ISBN:
9780203469521
,
0203469526
,
0415237599
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (127 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Tibbalds, Francis Making people-friendly towns
DDC:
307.1/216
Keywords:
Urban ecology (Sociology)
;
City planning
;
Social aspects
;
Social aspects
;
Electronic books
;
Stadtplanung
;
Stadtökologie
Abstract:
Making People-Friendly Towns explores the way our towns and cities, particularly their central areas, look and feel to all their users and discusses their design, maintenance and management. Francis Tibbalds provides a new philosophical approach to the problem, suggesting that places as a whole matter much more than the individual components that make up the urban environment such as buildings, roads and parks. This informative book suggests the way forward for professionals, decision-makers and all those who care about the future of our urban environment and points the reader in the direction of a wealth of living examples of successful town planning.
Abstract:
Intro -- MAKING PEOPLE-FRIENDLY TOWNS Improving the public environment in towns and cities -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- 1 The Decline of the Public Realm -- 2 'Places' Matter Most -- 3 What are the Lessons from the Past? -- 4 Mixing Uses and Activities -- 5 Human Scale -- 6 Pedestrian Freedom -- 7 Access for All -- 8 Making it Clear -- 9 Lasting Environments -- 10 Controlling Change -- 11 Joining it all Together -- 12 A Renaissance of the Public Realm? -- Postscript -- Afterword by Kevin Murray -- Bibliography -- Index.
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