Join Urban Austin Reads, AURA, and Texans for Housing for a conversation with Sara C. Bronin, author of Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World, on Thursday, September 18 at 7pm at Café Crème Downtown (710 W Cesar Chavez St, Austin, TX 78701).
You can purchase the book in advance with The Little Gay Shop (or any other favorite bookstore) or checkout below to get a hardcover copy of Bronin's book at the event. Extra money will be put into UAR programming.
About Sara:
Sara C. Bronin is a Mexican-American architect, attorney, professor, and policymaker whose interdisciplinary work focuses on how law and policy can foster more equitable, sustainable, well-designed, and connected places. She wrote Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World (W.W. Norton), and she founded and directs the National Zoning Atlas, which aims to digitize, demystify, and democratize information about zoning in the United States.
Learn more about her here.
Reviews Of The Book:
“As America’s cities face the acute challenges of unaffordable housing, underutilized land, and declining neighborhood prospects, more city leaders are recognizing that zoning policies are part of the problem but also seeing how zoning reforms can be part of the solution. Sara C. Bronin astutely explains all sides of the dialogue. Better yet, she presents creative pathways to constructive outcomes for urban residents and for city futures.”
— Henry Cisneros, former secretary of housing and urban development and former mayor of San Antonio, Texas
“Zoning laws dictate the shape of cities far more than the designs of any architect. Far too often they have been less a useful tool than a straitjacket, forcing cities to develop according to patterns that no longer make sense. In Key to the City, Sara C. Bronin argues that the solution is not to abolish zoning but to reimagine it, showing us how we can rewrite our zoning codes in the hope of using them to bring about the civilized cities that we deserve.”