As part of the Livingston County Master Plan process,
MSU Extension Educator Glenn Pape and Livingston County Planning
conducted a six-part series on the following planning subjects:
Master Plans and Planning
Adaptive Reuse
Placemaking
| Smart Growth
Green Development
Complete Streets |
Also Recommended by Glenn Pape:
Can we rebuild our broken suburbs? Ellen Dunham-Jones shares a
vision of dying malls rehabilitated, dead "big box" stores
re-inhabited, and endless parking lots transformed into thriving
wetlands.
The Sprawl Repair Manual draws on more than two decades of
practical experience in the field of repairing and building communities
to analyze the current pattern of sprawl development, disassemble it
into its elemental components, and present a process for transforming
them into human-scale, sustainable elements. The techniques are
illustrated both two- and three-dimensionally, providing users with
clear methodologies for the sprawl repair interventions, some of which
are radical, but all of which will produce positive results.
Sprawl Retrofit, developed by CNU members, works to repair and
retrofit sprawling developments into the vibrant, high-performing
walkable places that are growing in popularity. In less than a decade,
Sprawl Retrofit has demonstrated that rehabilitating traditional suburbs
is achievable through existing policy and design approaches.
Sprawl Retrofit creates policy proposals, regulatory
frameworks, databases of successes, and design toolkits to empower
communities seeking to reclaim the lost potential of their paved-over
land. Sprawl repair projects in Georgia, California, Maryland, Colorado,
Massachusetts, Arizona, and countless other locations are already
reshaping how citizens and elected officials look at their existing
places and imagine their communities’ futures. In a time of converging
economic, social, and environmental momentum with worldwide
consequences, Sprawl Retrofit is setting a new global standard for how
we incorporate our burdensome built legacy into a more sustainable
future. |