creating small-scale community in a large-scale world Chapin, Ross. creator text bibliography ctu 2011 monographic eng

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220 p. ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm. 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 -- 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 -- Ross Chapin ; foreword by Sarah Susanka. Includes Index Includes bibliographical references and index. Neighborhood planning United States Planning Community development United States HT167 C454 2011 307.3/3620973 9781600851070 2010040242 pucpr 130502 20250912125340.0 eng