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Design quality in new housing : learning from the Netherlands / Matthew Cousins.
Fine Arts Library HD7333.A3 C735 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cousins, Matthew, 1975-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Housing policy--England.
- Housing policy.
- Housing--England.
- Housing.
- Housing policy--Netherlands.
- Netherlands.
- Housing--Netherlands.
- Building--Quality control.
- Building.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 167 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Taylor & Francis, 2009.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Design quality in the Netherlands. Context
- Consensus culture
- SuperDutch
- Policy for architectural quality
- Design quality in Vinex housing
- Sustainability
- Skills and training
- Design quality in the Netherlands
- Case studies of new housing in the Netherlands
- The Eastern Harbour District, Amsterdam
- Ijburg, Amsterdam
- Vathorst, Amersfoort
- Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht
- Ypenburg, The Hague
- Design quality in the United Kingdom. Context
- Policy for quality in the UK
- Density
- Design codes
- A true Cinderella : skills and training in the UK
- Design quality in the UK
- Low- and high-rise doll's houses and Dan Dare steel and glass towers? Design quality in the Thames Gateway
- Case studies of new housing in the UK
- Accordia, Cambridge
- The Greenwich Millennium Village
- The Staiths, Gateshead
- Donnybrook Quarter, London
- Learning from the Netherlands. Context
- Methods of implementing design quality
- Design quality through spatial, social and cultural diversity
- Design quality through architectural and sustainable design
- Design quality through urban design
- Recommendations for implementing design quality in new housing
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-161) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415447690
- 9780415447690
- 9780415447706
- 0415447704
- OCLC:
- 253636643
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