Nir Haim Buras is an architect and city planner with over thirty years of experience in strategic planning and transportation design. He has worked on the East Side Access at Grand Central Terminal in New York City, the International Terminal at the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, the Tel Aviv Metro, and the US Capitol Senate and House Office Buildings in Washington, DC. Buras founded the Washington, DC, chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art and visited 100 cities worldwide to write The Art of Classic Planning.
Buras' highly intelligent and comprehensively illustrated blockbuster of a book is packed with celebrations of what make beautiful, successful, agreeable environments that people can actually enjoy (and which actually work)...[A] great book.--James Stevens Curl Times Higher Education (02/20/2020) This is truly the mother of all urban planning books.--Leon Krier, author of The Architecture of Community This compendium should be understood not as an attempt to constrain urbanism to the classical, but rather to extend the range of urbanism to include the classical. Why on earth would an urbanist want to be without this trove of knowhow on the table?--Andres Duany, FAIA, CNU, recipient of the Driehaus Prize and coauthor of Suburban Nation In the face of the triple threat of rapid urbanization, climate change, and natural resource depletion, we urgently need to relearn the art of building beautiful and enduring communities, as set out in The Art of Classic Planning, to ensure future generations can prosper.--Ben Bolgar, The Prince's Foundation A veritable bible of urbanism, Nir Buras's The Art of Classic Planning is a formidable challenge to modernist principles.--Hillel Schocken, Azrieli School of Architecture, Tel Aviv University A much-needed and heroic corrective to the grandiose techno-narcissistic dogma that has turned the American landscape into a wilderness of free parking, anxiety, and ennui. Nir Buras's The Art of Classic Planning presents a new template for a human habitat with a plausible future.--James Howard Kunstler, author of The Geography of Nowhere and The Long Emergency