Rural by Design: Planning for Town and Country

ISBN-13: 9780367330330 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 544 str.

Randall Arendt

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When Rural by Design first appeared 20 years ago, it showed how creative, practical land-use planning can help rural and suburban areas keep their character. This new edition updates the book with material on infilling neighborhoods, strengthening town centers, and moving development closer to schools, shops, and jobs. New chapters cover form-based codes, visioning, sustainability, low-impact development, and green infrastructure. Readers will find practical advice about issues shaping the way they live.

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Foreword: Broadly Defining ‘Rural’

Introduction

Part One: The Character of Towns

1. The Common Qualities of Traditional Towns

2. Changes in the Pattern

3. Future Prospects: Choosing Among Alternative Patterns

4. The Aesthetics of Form in Community Planning

5. Sustainability, Best Practices, and Visionary Planning

6. Vision Plans, Downzoning, and Municipal Balkanization

Part Two: Design Approaches

7. Form-Based Coding and Standards for Performance and Design

8. Blending New Urbanism With Greenway Planning and Conservation Design

Part Three: Implementation Techniques

9. Broadening Housing Choices

10. Strengthening Town Centers

11. Transforming Gateways and Highway Corridors

Part Four: Designing Man-Made Infrastructure

12. Designing Better Streets

13. Low-Impact Development: A Greener Approach to Stormwater

14. Sewage Treatment Alternatives

Part Five: Protecting the Natural Infrastructure

15. Greenways: A Healthy Community Builder

16. Protecting and Restoring the Green Infrastructure Network

17. Retaining Farmland and Farmers

18. Transfer of Development Rights in Small Communities

19. Designing Subdivisions to Save Land

Part Six: Case Examples

20. In-Town Residential Examples

21. Rural Residential Examples

22. Large-Scale Mixed Use Examples

23. Downtown Commercial and Mixed Use Examples

24. Commercial Corridor Mixed Use Examples

25. Greenways and Greenway Development Examples

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

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Randall Arendt is a senior advisor at the Natural Lands Trust in Media, Pennsylvania, and the former director of planning and research at the Center for Rural Massachusetts, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.