Housing as if People Mattered

Housing as if People Mattered
Housing as if People Mattered
Housing as if People Mattered
Housing as if People Mattered
Housing as if People Mattered
Housing as if People Mattered

 

Housing As If People Mattered: Site Design Guidelines for Medium-Density Family Housing, by Clare Cooper Marcus and Wendy Sarkissian, is a collection of guidelines for the site design of low-rise, high-density family housing. It is intended as a reference tool, primarily for housing designers and planners, but also for developers, housing authorities, citizens' groups, and tenants' organizations-anyone involved in planning or rehabilitating housing. It provides guidelines for the layout of buildings, open spaces, community facilities, play areas, walkways, and the myriad components that make up a housing site. 

Left: Images from Housing as if People Mattered (Clare Cooper Marcus & Wendy Sarkissian, 1986), courtesy of the Clare Cooper Marcus collection, Environmental Design Archives, Berkeley, CA.

 

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