Community Character: Principles for Design and Planning - Hardcover

Lane H. Kendig

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1597266957 ISBN 13: 9781597266956

Publisher: Island Press, 2011

Synopsis

Community Character provides a design-oriented system for planning and zoning communities but accounts for how people who participate in a community live, work, and shop there. The relationships that Lane Kendig defines here reflect the complexity of the interaction of the built environment with its social and economic uses, taking into account the diverse desires of municipalities and citizens. Among the many classifications for a community s character are its relationship to other communities, its size and the resulting social and economic characteristics. According to Kendig, most comprehensive plans and zoning regulations are based entirely on density and land use, neither of which effectively or consistently measures character or quality of development. As Kendig shows, there is a wide range of measures that define character and these vary with the type of character a community desires to create. Taking a much more comprehensive view, this book offers 'community character' as a real-world framework for planning for communities of all kinds and sizes.

About this title

About the Author

Lane Kendig is the founder and former president of Kendig Keast Collaborative, a planning consulting firm with offices in Chicago, Houston, Wisconsin, and Colorado. He has been practicing and writing about the relationship between community design planning and regulatory tools for more than forty years. He is the author of Performance Zoning and Too Big, Boring, or Ugly, Traffic Sheds, Performance Standards for Non-Residential Uses and numerous articles.

Edition details

• Publisher: Island Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1597266957
• ISBN 13: 9781597266956
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208