Neighborhood

List of contents

• 1. Introduction


• 2. The Historical Neighborhood and its Decline


• 3. Getting the Neighborhood Back


• 4. Reinventing the Neighborhood


• THE DEBATES


• 5. Design Debates


• 6. The Planning Problem


• 7. The Self-Governed Neighborhood


• 8. Social Confusion


• Neighborhoods and Segregation


• Conclusion


• Index

About the author

Emily Talen is Professor of Urbanism at the University of Chicago. Her research is devoted to urban design and the relationship between the built environment and social equity. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners.

Summary

A city is a place where people come together, while a neighborhood, it is said, is a place where people belong. And yet this basic element of the human habitat often eludes us. Neighborhood makes the case that the neighborhood as traditionally understood needs to be reinstated as something real, meaningful, and non-exclusionary.

Additional text

Everyone loves neighborhoods, but few of us get to live in places that genuinely combine human scale, walkability, sociability, and diversity. Emily Talen brings deep scholarship to the task of analyzing the century-long struggle by planners to understand and to design neighborhoods. More importantly, she brings her own unique sense of hope. Her past is a prologue to a new era of neighborhood planning that will build on and transform older ideals and make real neighborhoods an integral part of the 21st-century city.

Product details

• Authors: Emily Talen, Emily (Professor of Urbanism Talen, Talen Emily
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.02.2019
• EAN: 9780190907495
• ISBN: 978-0-19-090749-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, ARCHITECTURE / Study & Teaching, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban & municipal planning, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, City and town planning: architectural aspects, Urban communities / city life