1st Edition
Making People-Friendly Towns Improving the Public Environment in Towns and Cities
Edited By Francis Tibbalds
Copyright 2001
126 Pages
by
Taylor & Francis
126 Pages
19 B/W Illustrations
by
Taylor & Francis
126 Pages
19 B/W Illustrations
by
Taylor & Francis
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Making People-Friendly Towns explores the way our towns and cities, particularly their central areas, look and feel to all their users and discusses their design, maintenance and management. Francis Tibbalds provides a new philosophical approach to the problem, suggesting that places as a whole matter much more than the individual components that make up the urban environment such as buildings,... Read more
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Biography
Francis Tibbalds was an architect and town planner with over thirty years'experience in both the private and public sectors until his death in January 1992 Hewasfounding chairman of the Urban Design Group (1979) and President of the Royal Town Planning Institute (1988)
