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Community character : principles for design and planning /
Community Character provides a design-oriented system for planning and zoning communities that takes into account how people who participate in a community live, work, and shop there.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
Island Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Community Character provides a design-oriented system for planning and zoning communities that takes into account how people who participate in a community live, work, and shop there. Instead of using the ineffective and inconsistent measures of density and land use as guiding principles for development, this book offers "community character" as a comprehensive, real-world framework for planning in communities of all kinds and sizes "Lane Kendig uses his half century of experience to show planners, and everyone else who wants a great place to live, how to identify and measure community character as the value-neutral first step in achieving the desired built and natural environment. This work will be an enduring classic in the field of planning theory and practice."--Dwight Merriam, Partner, Robinson & Cole "In this crisp primer on the use of character in community design, Lane Kendig lays out a clear framework of principles and terms for measuring and understanding what makes a place rural, suburban, or urban. Drawing on his extensive experience, he makes a strong case for replacing density and land use with community character as the primary basis for planning and development regulation."--David R. Godschalk, Planning Professor Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "The desire to keep `small town character' is almost universal in the U.S. Yet, what could be more challenging? Lane Kendig's engaging book Community Character is much more than a starting point. It offers citizens and planners an accessible frame-work for creating place-specific strategies."--Mary Means, Director of Community Initiatives, Goody Clancy --Book Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 187 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781597269704 1597269700 |