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• Title:Neighbourhood : designing a liveable community / Avi Friedman.
  
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• Variant Title:Neighborhood
  
• Author/Creator:Friedman, Avi, 1952- author.
  
• Published/Created:Montréal, Québec, Canada : Véhicule Press, [2018]
  ©2018
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: HT169.C32 M53 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:City planning--Ontario--Middlesex Centre--Case studies.
  City planning--Ontario--Middlesex--Case studies.
  
• Description:208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color), plans ; 18 cm
  
• Summary:"In Neighbourhood: Designing a Liveable Community, renowned architect, professor and urban planner Avi Friedman describes the planning of a new neighbourhood in Middlesex Centre, a rural municipality in southern Ontario. Friedman explores how good and bad design affect our homes and civic life. In his quest to build a new kind of neighbourhood, Friedman talks about personal architectural and community touchstones that have informed his work through the years. Over the past decade or more, worrisome signs--climate change, depletion of natural resources, unrelenting urban sprawl, the tyranny of the automobile, the decline of face-to-face human contact--have motivated us to radically rethink home and community design. In Avi Friedman's view, these issues have combined to force us to question fundamental practices and come up with better solutions."-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:9781550654981 (paperback)
  1550654985 (paperback)
  
• Contents:The engagement
  The nature of place
  Learning from Savannah
  Searching for a planning tool
  Connecting the right destinations
  The "neighbourhood unit"
  Green footprints
  Orienting homes for the elements
  Rubbing shoulders
  Scaling down
  Moving around
  The space between buildings
  Playing around
  Edible landscapes
  Dwellings with choices
  When they get old
  The sun's gift
  Building with recycled materials
  Harvesting water
  Years from now
  The presentation.