Regional design: Recovering a great landscape architecture and urban planning tradition Export

@article{citeulike:5797480, abstract = {We are witnessing a rebirth of physical design, both in practice and the academy, spurred on by neo-traditional community planning and neo-urbanism. This article attributes the sources of contemporary regional design to this renaissance. It also traces its origins to classic regional planning, which has been a professional activity for over a century. Regional design shapes the physical form of regions. It takes a regional perspective in guiding the arrangement of human settlements in communities. It is a strategy to accommodate growth by providing a physical framework to determine or guide the most beneficial location, function, scale, and inter-relationships of communities within a region. This strategic function of regional design distinguishes it from urban and regional planning, apart from its focus on physical form. Communities, the links among them, and their environs are the three key physical components of regions that are the objects of regional design. Regional design strives to connect these communities by transport, communication, and other links into regional networks. Keeping the fringes or environs of the communities relatively sparsely settled is another aim. The article presents historic and contemporary examples of regional design in the US and Europe, and outlines principles for regional design.}, author = {Neuman, M.}, citeulike-article-id = {5797480}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0169-2046(99)00079-1}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0169-2046(99)00079-1}, day = {10}, doi = {10.1016/S0169-2046(99)00079-1}, issn = {01692046}, journal = {Landscape and Urban Planning}, keywords = {academy, architecture, communication, community\_planning, density, design, environs, fringes, human\_settlements, infrastructure, landscape, landscape\_architecture, neo-traditionalism, networks, newurbanism, origins, physical, physical\_framework, planning, praxis, professional\_activity, regional\_design, regional\_networks, regional\_perspective, regionalism, relationships, renaissance, strategy, suburbia, tradition, traditionalism, transit, transport, urban, urban\_and\_regional\_planning, urban\_planning, urbanism, visual}, month = {April}, number = {3-4}, pages = {115--128}, posted-at = {2009-09-17 20:00:28}, priority = {2}, title = {Regional design: Recovering a great landscape architecture and urban planning tradition}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0169-2046(99)00079-1}, volume = {47}, year = {2000} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5797480 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5797480 N2 - We are witnessing a rebirth of physical design, both in practice and the academy, spurred on by neo-traditional community planning and neo-urbanism. This article attributes the sources of contemporary regional design to this renaissance. It also traces its origins to classic regional planning, which has been a professional activity for over a century. Regional design shapes the physical form of regions. It takes a regional perspective in guiding the arrangement of human settlements in communities. It is a strategy to accommodate growth by providing a physical framework to determine or guide the most beneficial location, function, scale, and inter-relationships of communities within a region. This strategic function of regional design distinguishes it from urban and regional planning, apart from its focus on physical form. Communities, the links among them, and their environs are the three key physical components of regions that are the objects of regional design. Regional design strives to connect these communities by transport, communication, and other links into regional networks. Keeping the fringes or environs of the communities relatively sparsely settled is another aim. The article presents historic and contemporary examples of regional design in the US and Europe, and outlines principles for regional design. IS - 3-4 JF - Landscape and Urban Planning SN - 01692046 EP - 128 TI - Regional design: Recovering a great landscape architecture and urban planning tradition VL - 47 SP - 115 KW - academy KW - architecture KW - communication KW - community_planning KW - density KW - design KW - environs KW - fringes KW - human_settlements KW - infrastructure KW - landscape KW - landscape_architecture KW - neo-traditionalism KW - networks KW - newurbanism KW - origins KW - physical KW - physical_framework KW - planning KW - praxis KW - professional_activity KW - regional_design KW - regional_networks KW - regional_perspective KW - regionalism KW - relationships KW - renaissance KW - strategy KW - suburbia KW - tradition KW - traditionalism KW - transit KW - transport KW - urban KW - urban_and_regional_planning KW - urban_planning KW - urbanism KW - visual AU - Neuman, M PY - 2000/04/10/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0169-2046(99)00079-1 ER -