Financing Redevelopment: Using Public Finance Tools for Vision-Consistent Development
Establishing special districts includes designing the sources and uses of funds at the same time as determining land use, circulation […]
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town planning
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A Survey of Performance Management Systems
The model system for performance management draws on the experience of eleven well-known systems adaptable to the issues facing small
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Community Character: Principles for Design and Planning
Community Character: Principles for Design and Planning by Lane H. Kendig with Bret C. Keast, [Island Press, Washington, 187 pages, 2010]
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The City’s Form and Function – 2016
The City’s Form and Function – 2016 is evolving based on global access to the new global economy. The annual
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Form Based Code “Lite”: Focus on Streets, Blocks and Buildings.
The use of land development codes based on the form of development rather than the uses within buildings is proving
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Leverage and the Idea of Multiple Benefits: The Tangible Benefit of Collaborative Thinking and Doing
A thought that underlies all city strategies, plans and actions is to leverage available resources to create multiple benefits for
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The Small Town Planning Handbook
The Small Town Planning Handbook [2007].
This Handbook is very useful for all towns, and specifically for small towns. The contents include chapters on strategy, comprehensive planning, economic development planning, neighborhoods, downtowns and special districts covering all the relevant physical dimensions of city and town planning.
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Performance Management; The System for Learning and Innovation Organizations
Performance Management measures activities of the town government with the intent of improving performance; the best systems are not punitive,
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High Performance Development Corridors
High Performance Development Corridors are the result of transforming the all too common blighted commercial strips into productive multi-use economic