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Charrettes, Masterplans and Form-based Codes
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By
David Walters, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Description
Greenfield sites around towns and cities, and redevelopment infill sites in existing urban areas often become battlegrounds between the
conflicting interests of developers and communities.
In America, design charrettes (intensive design and planning workshops) have become
widely used as a means of bringing together these divergent groups, using detailed design exercises to establish agreement around a development
masterplan. Despite the increasing frequency of their use, charrettes are widely misunderstood and can be misapplied. This book provides
a detailed guidance on the proper and most effective ways to use this helpful tool. The book combines charrette masterplanning with the
creation of "design-based" codes (also known as "form-based" codes) to control the development's implementation in line with the design
and planning principles established during the charrette process.
Audience
Architects, urban designers, landscape architects, planners, developers, and undergraduate and postgraduate students and academics in these areas.
Contents
1. Introduction: Urban design vs. planning: the role of design charrettes, master plans and form-based codes to reform the planning process.
2. History i: The history of community involvement in planning from 19th century anarchist roots to today.
3. History ii: The evolution
of the planning process: the renaissance of physical planning and the importance of urban design.
4. Theory i: Key urban design principles
5. Theory ii: Codes and Guidelines
6. Theory iii: Representation and Communication
7. Practice i: Charrette Principles and Organization
8. Practice ii: Charrette Processes and Products
9. Case Study i: Downtown redevelopment case study from author's own practice. This
community has a form-based zoning ordinance in place.
10. Case Study ii: Greenfield case study from author's own practice. This community
has a normative, sprawl-inducing zoning ordinance in place.
11. Afterword: Summary and recap
12. Appendix: Example of Form-based Code
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 288 pages, publication date: APR-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-6925-2
ISBN-10: 0-7506-6925-X
Imprint: ARCHITECTURAL PRESS
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