Dedication

Urban design is by definition an optimistic enterprise undertaken as a legacy to the future, to preserve, celebrate and sustain the values of a just, open and equitable civil society and culture.

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To those whose lives were lost and to those who lost loves ones,

September 11, 2001

and

to Judy.

EDITORS

Donald Watson, FAIA, Editor-in-Chief

Alan Plattus

Robert G.Shibley

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