Creating Neighbourhoods And Places In The Built Environment

This book is about how the built environment affects the physical and social environment. It discusses how different people and organizations interact with each other to create neighborhoods and places.

This design primer examines the forces at work in the built environment and their impact on the form of buildings and their environments. The actions of a range of individuals and agencies and the interaction between them is examined, exploring the competing interests which exist, their interaction with physical and environmental forces and the uncertain results of both individual and corporate intervention. This book should be of interest to students of architecture, landscape architecture, building, estate management, planning, quantity surveying, building surveying and housing. Review: The format is very reader-friendly...Anyone teaching courses that are concerned with urban place, for whatever discipline or professional qualification, would do well to review Creating Neighbourhoods. - Local Government Neighbourhoods ... the book represents a good first port-of-call for students interested in the broad processes at work in the production of quality built environments. - Journal of Urban Design