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Title:
Pocket neighborhoods : creating small-scale community in a large-scale world / Ross Chapin ; foreword by Sarah Susanka.
ISBN:
9781600851070
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Publication Information:
Newtown, CT : Taunton Press, [2011]

©2011
Physical Description:
220 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Contents:
Pocket neighborhood precedents. Setting up camp ; Gardens on compassion ; Visions of garden cities ; Bungalow courts, walks, and walk streets ; Cottage court revival -- Contemporary pocket neighborhoods. A cottage court ; A neighborhood within a neighborhood ; A pocket neighborhood on a challenging site ; The neighborhood the neighbors built ; A floating neighborhood ; Lanes, woonerfs, and mental speed bumps ; Back house, front house, lane ; New urban pocket neighborhoods ; New urban pocket neighborhoods ; Lines of enticement ; Pocket neighborhoods within a village -- Cohousing communities. Danish origins ; Cohousing in America ; Greening the neighborhood ; Saging communities -- Pocket neighborhoods in existing communities. Infill in a first-ring suburb ; Urban homesteads ; Cultivating community in the garden ; Taking down the fences ; Taking back the alley ; Taking back the street.
OCLC Number:
ocn650215974
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Eagan - Wescott~1
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