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Architecture Sustainability & Green Design

Neighbourhood

Designing a Liveable Community

by (author) Avi Friedman

Publisher
Vehicule Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2019
Category
Sustainability & Green Design
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550654981
    Publish Date
    Jul 2018
    List Price
    $25.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781550655056
    Publish Date
    Apr 2019
    List Price
    $19.99

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In Neighbourhood: Designing a Liveable Community renowned architect, professor and urban planner Avi Friedman describes the planning of a neighborhood in Middlesex Centre, a rural municipality in southern Ontario. Friedman explores the points where design—both good and bad—effects our homes and community life. In his quest to build a new kind of neighbourhood, Friedman describes the architectural and community touchstones, both local and global, that have informed his work over the years.

Worrisome signs—climate change, depletion of natural resources, unrelenting urban sprawl, the tyranny of the automobile, the decline of face-to-face human contact—have motivated us to rethink home and community design. in the view of Avi Friedman, these issues that have brought us to a perfect storm of challenges and force us to question fundamental practices.

About the author

Avi Friedman teaches architecture at McGill University and is a practicing architect. He is the recipient of several research and design awards including the World Habitat Award and the 2014 Sustainable Buildings Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the author of eighteen books, including Innovative Houses: Concepts for Sustainable Living, A View from the Porch: Rethinking Home and Community Design (Véhicule), and A Place in Mind: Designing Cities for the 21st Century (Véhicule). He lives in Montreal, Quebec.

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