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Reconsidering the dream : towards a morphology for mixed density block structure in suburbia / prepared by Ian MacBurnie for: the Centre for Future Studies in Housing and Living Environments.NH15-816/1992E-PDF

"Prompted in part by nascent environmental, economic, and societal considerations, various critiques have been advanced which have suggested the desirability of a fundamental reassessment of the principal tenets founding the contemporaneous North American suburban planning model. While there exists no absolute consensus, it is generally agreed that the ubiquitous, land-consumptive, use-segregated, predominately low density postwar suburban morphology is no longer tenable"--Background, p. 1.

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Department/Agency
  • Centre for Future Studies in Housing and Living Environments (Canada)
  • Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
TitleReconsidering the dream : towards a morphology for mixed density block structure in suburbia / prepared by Ian MacBurnie for: the Centre for Future Studies in Housing and Living Environments.
Variant title
  • Towards a morphology for a mixed density block structure in suburbia
Publication typeMonograph
Language[English]
FormatDigital text
Electronic document
Note(s)
  • Title from cover.
  • Digitized edition from print [produced by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation].
  • Includes bibliographical references.
  • Part 1: Literature review and analysis -- Part 3: Positing a new paradigm.
Publishing information
  • [Ottawa] : CMHC, c1992.
Author / Contributor
  • MacBurnie, Ian.
Description2 v. : ill., maps
Catalogue number
  • NH15-816/1992E-PDF
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