The Plot: Designing Diversity in the Built Environment: a manual for architects and urban designers

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Jonathan Tarbatt

The Plot

Designing Diversity in the Built Environment: a manual for architects and urban designers

Jonathan Tarbatt

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English

RIBA Publishing
30 June 2012

City & town planning - architectural aspects; Urban & municipal planning

The perceived failure of late Twentieth Century place-making led to a rethink among urban designers that today puts sustainability at the heart of contemporary policy. In this book, Tarbatt explains his practical plot-based urbanism solution to this problem. Key chapters on designing and detailing the plot are organised by block type and offer critical design data, while the guidance is supported throughout by lively illustrations and numerous international case studies.

Aimed at masterplanners, architects and landscape architects as well as local authorities, town planners, urban geographers and developers, the book is a manual for making more sustainable places.

By: Jonathan Tarbatt
Imprint: RIBA Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 258mm, Width: 201mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 692g
ISBN: 9781859464434
ISBN 10: 1859464432
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 30 June 2012
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print

Jonathan Tarblatt

Reviews for The Plot: Designing Diversity in the Built Environment: a manual for architects and urban designers

This timely work is readable, succinct, informative and well researched. It begins with an overview of current thinking about urban design and an analysis of how architects and planners have largely failed to provide towns and cities with the diversity that has long been identified as the elusive magic ingredient of successful, well-loved places. The real value of the book, however, is that it goes on to dispel the mystery by providing a pragmatic toolkit for getting it right. Anyone grappling with the localism agenda should read this.