How to Build a Village, 1st Edition
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.99 (703 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0473121883 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Without understanding why, other countries adopted the American way - even countries that did not make cars or pump oil. Add the cultural enrichment of arts guildhalls and the Village becomes more interesting. Elders need not move to retirement homes when they no longer drive. However, experts spent 50 years inventing a complex, radical, and problem-ridden way for people to live now so embedded in mainstream thinking that it takes a book, with systematic details, to show a way out. The answer is a "Village" defined as a 5,000 to 10,000 population, self-contained, high-density community built on 100-400 acres around multiple plazas with cafes, shops, workplaces and artist guilds and no cars within - all is within a 10-minute walk with a motorpool for the cars, outside the Village gates. Once the book resets that mindset, villageforum provides the forum to build the Villages. Plazas provide the perfect setting to Slow Food - enriching social interaction. While the plan was good for America's post-war economy, suburbs proved to be an immeasurably bad use of resources - both natural and in how people live. Local governments can think of the Village as an environmentally, socially, culturally and economically sustainable, self-contained, billi
"Make a village the center of your world" according to Avid reader. I received my copy of this book about two days ago. I can barely stop reading to eat or sleep.This is a great book. It gives concrete ideas and places to start. The information on plazas is particularly useful and enlightening. If you have a A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series), this book will make even more sense as, How to Build a Village expands on the "patte. R. Austerberry said good habitat for humanity. Book Review - 'How to build a village'."From questions a dialogue began, first as an interest, and then as a passion, and now as a mission. Why can't we live in places that offer a good life for all, for all ages and incomes; places that remain interesting and beautiful?"After good habitat for humanity R. Austerberry Book Review - 'How to build a village'."From questions a dialogue began, first as an interest, and then as a passion, and now as a mission. Why can't we live in places that offer a good life for all, for all ages and incomes; places that remain interesting and beautiful?"After 40 years of asking questions, Claude Lewenz offers his distilled wisdom on building a better place to live; a place called a village. This villa. 0 years of asking questions, Claude Lewenz offers his distilled wisdom on building a better place to live; a place called a village. This villa. "Absolute Must Read for ALL developers and architects in this era!" according to L. Lobbestael. For all visionaries, well, even ordinary people that care about the future of your culture, regardless of the country you live in, and for those who have enough foresight to see the eventual erosion of cultures in 'non-Westernized' societies as a result of corporatisation and consumerism, PLEASE read this book! Claude gives some excellent ideas and a well thought out framework on how to properly build and develop! Let'
************************************************************************************** This first edition has been superseded by the 2nd edition please see amazon/dp/0958286876 **************************************************************************************