A Guide To Planning For Community Character

Author : Lane H. Kendig
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610910187

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A Guide to Planning for Community Character by Lane H. Kendig Pdf

A Guide to Planning for Community Character adds a wealth of practical applications to the framework that Lane Kendig describes in his previous book, Community Character. The purpose of the earlier book is to give citizens and planners a systematic way of thinking about the attributes of their communities and a common language to use for planning and zoning in a consistent and reliable way. This follow-up volume addresses actual design in the three general classes of communities in Kendig's framework-urban, suburban, and rural. The author's practical approaches enable designers to create communities "with the character that citizens actually want." Kendig also provides a guide for incorporating community character into a comprehensive plan. In addition, this book shows how to use community character in planning and zoning as a way of making communities more sustainable. All examples in the volume are designed to meet real-world challenges. They show how to design a community so that the desired character is actually achieved in the built result. The book also provides useful tools for analyzing or measuring relevant design features. Together, the books provide a comprehensive treatment of community character, offering both a tested theory of planning based on visual and physical character and practical ways to plan and measure communities. The strength of this comprehensive approach is that it is ultimately less rigid and more adaptable than many recent "flexible" zoning codes.

Author : Lane H. Kendig,Bret C. Keast
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781597269704

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Community Character by Lane H. Kendig,Bret C. Keast Pdf

Community Character provides a design-oriented system for planning and zoning communities but accounts for how people who participate in a community live, work, and shop there. The relationships that Lane Kendig defines here reflect the complexity of the interaction of the built environment with its social and economic uses, taking into account the diverse desires of municipalities and citizens. Among the many classifications for a community’s “character” are its relationship to other communities, its size and the resulting social and economic characteristics. According to Kendig, most comprehensive plans and zoning regulations are based entirely on density and land use, neither of which effectively or consistently measures character or quality of development. As Kendig shows, there is a wide range of measures that define character and these vary with the type of character a community desires to create. Taking a much more comprehensive view, this book offers “community character” as a real-world framework for planning for communities of all kinds and sizes. A companion book, A Practical Guide to Planning with Community Character, provides a detailed explanation of applying community character in a comprehensive plan, with chapters on designing urban, sub-urban, and rural character types, using character in comprehensive plans, and strategies for addressing characteristic challenges of planning and zoning in the 21st century.

Author : Roger W. Caves,J. Barry Cullingworth
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1123 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000905656

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Planning in the USA by Roger W. Caves,J. Barry Cullingworth Pdf

Extensively revised and updated, Planning in the USA, fifth edition, continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to the policies, theory, and practice of planning. Outlining land use, urban planning, and environmental protection policies, this fully illustrated book explains the nature of the planning process and the way in which policy issues are identified, defined, and approached. The new edition incorporates new planning legislation and regulations at the state and federal layers of government and examples of local ordinances in a variety of planning areas. New material includes discussions of • education and equity in planning; • the City Beautiful Movement; • Daniel Burnham’s plan for Chicago; • segregation; • Knick v. Township of Scott; • reforming single-family zoning and regulatory challenges in zoning and land use; • Daniel Parolek’s ‘Missing Middle Housing’; • climate change, mitigation, adaptation, and resiliency; • the drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan; • sharing programs for cars, bicycles, and scooters; • hybrid electric and autonomous vehicles; • Vision Zero; • COVID-19 relief for housing; • Innovation Districts, Promise Zones, and Opportunity Zones; • the sharing, gig, and creative economies; • scenic views and vistas, monuments, statues, and remembering the past; and • healthy cities, Health Impact Assessment, and active living. This detailed account of urbanization in the United States reveals the problematic nature and limitations of the planning process, the fallibility of experts, and the difficulties facing policy-makers in their search for solutions. Planning in the USA, fifth edition, is an essential book for students of urban planning, urban politics, environmental geography, and environment politics. It will be a valuable resource for planners and all who are concerned with the nature of contemporary urban and environmental problems.

Author : Randall Arendt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351178426

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Rural by Design by Randall Arendt Pdf

For America’s rural and suburban areas, new challenges demand new solutions. Author Randall Arendt meets them in an entirely new edition of Rural by Design. When this planning classic first appeared 20 years ago, it showed how creative, practical land-use planning can preserve open space and keep community character intact. The second edition shifts the focus toward infilling neighborhoods, strengthening town centers, and moving development closer to schools, shops, and jobs. New chapters cover form-based codes, visioning, sustainability, low-impact development, green infrastructure, and more, while 70 case studies show how these ideas play out in the real world. Readers —rural or not—will find practical advice about planning for the way we live now.

Author : Christopher Duerksen,Gregory C Dale,Donald L Elliott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351177948

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The Citizen's Guide to Planning by Christopher Duerksen,Gregory C Dale,Donald L Elliott Pdf

APA's popular primer for citizens is all new! For decades, planning officials and engaged citizens have relied on this book for a better understanding of the basics of planning. Now the authors have revised this perennial bestseller into a 21st-century guide for anyone who wants to make his or her community a better place. This book describes the land-use planning process, the key players in that process, and the legal framework in which decisions are made. The authors advocate principles and disciplines that will help those involved in the process make good decisions. In easy-to-understand language, they offer nuts-and-bolts information about different types of plans and how they are implemented. Chapters cover the goals and values of planning, the history of planning, the different people and organizations involved, the creation and implementation of a comprehensive plan, sustainability, the application review process, and legal and ethical questions.

Author : J. Barry Cullingworth,Roger Caves
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136456916

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Planning in the USA by J. Barry Cullingworth,Roger Caves Pdf

This extensively revised and updated fourth edition of Planning in the USA continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to the policies, theory and practice of planning. Outlining land use, urban planning, and environmental protection policies, this fully illustrated book explains the nature of the planning process and the way in which policy issues are identified, defined, and approached. This full colour edition incorporates new planning legislation and regulations at the state and federal layers of government, updated discussion on current economic issues, and examples of local ordinances in a variety of planning areas. Key updates include: a new chapter on planning and sustainability; a new discussion on the role of foundations and giving to communities; a discussion regarding the aftermath of Katrina in New Orleans; a discussion on deindustrialization and shrinking cities; a discussion on digital billboards; a discussion on recent comprehensive planning efforts; a discussion on land banking; a discussion unfunded mandates; a discussion on community character; a companion website with multiple choice and fill the blank questions, and ‘test yourself’ glossary terms. This book gives a detailed account of urbanization in the United States and reveals the problematic nature and limitations of the planning process, the fallibility of experts, and the difficulties facing policy-makers in their search for solutions. Planning in the USA is an essential book for students, planners and all who are concerned with the nature of contemporary urban and environmental problems.

Author : Gordon G. Vessels
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998-08-27
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015039043503

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Character and Community Development by Gordon G. Vessels Pdf

This book provides the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological foundation that teachers, principals, professors, and students preparing for teaching will need in order to be informed and effective planners and evaluators of character education programs and good character educators. Through its clear definition of terms, review of Constitutional and public support, comparative analysis of philosophical approaches, synthesis of many relevant theories of child development, K-12 core curriculum, description of many instructional strategies, and methodology for program evaluation, this handbook effectively prepares prospective program planners and character educators to create comprehensive programs that are developmentally appropriate, adapted to the unique needs and characteristics of school communities, and soundly evaluated. Dr. Vessels presents a wide range of options, developmental and practical guidelines for choosing from among these options, and a creative core curriculum and evaluation technology that he hopes school community members will find useful for their particular school or system.

Author : United States. Air Traffic Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Aeronautics, Commercial
ISBN : UOM:39015007650339

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Air Traffic Patterns and Community Characteristics by United States. Air Traffic Service Pdf

Author : William E. Schmickle
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781538103555

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The Historic District Action Guide by William E. Schmickle Pdf

The Historic District Action Guide: From Designation Campaigns to Keeping Districts Vital is a results-oriented, straight-talking guide for local activists, professionals, and preservation commissions committed to winning and maintaining local historic districts. Its political approach focuses on the crucial challenges of gaining and sustaining community and local governmental support for historic district regulations. This how-to guide gives citizens who are fighting to designate a local historic district the political know-how to win the support of fellow residents and city hall. Everything is here: learning to think politically, mastering the political process; planning and strategy; campaign organizing and leadership; framing a practical vision; anticipating and handling the opposition; conducting community meetings; skirmishing with property rightists; managing issues, petitions, and public opinion; dealing with public officials; strategizing for public hearings; and winning the vote for district designation. Once the vote is won, the Action Guide shows how to maintain momentum in their communities once the initial political campaign to win historic preservation designation has faded and the real work of enforcement begins.

Author : Sue Abbott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Community development
ISBN : MINN:31951D01419808S

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Building Gateway Partnerships by Sue Abbott Pdf

Author : Richard T. LeGates
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000581096

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City and Regional Planning by Richard T. LeGates Pdf

City and Regional Planning provides a clearly written and lavishly illustrated overview of the theory and practice of city and regional planning. With material on globalization and the world city system, and with examples from a number of countries, the book has been written to meet the needs of readers worldwide who seek an overview of city and regional planning. Chapters cover the history of cities and city and regional planning, urban design and placemaking, comprehensive plans, planning politics and plan implementation, planning visions, and environmental, transportation, and housing planning. The book pays special attention to diversity, social justice, and collaborative planning. Topics include current practice in resilience, transit-oriented development, complexity in planning, spatial equity, globalization, and advances in planning methods. It is aimed at U.S. graduate and undergraduate city and regional planning, geography, urban design, urban studies, civil engineering, and other students and practitioners. It includes extensive material on current practice in planning for climate change. Each chapter includes a case study, a biography of an important planner, lists of concepts and important people, and a list of books, articles, videos, and other suggestions for further learning.

Author : Christopher J. Duerksen,R. Matthew Goebel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015042852619

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Aesthetics, Community Character, and the Law by Christopher J. Duerksen,R. Matthew Goebel Pdf

Today's planners use myriad tools and techniques to identify and protect what is special about their communities: historic preservation ordinances, improved sign controls, computerized viewshed protection regulations, tree-planting and landscaping requirements, cell tower controls, and more. As the level of preservation activity has increased dramatically, so has the number of court cases challenging aesthetic-based regulation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Block grants
ISBN : UCR:31210024735258

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Environmental Review Guide for Community Development Block Grant Programs Under Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as Amended by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rhonda Phillips,Sherma Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135711887

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Tourism, Planning, and Community Development by Rhonda Phillips,Sherma Roberts Pdf

The intersection of community development, tourism and planning is a fascinating one. Tourism has long been used as a development strategy, in both developed and developing countries, from the national to local levels. These approaches have typically focused on economic dimensions with decisions about tourism investments, policies and venues driven by these economic considerations. More recently, the conversation has shifted to include other aspects – social and environmental – to better reflect sustainable development concepts. Perhaps most importantly is the richer focus on the inclusion of stakeholders. An inclusionary, participatory approach is an essential ingredient of community development and this brings both fields even closer together. It reflects an approach aimed at building on strengths in communities, and fostering social capacity and capital. In this book, the dimensions of the role tourism plays in community development are explored. A panoply of perspectives are presented, tackling such questions as, can tourism heal? How can tourism development serve as a catalyst to overcome social injustices and cultural divides? This book was originally published as a special issue of Community Development.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556036458164

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South Valley Corridor Project, Spokane County by Anonim Pdf