009, trumpets the cause of edible cities with new examples of the growing international movement bent on ensuring the basic human right to a healthy daily diet, while also returning to food sources that are both local and affordable.
July 13, 2015
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Resilience and Sustainability
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News
In Print: Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade
This book is a fascinating and entertaining account of a global industry that few people acknowledge and even fewer comprehend, and it is hard to imagine anyone with better qualifications than Adam Minter to explain how it works and assess where it is taking us.
May 12, 2014
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Design and Planning
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Public Policy
Keeping an Urban Authenticity Alive: Vancouver’s Granville Island
In the 1970s, Ron Basford, a Canadian Cabinet minister and loyal Vancouverite seized on the idea of converting Granville Island into a special place.
February 5, 2014
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Design and Planning
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Public Policy
In Print: The Rules That Shape Urban Form
This report on the tedious but highly relevant topic of zoning trends is primarily the product of lead author Donald Elliott, a nationally recognized planner and attorney. Elliott’s previous publications include two highly readable books, A Better Way to Zoneand The Citizen’s Guide to Planning.
January 7, 2014
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Infrastructure
In Print: Made for Walking: Density and Neighborhood Form
In her new book, urban designer Julie Campoli judiciously weaves photography, text, and mapping to define the essential characteristics of 12 compact, low-carbon prototypes in central city locations. Made for Walking: Density and Neighborhood Formcommunicates with ease on several levels for the benefit of a broad reading audience.
June 25, 2013
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Infrastructure
In Print: Sustainable Transportation Planning
Jeffrey Tumlin’s book Sustainable Transportation Planningattempts to grasp in shorthand form the big picture—one that integrates motor vehicles with bicycling, transit, parking, car sharing, transit-oriented design of stations, and other considerations.
April 19, 2013
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Economy, Market & Trends
In Print: The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City
This remarkably perceptive book, written by Alan Ehrenhalt, a former executive editor of Governingmagazine, not only validates a grand diagram that has been reshaping and rearranging metropolitan areas from downtowns to the exurbs, but it successfully delivers the reader to an unfolding real-life scenography.
February 27, 2013
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Economy, Market & Trends
In Print: Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi
Authored by the cohost of National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, Steve Inskeep, this story is an account of his firsthand experience reporting on the daily tremors in modern-day Karachi.
February 20, 2013
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Infrastructure
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Resilience and Sustainability
Around the World on Two Wheels
Bike sharing in the United States may not yet be as popular as in Europe or China, but two-wheelers are making tracks in high-cost cities.
September 12, 2012
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Resilience and Sustainability
In Print: The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World
Paul Gilding, former director of Greenpeace International and currently an environmental consultant based in his home country, Australia, has been at the forefront of global environmental activism for more than four decades. Gilding’s intellectual foundation rests largely on such seminal findings as those in the 1972 book Limits to Growth: A Report to the Club of Rome, which is generally heralded as the most scientifically rigorous environmental treatise of its era.
June 1, 2012
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