商品簡介
Community Character provides a design-oriented system for planning and zoning communities that takes into account how people who participate in a community live, work, and shop there.
Instead of using the ineffective and inconsistent measures of density and land use as guiding principles for development, this book offers "community character" as a comprehensive, real-world framework for planning in communities of all kinds and sizes.
"Lane Kendig uses his half century of experience to show planners, and everyone else who wants a great place to live, how to identify and measure community character as the value-neutral first step in achieving the desired built and natural environment. This work will be an enduring classic in the field of planning theory and practice."---Dwight Merriam, Partner, Robinson & Cole
"In this crisp primer on the use of character in community design, Lane Kendig lays out a clear framework of principles and terms for measuring and understanding what makes a place rural, suburban, or urban. Drawing on his extensive experience, he makes a strong case for replacing density and land use with community character as the primary basis for planning and development regulation."---David R. Godschalk, Planning Professor Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"The desire to keep `small town character' is almost universal in the U.S. Yet, what could be more challenging? Lane Kendig's engaging book Community Character is much more than a starting point. It offers citizens and planners an accessible framework for creating place-specific strategies."---Mary Means, Director of Community Initiatives, Goody Clancy
作者簡介
Lane Kendig is the founder and former president of Kendig Keast Collaborative, a planning consulting firm. He is the author of Performance Zoning and Too Big, Boring, or Ugly, as well as many articles on planning. Bret C. Keast is President and Owner of Kending Keast Collaborative.
