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

• Autore: Wentling James
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017
• Edizione: 2nd ed. 2017.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XVI, 260 p. 208 illus., 198 illus. in color.)
• Disciplina: 624
• Soggetto topico: Civil engineering; Design; Energy efficiency; Engines; Machinery; Energy systems; Civil Engineering; Design, general; Energy Efficiency; Engine Technology; Energy Systems
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Designing a Place Called Home
• ISBN: 3-319-47917-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910157473903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II