Author: Mavis BryantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Zoning for Community Preservation
Author: Mavis BryantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Preserving and Enhancing Communities
Author: Elisabeth M. HaminPublisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN: 9781558495647
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book starts from the premise that each community chooses its future every day, through the incremental decisions made by planning and zoning boards and other citizen volunteers, as well as professional staff. The challenge is to ensure that these decisions support the preservation of what is special about the community, while still fostering necessary and appropriate growth. In this volume, twenty-nine experts from a variety of fields describe in very practical terms the community preservation approach to these issues. As opposed to the top-down regulatory mechanisms that are sometimes used to manage growth, the contributors favor a more flexible, locally based approach that has proven successful in Massachusetts and elsewhere. They show how residents can be empowered to become involved in local decision-making, building coalitions and expressing their views on a wide range of issues, such as zoning, water and land protection, transportation, historic preservation, economic diversity, affordable housing, and reuse of brown-fields. When done properly, development can enhance the sense of place and provide needed homes and jobs. Done improperly, it can generate sprawl and a multitude of problems. Preserving and Enhancing Communities will be particularly useful to members of planning and other regulatory boards, as well as students of community planning. The book covers not just typical ways of doing things, but also the full spectrum of innovative and emerging practices. Each chapter includes illustrations and case studies, some from Massachusetts and many from other states. The volume concludes with a set of indicators that communities can use to track their progress in community preservation and enhancement.
Zoning and Historic Preservation
Author: Stephen Andrew MorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Hyde Park-Kenwood Urban Renewal Plan
Author: Chicago (Ill.). Community Conservation BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
A Guide to Planning for Community Character
Author: Lane H. KendigPublisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1610910184
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
A Guide to Planning for Community Character adds a wealth of practical applications to the framework that Lane Kendig describes in his previous book, Community Character. The purpose of the earlier book is to give citizens and planners a systematic way of thinking about the attributes of their communities and a common language to use for planning and zoning in a consistent and reliable way. This follow-up volume addresses actual design in the three general classes of communities in Kendig's framework-urban, suburban, and rural. The author's practical approaches enable designers to create communities "with the character that citizens actually want." Kendig also provides a guide for incorporating community character into a comprehensive plan. In addition, this book shows how to use community character in planning and zoning as a way of making communities more sustainable. All examples in the volume are designed to meet real-world challenges. They show how to design a community so that the desired character is actually achieved in the built result. The book also provides useful tools for analyzing or measuring relevant design features. Together, the books provide a comprehensive treatment of community character, offering both a tested theory of planning based on visual and physical character and practical ways to plan and measure communities. The strength of this comprehensive approach is that it is ultimately less rigid and more adaptable than many recent "flexible" zoning codes.
Federal Historic Preservation Laws
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Neighborhood Planning Primer
Author: Housing and Land Use Policy in Massachusetts
Author: Amy DainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing policy
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
General Plan Revision
Author: Howard County (Md.). Office of Planning and ZoningPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Howard County (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Preservation Plan
Author: Lowell Historic Preservation Commission (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
... An 8 year plan to preserve Lowell's historic and cultural resources in order to tell the story of the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century; included in the plan are mills, institutions, residences, commercial buildings and canals; describes the areas covered; discusses preservation standards, public improvements, financing, related programs, etc.; provides architectural information, dates of construction, history, plans for building reuse, etc. of specific structures in the Lowell National Historic Park and Lowell Heritage State Park ...