1st Edition
Responsive Environments
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
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Clearly demonstrates the specific characteristics that make for comprehensible, friendly and controllable places; 'Responsive Environments' - as opposed to the alienating environments often imposed today. By means of sketches and diagrams, it shows how they may be designed in to places or buildings. This is a practical book about architecture and urban design. It is most concerned with the areas... Read more
Permeability; Variety; Legibility; Robustness; Visual appropriateness; Richness; Personalisation; Putting it all together; Index.
Biography
Ian Bently, Alan Alcock, Paul Murrain, Sue McGlynn, Graham Smith
'an important contribution to design as place making'
Environmental and Archtectural Phenomenology Newsletter
'Virtually everything in this book is highly relevant to the work of landscape architects tackling urban problems.'
Landscape Design
