1st Edition
Neighbors and Neighborhoods Elements of Successful Community Design
By Sidney Brower
Copyright 2011
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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How does the design of a neighborhood affect the people who live there? In this thoughtful, engaging book, the author explains how a neighborhood’s design lays the groundwork for the social relationships that make it a community.
Blending social science with personal interviews, the author shares the lessons of planned communities from historic Riverside, Illinois, to... Read more
Part 1 Social Science Research 1. What Is Community? Part 2 Development Histories 2. Homogeneity 3. Community Organizations 4. Suitable Physical Settings 5. Ongoing Traditions and the Historical Past Part 3: Community Design 6. The Appearance of Community 7. Community- Generating Neighborhoods 8. Policy, Management, and Process
Biography
Sidney Brower is a professor in the Urban Studies and Planning Program in the School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at the University of Maryland
