Making people-friendly towns

By Francis Tibbalds

Subjects: Urban ecology, Urban ecology (Sociology), Architecture, Art, Urbanization, Urbanisme, Nonfiction, Urban ecology (sociology), Écologie urbaine, Cities and towns, Gardening, City planning

Description: Making People-Friendly Towns explores the way our towns and cities, particularly their central areas, look and feel to all their users and discusses their design, maintenance and management. Francis Tibbalds provides a new philosophical approach to the problem, suggesting that places as a whole matter much more than the individual components that make up the urban environment such as buildings, roads and parks. This informative book suggests the way forward for professionals, decision-makers and all those who care about the future of our urban environment and points the reader in the direction of a wealth of living examples of successful town planning.