Humanize: A Maker's Guide to Designing Our Cities

Humanize: A Maker's Guide to Designing Our Cities

From one of the world’s most innovative designers comes a fiercely passionate manifesto on why so many places have become miserable and boring and how we can make them better for everyone—featuring hu…

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