Street life

I enjoy reading about street life in cities, and enjoy more the act of simply experiencing & exploring cities. And there's nothing like walking down the streets of a city to get to know it intimately: the character of the stores lining it, the way people loiter around their corners, the way it connects to adjacent places: all have rich stories to tell about the place. My family & i make it a point to tramp around new places, that is our way of making it our own.

In this context, I've just come across this book called Small Change by Nabeel Hamdi. Here's a description:

'Build a bus stop in an urban slum and a vibrant community sprouts and grows around it - that is the power of small changes that have huge positive effects.This book is an argument for the wisdom of the street, the ingenuity of the improvisers and the long-term, large-scale effectiveness of immediate, small-scale actions. Written by Nabeel Hamdi, the guru of urban participatory development and the master of the art, Small Change brings over three decades of experience and knowledge to bear on the question 'what is practice?'.

Seems like an interesting buy!