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Book Synopsis
Features a collection of guidelines for the site design of low-rise, high-density family housing. This title is suitable for housing designers and planners, but also for developers, housing authorities, citizens' groups, and tenants' organizations - anyone involved in planning or rehabilitating housing.

Table of Contents
Preface: The Authors and Their Environmental Values
Acknowledgments

I. Introduction
2. Design guidelines: What they are and how to use them
List of design guidelines
3. Basic considerations of the design program
4. Image, building form, and orientation
5. Personalization
6. Access to dwellings
7. Private open space
8. Common open space and the needs of children
9. Purpose-built play areas for children
10. On-site facilities for adults
11. Parking
12. Landscaping, footpaths, and site furniture
13. Security and vandalism
14. Management, maintenance, and refuse disposal

Glossary of Environmental and Related Terms
Bibliography
Illustration Credits

Housing as if People Mattered Site Design

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 08/06/1988
      ISBN13: 9780520063303, 978-0520063303
      ISBN10: 0520063309

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Features a collection of guidelines for the site design of low-rise, high-density family housing. This title is suitable for housing designers and planners, but also for developers, housing authorities, citizens' groups, and tenants' organizations - anyone involved in planning or rehabilitating housing.

      Table of Contents
      Preface: The Authors and Their Environmental Values
      Acknowledgments

      I. Introduction
      2. Design guidelines: What they are and how to use them
      List of design guidelines
      3. Basic considerations of the design program
      4. Image, building form, and orientation
      5. Personalization
      6. Access to dwellings
      7. Private open space
      8. Common open space and the needs of children
      9. Purpose-built play areas for children
      10. On-site facilities for adults
      11. Parking
      12. Landscaping, footpaths, and site furniture
      13. Security and vandalism
      14. Management, maintenance, and refuse disposal

      Glossary of Environmental and Related Terms
      Bibliography
      Illustration Credits

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