Within Walking Distance - Creating Livable Communities for All

Informationen zum Autor Philip Langdon is a freelance journalist and former senior editor of New Urban News . His articles have appeared in numerous publications including The Atlantic , Planning , Landscape Architecture , and other magazines. He is author of A Better Place to Live: Reshaping the American Suburb . Klappentext In Within Walking Distance , journalist and urban critic Philip Langdon looks at why and how Americans are shifting toward a more human-scale way of building and living. He shows how people are creating, improving, and caring for walkable communities. To draw the most important lessons, Langdon spent time in six communities that differ in size, history, wealth, diversity, and education, yet share crucial traits: compactness, a mix of uses and activities, and human scale. To improve conditions and opportunities for everyone, Langdon argues that places where the best of life is within walking distance ought to be at the core of our thinking. This book is for anyone who wants to understand what can be done to build, rebuild, or improve a community while retaining the things that make it distinctive. Zusammenfassung Draws on the successes of six diverse U.S. communities for creating compact! walkable neighbourhoods.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Langdon, Langdon Philip
• Publisher: Island Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781610917711
• ISBN: 978-1-61091-771-1
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, ARCHITECTURE / Sustainability & Green Design, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban & municipal planning, Environmentally-friendly architecture & design, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, City and town planning: architectural aspects, Urban communities / city life