Neighbors and Neighborhoods: Elements of Successful Community Design

by Brower; Sidney

• ISBN13: 9781611900019
• ISBN10: 1611900018
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2011-09-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

How does the design of a neighborhood affect its residents? In this engaging book. Sidney Brower shows how a neighborhood's design lays the groundwork for the social relationships that make it a community.

Author Biography

Sidney Brower is a professor of urban studies and planning at the University of Maryland.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Foreword	p. xiii
A Note to the Reader	p. xix
Acknowledgments	p. xxi
Introduction: Neighbors & Neighborhoods	p. xxiii
Social Science Research
What Is Community?	p. 3
Development Histories
Homogeneity	p. 23
Roland Park, Baltimore, Maryland, 1891	p. 24
Radburn, New Jersey, 1929	p. 27
Twin Oaks Community, Louisa, Virginia, 1967	p. 30
Seaside, Florida, 1982	p. 34
Summary	p. 37
Community Organizations	p. 39
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, 1902	p. 39
Levittown, Long Island, New York, 1947	p. 43
Celebration, Florida, 1996	p. 48
The Community of Rosebank, Baltimore, 1970s-1980s	p. 52
Summary	p. 55
Suitable Physical Settings	p. 57
Riverside, Illinois, 1868	p. 58
Letchworth Garden City, United Kingdom, 1903	p. 60
The Neighborhood Unit Formula, 1928	p. 65
Columbia, Maryland, 1967	p. 68
Lake Claire Cohousing, Atlanta, 1977	p. 73
Summary	p. 77
Ongoing Traditions and the Historical Past	p. 79
Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1912	p. 80
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 1703	p. 83
Mariemont, Ohio, 1922	p. 85
Opa-locka, Florida, 1925	p. 89
Summary	p. 91
Community Design
The Appearance of Community	p. 95
A Unified Composition	p. 98
A Common Theme	p. 107
Summary	p. 113
Community-Generating Neighborhoods	p. 115
Ten Properties of a Community-Generating Neighborhood	p. 116
Four Types of Community	p. 122
Five Qualities of a Good Community Design	p. 124
Policy, Management, and Process	p. 127
The Neighborhood Store	p. 128
Mixed Income Communities	p. 135
The Planning Process as a Generator of Community	p. 143
Summary	p. 147
Notes	p. 149
Index	p. 183
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