Design quality in new housing : learning from the Netherlands /
This book addresses the need for an in-depth study into design quality in new housing. The wider implications of policy and design are examined through a series of case studies of new housing projects in the UK and the Netherlands. Dutch interdisciplinary design and modern methods of construction ar...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
Taylor & Francis,
2009
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Design quality in the Netherlands. Context
- Consensus culture
- SuperDutch
- Policy for architectural quality
- Design quality in Vinex housing
- Sustainability
- Skills and training
- Design quality in the Netherlands
- Case studies of new housing in the Netherlands
- The Eastern Harbour District, Amsterdam
- Ijburg, Amsterdam
- Vathorst, Amersfoort
- Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht
- Ypenburg, The Hague
- Design quality in the United Kingdom. Context
- Policy for quality in the UK
- Density
- Design codes
- Sustainability
- A true Cinderella : skills and training in the UK
- Design quality in the UK
- Low- and high-rise doll's houses and Dan Dare steel and glass towers? Design quality in the Thames Gateway
- Case studies of new housing in the UK
- Accordia, Cambridge
- The Greenwich Millennium Village
- The Staiths, Gateshead
- Donnybrook Quarter, London
- Learning from the Netherlands. Context
- Methods of implementing design quality
- Design quality through spatial, social and cultural diversity
- Design quality through architectural and sustainable design
- Design quality through urban design
- Recommendations for implementing design quality in new housing
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index