Designing a place called home : reordering the suburbs / James Wentling.
2017
NA7571
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Title
Designing a place called home : reordering the suburbs / James Wentling.
Author
Wentling, James W., author.
Edition
2nd edition.
ISBN
9783319479170 (electronic book)
3319479172 (electronic book)
9783319479156
3319479156
3319479172 (electronic book)
9783319479156
3319479156
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 257 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-47917-0 doi
Call Number
NA7571
Dewey Decimal Classification
728/.0973
620
620
Summary
"This insightful volume shares design ideas to help builders, planners and architects create mass-produced affordable housing that pushes suburban development in more sustainable, liveable directions. The author argues that improving the quality of design in our new homes and communities for greater resiliency, sustainability, and equality, we can build neighborhoods and communities where residents feel more connected t their homes and to one another. Through text, photographs and illustrations, the book reviews prototypical American housing design, then suggest ways to both learn from the past as well as adapt for new environmental imperatives, demographic changes and lifestyle needs. Written by a practicing architect with 25+ years of experience optimizing residential design, this pioneering approach to suburban building will inspire readers to view mass produced housing through a new, modern lens."-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Designing a Place Called Home : Reordering the Suburbs.
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Table of Contents
Housing yesterday
Housing Today
Community Planning and Design
Siting and Lot patterns
Floor plans and building image
exterior details
interior details
multi-family housing
manufactured housing
towards more sustainable homes and communities
.
Housing Today
Community Planning and Design
Siting and Lot patterns
Floor plans and building image
exterior details
interior details
multi-family housing
manufactured housing
towards more sustainable homes and communities
.