Frederick R Steiner

Making Plans

How to Engage with Landscape, Design, and the Urban Environment

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This frank, first-person account of developing plans for the city of Austin and the University of Texas campus offers a practical primer on community and regional planning by one of the leading experts in the field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 163mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781477314319
• ISBN-10: 1477314318
• Artikelnr.: 49663385

Autorenporträt

Frederick R. Steiner is dean of the School of Design and Paley Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He has more than four decades of planning experience throughout the world. His many books include Design for a

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations and Tables
Introduction: A Planning Species
1. Setting Goals: A Declaration of Aspiration
2. Reading Landscapes: An Understanding of Human Ecology
3. Determining Suitabilities: A Discovery of Opportunities and Constraints
4. Designing Options: An Exploration of Preferred Futures
5. Selecting a Course: A Commitment to Act
6. Taking Actions: A Live Performance
7. Adjusting to Change: A Road to Resilience
8. Reflections: A Clearing in the Distance
Coda
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index