Making People-Friendly Towns
Author | : Francis Tibbalds |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2012-09-10 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781134558636 |
ISBN-13 | : 1134558635 |
Rating | : 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Making People-Friendly Towns explores the way our towns and cities, particularly their central areas, look and feel to all their users and discusses their design, maintenance and management. Francis Tibbalds provides a new philosophical approach to the problem, suggesting that places as a whole matter much more than the individual components that make up the urban environment such as buildings, roads and parks. This informative book suggests the way forward for professionals, decision-makers and all those who care about the future of our urban environment and points the reader in the direction of a wealth of living examples of successful town planning.