SKINNY STREETS & GREEN NEIGHBORHOODS explores the issues, ideas and design principles that underlie ‘greener’ urban development. It links research and case studies to illustrate how the preservation or restoration of ecological structure in urban areas can work hand in hand with multi-modal transportation systems and compact development patterns. It demonstrates how good urban design and good environmental design can work in partnership by integrating environmental form and functions with urban form and functions. The book includes 14 case studies of green neighbourhoods from Canada and the United States that articulate instructive lessons for the practice of compact development in partnership with the environment.
