Author: Inc. Home Planners
Publisher: Home Planners
Keywords: home, plans, prairie, bungalow, styles, craftsman, showcasing, amp, arts, crafts
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2004-03
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1931131260
ISBN-13: 9781931131261

n Opening editorial chronicles the history and philosophy of the Arts & Crafts school of design n Eye-catching exteriors and smooth, harmonius interiors celebrate the simplicity and honesty of these homes n A photographic study of several Craftsman homes and tips on creating an authentic Arts & Crafts style interior are also included n Complete construction blueprints available for every home in this collection Let Arts & Crafts Home Plans be your guide to this well known and beloved American home design.

Author: Hanley Wood Home Planners
Publisher: Home Planners
Keywords: inspiration, european, style, homeplanners, southern, influenced, home, plans, mediterranean
Number of Pages: 189
Published: 2004-07
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1931131090
ISBN-13: 9781931131094

Mediterranean inspiration Bringing the allure of the sunkissed Mediterranean directly into readers hands, all 125 home plans are inspired by the traditional Southern European style.

Author: Charles Hoch
Publisher: APA Planners Pre
Keywords: persuasion, politics, power, planners
Number of Pages: 364
Published: 1994-01-01
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0918286905
ISBN-13: 9780918286901

What do planners do? To find out, Hoch interviewed 29 practicing planners and observed how they interacted with staff, citizens, and public officials. In ?What Planners Do ?, he tells their stories. The most effective planners have more than just technical skills. They also possess political and organizational savvy. You’ll learn how planners employ the arts of resistance, innovation, and persuasion while working in the trenches of local government; how they respond to the moral and political conflicts that pervade their profession; and how they balance individual autonomy and social res

Author: Carol D. Barrett
Publisher: APA Planners Press
Keywords: planners, practicing, ethics, everyday
Number of Pages: 246
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $43.95
ISBN-10: 1884829619
ISBN-13: 9781884829611

This book is on the suggested reading list for planners preparing to take the AICP exam. As veteran planner Carol Barrett points out, the most troublesome conflicts for planners aren’t between good and bad, they’re between competing good, neither of which can be fully achieved. The 54 real-world scenarios described here typify the tough moral dilemmas that confront today’s practioners. Barrett offers planners a way to recognize the ethical conflicts that arise in everyday practice, analyze them using practical moral reasoning, apply relevant sections of the AICP Code of Eth

Author: Todd A. Litman
Publisher: APA Planners Press
Keywords: practices, management, parking
Number of Pages: 294
Published: 2006-03-01
List price: $67.95
ISBN-10: 1932364056
ISBN-13: 9781932364057

The typical automobile is parked 23 hours a day. Where and how can make a big difference to economic development, traffic reduction, smart growth, historic preservation, and many other planning efforts. The parking management strategies described in this book will help planners increase parking facility efficiency and reduce parking demand. Parking management offers an alternative to traditional predict and provide parking planning, which has contributed to widespread auto dependency and urban sprawl. Instead of providing plentiful free parking, parking management provides optimal parking sup

Author: Michael P. Brooks
Publisher: APA Planners Press
Keywords: practitioners, theory, planning
Number of Pages: 217
Published: 2002-03-01
List price: $52.95
ISBN-10: 1884829597
ISBN-13: 9781884829598

This book is recommended reading for planners preparing to take the AICP exam. In this new book, Michael Brooks bridges the gap between theory and practice. He describes an original approach-Feedback Strategy-that builds on the strengths of previous planning theories with one big difference: it not only acknowledges but welcomes politics-the bogeyman of real-world planning. Don’t hold your nose or look the other way, Brooks advises planners, but use politics to your own advantage. Brooks admits that most of the time planning theory doesn’t have much to do with planning practice.

Author: Randall G. Arendt
Publisher: APA Planners Press
Keywords: town, character, small, maintaining, design, rural
Number of Pages: 441
Published: 1994-05-01
List price: $75.95
ISBN-10: 0918286859
ISBN-13: 9780918286857

This book is recommended reading for planners preparing to take the AICP exam. Conventional planning techniques just aren’t working in many rural and suburbanizing areas. Developments where people merely exist have replaced neighborhoods where people once thrived. Strip malls and checkerboard subdivisions prevail. Randall Arendt argues convincingly that this scenario is not inevitable. In Rural by Design he advocates creative, practical land-use planning techniques to preserve open space and community character. He shows how developments all across America have used these techniques suc