02982nam a22003257a 4500 pucpr 20250912125340.0 130502s2011 ctua b 001 0 eng 2010040242 9781600851070 pucpr eng rda pucpr pucpr CARIBET HT167 C454 2011 307.3/3620973 22 Chapin, Ross. 209396 Pocket Neighborhoods : creating small-scale community in a large-scale world. / Ross Chapin ; foreword by Sarah Susanka. txt Newtown, CT : The Taunton Press , 2011. 220 p. ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm. book rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediaded n rdacarrier volume nc Includes Index Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of contents: Foreword 4 -- Introduction 6 -- Part One : Pocket Neighborhood Precedents -- 1. Setting Up Camp 20 -- 2. Gardens on compassion 26 -- 3. Visions of garden cities 32 -- 4. Bungalow courts, walks, and walk streets 44 -- 5. Cottage court revival 52 -- Part Two : Contemporary Pocket Neighborhoods -- 6. A cottage court 60 -- 7. A neighborhood within a neighborhood 72 -- 8. A pocket neighborhood on a challenging site 84 -- 9. The neighborhood the neighbors built 92 -- 10. A floating neighborhood 96 -- 11. Lanes, woonerfs, and mental speed bumps 100 -- 12. Back house, front house, lane 106 -- 13. New urban pocket neighborhoods 110 -- 14. Lines of enticement 118 -- 15. Pocket neighborhoods within a village 124 -- Part Three: Cohousing communities -- 16. Danish origins 136 -- 17. Cohousing in America 144 -- 18. Greening the neighborhood 152 -- 19. Saging communities 162 -- Part Four : Pocket neighborhoods in existing communities -- 20. Infill in a first ring suburb 172 -- 21. Urban homesteads 180 -- 22. Cultivating community in the garden 188 -- 23. Taking down the fences 192 -- 24. Taking back the alley 200 -- 25. Taking back the street 204 -- Afterword: The Fabric of Community 212 -- Resources 214 -- Credits 217 -- Index 219 -- 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 -- Neighborhood planning United States. 257931 Local Planning 151600 Community development United States. Local 78838 lcc 6 HT167 General C454 2011 231517 231517 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2013-12-04 Amazon 20.13 505179 0 General HT167 C454 2011 91000000032318 2025-11-07 15:40:51 1 30.13 0000-00-00 6