Summary Of For The Love Of The Cities By Peter Kageyama

For the Love of Cities In the book titled, "For the Love of the Cities, author Peter Kageyama conveys to his audience how love should be the center at every city. He strongly believes love is what can bring cities and the people who live in them closer together to create a lovable city. His approach to urban and economic development in a city is not the relative approach to what many city officials or managers may take. He doesn't understand why more people aren't talking about love and how to increase the love in communities? He believes that many cities are simply afraid of using the word "love" in serious discussions about city planning and policy making decisions. Throughout the course of this book, he conveys the idea of a why a lovable
city matters and why city should heavily consider love while thinking about their community. In chapter two of "For the Love of Cities", Kageyama discusses how the use of a city pyramid can be beneficial to a city in their decision making. He explains that a city's "hierarchy of needs" is utilized to make their communities functional and safe. The hierarchy of needs is a pyramid that consists of 5 sections. The very top of the pyramid is titled, 'interesting', the second is 'convivial', the third is 'comfortable', the fourth is 'safe' and the last one is 'functional'. Each of these levels are what city officials would want a city to be made up of. City officials simply want their city to be place where their citizens feel safe and to feel as though their city is functional. Kageyama doesn't find a problem with city governments trying to make their cities safe and functional but rather when the government solely focuses on these qualities in their city- they lose the opportunity to do even better work. He argues that a city should be able to be safe, comfortable and functional. They should also be able strive to be interesting and fun by creating a convivial atmosphere.