Designing Community

<p>Greenfield sites around towns and cities and redevelopment infill sites in existing urban areas often become battlegrounds between the conflicting interests of developers and communities. <br><br>In America design charrettes (intensive design and planning workshops) have become widely used as a means of bringing together these divergent groups using detailed design exercises to establish agreement around a development masterplan. Despite the increasing frequency of their use charrettes are widely misunderstood and can be misapplied. This book provides a detailed guidance on the proper and most effective ways to use this helpful tool. The book combines charrette masterplanning with the creation of design-based codes (also known as form-based codes) to control the development's implementation in line with the design and planning principles established during the charrette process.</p>