Synopses & Reviews
Top selling professional titles that have enjoyed significant cloth edition sales are now available for the first time in low-priced paperback, through the Wiley Professional Paperback Series.
This new paperback series will regularly publish some of our most popular titles in agriculture, architecture, chemistry, engineering and technology, earth and environmental sciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine, physics and statistics. More information on each of these titles can be found in this catalog (see pages indicated). These titles join those published in the series earlier this year (formerly known as the Wiley Science Paperback Series).
Most American suburban housing was planned as a product, not as a community. This book examines the problems and challenges of suburban development and proposes a solution: the design of well-connected networks of open space linking the private world of yards to parks of all scales, from neighborhood playgrounds, to local, regional, state and national park systems, using greenways and streets that allow safe pedestrian and bike traffic.
Focuses on what is essentially suburban about the suburbs -- the networks of open space created in a landscape dominated by private yards and public streets and parks.
-- Examines the historical roots of modern suburbia and analyzes "classic" successes of new town design.
-- Explores new trends in suburban design like techno-burbs, eco-burbs, and pedestrian pockets.
Synopsis
Most American suburban housing was planned as a product, not as a community. This book examines the problems and challenges of suburban development and proposes a solution: the design of well-connected networks of open space linking the private world of yards to parks of all scales, from neighborhood playgrounds, to local, regional, state and national park systems, using greenways and streets that allow safe pedestrian and bike traffic.
Synopsis
An insightful analysis of the history of suburban development . . .and an exciting new approach to suburban planning
YARD-STREET-PARK
This book was devised to help designers, planners, and developers of suburban communities deliver on their traditional promise to offer "the best of both worlds." The authors take a hard look at more than a century of suburban planning and analyze developer-designed suburbs. Most importantly, they offer a dynamic approach to suburban development, rooted in historical examples and based on open space planning methods that can be applied to new or existing developments to transform them into sustainable, living communities.
- Offers an in-depth look at the historical origins of modern suburbia — from the nineteenth century to post-World War II developments such as Riverside, Levittown, and others
- Analyzes "classic" success stories of new town design, including Reston, Virginia and Columbia, Maryland
- Diagnoses the problematic aspects of most developer-designed suburbs
- Outlines methods for developing open space networks linking private and public spaces of all scales by means of greenways, pedestrian connections, and redesigned streets
- Explores new trends in subrban design, including Technoburbs, Ecoburbs, Pedestrian Pockets, and neotraditional communities
- Features over 100 photographs, line drawings, maps, and site plans
About the Author
CYNTHIA L. GIRLING is Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Oregon. An ASLA Certificate of Honor recipient and the 1996-97 President of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, she is the author of numerous articles on the planning and design of communities and their open spaces.
KENNETH I. HELPHAND is Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Oregon and coeditor of Landscape Journal. He is the author of Colorado: Visions of an American Landscape.
Table of Contents
Suburb.
Meanings: Yard, Street, Park.
Origins: The Early Models.
Increments: The Subdivided Suburbs.
Linkages: Community Planning.
Themes: Technoburbs and Ecoburbs.
Centers and Networks: The New Suburbs.
Suburbia 2000.
References.
Index.