Sustainable Communities: A New Design Synthesis for Cities, Suburbs, and Towns |
Contents
The Urban Context Peter Calthorpe | 1 |
The Suburban Context Sim Van der Ryn | 34 |
The New Suburban Fabric Sim Van der | 54 |
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Sustainable Communities: A New Design Synthesis for Cities, Suburbs and Towns Sim Van der Ryn,Peter Calthorpe No preview available - 2008 |
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activities allotment gardens areas arterial auto auto-free zones automobile biological bioshelter block Broadacre City BTUs buildings built cars Chino Hills climate cluster commercial concept consumption Corbusier's costs create density district heating dwellings ecological economic electricity energy efficiency environment environmental facilities farm food production freeway fuel garden cities garden cities movement gentrification greenhouse grid growth heating household housing Howard's increase industrial informative economy land landscape Levittown living located major mass economy ment Milton Keynes mixed-use modern needs neighborhood open space parking passive solar patterns pedestrian percent Peter Calthorpe photovoltaic pollution population power plants proposed Radburn recreation redesign reduce residential road scale sewage shared social solar access Solar Village strategies street suburban suburbs sustainable thermal mass tion town townhouses traffic transit transportation trees trips units per acre urban urban agriculture utility vehicles Village Center waste Woonerf zone