Main entry:

Friedman, Avi, 1952- author.

Title & Author:

Neighbourhood : designing a liveable community / Avi Friedman.

Publication:

Montréal, Québec, Canada : Véhicule Press, [2018]
©2018

Description:

208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color), plans ; 18 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
The engagement -- The nature of place -- Learning from Savannah -- Searching for a planning tool -- Connecting the right destinations -- The "neighbourhood unit" -- Green footprints -- Orienting homes for the elements -- Rubbing shoulders -- Scaling down -- Moving around -- The space between buildings -- Playing around -- Edible landscapes -- Dwellings with choices -- When they get old -- The sun's gift -- Building with recycled materials -- Harvesting water -- Years from now -- The presentation.

Summary:

"In Neighbourhood: Designing a Liveable Community, renowned architect, professor and urban planner Avi Friedman describes the planning of a new neighbourhood in Middlesex Centre, a rural municipality in southern Ontario. Friedman explores how good and bad design affect our homes and civic life. In his quest to build a new kind of neighbourhood, Friedman talks about personal architectural and community touchstones that have informed his work through the years. Over the past decade or more, worrisome signs--climate change, depletion of natural resources, unrelenting urban sprawl, the tyranny of the automobile, the decline of face-to-face human contact--have motivated us to radically rethink home and community design. In Avi Friedman's view, these issues have combined to force us to question fundamental practices and come up with better solutions."-- Provided by publisher

ISBN:

9781550654981 (paperback)
1550654985 (paperback)

Subject:

City planning Ontario Middlesex Centre Case studies.
City planning Ontario Middlesex Case studies.
Urbanisme Ontario Middlesex Centre Études de cas.
Urbanisme Ontario Middlesex Études de cas.
HISTORY Social History.
City planning
Stadtplanung
Nachbarschaft
Ontario Middlesex

Form/genre:

Case studies
Études de cas.

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 301961
Call No.: BIB 248161
Status: Available