Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small-Scale Community in a Large-Scale World

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A 2012 Nautilus Silver Award Winner

Pocket Neighborhoods: Developing Small Scale Group in a Huge Scale World introduces an antidote to faceless, placeless sprawl ― small scale neighborhoods the place other folks can simply understand one any other, the place empty nesters and unmarried house owners with a long way-flung households can in finding friendship or a serving to hand local, and the place youngsters could have blouse-tail aunties and uncles simply past their entrance gate.

The ebook describes inspiring pocket neighborhoods thru tales of the individuals who are living there, in addition to the modern planners, leading edge architects, pioneering builders, craftspeople and gardeners who helped create them.

Sarah Susanka, creator of the most productive promoting Not So Large House collection, wrote the Foreword to the ebook, hanging pocket neighborhoods inside context of the recent developments in housing and Group. Ross Chapin starts the ebook via outlining the shifts within the scale of Group and the American Dream over a number of generations, resulting in tremendous-sized properties in a sea of building, then describes a way to assist repair wholesome, livable groups. The primary component to the ebook appears to be like at historical precedents of pocket neighborhoods. The second one segment covers quite a lot of recent pocket neighborhoods, together with New City groups, inexpensive housing, houseboat groups, eco-neighborhoods, and Ross Chapin Architects’ personal pocket Group examples. The 3rd segment makes a speciality of ‘cohousing’ groups, from Danish origins within the Nineteen Sixties, to examples throughout The us, Australia and New Zealand, together with a bankruptcy on senior cohousing. The fourth segment appears to be like at retrofitting pocket neighborhoods inside current groups.

Throughout the ebook are collection of “Layout Keys” that spotlight the crucial concepts of pocket Group making plans and Layout, and brief tales approximately “Pocket Group Pioneers” who blazed new trails. The ebook is full of wealthy images, drawings, illustrations and web page plans, and a Tools segment on the finish supplies leads for the reader to discover the subject in additional element.

ISBN13: 9781600851070
Situation: New
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