Urban Design for Planners: Tools, Techniques, and Strategies (PDF)

Urban Planners: Take the Leadership Role in Urban Design Designing a good community entails so much more than architecture. But all too often, architects lead the discussion on urban design. In her clarion call for real community-based urban design, Emily Talen challenges urban planners to reengage in urban design to ensure that it supports and promotes diverse, sustainable, vibrant, and equitable communities. Urban Design for Planners: Tools, Techniques, and Strategies is for anyone with an interest in the built environment This book is a step-by-step guide to observing, analyzing, and designing civic-minded, well-functioning, and pedestrian-oriented places. For planners to connect urban design to social objectives, they need the proper urban design tools. The book is organized as an easy-to-use manual of 10 exercises that rely on three types of software: mapping/spatial analysis (GIS), 3-D modeling (SketchUp), and graphics. Anyone with a little background in GIS and a few other us