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9781884829000

Visions For a New American Dream: Process, Principles, and an Ordinance to Plan and Design Small Communities

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  • ISBN13:

    9781884829000

  • ISBN10:

    1884829007

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1994-06-01
  • Publisher: Routledge
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List Price: $78.95

Summary

This book shows you how to combine the best design principles of the past with the technological advances of the present to achieve a more satisfying community environment. Nelessen advocates design by democracy: involving citizens and public officals in planning and designing their own communities. He describes techniques planners can use to help residents create a common vision. Nelessen has successfully used these techniques-the Visual Preference Survey and Hands-on Model Building Workshop-in seminars and workshops for more than 25 years. ?Visions for a New American Dream ? outlines a seven step planning and design process for creating three basic types of traditional small communities: hamlets, villages, and neighborhoods. Nelessen presents 10 design principles-ranging from humanism and ecological responsibility to open space design and community focus-to help planners and designers turn a community's common vision into reality. ?Visions for a New American Dream ? is extensively illustrated with photographs, diagrams, and maps. This is must reading for all planners, designers, public officals, and citizens who want to envision and direct the future of their communities.

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