Rural by Design

Planning for Town and Country
2. New Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-33033-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 544 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 280 mm, Gewicht: 1170 g

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 communit

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arendt, Randall

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.