320 Pages
318 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
320 Pages
318 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
What makes a successful residential neighbourhood?
Drawing on more than 35 years of research and professional practice, Introduction to Residential Layout sets out the key ideas and principles that underpin the design of places where people genuinely want to live.
Mike Biddulph demonstrates how neighbourhoods must reconcile everyday human needs with environmental sustainability and... Read more
Preface
1. Introduction to Residential Layout
2. Create Neighbourhoods
3. Making Space for Nature
4. Financing New Neighbourhoods
5. Building Place by Defining Space
6. Streets and Movement
7. Safe and Easy to Find Your Way Around
8. Contemporary Places and Townscape
9. Support for the Social Life of Outdoor Spaces
Biography
Mike Biddulph is an urban designer and planner with extensive experience of neighbourhood design, regeneration and public realm projects. Formerly an academic at Liverpool and Cardiff Universities, he now supports design quality at Cardiff Council and has served as a Commissioner for the Design Commission for Wales.
