Transforming Towns : Designing for Smaller Communities (Paperback)

Foreword by Prof. Wayne Forster, Welsh School of Architecture Introduction 1. Understanding Small Settlements 1.1. What do we mean by towns and smaller communities? 1.2 . History, growth and evolution 1.3. Contemporary challenges facing small communities 1.4. Is now the right time for change? 2. Homes: Creating distinctive places to live 2.1. The need for new homes 2.2. Temple Gardens, Temple Cloud 2.3. Cinque Port Street, Rye 2.4. Project: Tibby’s Triangle, Southwold 2.5. The Avenue, Saffron Walden 2.6. Social Housing, Gistel 2.7. Steepleton Retirement Community, Tetbury 3. Town centres: Building the Heart of a Community 3.1. The changing nature of the town centre 3.2. Warwick Hall Community Centre, Burford 3.3. Marks & Spencer, Northallerton 3.4. School in town, Westport 3.5. Hebden Bridge Town Hall, Hebden Bridge 3.6. Welcome Building, Bishop Auckland 4. Public space: Encouraging social life 4.1. The value of public space 4.2. Bridge Street, Callan 4.3. Prescot Forum, Prescot 4.4. Helensburgh Town Centre, Helensborough 4.5. Clonakilty 400, Clonakilty 5. Long term strategies: Future visions for small settlements 5.1. Recent initiatives to shape future places 5.2. Ruthin Future, Ruthin 5.3. Village Design Guides, South Cambridgeshire 5.4. Sharing Bolsover 5.5. Urban Regeneration Plan, Selb, Germany 6. Conclusion