Item #: 330-8892-94
Author: Peter Katz
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
ISBN:0070338892
Format: Hardcover
Your Price: $49.95
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Discover the amazing potential of small liveable towns with The New Urbanism Toward an Architecture of Community
The move to liveable communities--ideal "small towns" and neighborhoods where people work, live, play, and walk from place to place--is on. Profit from what a visionary group of architects leading this movement has learned about designing new "small towns" in Peter Katz's The New Urbanism. You'll discover the amazing potential for this kind of work as well as case studies, site plans, project analyses, and 180 beautiful photographs. This unique reference also tackles--and answers--the critical issues of crime, health, traffic, environmental degradation, and economic vitality and opens a startling window on the look and feel of future communities. Every designer can profit from this guide to building the utopias of tomorrow--today! 288 pp.The New Urbanism Toward an Architecture of Community - Table of Contents:
- The Region
- The Neighborhood, the District and the Corridor
- The Street, the Block and the Building
- Planning the American Dream
- Establishing the Urban Pattern
- Seaside
- Laguna West
- Kentlands
- South Brentwood Village
- Bamberton
- Windsor
- Communications Hill
- Rosa Vista
- A New Village in the Suburbs
- Wellington
- Reconstructing the Urban Fabric
- Cite Internationale
- Downtown Hayward
- Riviera Beach
- Rio Vista West
- Downcity Providence
- Orange Tree Courts
- Atlantic Center
- Mashpee Commons
- Playa Vista
- Jackson-Taylor
- Highland District
- Clinton
- Downtown Los Angeles
- The Architecture of Community
- PROJECT INFORMATION
- CONTRIBUTORS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR