Resumen: More than one-half of the world population now live in urban areas, and the quality of life in many of these environments continues its steep decline. The urgency for more sustainable urban design has never been greater. In Dynamic Urban Design, author Michael A. von Hausen answers that call, outlining a model for creating flexible and enduring communities for people around the world.
Targeted toward seasoned professionals, students, community advocates, and politicians who want to take their community to the next level of social, economic, and environmental performance, Dynamic Urban Design presents a model for designing communities strategically using comprehensive, community-basedprocesses and plans. It addresses contemporary urban design practice and applied sustainability in downtown, suburban, and rural areas. Real- world case studies, enriched with more than two hundred illustrations, show you how to apply these universal lessons and ingredients to your own communities.
A reference guide to doing it right, Dynamic Urban Design offers a universal, tangible, and viable tool kit to aid in effective community development. It interweaves theory and practice to unite urban design and sustainability in a practical, measured way.

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Contenido:
I A SUSTAINABLE FRAMEWORK
1 BUiLDINC BLOCKS
The nature of urban design
Origins of sustainable community developmenr
Linking disciplines across boundaries
A dynamic urban design model
2 FROM ANCIENT ROME TO CITY BEAUTIFUL
Discovering the spirit of place
The formative years
Industrial new towns, grand city plans, and livability City Beautiful movement
3 TWENTIETH-CENTURY TRANSFORMATIONS
Birth of the neighborhood unit
New town movement
Car-oriented North American suburbs
Urban renewal
Pattern language and good city form
Sustainability, Smart Growth, and New Urbanism
The rural cluster and saving our countryside
Lessons for the future
Summary of concepts and theorists
k SUCCESSFUL PLACES
Nine key elements of urban design
Measurable and nonmeasurable elements
Ten poor form-makers: What not to do
Ten key principies of urban design
The place test: Twenty-five questions
II ANALYSIS AND INTEGRATION
5 SITE ANALYSIS
Sample neighborhood analysis task list
Summary of sustainable process and product elements
Interactive stakeholder process
Ten best practices for public engagement
6 PLAN-MAKING IN THEORY
Processing complex information: The "making" process....
Form-makers and a "family of plans"
Five-step comprehensive urban design process
Case study: Concept to master plan, New Elita,
Krasnoyarsk, Russia
7 PLAH-MAKINC IN REALITY
Jump-starting design
Combining two approaches
Case study: Collaborative community process, Lower
Twelfth Street, New Westminster, British Columbia . . . Case study: Resort and housing development, Weyerhaeuser Lands, Ucluelet, British Columbia
8 POLICIES AND GUIDELINES
Catalysts for action
Case study: Downtown master plan, Langley, British
Columbia
Examples of design policies
Examples of design guidelines
9 DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS
Comprehensive downtown development district
Examples of development regulations
Case study: Low-profile housing infill regulations, Medicine Hat, Alberta
III EVALUATION AND INNOVATIONS
10 DESIGN REVIEW
Overview of the process
Three steps to successful design review
Oversights in design review
Design review matrix
11 NEW URBANISM AND LEED-ND
What is LEED for Neighborhood Development?
Comparing two New Urbanism projects
About the Cañada Lands Company
Case study: Urban renaissance, Garrison Woods, Calgary,
Alberta
Case study: Suburban renaissance, Garrison Crossing,
Chilliwack, British Columbia
12 URBAN INNOVATIONS
Lessons from Chicago
Case study: Hundred-year visión, Calgary, Alberta
Case study: Cooperation for a new community, Vladivostok,
Russia
Case study: Infill and redevelopment, Halifax, Nova Scotia . . .
13 THE SUBURBS AND BEYOND
Suburban retrofit
Case study: Increasing density, Red Deer, Alberta
Rural edge cluster development
A three-step reverse design method
Case study: Cluster housing, Strathcona County, Alberta
IV ACTION BY DESIGN
14 MAKINC SUSTAINABLE DESIGN HAPPEN
Creating predictable results
Case study: Creating sustainable implementation
performance tools, Salisbury Village East, Alberta
15 METRO VANCOUVER: SUSTAINABLE REGIONALISM
Región by design
Municipalities working cooperatively
16 CITY OF VANCOUVER: SUSTAINABLE URBANISM
Top-of-the-world city
Setting, historical decisions, and city policy framework Next step: The greenest city in the worid challenge . . . Success factors
17 CONCLUSION
Barriers to change
Change agents
Combining change agents for greater strength
Change starts with us
APRENDICES
A. Economics Checklist
B. Sustainability Scorecard