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Record Nr.

UNINA9910157473903321

Autore

Wentling James

Titolo

Designing a Place Called Home : Reordering the Suburbs / / by James Wentling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-47917-2

Edizione

[2nd ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVI, 260 p. 208 illus., 198 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

624

Soggetti

Civil engineering

Design

Energy consumption

Engines

Machinery

Energy systems

Civil Engineering

Design, general

Energy Efficiency

Engine Technology

Energy Systems

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Housing yesterday -- Housing Today -- Community Planning and Design -- Siting and Lot patterns -- Floor plans and building image -- exterior details -- interior details -- multi-family housing -- manufactured housing -- towards more sustainable homes and communities -- .

Sommario/riassunto

This insightful volume shares design ideas to help builders, planners and architects create mass-produced affordable housing that pushes suburban development in more sustainable, liveable directions. The author argues that improving the quality of design in our new homes and communities for greater resiliency, sustainability, and equality, we can build neighborhoods and communities where residents feel more



connected t their homes and to one another. Through text, photographs and illustrations, the book reviews prototypical American housing design, then suggest ways to both learn from the past as well as adapt for new environmental imperatives, demographic changes and lifestyle needs. Written by a practicing architect with 25+ years of experience optimizing residential design, this pioneering approach to suburban building will inspire readers to view mass produced housing through a new, modern lens.