Pocket neighborhoods : creating small-scale community in a large-scale world / Ross Chapin ; foreword by Sarah Susanka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chapin, Ross.

Contributor:

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neighborhood planning--United States.

Neighborhood planning.

Community development--United States.

Community development.

United States.

Physical Description:

220 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Newtown, CT : Taunton Press, [2011]

Contents:

Pocket neighborhood precedents. Setting up camp ; Gardens on compassion ; Visions of garden cities ; Bungalow courts, walks, and walk streets ; Cottage court revival

Contemporary pocket neighborhoods. A cottage court ; A neighborhood within a neighborhood ; A pocket neighborhood on a challenging site ; The neighborhood the neighbors built ; A floating neighborhood ; Lanes, woonerfs, and mental speed bumps ; Back house, front house, lane ; New urban pocket neighborhoods ; New urban pocket neighborhoods ; Lines of enticement ; Pocket neighborhoods within a village

Cohousing communities. Danish origins ; Cohousing in America ; Greening the neighborhood ; Saging communities

Pocket neighborhoods in existing communities. Infill in a first-ring suburb ; Urban homesteads ; Cultivating community in the garden ; Taking down the fences ; Taking back the alley ; Taking back the street.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

ISBN:

160085107X

9781600851070

OCLC:

650215974

Publisher Number:

99947773926

071275 Taunton Press