Design Charrettes for Sustainable Communities
Patrick M. Condon
Island Press
<P>A step-by-step guide to more synthetic, holistic, and integrated urban design strategies, <I>Design Charrettes for Sustainable Communities</I> is a practical manual to accomplish complex community design decisions and create more green, clean, and equitable communities.</p><P> </P><P>The design charrette has become an increasingly popular way to engage the public and stakeholders in public planning, and <I>Design Charrettes for Sustainable Communities</I> shows how citizens and officials can use this tool to change the way they make decisions, especially when addressing issues of the sustainable community.</P><P> </P><P>Designed to build consensus and cooperation, a successful charrette produces a design that expresses the values and vision of the community. Patrick Condon outlines the key features of the charrette, an inclusive decision-making process that brings together citizens, designers, public officials, and developers in several days of collaborative workshops.</p><P> </P><P>Drawing on years of experience designing sustainable urban environments and bringing together communities for charrettes, Condon’s manual provides step-by-step instructions for making this process work to everyone’s benefit. He translates emerging sustainable development concepts and problem-solving theory into concrete principles in order to explain what a charrette is, how to organize one, and how to make it work to produce sustainable urban design results.</P>