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Live-work planning and design : zero-commute housing / Thomas Dolan

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Son, Inc., c2012Description: xiv, 237 p., 16 p. of plates : color illustrations ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 9780470604809
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • NA 4177 .D65 2012
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: A Brief History and Description of Live-Work -- 2. Defining Live-Work -- 3. Designing live-work: meeting its unique needs -- 4. The market for live-work -- 5. Live-work and community: a natural marriage -- 6. Live-work planning issues and regulatory solutions -- 7. Live-work building code issues -- 8. Epilogue -- Appendix A: Toward a model live-work planning code -- Appendix B: Model live-work building code system -- Appendix C: Live-work resources -- Endnotes -- Index.
Summary: Although the live-work concept is now accepted among progressive urban design and planning professionals, the specifics that define the term, and its application, remain sketchy. This encyclopedic work is sure to change that, providing the critical information that is needed by architects, planners and citizens.
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Architecture General Circulation Architecture GC NA 4177 .D65 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000007240

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: A Brief History and Description of Live-Work -- 2. Defining Live-Work -- 3. Designing live-work: meeting its unique needs -- 4. The market for live-work -- 5. Live-work and community: a natural marriage -- 6. Live-work planning issues and regulatory solutions -- 7. Live-work building code issues -- 8. Epilogue -- Appendix A: Toward a model live-work planning code -- Appendix B: Model live-work building code system -- Appendix C: Live-work resources -- Endnotes -- Index.

Although the live-work concept is now accepted among progressive urban design and planning professionals, the specifics that define the term, and its application, remain sketchy. This encyclopedic work is sure to change that, providing the critical information that is needed by architects, planners and citizens.

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