Randall Arendt

Rural by Design (eBook, PDF)

Planning for Town and Country

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351178426
• Artikelnr.: 50211993

Autorenporträt

Randall Arendt is a senior advisor at the Natural Lands Trust in Media, Pennsylvania, and the former director of planning and research at the Center for Rural Massachusetts, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Broadly Defining 'Rural'
Introduction
Part One: The Character of Towns
1. The Common Qualities of Traditional Towns
2. Changes in the Pattern
3. Future Prospects: Choosing Among Alternative Patterns
4. The Aesthetics of Form in Community Planning
5. Sustainability, Best Practices, and Visionary Planning
6. Vision Plans, Downzoning, and Municipal Balkanization
Part Two: Design Approaches
7. Form-Based Coding and Standards for Performance and Design
8. Blending New Urbanism With Greenway Planning and Conservation Design
Part Three: Implementation Techniques
9. Broadening Housing Choices
10. Strengthening Town Centers
11. Transforming Gateways and Highway Corridors
Part Four: Designing Man-Made Infrastructure
12. Designing Better Streets
13. Low-Impact Development: A Greener Approach to Stormwater
14. Sewage Treatment Alternatives
Part Five: Protecting the Natural Infrastructure
15. Greenways: A Healthy Community Builder
16. Protecting and Restoring the Green Infrastructure Network
17. Retaining Farmland and Farmers
18. Transfer of Development Rights in Small Communities
19. Designing Subdivisions to Save Land
Part Six: Case Examples
20. In-Town Residential Examples
21. Rural Residential Examples
22. Large-Scale Mixed Use Examples
23. Downtown Commercial and Mixed Use Examples
24. Commercial Corridor Mixed Use Examples
25. Greenways and Greenway Development Examples
Bibliography
Index
About the Author