Front To Back: A Design Agenda For Urban Housing

Sally Lewis - Front To Back : A Design Agenda For Urban Housing | Architectural Press | 2005 | 193 pages | PDF | RAR | 4.3 MB

The various parts of this book constitute an excellent, well-balanced primer on contemporary housing design. One of the key messages in this excellent book is that although beautiful buildings enrich our lives they do not exist in isolation.

Contents:
Part one
Chapter 1: The urban design agenda
Martin Crookston, Llewelyn Davies
Chapter 2: The sustainability agenda
Randall Thomas, Max Fordham LLP
Chapter 3: The community agenda
Patrick Hammill, Levitt Bernstein
Chapter 4: The social agenda
Part two
Chapter 5: A design agenda
Chapter 6: Introduction to the case studies
Chapter 7: Housing at Parc de Bercy, Paris
Chapter 8: Tango Housing at Bo01, Malmo
Chapter 9: Century Court, Cheltenham
Chapter 10: Palm Housing, Coin Street, London
Chapter 11: Homes in the Calle del Carme, Barcelona
Conclusion
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