Making people-friendly towns : improving the public environment in towns and cities / / Francis Tibbalds

• Autore: Tibbalds Francis <d. 1992., >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Spon Press, , 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (127 p.)
• Disciplina: 711.4
• Soggetto topico: City planning; Urban ecology (Sociology)
• Note generali: "First published 1992"--T.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [113]-114) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: MAKING PEOPLE-FRIENDLY TOWNS Improving the public environment in towns and cities; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Foreword; 1 The Decline of the Public Realm; 2 'Places' Matter Most; 3 What are the Lessons from the Past?; 4 Mixing Uses and Activities; 5 Human Scale; 6 Pedestrian Freedom; 7 Access for All; 8 Making it Clear; 9 Lasting Environments; 10 Controlling Change; 11 Joining it all Together; 12 A Renaissance of the Public Realm?; Postscript; Afterword by Kevin Murray; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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, roads and parks. This informative book suggests the way forward for professionals, decision-makers and all those who care about the future of our urban environment and points the reader in the
• Titolo autorizzato: Making people-friendly towns
• ISBN: 1-134-55863-5; 1-280-06990-2; 9786610069903; 1-134-55864-3; 0-203-46952-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783877203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II