Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America's Sorted-Out Cities

Mindy Thompson Fullilove

NYU Press, Jun 4, 2013 - Social Science - 3523 pages

What if divided neighborhoods were causing public health problems? What if a new approach to planning and design could tackle both the built environment and collective well-being at the same time? What if cities could help each other? Dr. Mindy Fullilove, the acclaimed author of Root Shock, uses her unique perspective as a public health psychiatrist to explore ways of healing social and spatial fractures simultaneously. Using the work of French urbanist Michel Cantal-Dupart as a guide, Fullilove takes readers on a tour of successful collaborative interventions that repair cities and make communities whole.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Part 1The Madness of the SortedOut City: 9
• Part 2Align: 71
• Part 3Create: 139
• Part 4Connect: 253
• ConclusionGive Me Your Hands: 295
• Afterword by Ken Doyno: 303
• Acknowledgments: 307
• Notes: 312
• Selected Publications by Rodrick Wallace and the Community Research Group: 313
• References: 317
• Index: 324

About the author

Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD, is an American social psychiatrist who focuses on the ways environmental factors affect the mental health of communities. She is Professor of Urban Policy and Health, Urban Policy Analysis & Management Program, Milano School for International Affairs, Management & Urban Policy, The New School. She has numerous published articles and six books, including URBAN ALCHEMY: Restoring Joy in America's Sorted-Out Cities and ROOT SHOCK: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America's Sorted-Out Cities
• Author: Mindy Thompson Fullilove
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: NYU Press, 2013
• ISBN: 1613320124, 9781613320129
• Length: 3523 pages
• Subjects: Architecture / Urban & Land Use Planning; Political Science / Civil Rights; Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development; Social Science / Sociology / Urban