Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small-Scale Community in a Large-Scale World

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Taunton Press, 2011

160085107X / 9781600851070

Da: Elizabeth's Bookshops, Fremantle, WA, AustraliaElizabeth's Bookshops

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ARCHITECTURE Urban Planning -This title explains an alternative living arrangement that provides shelter and security, convenience, comfort and meaning. The author (and architect) describes existing pocket neighbourhoods and provides inspiration for new ones. This title is suitable for architects and homeowners who crave a greater sense of community where they live. The typical American neighbourhood is impersonal, made up of large houses on large lots, with large garages whose remote openers provide residents instant access inside. There’s never any need to see or be seen! The good news is that a growing number of homeowners are saying they want more. Pocket neighbourhoods are alternative living arrangements that provide shelter and security, convenience, comfort and meaning. In a typical pocket neighbourhood, parking is intentionally separated from houses, which surround a landscaped common area. Homeowners walk to their doors, past the neighbours they might otherwise never know. This book by architect and author Ross Chapin describes existing pocket neighbourhoods and co-housing communities and provides inspiration for creating new ones.A 2012 Nautilus Silver Award Winner Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small Scale Community in a Large Scale World introduces an antidote to faceless, placeless sprawl -- small scale neighborhoods where people can easily know one another, where empty nesters and single householders with far-flung families can find friendship or a helping hand nearby, and where children can have shirt-tail aunties and uncles just beyond their front gate. The book describes inspiring pocket neighborhoods through stories of the people who live there, as well as the progressive planners, innovative architects, pioneering developers, craftspeople and gardeners who helped create them. Sarah Susanka, author of the best selling Not So Big House series, wrote the Foreword to the book, placing pocket neighborhoods within context of the contemporary trends in housing and community. Ross Chapin begins the book by outlining the shifts in the scale of community and the American Dream over several generations, leading to super-sized houses in a sea of development, then describes a solution to help restore healthy, livable communities. The first section of the book looks at historic precedents of pocket neighborhoods. The second section covers a wide range of contemporary pocket neighborhoods, including New Urban communities, affordable housing, houseboat communities, eco-neighborhoods, and Ross Chapin Architects' own pocket neighborhood examples. The third section focuses on 'cohousing' communities, from Danish origins in the 1960s, to examples across America, Australia and New Zealand, including a chapter on senior cohousing. The fourth section looks at retrofitting pocket neighborhoods within existing communities. Throughout the book are series of Design Keys that highlight the essential principles of pocket neighborhood planning and design, and short stories about Pocket Neighborhood Pioneers who blazed new trails. The book is filled with rich photographs, drawings, illustrations and site plans, and a Resources section at the end provides leads for the reader to explore the topic in further detail.pp. 220 illusts #241225 (name on fep) Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. …

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Titolo
Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small-Scale Community in a Large-Scale World
Autore
Chapin, Ross; Foreword Sarah Susanka
Editore
Taunton Press
Anno di pubblicazione
2011
Condizione
Near Fine
Rilegatura
Hardcover in Dustjacket
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
160085107X
ISBN 13
9781600851070
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ARCHITECTURE

Elizabeth's Bookshops

Fremantle, WA, Australia

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Elizabeth's Bookshops were established in 1973 and are one of Australia's largest secondhand bookdealers with 2 branches in Western Australia (Fremantle) and 1 branch in Sydney (Newtown) We are General Secondhand & Discount Booksellers. We stock over 250,000 books. Our website base is at 23 Queen Victoria Street, Fremantle, WA 6160 Australia.

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