Yard, street, park: the design of suburban open space

Yard Street Park was designed to help suburban community designers and planners deliver on the traditional promise of the best of both worlds. The authors take a hard look at more than a century of suburban planning and reconsider aspects of most developer-designed suburbs. They offer design alterna...

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Beteiligte Personen: Girling, Cynthia L. (VerfasserIn), Helphand, Kenneth I. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York u.a. Wiley 1994
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Zusammenfassung:Yard Street Park was designed to help suburban community designers and planners deliver on the traditional promise of the best of both worlds. The authors take a hard look at more than a century of suburban planning and reconsider aspects of most developer-designed suburbs. They offer design alternatives based on open space planning methods that can be applied to new or existing developments to transform them into sustainable, livable communities
A central feature of the authors' planning approach is a comprehensive system of open space networks linking the private world of yards to parks and commons of all scales - from neighborhood tot lots, to local and regional park systems - well-connected by greenways and streets designed for pedestrian and bike traffic
Abstract:Nearly half of all Americans now reside in suburbia. Lured by the prospect of the "golden mean" of city and country, privacy and community, nature and designed space, city dwellers, for more than a century, have been fleeing the crush of urban life in greater and greater numbers for suburban developments. Unfortunately, the American suburb has rarely succeeded in delivering on its promise of the "best of both worlds," with a more intimate sense of community and enhanced personal freedom
Umfang:IX, 245 S. zahlr. Ill. und Kt.
ISBN:0471556009
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