Overview
This successful title, previously known as Building the 21st Century Home and now in its second edition, explores and explains the trends and issues that underlie the renaissance of UK towns and cities and describes the sustainable urban neighbourhood as a model for rebuilding urban areas. The book reviews the way that planning policies, architectural trends and economic forces have undermined the viability of urban areas in Britain since the Industrial Revolution. Now that much post-war planning philosophy is being discredited we are left with few urban models other than garden city inspired suburbia. Are these appropriate in the 21st century given environmental concerns, demographic change, social and economic pressures? The authors suggest that these trends point to a very different urban future. The authors argue that we must reform our towns and cities so that they become attractive, humane places where people will choose to live. The Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood is a model for such reform and the book describes what this would look like and how it might be brought about. Combines social, environmental and economic thinking with urban design giving a fresh approach to the subject Utopian in vision but grounded in the practical realities of development - putting theory into practice.
Full Product Details
Author: David Rudlin ,
Nicholas Falk
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Edition: 2nd New edition
ISBN: 9780080939544
ISBN 10: 0080939546
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 05 June 2009
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Electronic book text
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Reviews of first edition: 'The Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood is the best analysis I have read of the crisis of the contemporary British city. This book offers a chance to rethink our priorities, break the cycle of decline and to create sustainable cities suitable for citizens.' Richard Rogers 'There are many books published now with a revisionist urban programme, but Rudlin and Falk's is one of the best and most comprehensive.' The Architect's Journal
Reviews of first edition: 'The Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood is the best analysis I have read of the crisis of the contemporary British city. This book offers a chance to rethink our priorities, break the cycle of decline and to create sustainable cities suitable for citizens.'Richard Rogers 'There are many books published now with a revisionist urban programme, but Rudlin and Falk's is one of the best and most comprehensive.'The Architect's Journal
