Download or read book Sustainable Community Planning and Development written by Fiona S. Crofton and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design charrettes are increasingly popular as a way to bring a range of expertise and interests together to collaborate on creating innovative design solutions and embody multiple objectives and mutual interests. They give visual form to ideas and policies and can be used to test and refine planning and development policies and directions. Overall, they are a means to obtain the most creative proposals for addressing the most difficult problems in the least amount of time. This manual is intended as a guide for those who would like to host or otherwise initiate a design charrette process for sustainable community planning. It is directed particularly at the urban planning context but has application to other planning contexts as well. The opening chapter begins with an introduction to the concepts and elements of sustainable development and 'sustainable community', and the role of design. Design charrettes and charrette-like events are then explored in more detail in terms of their purposes, usefulness and contribution to policy development and community planning. The chapter is intended to provide foundational information regarding sustainability planning, and guidance for deciding how a design charrette can be useful in your local community. The next chapter outlines key issues and steps involved in confirming a 'go ahead' for hosting or otherwise becoming involved with a charrette. This section examines the decision-making context, allies and resources, ways of building support and promoting the plan, and getting formal approvals. "Readiness Assessments" help you determine whether or not you are ready to proceed and what to do next in accordance with your answers. Chapter 3, Pre-Charrette Planning: Roll up Your Sleeves, is focused on the host of tasks to be completed in advance of a charrette. It includes sections on the stakeholder community and communications; consultants and facilitators; advance meetings and options; design issues including detailed discussion on the development of the design brief; design team formation and participant selection; time and timing; venue and facilities; support materials; and additional logistics. Sample schedules, products and lists are provided. The final chapters focus on the choreography, management and documentation of the charrette itself. Guidance and coaching hints for handling all the products of the charrette along with post-charrette communications and presentations is contained in the final chapter.

Download or read book Sustainable Community Planning and Development written by Fiona S. Crofton and published by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. This book was released on 2001 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design charrettes are becoming increasingly popular as a way to bring a range of expertise and interests together to collaborate on creating innovative design solutions and embody multiple objectives and mutual interests. They give visual form to ideas and policies and can be used to test and refine planning and development policies and directions. Overall, they are a means to obtain the most creative proposals for addressing the most difficult problems in the least amount of time. This manual is intended as a guide for those who would like to host or otherwise initiate a design charrette process for sustainable community planning. It is directed particularly at the urban planning context but has application to other planning contexts as well. The opening chapter begins with an introduction to the concepts and elements of sustainable development and 'sustainable community', and the role of design. Design charrettes and charrette-like events are then explored in more detail in terms of their purposes, usefulness and contribution to policy development and community planning. The chapter is intended to provide foundational information regarding sustainability planning, and guidance for deciding how a design charrette can be useful in your local community. The next chapter outlines key issues and steps involved in confirming a 'go ahead' for hosting or otherwise becoming involved with a charrette. This section examines the decision-making context, allies and resources, ways of building support and promoting the plan, and getting formal approvals. "Readiness Assessments" help you determine whether or not you are ready to proceed and what to do next in accordance with your answers. Chapter 3, Pre-Charrette Planning: Roll up Your Sleeves, is focused on the host of tasks to be completed in advance of a charrette. It includes sections on the stakeholder community and communications; consultants and facilitators; advance meetings and options; design issues including detailed discussion on the development of the design brief; design team formation and participant selection; time and timing; venue and facilities; support materials; and additional logistics. Sample schedules, products and lists are provided. The final chapters focus on the choreography, management and documentation of the charrette itself. Guidance and coaching hints for handling all the products of the charrette along with post-charrette communications and presentations is contained in the final chapter.

Download or read book Sustainable Community Planning and Development Design Charrette Planning Guide Final Report written by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design charrettes are becoming increasingly popular as a way to bring a range of expertise and interests together to collaborate on creating innovative design solutions and embody multiple objectives and mutual interests. They give visual form to ideas and policies and can be used to test and refine planning and development policies and directions. Overall, they are a means to obtain the most creative proposals for addressing the most difficult problems in the least amount of time. This manual is intended as a guide for those who would like to host or otherwise initiate a design charrette process for sustainable community planning. It is directed particularly at the urban planning context but has application to other planning contexts as well. The opening chapter begins with an introduction to the concepts and elements of sustainable development and 'sustainable community', and the role of design. Design charrettes and charrette-like events are then explored in more detail in terms of their purposes, usefulness and contribution to policy development and community planning. The chapter is intended to provide foundational information regarding sustainability planning, and guidance for deciding how a design charrette can be useful in your local community. The next chapter outlines key issues and steps involved in confirming a 'go ahead' for hosting or otherwise becoming involved with a charrette. This section examines the decision-making context, allies and resources, ways of building support and promoting the plan, and getting formal approvals. "Readiness Assessments" help you determine whether or not you are ready to proceed and what to do next in accordance with your answers. Chapter 3, Pre-Charrette Planning: Roll up Your Sleeves, is focused on the host of tasks to be completed in advance of a charrette. It includes sections on the stakeholder community and communications; consultants and facilitators; advance meetings and options; design issues including detailed discussion on the development of the design brief; design team formation and participant selection; time and timing; venue and facilities; support materials; and additional logistics. Sample schedules, products and lists are provided. The final chapters focus on the choreography, management and documentation of the charrette itself. Guidance and coaching hints for handling all the products of the charrette along with post-charrette communications and presentations is contained in the final chapter.

Download or read book Sustainable Community Planning and Development written by Fiona S. Crofton and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design charrettes are becoming increasingly popular as a way to bring a range of expertise and interests together to collaborate on creating innovative design solutions and embody multiple objectives and mutual interests. They give visual form to ideas and policies and can be used to test and refine planning and development policies and directions. Overall, they are a means to obtain the most creative proposals for addressing the most difficult problems in the least amount of time. This manual is intended as a guide for those who would like to host or otherwise initiate a design charrette process for sustainable community planning. It is directed particularly at the urban planning context but has application to other planning contexts as well. The opening chapter begins with an introduction to the concepts and elements of sustainable development and 'sustainable community', and the role of design. Design charrettes and charrette-like events are then explored in more detail in terms of their purposes, usefulness and contribution to policy development and community planning. The chapter is intended to provide foundational information regarding sustainability planning, and guidance for deciding how a design charrette can be useful in your local community. The next chapter outlines key issues and steps involved in confirming a 'go ahead' for hosting or otherwise becoming involved with a charrette. This section examines the decision-making context, allies and resources, ways of building support and promoting the plan, and getting formal approvals. "Readiness Assessments" help you determine whether or not you are ready to proceed and what to do next in accordance with your answers. Chapter 3, Pre-Charrette Planning: Roll up Your Sleeves, is focused on the host of tasks to be completed in advance of a charrette. It includes sections on the stakeholder community and communications; consultants and facilitators; advance meetings and options; design issues including detailed discussion on the development of the design brief; design team formation and participant selection; time and timing; venue and facilities; support materials; and additional logistics. Sample schedules, products and lists are provided. The final chapters focus on the choreography, management and documentation of the charrette itself. Guidance and coaching hints for handling all the products of the charrette along with post-charrette communications and presentations is contained in the final chapter.

Download or read book Sustainable Community Planning and Development written by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Research Division and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Design Charrettes for Sustainable Communities written by Patrick M. Condon and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A step-by-step guide to more synthetic, holistic, and integrated urban design strategies, Design Charrettes for Sustainable Communities is a practical manual to accomplish complex community design decisions and create more green, clean, and equitable communities. The design charrette has become an increasingly popular way to engage the public and stakeholders in public planning, and Design Charrettes for Sustainable Communities shows how citizens and officials can use this tool to change the way they make decisions, especially when addressing issues of the sustainable community. Designed to build consensus and cooperation, a successful charrette produces a design that expresses the values and vision of the community. Patrick Condon outlines the key features of the charrette, an inclusive decision-making process that brings together citizens, designers, public officials, and developers in several days of collaborative workshops. Drawing on years of experience designing sustainable urban environments and bringing together communities for charrettes, Condon’s manual provides step-by-step instructions for making this process work to everyone’s benefit. He translates emerging sustainable development concepts and problem-solving theory into concrete principles in order to explain what a charrette is, how to organize one, and how to make it work to produce sustainable urban design results.

Download or read book The Design Charrette written by Rob Roggema and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written to support community involvement in the design process, to help prevent negative outcomes that can result from a top-down design approach. The combination of community involvement and design is, at least in literature, not very extensive. Although much has been written about stakeholder involvement, this is often not directly related to design processes, which – most importantly – deprives community members of the opportunity to design their desired future themselves. The Design Charrette: Ways to Envision Sustainable Futures provides a theoretical foundation establishing the benefits of organizing a design charrette for community-based planning, supported by many practical examples. The book includes sections on collaborative learning, practical guidance, theory and case studies in many different contexts: long and short charrettes, urban and rural subjects, and Dutch, Chinese, Australian, Indian and European examples. Part I: General Theory offers a detailed overview of the charrette process, a chapter on innovations in organizational and community learning and a chapter on shifting paradigms in the design charrette. Part II presents a number of case studies, including the INternational Conference on Renewable Energy Approaches for the Spatial Environment (INCREASE); charrettes accomplished in two days in the communities of Sea Lake and Bendigo in Australia; a chapter on lessons for the future, describing rural participatory design in Rajasthan, India; a description of learning by practice in a high-pressure student atelier; a chapter entitled Design Charrettes for Sustainable Building in China and more. The Design Charrette challenges the conventional wisdom that good design by itself will bring about the benefits the designer envisions. By demonstrating and analyzing the effectiveness of design charrettes in personal development and learning, and as a way to share desired future pathways, the book benefits everyone who may be leading, considering or participating in a design charrette.

Download or read book Designing Community written by David R. Walters and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Urban development sites can become battlegrounds as a result of the conflicting interests of developers and communities. In the USA, design charrettes are often used as a means of bringing people together, using detailed design exercises to establish agreement around a development masterplan. However, despite the increasing frequency of their use, charrettes are widely misunderstood and can be misapplied. This book provides detailed guidance on the proper and most effective ways to use this helpful tool."-BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book The Community Planning Handbook written by Nick Wates and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing numbers of residents are getting involved with professionals in shaping their local environment, and there is now a powerful range of methods available, from design workshops to electronic maps. The Community Planning Handbook is the essential starting point for all those involved - planners and local authorities, architects and other practitioners, community workers, students and local residents. It features an accessible how-to-do-it style, best practice information on effective methods, and international scope and relevance. Tips, checklists and sample documents help readers to get started quickly, learn from others' experience and to select the approach best suited to their situation. The glossary, bibliography and contact details provide quick access to further information and support.

Download or read book Making Community Design Work written by Umut Toker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the earliest settlements, people have deliberated the issues that affect their future together. Making Community Design Work shows how planners can guide the process toward effective decision making and beneficial community design. This well-crafted book distills decades of community design experience into a sound conceptual framework of value to practicing planners as well as planning students. Umut Toker covers a broad range of planning scales and introduces field-tested tools for participatory decision making at regional, city, community, and site-specific levels. To succeed, any planning project must address both the physical space and its users. From setting goals to evaluating results, Making Community Design Work helps planners navigate the process of creating environments that meet the needs of the people they serve.

Download or read book The Design Charrette written by Rob Roggema and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sustainable Community Planning and Development Participation Tools Practices Final Report written by Crofton, Fiona S and published by CMHC. This book was released on 2001 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual is intended to help those who are seeking to involve others in sustainable community planning and development move through the various stages of participatory sustainable community planning smoothly and effectively. Principles, tools, methods and guidelines included in the manual are drawn from a wide range of expertise areas and input from experienced practitioners. Following a brief introduction providing reasons for the manual, a description of the intended audience, an overview of contents and guidance for use, the manual is presented in four main sections.The first section, "Initiation", focuses on participation in the sustainable community planning context and includes special attention to key participation principles, levels of participation, and the issues and benefits of multi-stakeholder participation in sustainable community planning.The second section, "Preparation", outlines in detail ten important steps for effective planning,implementation and follow-up. A series of tear-out tips and checklists for this section are provided in an appendix.Section III, "Participation", presents essential tools and a 'toolkit' for participation in sustainablecommunity planning. The toolkit includes short sheets outlining five general types of participation activity; a toolbox of more than 150 individual tools and methods useful for various activities; and a series of scenario maps which illustrate the ways various tools can be sequenced and how stakeholders can be involved throughout a particular planning process. Tool examples and resources for this section are included in the appendices.The final wrap-up section of the manual, "Continuation", addresses ways for ensuring ongoingparticipation in planning, and speaks to the changing roles of planners and citizens in the process.In sum, the aims of this book are:-- To provide users with a framework for developing an understanding of participation processes and issues; guidance for planning effective and continuous participatory sustainable community planning programs; and tools for undertaking such programs;-- To help shift community planning from one where planners say, "We'll figure it out and doit for you" to one where it is agreed that "We'll work and learn together" to find creativesolutions and achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.

Download or read book The Charrette Handbook written by Bill Lennertz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Charrette Handbook is a step-by-step guide to successful charrettes to help citizens envision new possibilities for their communities.

Download or read book Sustainable Community Planning and Development written by Fiona S. Crofton and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual is intended to help those who are seeking to involve others in sustainable community planning and development move through the various stages of participatory sustainable community planning smoothly and effectively. Principles, tools, methods and guidelines included in the manual are drawn from a wide range of expertise areas and input from experienced practitioners. Following a brief introduction providing reasons for the manual, a description of the intended audience, an overview of contents and guidance for use, the manual is presented in four main sections. The first section, "Initiation", focuses on participation in the sustainable community planning context and includes special attention to key participation principles, levels of participation, and the issues and benefits of multi-stakeholder participation in sustainable community planning. The second section, "Preparation", outlines in detail ten important steps for effective planning, implementation and follow-up. A series of tear-out tips and checklists for this section are provided in an appendix. Section III, "Participation", presents essential tools and a 'toolkit' for participation in sustainablecommunity planning. The toolkit includes short sheets outlining five general types of participation activity; a toolbox of more than 150 individual tools and methods useful for various activities; and a series of scenario maps which illustrate the ways various tools can be sequenced and how stakeholders can be involved throughout a particular planning process. Tool examples and resources for this section are included in the appendices. The final wrap-up section of the manual, "Continuation", addresses ways for ensuring ongoingparticipation in planning, and speaks to the changing roles of planners and citizens in the process. In sum, the aims of this book are:-- To provide users with a framework for developing an understanding of participation processes and issues; guidance for planning effective and continuous participatory sustainable community planning programs; and tools for undertaking such programs;-- To help shift community planning from one where planners say, "We'll figure it out and doit for you" to one where it is agreed that "We'll work and learn together" to find creativesolutions and achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.

Download or read book Sustainable Residential Development written by Avi Friedman and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2007-07-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capitalize on a Comprehensive New Process for Planning and Designing Sustainable Green Communities Written by internationally renowned architect Avi Friedman, Sustainable Residential Development equips you with a much-needed process and examples for planning and designing green communities. This landmark resource explains the principles of green building and how to apply them to residential development, presenting guidelines for creating communities that balance social, economic, and environmental needs. Filled with plans, elevations, and vignettes, the book shows how to incorporate wind direction, sun exposure, tree preservation, topography, and public spaces into site plan. It also shows how to design high-density neighborhoods...apply green design and construction principles by using local materials and techniques, solar power, waste management, and water efficiency...as well as rehabilitate neighborhoods while respecting their heritage. Sustainable Residential Development features: Expert guidelines for planning and designing communities that balance social, economic, and environmental needs A wealth of international and U.S. case studies and examples that illustrate the principles of sustainable community design Over 100 downloadable plans and elevations that offer a head start for planning and designing sustainable communities Inside this Green Planning and Design Guide: • Defining and Applying Principles of Sustainability in Neighborhood Development • Learning Lessons from the Past: The Rise of Suburbia • Site Selection and Analysis • Strategies for High-Density Neighborhoods: The New Urbanism • Planning, Design, and Construction Principles for Sustainability • The Urban Renewal Process and Architectural Heritage • Balancing Environmental, Cultural, and Economic Needs: A Framework for Greener Neighborhoods

Download or read book The Charrette Handbook written by National Charrette Institute and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charrettes engage citizens in envisioning new possibilities for their communities. They foster the collaboration, creativity, and consensus necessary to define a vision shared by citizens, officials, developers, and other stakeholders. The Charrette Handbook is a step-by-step guide to a successful charrette. Based on the NCI Charrette Planner certification training curriculum developed by the National Charrette Institute, the book offers practical tips on everything from pre-charrette preparations to project implementation. With handy charts and easy-to-follow examples, the handbook is an invaluable how-to manual for anyone organizing a charrette.

Download or read book A Concise Guide to Community Planning written by Gerald A. Porterfield and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1995 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quick, one-stop guide that shows readers the "big picture" for creating eff ective planning strategies and design solutions. Generic urban plans, typical street grids, environmental checklists, and other useful tools are enhanced with real-life case studies of recent community development plans. Illustrations and appendix with glossary are included.