Research Catalog

Title

Making plans : how to engage with landscape, design, and the urban environment / Frederick R. Steiner.

Author

Steiner, Frederick R.

Publication

• Austin : University of Texas Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Description

x, 196 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color); 24 cm.

Summary

"Community and regional planning involve thinking ahead and formally envisioning the future for ourselves and others," according to Frederick R. Steiner. "improved plans can lead to healthier, safer, and more beautiful places to live for us and other species. We can also plan for places that are more just and more profitable. Plans can help us not only to sustain what we value but also to transcend sustainability by creating truly regenerative communities, that is, places with the capacity to restore, renew, and revitalize their own sources of energy and materials." In Making Plans, Steiner offers a primer on the planning process through a lively, firsthand account of developing plans for the city of Austin and the University of Texas campus. As dean of the UT School of Architecture, Steiner served on planning committees that addressed the future growth of the city and the university, growth that inevitably overlapped because of UT's central location in Austin. As he walks readers through the planning processes, Steiner illustrated how large-scale planning requires setting goals and objectives, reading landscapes, determining best uses, designing options, selecting courses for moving forward, taking actions, and adjusting to changes. He also demonstrates that planning is an inherently political, sometimes messy, act, requiring the intelligence and ownership of the affected communities. Both wise and frank, Making Plans is an important philosophical and practical statement on planning by a leader in the field--back cover.

Series Statement

Roger Fullington series in architecture

Uniform Title

Roger Fullington series in architecture.

Subject

• City planning
• Regional planning
• Land use > Planning
• Landscape architecture
• Human ecology

Genre/Form

• Architectural drawings.
• Informational works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-187) and index.

Contents

Introduction : a planning species -- Setting goals : a declaration of aspiration -- Reading landscapes : an understanding of human ecology -- Determining suitabilities : a discovery of opportunities and constraints -- Designing options : an exploration of preferred futures -- Selecting a course : a commitment to act -- Taking actions : a live performance -- Adjusting to change : a road to resilience -- Reflections : a clearing in the distance -- Coda.

Call Number

JFE 21-1821

ISBN

• 9781477314319
• 1477314318
• 9781477314302
• 147731430X

LCCN

• 2017018217
• 14911876
• 14911877

OCLC

986523683

Author

Steiner, Frederick R., author.

Title

Making plans : how to engage with landscape, design, and the urban environment / Frederick R. Steiner.

Publisher

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Roger Fullington series in architecture

Roger Fullington series in architecture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-187) and index.

Other Standard Identifier

14911876

14911877

Sudoc No.

Z UA380.8 ST35ma txdocs

Research Call Number

JFE 21-1821