Making People-Friendly Towns: Improving the Public Environment in Towns and CitiesFrancis Tibbalds 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. |
Contents
Places Matter Most | |
What are the Lessons from the Past? | |
Mixing Uses and Activities | |
Human Scale | |
Pedestrian Freedom | |
Access for | |
Making it Clear | |
Lasting Environments | |
Controlling Change | |
Joining it all Together | |
A Renaissance of the Public Realm? | |
Postscript | |
Afterword by Kevin Murray | |
Bibliography | |
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