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The American Planning Association just announced plans to create a 750 page reference book, Urban Planning and Design Standards, to be published in 2005.
Plans for the book include:
Plans for the book include:
The APA is soliciting a "wish list" for subjects to be included in the book. Have any great thoughts about what you would like to see in a "planning bible?" What shouldn't be in there?This book will be similar in scope and depth to Architectural Graphic Standards, currently in its 10th edition .. While that book focuses on structural and functional issues related to buildings, Urban Planning and Design Standards will address elements outside of the building envelope, from individual lots, subdivisions, and neighborhoods, to towns, cities, and regions. It will present information necessary to understand elements of the natural and built environments, provide universal principles on common areas of planning practice, and put forth contemporary issues of planning practice that planners should be incorporating to "make great communities happen".
... Our goal is to produce a reference that planners will turn to first to get the absolute essential pieces of information — written and visual — on a topic — or the information that is needed to do additional research on a subject.