CONTENTS
Preface viii
Part I: Conceptual Framework for Land Use Planning 1
Framing the Land Use Planning Process 3
The Land Use Planning Arena 4
Values, Planning, and Sustainable Communities 5
Land Use Values 18
The Land Use Planning Program 23
Core Planning Capabilities 29
Summary 30
Notes 30
References 31
2.Shaping Plans through the Sustainability Prism Model 35
Managing Land Use Change 36
Planning and the Tensions of Sustainable Development 37
Sustainable Development and Livable Communities 38
A Prism Model of Sustainability 39
Reaching the Heart of the Sustainability Prism 45
Summary 54
Notes 55
References 56
3.What Makes a Good Plan? 60
Core Purposes of a Plan 60
Types of Plans as Products of a Multistage Process Criteria for Evaluating Plan Quality 69
Potential Limitations 75
Summary 77
Appendix 78
Notes 82
References 82
Part II: Overview of Building Planning Support Systems 85
4.Planning Support Systems 89
Planning Support System Technologies 90
Planning Support System Functions 102
Intelligence in the Plan-making Process 110
Summary 112
Notes 112
References 114
5. Population and Economy 117
How Population and Economic Analyses Are Used 118
Sources of Population and Economic Data 125
Methods for Analyzing Population and Employment 126
The Critical Role of Assumptions 142
Desirable Characteristics of a Forecast 143
Summary 145
Notes 146
References 146
6.Environmental Systems 149
Environmental Inventory and Classification 150
Analyzing Environmental Information 177
Summary 191
Notes 192
References 193
7.Land Use Systems 197
Forces of Land Use Change 198
Land Supply Inventory and Classification 203
Future Land Use Analysis 212
Land Use Intelligence 217
Summary 221
Notes 222
References 222
8.Transportation and Infrastructure Systems 225
Roles of Community Facilities 226
Transportation Facilities 228
Water, Sewerage, and School Infrastructure 249
Summary 258
Notes 260
References 260
9.State of Community Report 265
Preparing the State of Community Report 266
Aggregating Key Findings 267
Building Community Consensus 271
Ongoing Involvement 281
Summary 283
Notes 284
References 284
Part III: Overview of Making Land Use Plans 287
10. The Plan-making Process
Preparation for Plan Making 292
Components Produced by Stage in the Plan-making Process Designing the Spatial Arrangements of Land Uses 300
Progression of Attention among Land Uses in the Design Process
Summary 311 Notes 313 References 313
11.The Areawide Land Policy Plan 315
The Concept and Purpose of an Areawide Land Policy Plan 316
The Overall Process for Areawide Land Policy Planning 318
Delineating Open-space Conservation Districts for the Land Policy Map 324
Delineating Policy Districts for Urban Growth and Redevelopment 333
Formulating Implementation Policies for Each Policy District 343
Bringing It Together into a Comprehensive Areawide Land Policy Plan 343
Summary 345
References 346
12.Communitywide Land Use Design: Employment and Commercial Centers 347
Types of Land Uses and Activity Centers 348
Matching Land Uses and Activity Center Forms 357
Planning the Communitywide Spatial Structure of
Employment and Commercial Activity Centers 358
Summary 377
References 380
13.Communitywide Land Use Design: Residential Community Habitats 383
Formulating a Residential Community Vision 384
The Residential Habitat Planning Process 400
Summary 418
References 419
14. Small-area Plans
The Nature and Purpose of Small-area Plans 422
Types of Small-area Plans 424
What a Small-area Plan Looks Like 428
The Process of Making Small-area Plans 432
Summary 445
References 446
15. Development Management 449
Development-management Concepts 450
Development-management Plan and Program Design 450
Participatory Processes 455
Technical Analysis 457
Tool Selection 460
Implementation 465
Summary 472
Notes 472
References 473
Index 477