Design quality in new housing
Subtitle: learning from the Netherlands
By: Matthew Cousins.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780415447690; 9780415447706
Subjects: Housing policy -- England; Housing -- England; Housing policy -- Netherlands; Housing -- Netherlands; Building -- Quality control; Architecture, Domestic
Description: "Design Quality in New Housing offers architects, planners and design professionals a contemporary guide to the best practice for the design and policy of new homes. It assesses the current thinking behind housing design in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom and considers wider issues such as the skills and training of architects and planners."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: Ch. 1. Design quality in the Netherlands. Context; title: Consensus culture; title: Superdutch; title: Policy for architectural quality; title: Design quality in Vinex housing; title: Sustainability; title: Skills and training; title: Design quality in the Netherlands; title: Case studies of new housing in the Netherlands; title: Eastern Harbour District, Amsterdam; title: Ijburg, Amsterdam; title: Vathorst, Amersfoort; title: Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht; title: Ypenburg, The Hague; title: Ch. 2. Design quality in the United Kingdom. Context; title: Policy for quality in the UK; title: Density; title: Design codes; title: Sustainability; title: A true Cinderella : skills and training in the UK; title: Design quality in the UK; title: Low- and high-rise doll's houses and Dan Dare steel and glass towers?; title: Design quality in the Thames Gateway; title: Case studies of new housing in the UK; title: Accordia, Cambridge; title: The Greenwich Millennium Village; title: The Staiths, Gateshead; title: Donnybrook, London; title: Ch. 3. Learning from the Netherlands. Context; title: Creating methods of implementing design quality; title: Design quality through spatial, social, and cultural diversity; title: Design quality through architectural and sustainable design; title: Design quality through urban design; title: Recommendations for implementing design quality in new housing in the future; title: Conclusions; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.