Reinventing an Urban Vernacular

Name: Reinventing an Urban Vernacular
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138474062
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Developing Sustainable Housing Prototypes for Cities Based on Traditional Strategies

By Terry Moor

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Reinventing an Urban Vernacular explores innovative approaches to multifamily housing in urban areas, focusing on smaller, more efficient units designed for local climates. Terry Moor analyses vernacular architecture across six diverse US regions, offering insights into adapting traditional building methods to modern urban and environmental challenges.
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Ideal for students, architects, planners, and urban designers interested in sustainable urban housing and vernacular architecture.

This book addresses new demands for smaller and more efficient housing units adapted to local climate. Written for students and architects, planners, and urban designers, this book marries the urban vernacular with ongoing sustainability efforts to produce a unique solution to the housing needs of the changing urban environment.

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With increasing population and its associated demand on our limited resources, we need to rethink our current strategies for construction of multifamily buildings in urban areas. Reinventing an Urban Vernacular addresses these new demands for smaller and more efficient housing units adapted to local climate.

In order to find solutions and to promote better urban communities with an overall environmentally responsible lifestyle, this book examines a wide variety of vernacular building precedents, as they relate to the unique characteristics and demands of six distinctly different regions of the United States. Terry Moor addresses the unique landscape, climate, physical, and social development by analyzing vernacular precedents, and proposing new suggestions for modern needs and expectations.

Written for students and architects, planners, and urban designers, Reinventing an Urban Vernacular marries the urban vernacular with ongoing sustainability efforts to produce a unique solution to the housing needs of the changing urban environment.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138474062

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 25 August 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 670g

Pages: 274

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About the Author

Terry M. Moor obtained a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Texas and a Masters in Studio Arts from Harvard University. He served in the Peace Corps in Tunisia for two years. Upon returning to the U.S., he established his own architectural firm near Boston, and taught and served as department head and dean in the Department of Architecture at Wentworth Institute of Technology before retiring.