Designing Community

Greenfield sites around towns and cities, and redevelopment infill sites in existing urban areas often become battlegrounds between the conflicting interests of developers and communities.

In America, design charrettes (intensive design and planning workshops) have become widely used as a means of bringing together these divergent groups, using detailed design exercises to establish agreement around a development masterplan. Despite the increasing frequency of their use, charrettes are widely misunderstood and can be misapplied. This book provides a detailed guidance on the proper and most effective ways to use this helpful tool. The book combines charrette masterplanning with the creation of "design-based" codes (also known as "form-based" codes) to control the development's implementation in line with the design and planning principles established during the charrette process.

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Designing Community

Greenfield sites around towns and cities, and redevelopment infill sites in existing urban areas often become battlegrounds between the conflicting interests of developers and communities.

In America, design charrettes (intensive design and planning workshops) have become widely used as a means of bringing together these divergent groups, using detailed design exercises to establish agreement around a development masterplan. Despite the increasing frequency of their use, charrettes are widely misunderstood and can be misapplied. This book provides a detailed guidance on the proper and most effective ways to use this helpful tool. The book combines charrette masterplanning with the creation of "design-based" codes (also known as "form-based" codes) to control the development's implementation in line with the design and planning principles established during the charrette process.

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Designing Community

Designing Community

by David Walters
Designing Community

Designing Community

by David Walters

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Overview

Greenfield sites around towns and cities, and redevelopment infill sites in existing urban areas often become battlegrounds between the conflicting interests of developers and communities.

In America, design charrettes (intensive design and planning workshops) have become widely used as a means of bringing together these divergent groups, using detailed design exercises to establish agreement around a development masterplan. Despite the increasing frequency of their use, charrettes are widely misunderstood and can be misapplied. This book provides a detailed guidance on the proper and most effective ways to use this helpful tool. The book combines charrette masterplanning with the creation of "design-based" codes (also known as "form-based" codes) to control the development's implementation in line with the design and planning principles established during the charrette process.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781136411304
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 06/01/2007
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 130 MB
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About the Author

David Walters

Table of Contents

Part 1 Cultural comparisons; Chapter 1 Setting the scene: Cultural and professional comparisons between planning and urban design in Britain and America; Part 2 History; Chapter 2 The evolution of the planning process and the changing role of urban design; Chapter 3 Political theory, postmodern planning and urban design; Chapter 4 Planning, urban design and citizen power: community; Part icipation in planning from 19th century anarchist roots to today; Part 3 Theory; Chapter 5 Codes and guidelines; Chapter 6 New urbanism and neighborhoods; Part 4 Practice; Chapter 7 Urban design, public; Part icipation and planning in practice; Part 5 Preamble to case studies; Chapter 8 Case Study I: Downtown Redevelopment, Huntersville, NC; Chapter 9 Case Study II: Greenfield Urban Extension, Concord, NC;
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