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Exploring Socially Mixed Neighbourhoods
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By
Emily Talen, Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and School of Planning, Arizona State University, USA
Description
The city is more than just a sum of its buildings; it is the sum of its communities. The most successful urban communities are very often
those that are the most diverse – in terms of income, age, family structure and ethnicity – and yet poor urban design and planning can
stifle the very diversity that makes communities successful.
Just as poor urban design can lead to sterile monoculture, successful
planning can support the conditions needed for diverse communities. Emily Talen explores the linkage between urban forms and social diversity,
and how one impacts the other. Learning the lessons from past successes and failures, and building from detailed case studies of different
neighborhoods, Design for Diversity provides urban designers and architects with design strategies and tools to ensure that their work
sustains and nurtures social diversity.
Audience
Urban planners, architects, landscape architects, other professionals and policy makers in design and planning. Suitable for undergraduate and graduate students in planning, urban design courses.
Contents
Introduction: Diversity and Design; Part One - The Argument - Separation vs. Diversity; Why Diversity?; Why Design?; Part Two - The Context
-Patterns; The Interviews; Part Three - The Strategies - Mix; Connection; Security; Conclusion: Policy and Process; Bibliography
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Paperback, 256 pages, publication date: JAN-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-8117-9
ISBN-10: 0-7506-8117-9
Imprint: ARCHITECTURAL PRESS
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