书目名称 | Site Design for Multifamily Housing | 副标题 | Creating Livable, Co | 编辑 | Nico Larco,Kristin Kelsey,Amanda West | 视频video | | 概述 | Builds on the existing literature on suburban retrofitting by offering practical tools for making suburban communities more livable and vibrant by improving the design of multifamily housing.Offers ca | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .The United States is over eighty percent urbanized, yet over half of the population still lives in suburban settings, characterized by low-density, automobile-dependent development with separated land uses. These disconnected and isolated models of development have been linked to increased greenhouse-gas emissions and reduced quality of life, health, and social connections. In .Site Design for Multifamily Housing: Creating Livable, Connected Neighborhoods., the authors explain that creating more livable and vital communities is within reach and the design and development of multifamily housing is a key component to reaching this goal..Multifamily housing is an important component of increasing density, but large lot multifamily developments often lack connectivity and hence limit livability and walkability. Multifamily housing in suburban areas presents greater challenges than in urban areas due in part to larger lot sizes and street patterns that are often a mix of cul-de-sac, curved, looped, and dead-end streets. Increasing the livability of these developments is an important first step in affecting the livability of the country as a whole..This handbook introduces planners, dev | 出版日期 | Book 2014Latest edition | 关键词 | Development; Multifamily housing; Real estate; Suburbs; urban geography and urbanism | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-545-8 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-61091-545-8 | copyright | Nico Larco 2014 |
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