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For America's rural and suburban areas, new challenges demand new
solutions. Author Randall Arendt meets them in an entirely new
edition of Rural by Design. When this planning classic first
appeared 20 years ago, it showed how creative, practical land-use
planning can preserve open space and keep communit
Because the world of community planning has evolved over the past
two decades, the new edition of this book has been re-tooled and
largely rewritten to reflect changes in land development patterns
across the U.S., providing a greater amount of information on a
wider range of topics. This edition expands coverage of town
centers, commercial corridors, housing options, village and hamlet
planning, and individual case studies. It also contains entirely
new chapters on subjects not addressed in the first edition:
form-based coding, visioning, sustainability, low-impact
development, green infrastructure networks, and transfers of
development rights. Additional new topics addressed include
complete streets, pocket neighborhoods, official mapping, gateway
planning, redeveloping commercial corridors, mitigation banking,
vernal pool protection, waterway day-lighting, and restoring
wetlands, grasslands, woodlands, and floodplains. Seventy new case
studies have been also added to enrich the learning experience.
Randall Arendt's work has shaped a generation of planners,
designers, and landscape architects. In Envisioning Better
Communities, he brings his insights to a broader public, with a
profusely illustrated demonstration of how local officials,
planning commissioners, and everyday citizens can work to make
their communities more attractive, more habitable, and more
sustainable. Despite the widespread acceptance of good design and
planning principles throughout the professions, too many of our
towns and rural areas remain needlessly ugly and inefficient. In
side by side comparisons of similar places and kinds of buildings,
Arendt shows that we need not live amid sprawling, characterless
visual blight. Simple design choices and effective municipal
decisions can have tremendous impacts on the quality of our
communities. Written in Arendt's well-known clear, accessible,
nontechnical style, this book creates a sense of hope for those who
face the everyday challenges of working with developers and
landowners to create places that make economic, environmental, and
aesthetic sense.Arendt shows us that with diligence,
thoughtfulness, and care, we can make our communities better in
countless ways.
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