Place Making: Developing Town Centers, Main Streets, and Urban Villages

by Charles Bohl, Gary Cusumano (Foreword by)

This ULI best-seller is the definitive guide to place making for town centers and walkable mixed-use development. The planning, design and development of town centers and urban villages with mixed uses in pedestrian-friendly settings is an essential, timeless foundation of communities that are livable, sustainable, enduring places. This book will help navigate through the unique design and development issues and reveal how to make all elements work together in contemporary development and revitalization of main streets, town centers and urban villages.

Genres: Urban Planning, Urbanism, Reference

305 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[Theresa]

This book sparked creative ideas on how to plan/design a more cohesive town center compared with the strip shopping centers of yesterday. Because I live in a growing small college town and I am involved with zoning, this was very helpful in our goal of establishing a harmonious community for all of our citizens. Since I am a visual learner, the many pictures and illustrations were especially helpful.