ABSTRACT
Well-grounded in the history and theory of Anglo-American urbanism, this illustrated textbook sets out objectives, policies and design principles for planning new communities and redeveloping existing urban neighborhoods. Drawing from their extensive experience, the authors explain how better plans (and consequently better places) can be created by applying the three-dimensional principles of urban design and physical place-making to planning problems.
Design First uses case studies from the authors’ own professional projects to demonstrate how theory can be turned into effective practice, using concepts of traditional urban form to resolve contemporary planning and design issues in American communities.
The book is aimed at architects, planners, developers, planning commissioners, elected officials and citizens -- and, importantly, students of architecture and planning -- with the objective of reintegrating three-dimensional design firmly back into planning practice.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |46 pages
History
chapter |22 pages
Paradigms lost and found dilemmas of the Anglo-American city
chapter |22 pages
Cities, suburbs and sprawl
part |43 pages
Theory
chapter |22 pages
Traditional urbanism: New Urbanism and Smart Growth
chapter |19 pages
Devices and designs: sources of good urbanism
part |58 pages
Practice
chapter |24 pages
Growth management, development control and the role of urban design
chapter |32 pages
Urban design in the real world
part |74 pages
Preamble to Case Studies