Humanize: A Maker's Guide to Designing Our Cities

Designer Thomas Heatherwick argues that much modern architecture is boring, built from flat, plain and repetitive buildings that make people feel worse. He calls this a global crisis hiding in plain sight. Heatherwick traces how architects came to favor austere modernism and explains why our senses crave complexity, detail and surprise. He makes the case that buildings shape health and happiness, and offers ideas for how citizens, developers and designers can make cities more human.

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