Remaking the City Street Grid
A Model for Urban and Suburban Development
(McFarland, 2015)
ART 214
What makes for a desirable and sustainable quality of life? Given the 20th century’s private auto dominance, and its associated ills (air & noise pollution, injuries & death, suburban sprawl & freeways), a fresh look at how we live and move is warranted. This book contributes a new system of neighbourhood design that learns from history and draws lessons from communities that have been able to sustain a high quality of life while maintaining vibrant societies, thriving economies and clean environments. Starting at the human scale, it proposes a fusion of grids – green spaces, walking/biking networks, living/shopping grids, all inter-connected by traffic-calmed neighbourhood streets, and perimeter high-capacity transit/vehicle parkways fitting for modern culture. It seamlessly integrates while addressing such issues as walkability, mobility, health, safety, security, cost and greenhouse gas emissions. Case studies of national and international neighbourhoods and districts based on this new SMARTer Growth neighbourhood design demonstrates its application in real-world situations.
(Description Source: McFarland)
Author
Gord Lovegrove is an associate professor of Sustainable Communities at UBCO’s School of Engineering. He regularly takes practising professionals and UBC students on Go Global courses to tour and study the planning and design of New Towns in Holland, one of the world’s wealthiest, healthiest and most sustainability-oriented countries. Gord is Vice-President of Technical Programs for the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering. He is also leading the development of the Okanagan’s first cohort of community housing, aka Co-Housing. He is a co-author of several recent books on sustainable community design, including Engineering Sustainable Communities, and, this one on SMARTer Growth. Learn more about his research on his website.
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Paper ISBN: 9780786496044
eBook ISBN: 9781476617688
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