Complete Town Planning Methodology

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Fundamental Place-making Principles
Place Types and their Organization
Neighborhoods, Districts and Corridors
Elements of a Neighborhood
Support Systems and Networks
Placement and Arrangement

Strategic Site, Smart Locations

Avoidance of natural, sensitive, ecological and agricultural resources
Preferred Location

Mobility and Linkages

Transit and the Automobile
Bicycles
Pedestrians
Other forms

Land Efficiencies
Building Reuse and Rehabilitation
Water Efficiencies
Energy Efficiencies

Townscape Design

"Townscape" is the visual composition of structures within a town that determine its distinctive character. "Design" is the process of conceiving, creating, fashioning and executing a plan.

Townscape Design...
...is a studio of town planners and landscape architects with a passion for, and a devotion to the creation of vibrant, sustainable places of beauty and distinctive character, conceived in concert with traditional placemaking principles and with enduring and lasting value for its citizenry.