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Book Designating Your Community s Open Space

Download or read book Designating Your Community s Open Space written by Susan C. Enger and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Designing Your Community s Open Space

Download or read book Designing Your Community s Open Space written by Susan C. Enger and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Concepts of Successful Open Space Design in Community Planning

Download or read book The Concepts of Successful Open Space Design in Community Planning written by Forrest E. Gibson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Community Open Spaces

Download or read book Community Open Spaces written by Mark Francis and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book People Places

    Book Details:
  • Author : Clare Cooper Marcus
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 1997-09-03
  • ISBN : 9780471288336
  • Pages : 406 pages

Download or read book People Places written by Clare Cooper Marcus and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1997-09-03 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: people places Second Edition Design Guidelines for Urban Open Space edited by Clare Cooper Marcus and Carolyn Francis A resurgence in the use of public space continues throughout North America and many other parts of the world. Neighborhoods have become more outspoken in their demands for appropriate park designs; corporations have witnessed the value of providing outdoor spaces for employee lunch-hour use; the rising demand for child care has prompted increased awareness of the importance of developmentally appropriate play and learning environments; and increased attention is being focused on the specific outdoor space needs for the elderly, college students, and hospital patients and staff. Now available in an updated, expanded second edition, People Places is a fully illustrated, award-winning book that offers research-based guidelines and recommendations for creating more usable and enjoyable public open spaces of all kinds. People Places analyzes and summarizes existing research on how urban open spaces are actually used, offering design professionals and students alike an easily understood, easily applied guide to creating people-friendly places. Seven types of urban open space are discussed: urban plazas, neighborhood parks, miniparks and vest-pocket parks, campus outdoor spaces, outdoor spaces in housing for the elderly, child-care outdoor spaces, and hospital outdoor spaces. People Places contains a chapter-by-chapter review of the literature, illustrative case studies, and design guidelines specific to each type of space. People Places has a number of features that can be easily incorporated into the design process: * Clear, readable translations of existing research on people's use of outdoor spaces. * Performance-based design recommendations that specify key relationships between design and use. * Design review checklists that help readers plan and critique designs. * A clearly organized, concise format equally useful to the design practitioner and the design student. The newly revised edition of People Places also includes: * Discussion of accessibility issues, including ADA regulations and the concept of universal design; and of design responses aimed at crime reduction. * Procedures for conducting post-occupancy evaluations of designed outdoor spaces. * Updated and new information on each type of outdoor space, with special attention to hospitals, child care facilities, and campus outdoor spaces where specific advances have occurred since 1990. * A completely new color-photo section and 50 new black and white illustrations. Winner of the Merit Award in Communication from the American Society of Landscape Architects, People Places is an essential working tool for landscape architects and architects, city planners, urban designers, neighborhood groups, and anyone else concerned with the quality of urban open space.

Book Open Space Planning

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maine. Bureau of Parks and Recreation. Grants and Community Recreation Division
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 199?
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 29 pages

Download or read book Open Space Planning written by Maine. Bureau of Parks and Recreation. Grants and Community Recreation Division and published by . This book was released on 199? with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Open Space and Environmental Quality

Download or read book Open Space and Environmental Quality written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Planning for Parks  Recreation  and Open Space in Your Community

Download or read book Planning for Parks Recreation and Open Space in Your Community written by Susan C. Enger and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Growth Management Act (GMA) charts a new course for Washington communities that has tremendous implications for parks, recreation, and open space planning. The GMA promotes wise use of limited land and resources which helps in sprawling, low-density land use that represents a threat to open space in this state.

Book Urban Open Space

Download or read book Urban Open Space written by Mark Francis and published by . This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research has shown that successful public spaces are ones that are responsive to the needs of their users, are democratic in their accessibility, and are meaningful for the larger community. This work examines studies to glean findings and design implications related to user needs and conflicts.

Book Regional Planning for Open Space

Download or read book Regional Planning for Open Space written by Arnold van der Valk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-24 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviewing the limitations of various planning options, this book addresses the debate on how to preserve open space in the context of a growing metropolis. The importance of open spaces for well-being in urban life is well-established. With case studies on internalization and valuation methods, this book critically examines the liberal discourse that urges the transfer of responsibility for open space from government to the market. European and American expert authors confront political rhetoric with grounded analysis and conclude that the market needs to be combined with governmental efforts. They scrutinize the connection between open space and the planning institutions designed to implement its policy. The book provides practical pieces of insight in how to structure an open space problem, information on what to expect from instruments, and new ideas on alternative approaches.

Book Open Space for People in the Urban Community

Download or read book Open Space for People in the Urban Community written by Roxbury-Dorchester Beautification Program and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Making of Neighborhood Open Space

Download or read book The Making of Neighborhood Open Space written by Mark Francis and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Conservation Design for Subdivisions

Download or read book Conservation Design for Subdivisions written by Randall G. Arendt and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In most communities, land use regulations are based on a limited model that allows for only one end result: the production of more and more suburbia, composed of endless subdivisions and shopping centers, that ultimately covers every bit of countryside with "improvements." Fortunately, sensible alternatives to this approach do exist, and methods of developing land while at the same time conserving natural areas are available. In Conservation Design for Subdivisions, Randall G. Arendt explores better ways of designing new residential developments than we have typically seen in our communities. He presents a practical handbook for residential developers, site designers, local officials, and landowners that explains how to implement new ideas about land-use planning and environmental protection. Abundantly illustrated with site plans (many of them in color), floor plans, photographs, and renditions of houses and landscapes, it describes a series of simple and straightforward techniques that allows for land-conserving development. The author proposes a step-by-step approach to conserving natural areas by rearranging density on each development parcel as it is being planned so that only half (or less) of the buildable land is turned into houselots and streets. Homes are built in a less land-consumptive manner that allows the balance of property to be permanently protected and added to an interconnected network of green spaces and green corridors. Included in the volume are model zoning and subdivision ordinance provisions that can help citizens and local officials implement these innovative design ideas.

Book Cache La Poudre National Water Heritage Area  American Discovery Trail  and Employee Housing

Download or read book Cache La Poudre National Water Heritage Area American Discovery Trail and Employee Housing written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks, and Forests and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Participatory Design and Self building in Shared Urban Open Spaces

Download or read book Participatory Design and Self building in Shared Urban Open Spaces written by Carolin Mees and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book investigates the development of community gardens with self-built structures, which have existed as a shared public open space land use form in New York City?s low-come neighborhoods like the South Bronx since the 1970s. These gardens have continued to be part of the urban landscape until today, despite conflicting land use interests, changing residents groups and contradictory city planning. Both community gardens and self-built structures are created in a participatory design and self-built effort by urban residents and are an expression of the individual gardeners? preferences, their cultural background and the decisions made by the managing residents? group in regards to the needs of their neighborhood. Ultimately community gardens with self-built structures are an expression of the people?s will to commonly use this land for open and enclosed structures next to their homes in the city and need to be included in future urban planning.

Book Designation reauthorization of National Heritage Areas

Download or read book Designation reauthorization of National Heritage Areas written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Designation of Wilderness Areas

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1970
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 558 pages

Download or read book Designation of Wilderness Areas written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: