Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small-Scale Community in a Large-Scale World

by Ross Chapin

Hardcover, 2011

Status

Available

Call number

307.3

Collection

Publication

Taunton Press (2011), Hardcover, 224 pages

Description

Introduces an antidote to faceless, placeless sprawl - small scale neighborhoods where people can easily know one another, where empty nesters and single householders with far-flung families can find friendship or a helping hand nearby, and where children can have shirt-tail aunties and uncles just beyond their front gate. The book describes inspiring pocket neighborhoods through stories of the people who live there, as well as the progressive planners, innovative architects, pioneering developers, craftspeople and gardeners who helped create them.

User reviews

LibraryThing member reader1009
adult nonfiction; urban planning. [reviewed from uncorrected e-galley.] A look at the different ways planners have brought concepts of small community into residential neighborhoods.

Awards

Nautilus Book Award (Silver Winner — 2012)

Physical description

224 p.; 9.02 inches

ISBN

160085107X / 9781600851070
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