Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood: Building the 21st Century Home - Couverture souple

Rudlin, David; Falk, Nicholas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0750656336 ISBN 13 : 9780750656337

Editeur : Architectural Press, 2009

Synopsis

This successful title, previously known as 'Building the 21st Century Home' and now in its second edition, explores and explains the trends and issues that underlie the renaissance of UK towns and cities and describes the sustainable urban neighbourhood as a model for rebuilding urban areas. The book reviews the way that planning policies, architectural trends and economic forces have undermined the viability of urban areas in Britain since the Industrial Revolution. Now that much post-war planning philosophy is being discredited we are left with few urban models other than garden city inspired suburbia. Are these appropriate in the 21st century given environmental concerns, demographic change, social and economic pressures? The authors suggest that these trends point to a very different urban future. The authors argue that we must reform our towns and cities so that they become attractive, humane places where people will choose to live. The Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood is a model for such reform and the book describes what this would look like and how it might be brought about.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

David Rudlin, Nicholas Falk

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Architectural Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0750656336
• ISBN 13: 9780750656337
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 338
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible