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Building the 21st Century Home
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Second Edition
By
David Rudlin, BA MTP, Professional Town Planner, URBED Director
Nicholas Falk, BA (University College, Oxford) MBA (Stanford Graduate School of Business, California) PhD in Urban Regeneration (London School of Economics),
Economist and strategic planner, formerly Ford Motor Company, Director of URBED.
Description
This successful title, previously known as 'Building the 21st Century Home' and now in its second edition, explores and explains the trends
and issues that underlie the renaissance of UK towns and cities and describes the sustainable urban neighbourhood as a model for rebuilding
urban areas.
The book reviews the way that planning policies, architectural trends and economic forces have undermined the viability
of urban areas in Britain since the Industrial Revolution. Now that much post-war planning philosophy is being discredited we are left
with few urban models other than garden city inspired suburbia. Are these appropriate in the 21st century given environmental concerns,
demographic change, social and economic pressures? The authors suggest that these trends point to a very different urban future.
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authors argue that we must reform our towns and cities so that they become attractive, humane places where people will choose to live.
The Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood is a model for such reform and the book describes what this would look like and how it might be brought
about.
Audience
Architects, urban designers and students of the same.
Contents
Introduction; Part 1: The Origins, The flight from the city, Lost Utopias, The taming of the City, The shaping of the English home, The
Urban Renaissance; Part 2: The Influences, Conservation: Environmental pressures on future settlements, Choice: Changing household characteristics
and the 21st century home, Attitudes to Urban Areas, Community: Social sustainability in the suburb and city, Cost: The economies of
urban development; Part 3 The sustainable urban neighbourhood, Urban repopulation, The Eco-neighbourhood, Urban building blocks, The
sociable neighbourhood, A model neighbourhood?, The process of urban generation and regeneration.
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e-Book, 288 pages, publication date: JUN-2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-08-093954-4
Imprint: ARCHITECTURAL PRESS
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