Building the 21st century home : the sustainable urban neighbourhood

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Case studies = ⅶ
• The authors = ⅸ
• Acknowledgements = ⅹ
• Preface = xi
• INTRODUCTION = 1
• The pressure for change = 2
• Rediscovering the city = 3
• A divide society = 4
• Structure of this book = 6
• PART 1 : THE ORIGINS
• CHAPTER 1 The flight from the city = 11
• The golden age of cities = 11
• The industrial city = 14
• The great escape = 16
• The inner city = 19
• American experience = 20
• Continental experience = 21
• The urban renaissance = 25
• CHAPTER 2 Lost Utopias = 29
• The garden city pioneers = 29
• The modernist reformers = 33
• Paradise lost = 37
• CHAPTER 3 The taming of the city = 39
• Comprehensive redevelopment = 41
• The neighbourhood unit = 42
• The free flow of traffic = 42
• The benefits of open space = 44
• The curse of overcrowding = 44
• Post­war plan making = 47
• The lost urban vision = 48
• The suburban conspiracy = 50
• New planning disasters = 51
• CHAPTER 4 The shaping of the English home = 53
• The nineteenth century home = 53
• Middle­class suburbs = 55
• The development of flats = 58
• The twentieth century home = 59
• Housing since 1945 = 61
• Housing since 1980 = 66
• Towards the twenty­first century = 69
• PART2 : THE INFLUENCES
• CHAPTER 5 Conservation : Environmental pressures on future settlements = 73
• The environment and the shape of settlements = 73
• The impact of environmental concerns = 76
• Global warming = 77
• Other global issues = 81
• Pollution = 81
• Water and sewage = 82
• Domestic waste = 83
• The impact on development = 84
• The stranglehold of the car = 85
• CHAPTER 6 Choice : Changing household characteristic and the 21st century home = 89
• Changing household composition = 91
• The mechanisms of demographic change = 93
• Future trends = 94
• Changing social and economic trends = 96
• CHAPTER 7 Community : Social sustainability in the suburb and city = 101
• The value of community = 102
• Communities are good for you = 103
• Different types of community = 105
• CHAPTER 8 Cost : The economies of urban development = 111
• Innovation and cost = 111
• Continental approaches to cost = 112
• Market constraints = 113
• Cost constraints in social housing = 115
• The future influence of cost = 116
• Where we build = 116
• How we build = 117
• PART 3 : THE SUSTAINABLE URBAN NEIGHBOURHOOD
• CHAPTER 9 Urban repopulation = 125
• Government policy to stem dispersal = 125
• Sustainability and the compact city = 128
• The loss of countryside = 130
• The need to regenerate out cities = 132
• The people : where will they go? = 132
• The limitations of urban land capacity = 133
• Brownfield land = 135
• Other sources of urban housing capacity = 138
• The 'curse' of town cramming = 141
• Will people return to cities? = 143
• CHAPTER 10 The eco­neighbourhood = 147
• What is urban sustainability? = 147
• Sustainability and the city = 149
• The eco­neighbourhood = 152
• The walkable city = 153
• Energy use = 158
• Urban recycling = 161
• Water and sewage = 164
• Green space = 165
• CHAPTER 11 Urban building blocks = 169
• The importance of the street = 170
• A framework of streets = 173
• Hierarchies = 174
• The urban block = 178
• Urban grain = 181
• Places not spaces = 182
• The identity of urban areas = 187
• A critical mass of activity = 189
• A rich mix of uses = 191
• CHAPTER 12 The sociable neighbourhood = 195
• The challenge of creating sustainable communities = 196
• Continuity = 198
• Balance = 199
• Neighbourhood­based development = 200
• Robust urban development = 200
• Crime and the urban neighbourhood = 202
• Community and stewardship = 203
• Balanced incremental development = 206
• CHAPTER 13 A model neighbourhood? = 207
• The development of Hulme = 207
• The great urban experiment = 211
• A model neighbourhood? = 215
• Autonomous urban development = 221
• The sustainable urban block = 226
• CHAPTER 14 The process of urban generation and regeneration = 231
• The natural process of urban growth = 233
• How we lost the art of city building = 236
• A new planning approach = 238
• New life for urban Britain = 243
• Epilogue = 247
• Index = 260
• Notes and references = 264
• Images and illustrations = 269