Design First
Design-based planning for communities

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Design first : design-based planning for communities
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Well-grounded in the history and theory of Anglo-American urbanism, this illustrated textbook sets out objectives, policies and design principles for planning new communities and redeveloping existing urban neighborhoods. Drawing from their extensive experience, the authors explain how better plans (and consequently better places) can be created by applying the three-dimensional principles of urban design and physical place-making to planning problems.

Design First uses case studies from the authors? own professional projects to demonstrate how theory can be turned into effective practice, using concepts of traditional urban form to resolve contemporary planning and design issues in American communities.

The book is aimed at architects, planners, developers, planning commissioners, elected officials and citizens -- and, importantly, students of architecture and planning -- with the objective of reintegrating three-dimensional design firmly back into planning practice.

Introduction; I. HISTORY: Paradigms Lost, Development Control, Traditional Urbanism; II. THEORY: Good Urbanism, Public Space vs. Cyberspace, Urban Design Principles, Land use, Transportation & Building Form, Managed Growth & the Market Economy, Community-based Design; III. PRACTICE: Setting Goals, Anglo-American Variations, Design Workshop, The Master Plan, Implementation Strategies; IV. CASE STUDIES; V. AFTERWORD

Professional Practice & Development
David Walters
Years on the front lines of urban design, advocacy and teaching have equipped David Walters and Linda Luise Brown of Charlotte with a considerable store of wisdom, here distilled into a handbook useful for architects, planners and developers. This book's topics, however, hold meaning for all citizens with an interest in what might be taking shape outside their front doors and down their streets. Walters and Brown write with a well-founded confidence that new planning projects in this region can hold lessons for national -- even international audiences. - The Charlotte ObserverUrban Designers have benefited greatly from publications that have become available over the past few years. Some books are practical manuals that remain open during the design process in university studios and profes