Implementing Urban Design - Green, Civic, and Community Strategies

This book addresses a central urban design issue: how to bring an urban design from concept to reality. The book will interest community leaders, urban design professionals, and the students, instructors, and practitioners of urban design and city planning.

List of contents

Introduction: Implementing Urban Design 1. Including the Community in Design Decisions 2. Protecting the Environment 3. Designing Cities Without Designing Buildings 4. Enhancing Public Open Spaces 5. Preserving Existing Urban Designs 6. Changing Regulations to Prevent Suburban Sprawl 7. Reinventing Suburban Development 8. Using Bus Rapid Transit in Suburbs 9. Mobilizing Support to Redesign a Whole City 10. Designing for Regions and Megaregions Afterword: Urban Design in a Changing World

About the author

Jonathan Barnett has been an urban design advisor to the cities of Charleston, SC, Cleveland, Kansas City, Miami, Nashville, New York City, Norfolk, Omaha, and Pittsburgh in the United States and Xiamen and Tianjin in China. He has also advised the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the National Park Service, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Capital Planning Commission. He is the author of many books and articles about urban design and planning and is a professor emeritus of practice in city and regional planning at the University of Pennsylvania.

Summary

This book addresses a central urban design issue: how to bring an urban design from concept to reality. The book will interest community leaders, urban design professionals, and the students, instructors, and practitioners of urban design and city planning.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Barnett, Jonathan (University of Pennsylvania Barnett, Barnett Jonathan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2023
• EAN: 9781032469966
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3246996-6
• No. of pages: 166
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, The environment, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban & municipal planning, Science / Environmental Science, Human Geography, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, City and town planning: architectural aspects