Architectural Design For Traditional Neighborhoods

Architectural Designfor Traditional Neighborhoodsoffers simple concepts that will helpdevelopers and builders quicklygrasp the basic ideas behind traditional neighborhood plattingand block-face design. At the sametime, designers must adapt to themethods and materials best suitedto production builders, who buildmost of our nation's housing.Our guidelines help designers andplanners work within the limitationsof the construction industry whiletaking advantage of building materialinnovations that add value to TNDs.

TND Series Volume II contains 132 building plans (of which roughly a dozen are updated plan presentations for Volume I). Square footages range from just under 1,000 to more than 3,500, with the majority falling between 1,000 and 2.999. The same architectural styles and building types appear, along with an article on the "Three Ps" of neotraditional home design: proportion, parking and privacy. Thorough indexes help readers find the right building for the right application. Award-winning architect J. Carson Looney called TND Series Volume II "a must for anyone looking for quality home designs for today's market."

TND Series Volume 1 contains 154 building plans; complete construction drawings are available for all plans. Architectural styles and building types represented include Arts-and-Crafts, Southern, Victorian, Greek Revival, Charleston side yard, Colonial, Mediterranean and Lowcountry. Building square footages range from 357 to 4,028 with the majority falling between 1,000 and 3,499. Indexes allow readers to find plans that match square footage and lot size ranges, among other criteria. The volume's editorial segment offers an introduction to the intent of traditional neighborhood developments, plus a watercolor tour through a fictional neotraditional town.

From the firm that produced The Urban Design Handbook comes a practical guide to developing and using pattern books -- a tradition stretching back to Vitruvius and Palladio, and the source of many beautiful houses -- to design neighborhoods in collaboration with production builders today. The Architectural Pattern Book traces the precedents of twenty-first-century manuals from the Renaissance to Georgian and Parisian urban assembly kits and colonial American pattern books. It documents the revival of the traditional architectural pattern book as a means of implementing urban design in large-scale developments by describing techniques and working methods of preparing guides for current design and construction processes, and it shows exemplars that will serve as models for contemporary designers.

*A practical guide to implementing New Urbanism principles in suburbs and small communities *Case studies present clear solutions for typical suburban problems: the need for pedestrian access, the lack of parking, the presence of industrial-park eyesores, and the issue of how to create a "sense of place" *Illustrations take architects and planners step-by-step through the design and development process

The 15th Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) conference considered the issues of sustainability and environmental friendliness at the city scale. Some 150 papers address the many and varied questions faced by architects and planners in reducing the impact on the environment of cities and their buildings.