Envisioning Better Communities
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Author_Randall Arendt
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Bird’s Eye
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Chautauqua County
community planning decision making
conservation
Conservation Subdivision
Conservation Subdivision Design
CVS
environmental site analysis
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Front Setbacks
Green Infrastructure
Home Owners Association
Image Preference Survey
Individual Septic
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
LEED Certification System
Local Planning Boards
Maximum Front Setback
mixed use development
Mri Slice
municipal planning policy
planting
Potential Conservation Lands
Prairie Crossing
Rear Lot Lines
Reducing Light Pollution
SA Map
shade
Shade Trees
Site Plan Reviews
Site Walk
subdivision
sustainable land use
Transom Windows
urban design strategies
Vernal Pools
visual impact assessment
Product details
- ISBN 9781932364811
- Weight: 816g
- Dimensions: 254 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The author's work has shaped a generation of planners, designers, and landscape architects. In this book, the author brings his insights to a broader public, with a profusely illustrated demonstration of how local officials, planning commissioners, and everyday citizens can work to make their communities more attractive, more habitable, and more sustainable. Despite the widespread acceptance of good design and planning principles throughout the professions, too many of our towns and rural areas remain needlessly ugly and inefficient. In side by side comparisons of similar places and kinds of buildings, the author shows that we need not live amid sprawling, characterless visual blight. Simple design choices and effective municipal decisions can have tremendous impacts on the quality of our communities. Written in the author's well-known clear, accessible, nontechnical style, this book creates a sense of hope for those who face the everyday challenges of working with developers and landowners to create places that make economic, environmental, and aesthetic sense. The author shows us that with diligence, thoughtfulness, and care, we can make our communities better in countless ways.
Randall Arendt is a landscape planner, site designer, author, lecturer, and advocate. He is senior conservation advisor at the Natural Lands Trust and a fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute. He is the author of more than 20 publications, including Rural by Design; Growing Greener; Crossroads, Hamlet, Village, Town; and Conservation Design for Subdivisions.
