Pocket Neighborhoods

Creating Small-Scale Community in a Large-Scale World

Ranked #80 in Urban Planning

Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small Scale Community in a Large Scale World introduces an antidote to faceless, placeless sprawl — small scale neighborhoods where people can easily know one another, where empty nesters and single householders with far-flung families can find friendship or a helping hand nearby, and where children can have shirt-tail aunties and uncles just beyond their front gate.The book describes inspiring pocket neighborhoods through stories of the people who live there, as well as the progressive planners, innovative architects, pioneering developers, craftspeople... more

Similar Books

If you like Pocket Neighborhoods, check out these similar top-rated books:


Learn: What makes Shortform summaries the best in the world?