ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |9 pages

‘Places' Matter Most

chapter |11 pages

Mixing Uses and Activities

chapter |9 pages

Human Scale

chapter |7 pages

Pedestrian Freedom

chapter |5 pages

Access for All

chapter |7 pages

Making it Clear

chapter |5 pages

Lasting Environments

chapter |9 pages

Controlling Change

chapter |7 pages

Joining it all Together