ABOUT INCREMENTS OF NEIGHBORHOOD
Filled with research for the academic, fine details for the practitioner, financials for the investor and sound outcomes for the policymaker, Brian O’Looney’s INCREMENTS OF NEIGHBORHOOD is poised to become the definitive guide to creating walkable and vibrant communities. It is an invaluable resource for architects, planners, real estate developers and municipalities who are committed to creating places of enduring beauty that support quality of life at every scale. It is the only publication in the marketplace that tabulates the full range of market-rate products that fill America’s cities.
A compendium of recent built work from renowned architects and planners Torti Gallas, Robert A.M. Stern, Merrill Pastor & Colgan Architects, DPZ CoDESIGN, Khoury Vogt, David Schwarz, Union Studio, Allison Ramsey and many more, INCREMENTS OF NEIGHBORHOOD covers the spectrum of building types financed and built by today’s American real estate industry. From single family and townhouses through “missing middle” stacked housing, stick built, large multi-family housing and high-rise buildings, INCREMENTS OF NEIGHBORHOOD has it covered.
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AUTHOR BRIAN O’LOONEY
Brian O’Looney, A.I.A. LEED-AP is a design architect, master planner, and a principal at Torti Gallas and Partners, with a practice that focuses on making places of enduring beauty based upon principles of sustainable urbanism and community enrichment. He lectures on a range of topics for livable communities and sustainable development. O’Looney began his career at Cesar Pelli and Associates, now Pelli, Clarke, Pelli and subsequently contributed to work at Weihe Design Partnership, now WDG, as well as David Schwarz Architects. Through his career, he has led the design of buildings across the built spectrum including an urban flagship grocer, a train station, a ballpark, multiple mixed-use downtown districts, hotels, high-rise multi-family buildings, simple townhouses, stacked housing, and affordable housing neighborhoods. Brian is a graduate of Yale University and the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
CONTRIBUTORS
Alex Dickson
Alex Dickson is a project manager and lead designer based in Washington, D.C. with over fifteen years diverse project experience in residential, office, mixed-use, and entertainment facilities with award winning built projects in the Metro D.C. area, Florida, and Texas.
KELLY MANGOLD
Kelly Mangold is Vice President of RCLCO Real Estate Advisors. Based in the Washington DC area, Kelly has worked with clients in the public and private sectors to guide development and planning decisions. Her work is focused within RCLCO’s Urban Real Estate and Community and Resort Advisory Groups, and has included transit-oriented urban developments, suburban master-planned communities, and second-home and resort work.
Payton Chung
Payton Chung writes about the inter-related crafts that build cities and transformative places – namely architecture, development, finance, landscape, planning, and transportation.
Nat Bottigheimer
Nat Bottigheimer is an urban transportation planner with twenty-five years of experience in coordinated land use and transportation planning, having worked as a senior official in both state DOT and transit agency settings, and as a planning consultant.
WHAT THE EXPERTS ARE SAYING
“Increments of Neighborhood is a masterpiece in its ambitious and comprehensive presentation of the building components of walkable neighborhoods. The book documents aerial and street views, building type applications and shortcomings, and comparative data across a range of densities.
Dedicated to the modest proposition that incremental building empowers the citizenry, and that typology empowers the increment, O’Looney introduces the typological segue as a unifying concept in place-making. Copious illustrations and pithy text in a stematic structure ensure appreciation by a broad audience – from residents and builders to designers, developers and regulators.”
“Far reaching and inspirational.”
“Increments of Neighborhood is an essential resource for anyone seeking to visualize the building blocks of a city. It is clearly laid out and easy to navigate. This book is especially important as more and more cities begin to limit exclusionary (only single family) zoning. It is one thing to change the codes, it’s another to understand what that means and how to create thriving, sustainable communities using a wide range of building types. This book illustrates how to employ different building types of common scale to work together to create places where the total is greater than the sum of the parts.”
“This superb analysis of neighborhoods and their housing types is absolutely invaluable. I highly recommend it.”
“This book should be on the shelf of every urban designer, planner, architect, and developer (small or large) working to build urban places. It should be available at every charrette. And I don’t say that because I think O’Looney should be rewarded for a job well done. The book is just plain good. I’ve been writing about urbanism for 25 years and have studied the details of more new urban designs and developments than most practitioners, and wrote or cowrote four editions of New Urbanism: Best Practices Guide. I can flip to any page of Increments of Neighborhood and learn something. There are some books that help you to understand the built environment better, and this is one of them.”
“This is an essential book for anyone interested in walkable places or places people love. If I only had five feet of bookshelf, this would be one of the books on it, right up there with (in no particular order) the The Timeless Way of Building, A Pattern Language, Suburban Nation, Walkable City, Cities for People, Death & Life of Great American Cities, The Architecture of Community, The Geography of Nowhere, Sprawl Repair Manual, The Smart Growth Manual, Happy City, Street Fight, Strong Towns, Tactical Urbanism, The Language of Towns & Cities, New Urbanism Best Practices Guide, and other classics. In short . . you really should buy this book. And you should get one in the hands of anyone who can influence communities to build better places.”
CONTACT US
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