Dozens of special touches that add style and character.More that 550 full-color photographs plus 245 illustrations and plans.Creative ideas for making cities more pleasant, more livable, more human.Cities don?t have to be faceless lines of gray boxes. Urban Spaces: City Embellishments presents dozens of fresh ideas for bringing big cities back to a human scale-little details like a carved facade, a tiny green space, benches, touches of bold color, a shelting doorway, planters, and more. Each of these warm, distintive touches is expertly explained by the best authority available: the designing architects themselves.