Housing Design

Revised edition of ‘The Housing Design Handbook’

Anyone who has the first edition of David Levitt’s authoritative study ‘The Housing Design Handbook’, published in 2009, will be aware of its usefulness and be keen to acquire the second edition. Comprehensively revised by Levitt and his colleague at Levitt Bernstein, Jo McCafferty, the new volume is impressively up-to-date with many recent exemplars. Of course the context for housing design has changed significantly in the past decade, but the need to demonstrate best practice and design quality remains paramount, and the handbook should help spread the message beyond the architectural community. The book is structured with chapters on types, density, internal and external space, and mixed-use, plus privacy, security, tenure, regeneration, co-design, sustainability and cost-in-use. Each begins with an essay by an expert in the subject, and incorporates relevant, well-illustrated case studies.