Making people-friendly towns : improving the public environment in towns and cities / Francis Tibbalds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tibbalds, Francis, -1992.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning.

Urban ecology (Sociology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (127 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : E & FN Spon, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Previous ed.: Longman, 1992.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [113]-114) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-55863-5

1-280-06990-2

9786610069903

1-134-55864-3

0-203-46952-6

9780203469521

OCLC:

252917397