Urban code

Contains one hundred lessons, maxims, photos, and observations of the urban lifestyle. Cities speak, and this little book helps us understand their language. Considering the urban landscape not from the abstract perspective of an urban planner but from the viewpoint of an attentive observer, Urban Code offers 100 "lessons--maxims, observations, and bite-size truths, followed by short essays--that teach us how to read the city. This is a users guide to the city, a primer of urban literacy, at the pedestrian level. The reader (like the observant city stroller) can move from People walk in the…