Designing Community

David Walters

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN:
  9780750669252
  9781138175785
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136411304
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

Greenfield sites around towns and cities, and redevelopment infill sites in existing urban areas often become battlegrounds between the conflicting interests of developers and communities. In America, design charrettes (intensive design and planning workshops) have become widely used as a means of bringing together these divergent groups, using detailed design exercises to establish agreement around a development masterplan. Despite the increasing frequency of their use, charrettes are widely misunderstood and can be misapplied. This book provides a detailed guidance on the proper and most effective ways to use this helpful tool. The book combines charrette masterplanning with the creation of "design-based" codes (also known as "form-based" codes) to control the development's implementation in line with the design and planning principles established during the charrette process.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Credits
• Introduction: Planning and Urban Design: The Postmodern Crisis in Planning and the Role of Urban Design in Reformulating Planning Practice
• Part I Cultural comparisons
• Chapter 1 Setting the scene: Cultural and professional comparisons between planning and urban design in Britain and America
• Part II History
• Chapter 2 The evolution of the planning process and the changing role of urban design
• Chapter 3 Political theory, postmodern planning and urban design
• Chapter 4 Planning, urban design and citizen power: community participation in planning from 19th century anarchist roots to today
• Part III Theory
• Chapter 5 Codes and guidelines
• Chapter 6 New urbanism and neighborhoods
• Part IV Practice
• Chapter 7 Urban design, public participation and planning in practice
• Part V Preamble to case studies
• Chapter 8 Case Study I: Downtown Redevelopment, Huntersville, NC
• Chapter 9 Case Study II: Greenfield Urban Extension, Concord, NC
• Afterword
• Appendix I Essential Attributes of Form-based Codes
• References
• Index