Suburban transformations / Paul Lukez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lukez, Paul, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suburbs.

City planning.

Architecture and society.

Community life.

Physical Description:

191 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color) ; 28 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2007]

Summary:

Smart Growth advocates, environmentalists, and New Urbanists have all tried in their own ways to spread the message of reforming current land use patterns. Their solutions are often criticized for being overly prescriptive, opposed to growth, or nostalgic, respectively. Suburban Transformations offers an alternative to these practices while synthesizing many of the ideas and proposals that they put forth.

Five case studies provide fully expressed examples of the process, beginning with a sophisticated system of mapping and culminating in computer projections of likely future outcomes, giving the designer the ability to project changes in the community fabric and adding that knowledge to the designer??'s kit of place-making tools.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781568986838

1568986831

OCLC:

129949839