Design First
Well-grounded in the history and theory of Anglo-American urbanism, this illustrated textbook sets out objectives, policies and design principles for planning new communities and redeveloping existing urban neighborhoods. Drawing from their extensive experience, the authors explain how better plans (and consequently better places) can be created by applying the three-dimensional principles of urban design and physical place-making to planning problems.

Design First uses case studies from the authors’ own professional projects to demonstrate how theory can be turned into effective practice, using concepts of traditional urban form to resolve contemporary planning and design issues in American communities.

The book is aimed at architects, planners, developers, planning commissioners, elected officials and citizens — and, importantly, students of architecture and planning — with the objective of reintegrating three-dimensional design firmly back into planning practice.
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Design First
Well-grounded in the history and theory of Anglo-American urbanism, this illustrated textbook sets out objectives, policies and design principles for planning new communities and redeveloping existing urban neighborhoods. Drawing from their extensive experience, the authors explain how better plans (and consequently better places) can be created by applying the three-dimensional principles of urban design and physical place-making to planning problems.

Design First uses case studies from the authors’ own professional projects to demonstrate how theory can be turned into effective practice, using concepts of traditional urban form to resolve contemporary planning and design issues in American communities.

The book is aimed at architects, planners, developers, planning commissioners, elected officials and citizens — and, importantly, students of architecture and planning — with the objective of reintegrating three-dimensional design firmly back into planning practice.
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Design First

Design First

by David Walters, Linda Brown
Design First

Design First

by David Walters, Linda Brown

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Well-grounded in the history and theory of Anglo-American urbanism, this illustrated textbook sets out objectives, policies and design principles for planning new communities and redeveloping existing urban neighborhoods. Drawing from their extensive experience, the authors explain how better plans (and consequently better places) can be created by applying the three-dimensional principles of urban design and physical place-making to planning problems.

Design First uses case studies from the authors’ own professional projects to demonstrate how theory can be turned into effective practice, using concepts of traditional urban form to resolve contemporary planning and design issues in American communities.

The book is aimed at architects, planners, developers, planning commissioners, elected officials and citizens — and, importantly, students of architecture and planning — with the objective of reintegrating three-dimensional design firmly back into planning practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781138157965
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 02/07/2017
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; I. HISTORY: Paradigms Lost, Development Control, Traditional Urbanism; II. THEORY: Good Urbanism, Public Space vs. Cyberspace, Urban Design Principles, Land use, Transportation & Building Form, Managed Growth & the Market Economy, Community-based Design; III. PRACTICE: Setting Goals, Anglo-American Variations, Design Workshop, The Master Plan, Implementation Strategies; IV. CASE STUDIES; V. AFTERWORD
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