{"product_id":"a-town-primarily-for-people-gene-zellmer-9781412012843","title":"A Town Primarily for People: The Five Hundred Year Plan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE CHALLENGE\u003c\/strong\u003e: Invent a town to solve all suburban problems, meet challenges like Jane Jacobs described; plus comprehensively solve all livability, environmental, \u0026amp; affordability issues. Impossible? In this book, key historical influences are reviewed w\/ fresh perspectives on current ideas. Entirely new town \u0026amp; home designs are presented.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePermanent infrastructure systems can save 50% of home cost \u0026amp; add livability. Three-dimensional home site arrangements save costs \u0026amp; offer more privacy, freedom, \u0026amp; flexibility than in suburbia; neighborly potentials are enhanced. While at same as suburban densities, 70% of the same amount of land becomes an integral open space \u0026amp; farming system.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Home Site, Near \u0026amp; Extended Neighborhood w\/ Main Street acts as a visual \u0026amp; functional unit for all life's moments, \u0026amp; is designed primarily for each individual's satisfaction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWHY INVENT A NEW TOWN CONCEPT?\u003c\/strong\u003e Few towns have been primarily for people. Town plans based on cars make cars necessary. There's no incentive for high quality long-term investment in towns with short-term 25 to 50 year plans, w\/ no truly long-term comprehensive strategy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCurrent concepts can't solve all the problems. They will never solve the basic conflicts between housing eventually needing more land, the environmentalist, landowners, \u0026amp; developers. Everyone's trapped; the concept is the problem. Affordability, livability, \u0026amp; sustainability will be more difficult.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeneral Plans that dictate existing design solutions\/are based on cars stifle any truly new ideas. To solve current \u0026amp; future challenges requires entirely new concepts. With insight from the past \u0026amp; today's technology, we can design human habitats to function as an integral part of the surrounding natural environment. This new-concept town approaches the efficiency \u0026amp; natural balance common in homes built by many other less intelligent life forms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis new concept is functionally, structurally \u0026amp; financially feasible today. www.sprawlsolutions.com\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gene Zellmer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1412012848\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781412012843\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Trafford Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/10\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.25w x 0.49d","brand":"Gene Zellmer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44127702417663,"sku":"9781412012843","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_707822e9-eca9-422c-b439-546a656f363f.jpg?v=1687454745","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-town-primarily-for-people-gene-zellmer-9781412012843","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}