The book by leading British urban development specialist Charles Landry answers the most pressing questions: how to make our cities a place where you want to live and spend time? How to turn them into viable, "human," full of energy centers of creativity? Landry's book is both a philosophical concept for ideologists and a toolkit for practitioners to understand how, at the beginning of the third millennium, new types of business are created to solve fundamentally new problems and new approaches to urban development are developed.