Garden Cities 21: Creating a Livable Urban Environment - Tapa dura

"Filled with options for re-creating our living arrangements. Nearly every page has intimate, hand-drawn driagrams of plans. Color photographs and bite-size quotes in sidebars give additional life to this very lively book." Napra Trade Journal 19941001 "Incorporates many of the best solutions to urban problems, along with some provocative ideas." Planning Magazine 19940801 Thoughtfully builds on Sir Ebenezer Howard's Garden Cities of Tomorrow, published nearly a hundred years ago." Traditional Building 19940701

"What can be done to create more efficient, safe, fulfilling, and livable cities?" In the face of worsening traffic snarls, an endangered environment, urban decay, and other ills of the late 20th century, a premier landscape architect shows us a workable conceptual model for the future city. Simonds views the city as an organic whole, analyzes its components, and shows how cities can be made vital, functional, and beautiful - with protected areas of field and forest, and "blue and green open space frameworks".