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# Detailed hand-drawn illustrations 40% social housing model Classic urban design principles The Architecture of Community

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## Summary

> 🏙️ Build smarter cities, not just skylines.

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## Key Features

- • **Timeless Urban Wisdom:** Discover foundational principles that redefine modern city planning beyond fleeting trends.
- • **Bridging Past and Future:** Learn from Leon Krier’s classical restraint to create meaningful, human-centered environments.
- • **Critique of Modern Excess:** Challenge the status quo with insights on avoiding skyscraper sprawl and soulless mega-cities.
- • **Visual Storytelling Mastery:** Engage with rich hand drawings and photographs that bring architectural concepts to life.
- • **Sustainable Community Blueprint:** Explore Poundbury’s innovative 40% social housing as a model for inclusive urban living.

## Overview

‘The Architecture of Community’ by Leon Krier is a critically acclaimed, used book that offers a profound exploration of traditional urban design principles. Featuring detailed hand drawings and photographs, it critiques modern architectural excess and presents Poundbury’s socially inclusive model as a sustainable future blueprint. Highly rated and ranked in architecture and urban planning, this book is essential for professionals seeking to ground their work in timeless community-building wisdom.

## Description

desertcart.com: The Architecture of Community: 9781597265799: Krier, Leon: Books

Review: Clearing a Path - Here's one architect and urban planner who has an appreciation of all that came before. Without a grounding in the history of traditional community building, how can designers claim professional expertise? Today...apart from practitioners like Leon Krier and Piercarlo Bontempi...the design of modern urban places has lost its way. The book is filled with fundamental insight in designing good buildings and wonderful urban places. There is direct reference here to the extremism and excess of modern design...and an understanding that skyscraper overbuilding results in the ultimately unsatisfying mega-city/suburban sprawl syndrome. In all his work, Krier displays a classical sense of restraint and humility, that leads us away from the mere copying of good architecture and townscapes, to the underlying principles that have created excellent places. It's to these principles...and not the false modernist tag of "pastiche"...to which Krier points the reader. The book is well illustrated with hand drawings, and photographs of built projects, culminating in the town extension of Dorchester, England...Poundbury. The town context, Krier understands, is the culmination and home of good architecture. It is in town design that socially important buildings find their proper monumental expression, and the context of all, the venacular streetscape, is established and maintained. And it is in Poundbury...with its 40% "social housing"...that Krier has created a model for a truly believable and sustainable future. And how do we know this? By listening to the modernist brickbats? We can know this, as the author states, by asking the people who live there.
Review: Superior stands on architecture and urban planning - This book provides a comprehensive viewpoint of the built environment. The author's graphics and words bridge the gap between human settlement and architecture. This is one of the best books I've read to date. It makes connection between the many human elements of what makes human settlements and its relationships between buildings, our landscapes and our civic spaces. The author make you think, as do many of the new urbanists of the 20th and 21st Century, about new ways of dealing with the public plurality and complexities of the urbanity. I need to mention it again, the graphics are a page turner as are the words that surround them.

## Features

- Used Book in Good Condition

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #685,534 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #226 in Architecture (Books) #270 in Urban & Land Use Planning (Books) #54,899 in Politics & Social Sciences (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 66 Reviews |

## Images

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Clearing a Path
*by R***O on July 19, 2009*

Here's one architect and urban planner who has an appreciation of all that came before. Without a grounding in the history of traditional community building, how can designers claim professional expertise? Today...apart from practitioners like Leon Krier and Piercarlo Bontempi...the design of modern urban places has lost its way. The book is filled with fundamental insight in designing good buildings and wonderful urban places. There is direct reference here to the extremism and excess of modern design...and an understanding that skyscraper overbuilding results in the ultimately unsatisfying mega-city/suburban sprawl syndrome. In all his work, Krier displays a classical sense of restraint and humility, that leads us away from the mere copying of good architecture and townscapes, to the underlying principles that have created excellent places. It's to these principles...and not the false modernist tag of "pastiche"...to which Krier points the reader. The book is well illustrated with hand drawings, and photographs of built projects, culminating in the town extension of Dorchester, England...Poundbury. The town context, Krier understands, is the culmination and home of good architecture. It is in town design that socially important buildings find their proper monumental expression, and the context of all, the venacular streetscape, is established and maintained. And it is in Poundbury...with its 40% "social housing"...that Krier has created a model for a truly believable and sustainable future. And how do we know this? By listening to the modernist brickbats? We can know this, as the author states, by asking the people who live there.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Superior stands on architecture and urban planning
*by M***Z on October 18, 2010*

This book provides a comprehensive viewpoint of the built environment. The author's graphics and words bridge the gap between human settlement and architecture. This is one of the best books I've read to date. It makes connection between the many human elements of what makes human settlements and its relationships between buildings, our landscapes and our civic spaces. The author make you think, as do many of the new urbanists of the 20th and 21st Century, about new ways of dealing with the public plurality and complexities of the urbanity. I need to mention it again, the graphics are a page turner as are the words that surround them.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great book for community design
*by B***6 on July 23, 2013*

It is a fresh look at ancient original design and why it still works today. This book has a great look at European community design and how mixed use communities work well.

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