{"product_id":"vibrant-city-paul-mallett-9781764292207","title":"vibrant city: twelve upstream initiatives to reshape Launceston's future","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet in near-future Launceston, Tasmania, vibrant city is a story-led blueprint for public policy that puts prevention, upstream thinking, and equity at the centre of everyday life. Through an intergenerational walk-and-talk-paul, an experienced reformer, and Willow, a young leader-the book explores how one regional city chose kind politics and built systems that advance community wellbeing, public health, and belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach chapter follows an upstream initiative that turns values into visible change: Tamar Lake and a people-first bridge that reorients city planning to the water; \"Every Child Succeeds\" and a schools-community compact; Changemaker High, where learning, enterprise, and civic action meet; a creativity turn that commissions murals and markets and treats celebration as social infrastructure; sport and movement loops that make health a daily habit; good-work pathways, a stronger care economy, and culture-shaping reforms that put people first. Together, these moves show how a city can bake dignity into design, shifting \"normal\" from patching harm to preventing it-one street, school, clinic, club, and corridor at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis isn't a manifesto and it isn't technocratic. It's part memoir, part field guide, part civic futures narrative: practical enough for councils and coalitions, human enough for readers who want hope with evidence. If you've ever believed a city could be more than roads, rates, and rubbish-if you've wondered what happens when we invest early and measure success by the harm we prevent-this book invites you to begin the walk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt its heart are three organising principles that run through the trilogy and anchor this first volume: Upstream Thinking (prevention and structural redesign), Kind Politics (leading with empathy and dignity), and solutions shaped by lived experience, informed by the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF)-which reads distress through how power operates, the threats people face, and the meanings they make. These ideas aren't soft; they are working frameworks for real transformation: redressing power, reducing threat, and restoring dignity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003evibrant city\u003c\/em\u003e is an invitation to communities everywhere: design for belonging, align city planning with care, and let kindness become contagious-a city worth caring for, a future worth making.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Mallett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1764292200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781764292207\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Mallett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/21\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d","brand":"Paul Mallett","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48447065358591,"sku":"9781764292207","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_46ff47ee-cc96-4c5f-82cd-b8d930d0b969.jpg?v=1777228581","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/vibrant-city-paul-mallett-9781764292207","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}