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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Neighborhood unit"”.
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Constructing professional knowledge: the Neighborhood Unit concept in the community builders handbook
… concerns the diffusion of Clarence Perry’s Neighborhood Unit concept between 1929 and 1969. It is grounded in a discourse analysis of the use of the Neighborhood Unit concept in the literature of twenty professional and governmental organizations. In the middle decades of the twentieth …
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From new towns to eco-towns : transferable lessons in the building of new cities in Great Britain
… design are considered: the employment of the neighborhood unit, the attitude towards green space, and transportation strategy and modal shift.
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The Housing Model xiaoqu: the Expression of an Increasing Polarization of the Urban Population in Chinese Cities?
… model xiaoqu which has its origins in the "neighborhood unit" as well as the Soviet-style "microdistrict" is the central issue of this study. As housing development has been very diverse among different metropolitan areas, a valid definition of the housing model is formulated primarily which …
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The Child in the City: Play, Architecture, and Urbanism in Modern Kuwait, 1957-1983
… of which materialized in the form of neighborhood units, particularly the Kindergarten Community Unit, which placed the child at the center of urban living. The National Housing Authority of Kuwait adopted child-centered planning concepts and incorporated them into their “Community …