Fixing Your City: Creating Thriving Neighborhoods and Adapting to a Changing World

One of my top priorities as an architect, urban planner, author, and activist focuses on updating curricula in our academic programming to meet the need for professionals who are highly educated in climate change mitigation and intersectional sustainability. This is one of the driving motivations behind my writing, Fixing Your City: Creating Thriving Neighborhoods and Adapting to a Changing World.

I invite you to engage with me and a growing cadre of colleagues committed to infusing our fields with this urgently needed upgrade to the professional planner or architect’s palette of expertise. My Radical Transformation Strategy, outlined in the book, provides a strong argument for this evolution.

To that end, I hope you can attend a special book launch event of Fixing Your City at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 14, at Trinity Episcopal Church, Kempton Hall 147 NW 19th Ave, Portland.

My book:

• identifies a planning process that lays out solutions to critical urban issues and guarantees their implementation
• addresses climate change and congestion with an integrated land use/transportation strategy that reduces carbon emissions by eliminating and shortening auto trips
• proposes a new class of professionals, urban architects, who would design cities that work, both for residents and for our endangered earth.

Mayor Ted Wheeler has written in regard to my plan, “I believe that this (transformation) strategy will provide our city with innovative solutions for dealing with population growth, congestion, and global warming.”

Bill McKibben, author The End of Nature, founder 350.org, has this to say: “Cities are going to have to transform themselves if we’re to make the progress we need in the climate fight — transform themselves to deal with the trouble now coming, and transform themselves to cause less damage. George Crandall reminds us that along the way these kinds of repairs can also produce cities that are more fun to inhabit.”