Review
Years on the front lines of urban design, advocacy and teaching have equipped David Walters and Linda Luise Brown of Charlotte with a considerable store of wisdom, here distilled into a handbook useful for architects, planners and developers. This book's topics, however, hold meaning for all citizens with an interest in what might be taking shape outside their front doors and down their streets. Walters and Brown write with a well-founded confidence that new planning projects in this region can hold lessons for national -- even international audiences. - The Charlotte Observer
Urban Designers have benefited greatly from publications that have become available over the past few years. Some books are practical manuals that remain open during the design process in university studios and professional offices. Others help designers communicate with clients and/or the community. Still others give students and professional's insights into turning theory into built form. Design First is written to serve all three purposes. ... the book falls into the classic format epitomized by Robert Venturis' Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. The scope of the material is exhaustive. - New Urban News
The book is a lucid and welcome addition to the literature for many reasons, but especially for focusing on practical work and action without disdaining thought and history - Planning Magazine
In this book, the core of which presents case studies of five communities in the United States that are using Smart Growth principles to guide development, the authors discuss their theories on urban design, emphasizing environmental sensitivity. - Landscape Architecture
Product Description
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.
·Focus and emphasis on planning by 3-D design
·Clear and practical presentation of how communities can improve their town planning processes
·Case studies illustrate the practice and implementation of ideas
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