Review quote:
``Filled with options for re-creating our living arrangements. Nearly every page has intimate, hand-drawn driagrams of plans. Color photographs and bite-size quotes in sidebars give additional life to this very lively book.'' (Napra Trade Journal)
``Incorporates many of the best solutions to urban problems, along with some provocative ideas.'' (Planning Magazine)
Thoughtfully builds on Sir Ebenezer Howard's Garden Cities of Tomorrow, published nearly a hundred years ago.'' (Traditional Building)
Table of contents:
The Urban Dwelling: Living Space, Space Expansion, Outdoors-In, Attached Dwellings, Clustering, Stacking. The Neighborhood: Togetherness, Conformation, Places, Ways, Character, Neighborhood Ties, Planned Economics. Communities: Revitalization, Renewal, Redevelopment, Grid Street Syndrome, The Planned Community, Fundamentals, The New Town Movement. The City: The City Perceived, Dilemma, The Intruder, Center City, Inner City, Outer City, The Total City. The Urban Metropolis: Land Use Planning, Transportation, Transit, Transmission, Parks/Recreation and Open Spaces. Garden City. The Expressive City, The Functional City, The Convenient City, The Rational City, The Complete City, Prospectus, Garden City.
``What can be done to create more efficient, safe, fulfilling, and livable cities?'' In the face of worsening traffic snarls, an endangered environment, urban decay, and other ills of the late 20th century, a premier landscape architect shows us a workable conceptual model for the future city. Simonds views the city as an organic whole, analyzes its components, and shows how cities can be made vital, functional, and beautiful--with protected areas of field and forest, and ``blue and green open space frameworks.''
``Filled with options for re-creating our living arrangements. Nearly every page has intimate, hand-drawn driagrams of plans. Color photographs and bite-size quotes in sidebars give additional life to this very lively book.'' (Napra Trade Journal)
``Incorporates many of the best solutions to urban problems, along with some provocative ideas.'' (Planning Magazine)
Thoughtfully builds on Sir Ebenezer Howard's Garden Cities of Tomorrow, published nearly a hundred years ago.'' (Traditional Building)
Table of contents:
The Urban Dwelling: Living Space, Space Expansion, Outdoors-In, Attached Dwellings, Clustering, Stacking. The Neighborhood: Togetherness, Conformation, Places, Ways, Character, Neighborhood Ties, Planned Economics. Communities: Revitalization, Renewal, Redevelopment, Grid Street Syndrome, The Planned Community, Fundamentals, The New Town Movement. The City: The City Perceived, Dilemma, The Intruder, Center City, Inner City, Outer City, The Total City. The Urban Metropolis: Land Use Planning, Transportation, Transit, Transmission, Parks/Recreation and Open Spaces. Garden City. The Expressive City, The Functional City, The Convenient City, The Rational City, The Complete City, Prospectus, Garden City.
``What can be done to create more efficient, safe, fulfilling, and livable cities?'' In the face of worsening traffic snarls, an endangered environment, urban decay, and other ills of the late 20th century, a premier landscape architect shows us a workable conceptual model for the future city. Simonds views the city as an organic whole, analyzes its components, and shows how cities can be made vital, functional, and beautiful--with protected areas of field and forest, and ``blue and green open space frameworks.''