Pocket neighborhoods : creating small-scale community in a large-scale world /
Chapin, Ross.
Pocket neighborhoods : creating small-scale community in a large-scale world / author, Ross Chapin ; foreword by Sarah Susanka. - Newtown, CT : Taunton Press, c2011. - 220 p. : col. ill., plans ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-216) and index.
Pocket neighborhood precedents. Setting up camp ; Gardens on compassion ; Visions of garden cities ; Bungalow courts, walks, and walk streets ; Cottage court revival -- Contemporary pocket neighborhoods. A cottage court ; A neighborhood within a neighborhood ; A pocket neighborhood on a challenging site ; The neighborhood the neighbors built ; A floating neighborhood ; Lanes, woonerfs, and mental speed bumps ; Back house, front house, lane ; New urban pocket neighborhoods ; New urban pocket neighborhoods ; Lines of enticement ; Pocket neighborhoods within a village -- Cohousing communities. Danish origins ; Cohousing in America ; Greening the neighborhood ; Saging communities -- Pocket neighborhoods in existing communities. Infill in a first-ring suburb ; Urban homesteads ; Cultivating community in the garden ; Taking down the fences ; Taking back the alley ; Taking back the street.
160085107X 9781600851070 : $30.00
071275 Taunton Press
2010040242
Community development--United States.
Neighborhood planning--United States.
Pocket neighborhoods : creating small-scale community in a large-scale world / author, Ross Chapin ; foreword by Sarah Susanka. - Newtown, CT : Taunton Press, c2011. - 220 p. : col. ill., plans ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-216) and index.
Pocket neighborhood precedents. Setting up camp ; Gardens on compassion ; Visions of garden cities ; Bungalow courts, walks, and walk streets ; Cottage court revival -- Contemporary pocket neighborhoods. A cottage court ; A neighborhood within a neighborhood ; A pocket neighborhood on a challenging site ; The neighborhood the neighbors built ; A floating neighborhood ; Lanes, woonerfs, and mental speed bumps ; Back house, front house, lane ; New urban pocket neighborhoods ; New urban pocket neighborhoods ; Lines of enticement ; Pocket neighborhoods within a village -- Cohousing communities. Danish origins ; Cohousing in America ; Greening the neighborhood ; Saging communities -- Pocket neighborhoods in existing communities. Infill in a first-ring suburb ; Urban homesteads ; Cultivating community in the garden ; Taking down the fences ; Taking back the alley ; Taking back the street.
160085107X 9781600851070 : $30.00
071275 Taunton Press
2010040242
Community development--United States.
Neighborhood planning--United States.