Jill Grant " Planning the Good Community: New Urbanisms in Theory and Practice (The Rtpi Library Series) "
Routledge; New edition edition | January 24, 2006 | English | ISBN : 0415700752 | 296 pages | PDF | 2MB
People either love new urbanism or hate it. Some find compact new neighborhoods of brownstone row houses, elegant Victorian mansions, or country cottages delightful: places that celebrate the city and its history, and offer hope for a sustainable future. Others see these 'urban villages' as up-graded suburbs mired in the aesthetics of another time and place: cloyingly nostalgic anachronisms for affluent elites. This book examines new urban approaches both in theory and practice.