Design in Familiar Places: What Makes Home Environments Look Good - Couverture rigide

Brower, Sidney

 
9780275926861: Design in Familiar Places: What Makes Home Environments Look Good
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ISBN 10 : 0275926869 ISBN 13 : 9780275926861
Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 1988

Synopsis

Residents look at their neighborhood differently than visitors and designers do. The features that they see as most important can differ significantly, so that spaces that are viewed as successful by designers may be disliked by residents. Designers who hope to create successful residential environments can benefit from a more complete understanding of the residents' perspective and their priorities. This residents-eye-view is especially critical in troubled neighborhoods.

Brower compares the responses to the same environment by residents, tourists, and designers. Using observations, interviews, innovative survey methods, and an examination of the literature, he details accepted norms that govern who uses and controls neighborhood spaces, children's play networks, neighboring patterns, territorial behavior, and the personalization of space. Brower then describes the application of these ideas and findings in a series of design interventions in an inner city neighborhood in Baltimore. These interventions are thoroughly documented and evaluated, and the lessons learned from both successes and failures are used to inform design ouidelines for the study area. The interventions also help to define the role of outside professionals; in particular, the importance of involving residents in defining and resolving their own problems, and the need to accept space management and social organization as proper concerns of design. The book is written in clear, simple language, and uses drawings and photographs to illustrate the ideas presented.

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À propos de l?auteur

SIDNEY BROWER is Associate Professor in the Community Planning Program at the University of Maryland at College Park.

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Éditeur
Praeger Publishers Inc
Date d'édition
1988
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0275926869
ISBN 13 
9780275926861
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
203
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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