Increments of Neighborhood
A Compendium of Built Types for Walkable and Vibrant Communities
Increments of Neighborhood 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. 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 the definitive guide to creating walkable and vibrant communities. 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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“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.”
— Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, architect, author and former dean of the University of Miami School of Architecture
“This superb analysis of neighborhoods and their housing types is absolutely invaluable. I highly recommend it.”
— Virginia Savage McAlester, author of a Field Guide to American Houses
“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.”
— Robert Steuteville, Public Square