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Skinny Streets and Green Neighborhoods
Girling
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Description for Skinny Streets and Green Neighborhoods
Paperback. Illustrates how to weave together contemporary thinking in urban planning with open space planning and urban ecology. This book demonstrates methods and models that solve multiple, complex problems in concert. This book is a guide for planners, architects, engineers, and developers to better neighborhoods and a more natural metropolis. Num Pages: 354 pages, tables, figures, photos, references, endnotes, index. BIC Classification: AMVD; RN; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 270 x 205 x 12. Weight in Grams: 504.
Includes farsighted and practical advice to create successful green neighborhoods. Cities are growing at unprecedented rates. Most continue to sprawl into the countryside. Some are only now adopting policies that attempt to control air pollution from vehicles, reduce water pollution from urban runoff, and repair fragmented urban ecosystems. Can good urban design and sound environmental design coincide at a neighborhood level to create healthy communities? Absolutely, and the strategies presented by Cynthia Girling and Ronald Kellett in "Skinny Streets and Green Neighborhoods" illustrate how to weave together contemporary thinking in urban planning with open space planning and urban ecology. Drawing ... Read more
Includes farsighted and practical advice to create successful green neighborhoods. Cities are growing at unprecedented rates. Most continue to sprawl into the countryside. Some are only now adopting policies that attempt to control air pollution from vehicles, reduce water pollution from urban runoff, and repair fragmented urban ecosystems. Can good urban design and sound environmental design coincide at a neighborhood level to create healthy communities? Absolutely, and the strategies presented by Cynthia Girling and Ronald Kellett in "Skinny Streets and Green Neighborhoods" illustrate how to weave together contemporary thinking in urban planning with open space planning and urban ecology. Drawing ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Island Press United States
Number of pages
354
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9781559633376
SKU
V9781559633376
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Girling
CYNTHIA GIRLING is Director and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia and author of numerous publications and books including Yard, Street, Park: The Design of Suburban Open Space (John Wiley and Sons, 1994). RONALD KELLETT is an architect, Professor of Landscape Architecture, and director of the NeighborhoodsLAB in the Design Centre for Sustainability at the ... Read more
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