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Clearly demonstrates the specific characteristics that make for comprehensible, friendly and controllable places; 'Responsive Environments' - as opposed to the alienating environments often imposed today. By means of sketches and diagrams, it shows how they may be designed in to places or buildings.This is a practical book about architecture and urban design. It is most concerned with the areas of design which most frequently go wrong and impresses the idea that ideals alone are not enough. Ideals must be linked through appropriate design ideas to the fabric of the built environemnt itself. This book is a practical attempt to show how this can be done.

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Permeability; Variety; Legibility; Robustness; Visual appropriateness; Richness; Personalisation; Putting it all together; Index.

Responsive Environments

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    A Paperback / softback by Sue McGlynn, Ian Bentley, Graham Smith

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      Publisher Architectural Press
      Published 1 December 1985
      ISBN-13 9780750605663
      978-0750605663
      ISBN-10 0750605669

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Clearly demonstrates the specific characteristics that make for comprehensible, friendly and controllable places; 'Responsive Environments' - as opposed to the alienating environments often imposed today. By means of sketches and diagrams, it shows how they may be designed in to places or buildings.This is a practical book about architecture and urban design. It is most concerned with the areas of design which most frequently go wrong and impresses the idea that ideals alone are not enough. Ideals must be linked through appropriate design ideas to the fabric of the built environemnt itself. This book is a practical attempt to show how this can be done.

      Trade Review

      'an important contribution to design as place making'
      Environmental and Archtectural Phenomenology Newsletter

      'Virtually everything in this book is highly relevant to the work of landscape architects tackling urban problems.'
      Landscape Design



      Table of Contents

      Permeability; Variety; Legibility; Robustness; Visual appropriateness; Richness; Personalisation; Putting it all together; Index.

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