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

Nelessen, Anton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1884829007 ISBN 13: 9781884829000

Verlag: Routledge, 1994

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Book by Nelessen Anton

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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.

Anton 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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This volume provides guidelines to plan and design small communities, including hamlets, villages and larger neighbourhoods within towns and suburbs, whether they are new or re-developed. Most of the ideas have been applied in actual plans and developments through the author's own professional practice, in New Jersey and other areas of the USA, and are based on people's fundamental desire for a good place to live, a sense of community and shared responsibility.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1884829007
• ISBN 13: 9781884829000
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 390