Galina Tachieva is a partner and director of town planning at the central office of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, in Miami, Florida. She is originally from Bulgaria, and received a master's degree in architecture from the University of Architecture and Civil Engineering in Sofia and a master's in urban design from the University of Miami, Florida. Galina submitted a "Sprawl Repair Kit," which contains some of the ideas and drawings from her book, to the 2009 Re-Burbia competition sponsored by the blog Inhabitat and DWELL magazine, where it won the People's Choice Award.
"Haphazard, dysfunctional land use has wreaked havoc on our
landscape, waterways, and atmosphere. To achieve sustainability, we
must seize every opportunity to fix the damage, and this
wonderfully illustrated book provides us with the tools, step by
step and place by place. Environmentalists as well as planners need
to learn from its teachings."
--Kaid Benfield "Director of Smart Growth, NRDC, Co-founder, LEED
for Neighborhood Development "
"The successful strategies and highly effective illustrations of
prototypical solutions in the Sprawl Repair Manual are extremely
useful to both citizens and professionals eager to communicate the
many advantages of reconfiguring sprawl into more compact,
complete, and connected places. Packed with ideas, this book is a
great read and will be a must-have reference for years to
come!"
--Ellen Dunham-Jones "Professor in the School of Architecture at
the Georgia Institute of Technology "
"[Tachieva] brings a wealth of knowledge, insight and pragmatism to
the contents of the manual, and the techniques for repairing sprawl
at all levels of the built environment. This is an important book
for anybody who is contemplating being involved in the task of
repairing sprawl. Its strength is in the compelling urban design
ideas and proposals that are communicated via the wealth of
illustrations in the book....the author and the firm have to be
congratulated for publishing this book at this time that clearly
inspires and illuminates the potentials for sprawl repair."
-- "Urban Design"
"The Sprawl Repair Manual is so far the only complete physical
planning manual for handling the impending transformation of
suburbia into vital human communities. It is not only hugely
instructive but formidably inspirational."
--Leon Krier, Master Planner of Prince Charles' Poundbury Project
in Dorset, UK
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