Research Catalog

Title

Partnerships for smart growth : university-community collaboration for better public places / Wim Wiewel and Gerrit-Jan Knaap, editors.

Publication

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2005.

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Additional Authors

• Wiewel, Wim.
• Knaap, Gerrit, 1956-
• Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

Description

x, 250 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

This book is a guidebook on how universities and communities can best develop partnership projects. It includes thirteen case studies of successful university-community collaborations on smart growth initiatives. The chapters include geographically diverse locations, including urban, suburban, and rural projects, Each case includes a comprehensive discussion of how and why the project was initiated, who was involved, and what were the techniques, the pitfalls, and the outcome. --book cover.

Series Statement

Cities and contemporary society

Uniform Title

Cities and contemporary society.

Subject

• Community and college > Case studies
• Regional planning > Environmental aspects > Case studies

Genre/Form

Case studies

Note

• "Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, Massachusetts"

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Using a studio course for provision of smart growth technical assistance : the University of Maryland's 1999 Community Planning Studio in Perryville, Maryland / James R. Cohen -- Freeway demolition on the road to smart growth : a university-community partnership for infill and economic development / Michael J. Greenwald and Nancy Frank -- Fostering smart growth through long-term partnerships : the University of Oregon's Community Planning Workshop / Robert Parker -- Applying clinical legal education to community smart growth : the University of Florida Conservation Clinic / Thomas T. Ankersen and Nicole C. Kibert -- Using a geographic information system (GIS) to help shape redevelopment of small urban centers / Christine Danis ... [et al.] -- Encouraging smart growth in a skeptical state : university-stakeholder collaboration in central Indiana / Greg Lindsey ... [et al.] -- Smart growth and community preservation : one citizen at a time / Priscilla Geigis, Elisabeth Hamin, and Linda Silka -- Smart growth and landscape conservation in rural Pennsylvania / David W. Gross and Edward W. LeClear -- United growth : Michigan State University's rural and urban land use strategy in West Michigan / Richard W. Jelier, Carol L. Townsend, and Kendra C. Wills -- Promoting smart growth through participation and partnership : the community design team in rural West Virginia / L. Christopher Plein and Jeremy Morris -- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's master plan and development plan : blueprints and partners in smart growth / Richard Thorsten -- A king's ransom : Chattanooga's university invests in partnerships for smart growth in the historic Martin Luther King District / Meredith Perry and John Schaerer -- Universities as participants in planning enabling statute reform / Brian W. Ohm.

ISBN

• 0765615592 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0765615606 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004023627

OCLC

• 56729960
• SCSB-10478927

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library