Creating Great Town Centers and Urban Villages
- ISBN-10
- 0874200768
- ISBN-13
- 9780874200768
- Category
- Architecture / Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation
- Pages
- 199
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Urban Land Institute
- Authors
- Prema Katari Gupta, Kathryn Terzano
Description
Describes the hottest trends and innovations in design and development: creating a memorable public space, dealing with market realities, partnering with the public/private sectors, planning for development and financial complexity, capturing the benefits of density, sustainability initiatives, connecting to the community, and managing and programming the town center. Packed with color photographs, site plans, and case studies of both new projects and classics that have stood the test of time, this book reveals the inside story of how they were developed and what makes them special, offering vital facts about costs, rents, land uses, and more.
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