Community Design - A Team Approach to Dynamic Community Systems

Community design has grown in importance in the public policy agenda over the past decade. This book focuses on the author's experience and work in Minnesota where a design team of architects, planners, and economic and community development practitioners provided planning and design assistance to local communities. The book explores the advantages of a systems approach to community design and uses the work of the Minnesota team to consider the issues involved in the implementation of successful community design.

List of contents

PART ONE: THE NEED FOR COMMUNITY DESIGN
The Third Wave
A Changing American Landscape
Commmunity
A Wave or a Particle?
Is There a Place for Places in the Community?
PART TWO: METHODS OF COMMUNITY DESIGN
Action Research
The Foundation of Community Design
Community in the Third Dimension
Gauging Community Opinion
Yoüve Gotta Have Connections
Community Design as a Healing Process

Summary

This book focuses on the author's experience in Minnesota where a design team of architects, planners, economic and community development practitioners provided planning and design assistance to local communities. The book explores the advantages of a systems approach to community design.

Product details

• Authors: Melissa A. Mehrhoff, W. Arthur Mehrhoff
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.06.1999
• EAN: 9780761905967
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-0596-7
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 221 mm x 286 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Series: Cities & Planning Series; Cities and Planning; Cities & Planning Series; Cities and Planning
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Natural science; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Umweltwissenschaften, Umwelttechnik, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental), Politics / Current Events