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SUSTAINABLE URBAN NEIGHBOURHOOD
Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood
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.

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'Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood' explores the way that the UK's towns and cities are changing at the turn of the millennium. Previously known as 'Building the 21st Century Home', the second edition of this successful text describes the way that environmental and demographic change, economic pressures and the needs of community
could change urban areas forever just as the garden city movement did a century ago.

Some of the arguments that were so contentious ten years ago are now widely accepted. Others rumble on, particularly after another property crash that has hit urban apartments. The central point, however, remains; urban renaissance will not be achieved by coercion but by the creation of positive urban models. Through case studies, the book describes one such model, the Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood: mixed-use, mediumdensity urban development, designed to minimise resource use and maximise community.

This classic text will be essential reading for urban designers, architects and planners, and anyone involved in the development of new homes and the regeneration of towns and cities.



Audience
Architects, urban designers and students of the same.

Contents
Intro; Pt.1: Origins, Flight From the City, Lost Utopias, Taming of the City, Shaping of the English Home; Pt.2: Influences, Climate Change: Environmental Pressures on Future Settlements, Choice: Changing Household Characteristics & the 21st C Home, Community: Social Sustainability in Suburb & City, Cost: The Economy of Urban Development; Pt.3: Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood, Urban Repopulation, The Eco-Neighbourhood, Urban Building Blocks, The Sociable Neighbourhood, A Model Neighbourhood?, The Process of Urban Generation & Regeneration.

Bibliographic details
Paperback, 344 pages, publication date: AUG-2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-5633-7
ISBN-10: 0-7506-5633-6
Imprint: ARCHITECTURAL PRESS

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