Community architecture : how people are creating their own environment / Nick Wates and Charles Knevitt.
First published in 1987, this title was one of the first to explore the emerging popular movement of Community Architecture, championed by Prince Charles, which gained momentum throughout Britain in the 1970s and 1980s. The conceptual framework rests fundamentally on the principle that the built env...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
Routledge,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Dedication; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Plates; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Authors' Preface; 1. Rebuilding Communities: Introducing Community Architecture; 2. The Breakthrough: A History of Community Architecture; 3. Cities ThatDestroy Themselves: The Bankruptcy of Conventional Architecture; 4. The Pioneers: The Community Architecture Approach Explained; 5. Why Community Architecture Works: The Natural Laws Governing the Relationships between Human Beings and the Built Environment.
- 6. Making It Happen: The New Organizational Frameworks, Techniques and Roles7. The Way Forward: What Needs to be Done Next; Appendices; 1. Services provided by community technical aid centres; 2. Workload of a community technical aid centre; 3. Concise history of the community architecture movement; 4. Directory of information sources; 5. Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index.