Author: Montgomery County Planning Board (Montgomery County, Md.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Central business districts
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Bethesda : Central Business District Sector Plan
Author: Montgomery County Planning Board (Montgomery County, Md.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Central business districts
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Suburb
Author: Royce HansonPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501708074
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Land-use policy is at the center of suburban political economies because everything has to happen somewhere but nothing happens by itself. In Suburb, Royce Hanson explores how well a century of strategic land-use decisions served the public interest in Montgomery County, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. Transformed from a rural hinterland into the home a million people and a half-million jobs, Montgomery County built a national reputation for innovation in land use policy—including inclusive zoning, linking zoning to master plans, preservation of farmland and open space, growth management, and transit-oriented development.A pervasive theme of Suburb involves the struggle for influence over land use policy between two virtual suburban republics. Developers, their business allies, and sympathetic officials sought a virtuous cycle of market-guided growth in which land was a commodity and residents were customers who voted with their feet. Homeowners, environmentalists, and their allies saw themselves as citizens and stakeholders with moral claims on the way development occurred and made their wishes known at the ballot box. In a book that will be of particular interest to planning practitioners, attorneys, builders, and civic activists, Hanson evaluates how well the development pattern produced by decades of planning decisions served the public interest.
Metrorail Station Area Planning
Author: The Right to Suburbia
Author: Willow S Lung-AmamPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520974417
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
In recent decades, American suburbs have undergone a so-called renaissance as multiple forces have transformed them into denser urban landscapes. Yet at the same time, suburban racial diversity, immigration, and poverty rates have surged. The Right to Suburbia investigates how marginalized communities in the suburbs of Washington, DC—one of the most intensely gentrifying metropolitan regions in the United States—have battled the uneven costs and benefits of redevelopment. Willow Lung-Amam narrates the efforts of activists, community groups, and political leaders fighting for communities' "right to suburbia"—that is, their right to stay put and benefit from new neighborhood investments. Revealing the far-reaching impacts of state-led redevelopment, The Right to Suburbia shows how patterns of unequal, racialized development and displacement are being produced and reproduced in suburbs—and how communities are fighting back.
Housing and Planning References
Author: NRC Headquarters Relocation and Consolidation
Author: Transportation Improvements in the Georgetown Branch Corridor
Author: University of Health Sciences, Uniformed Services
Author: Ten-year Space Acquisition Program
Author: New Suburbanism: Sustainable Tall Building Development
Author: Kheir Al-KodmanyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317087976
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Much of the anticipated future growth in the United States will take place in suburbia. The critical challenge is how to accommodate this growth in a sustainable and resilient manner. This book explores the role of suburban tall as a viable, sustainable alternative to continued suburban sprawl. It identifies 10 spatial patterns in which tall buildings have been integrated into the American suburbs. The study concludes that the Tall Building and Transit-Oriented-Development (TB-TOD) model is the most appropriate to promote sustainable suburbanism. The findings are based on analyzing over 300 projects in 24 suburban communities within three major metropolitan areas including: Washington, DC, Miami, Florida, and Chicago, Illinois. The book furnishes planning strategies that address the social, economic, and environmental aspects of sustainable tall building development. It also discusses sustainable architectural design and site planning strategies and provides case studies of sustainable tall buildings that were successfully integrated into suburban settings.