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Designing a Place Called Home

Reordering the Suburbs

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Authors:
  1. James Wentling

    1. Philadelphia, USA

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  • New and updated material focuses on energy efficiency and sustainability of innovative design approaches

  • Provides clear rules and many detailed illustrations to guide readers in improving the design of new homes and communities

  • Features comprehensive coverage of all aspects of residential design – from community planning to interior detailing

  • Includes both “on-the-boards” and completed examples of best practice residential and community designs

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Housing Yesterday

    • James Wentling
    Pages 1-18

  3. Housing Today

    • James Wentling
    Pages 19-41

  4. Community Planning and Design

    • James Wentling
    Pages 43-65

  5. Siting and Lot Patterns

    • James Wentling
    Pages 67-109

  6. Floor Plans and Building Image

    • James Wentling
    Pages 111-149

  7. Interior Details

    • James Wentling
    Pages 151-166

  8. Exterior Details

    • James Wentling
    Pages 167-186

  9. Multifamily Housing

    • James Wentling
    Pages 187-208

  10. Manufactured Housing

    • James Wentling
    Pages 209-216

  11. Toward More Sustainable Homes and Communities

    • James Wentling
    Pages 217-238

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 239-257
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About this book

This insightful volume shares design ideas to help builders, planners and architects create mass-produced affordable housing that pushes suburban development in more sustainable, liveable directions. The author argues that improving the quality of design in our new homes and communities for greater resiliency, sustainability, and equality, we can build neighborhoods and communities where residents feel more connected t their homes and to one another. Through text, photographs and illustrations, the book reviews prototypical American housing design, then suggest ways to both learn from the past as well as adapt for new environmental imperatives, demographic changes and lifestyle needs. Written by a practicing architect with 25+ years of experience optimizing residential design, this pioneering approach to suburban building will inspire readers to view mass produced housing through a new, modern lens.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Philadelphia, USA

    James Wentling

About the author

James W. Wentling, FAIA is a practicing architect specializing in residential design.  His firm is based in Philadelphia and works with clients throughout the United States.

 

A graduate of the University of Notre Dame, he has served as chair of the AIA Housing Committee as well as a vice president of a residential council in the Urban Land Institute.  He also served as president of Habitat for Humanity, Philadelphia.  He has lectured on residential design throughout the United States as well as in Canada, Europe and Asia.  His previous books include Housing by Lifestyle, The Component Method of Residential Design and Density by Design."

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Designing a Place Called Home

  • Book Subtitle: Reordering the Suburbs

  • Authors: James Wentling

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47917-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-47915-6Published: 09 January 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83857-1Published: 12 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-47917-0Published: 28 December 2016

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 260

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 198 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Civil Engineering, Design, general, Energy Efficiency, Engine Technology, Energy Systems

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