Building community : defining, designing and developing UniverCity / authors: Gordon Harris with Richard Littlemore ; edited by: Fred McLennan.

Main entry:

Harris, Gordon (Urban planner), author.

Title & Author:

Building community : defining, designing and developing UniverCity / authors: Gordon Harris with Richard Littlemore ; edited by: Fred McLennan.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Seattle : An Ecotone Publishing Book, 2018.
©2018

Description:

144 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : building community -- Inception : a dream on the page -- Construction : shovels in the ground -- Reflection : what works; and what can we make better -- The next chapter : a complete community takes flight.

Summary:

Beautiful, liveable, sustainable, restorative. Picture a world-class community model of sustainability that sets the highest standards for master planning, design and development, practice and operations. Picture a mountaintop community designed, engineered, and operated specifically to benefit all of its inhabitants for future generations. British Columbia's UniverCity in Metro Vancouver was conceived in the 1990s as a series of solutions for a fast-growing academic institution located in one of the most desirable places to live in the world. Today, UniverCity is a thriving, full-service community of over 5,000 people well on its way to a population of 10,000 residents. Capitalizing on a multitude of experiences and challenges, Building Community: Defining, Designing, Developing UniverCity presents a thoughtful collection of key insights and takeaways about how to make a very big impact with a very small footprint. The UniverCity journey from concept to an award-winning community is described in detail in Building Community. In an engaging and sometimes personal story of community building, this easy-to-read, comprehensively illustrated book vividly describes the context in which the UniverCity community has evolved. And, perhaps most importantly, this book is a process-based guide for creating a beautiful, functional, and affordable pedestrian-oriented community, designed for people of all ages--one that is replicable, resilient, and will certainly be as widely admired in 2120 as it is today.

ISBN:

0997236841
9780997236842

Subject:

Simon Fraser University Planning.
Simon Fraser University Buildings.
Simon Fraser University
College buildings British Columbia Burnaby.
Campus planning British Columbia Burnaby.
Architecture and society British Columbia Burnaby.
Campus Planification Colombie-Britannique Burnaby.
Architecture et société Colombie-Britannique Burnaby.
Architecture and society
Buildings
Campus planning
College buildings
Planning
British Columbia Burnaby

Added entries:

Littlemore, Richard D., author.
McLennan, Fred, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 305529
Call No.: BIB 251471
Status: Available

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