Within Walking Distance Creating Livable Communities for All /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Langdon, Philip (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2017.
• Θέματα: Environment.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Environment, general.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings.

For five thousand years, human settlements were nearly always compact places. Everything a person needed on a regular basis lay within walking distance. But then the great project of the twentieth century—sorting people, businesses, and activities into separate zones, scattered across vast metropoli...