Sustaining places
Subtitle: the role of the comprehensive plan
By: David R. Godschalk and William R. Anderson
Contributors: Anderson, William R.
Series: Planning Advisory Service report -- no. 567; Report (American Planning Association. Planning Advisory Service) -- no. 567.
Publisher: American Planning Association
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9781611900101
Subjects: Regional planning; Planning; Sustainable development
Description: This book show how cities, towns, and regions can work together to meet the challenge. These leading planners put forward eight principles for developing comprehensive plans that address today's needs without compromising the needs of the next generation. Case studies demonstrate sustainability planning at work in cities including Seattle and San Diego and smaller communities like Keene, New Hampshire, and Union County, Pennsylvania. It gives planners, local officials, and involved citizens a practical framework for understanding today's concerns and a roadmap for moving toward a better future. The report culminates the American Planning Association's multiyear, multifaceted Sustaining Places Initiative.
Notes: Cover title.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-100).
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the task force charge and approach; title: Principles for planning for sustaining places; title: The need for sustainablility in cities and regions; title: The role and status of the comprehensive plan in sustaining places; title: Planning scale and the vertical integration of plans; title: Sustaining the plan through implementation; title: Conclusions and recommendations: an agenda for sustaining places.; title: Appendices:  Appendix A. Plan analyses: Toward a sustainable Seattle; title: Marin, California, countrywide plan; title: Fort Collins, Colorado, 2011 city plan; title: San Diego County, The 2004 Regional Comprehensive Plan (RCP) for the San Diego region; title: Keene, New Hampshire, 2010 comprehensive master plan; title: Burlington, Vermont, 2000 legacy plan; title: Union County, Pennsylvania, cultivating community comprehensive plan; title: Draft of the Philadelphia 2035 comprehensive plan; title: Draft of the Albany, New York, 2030 comprehensive plan; title: Connecting, Cleveland 2020, citywide plan; title: Appendix B. San Diego regional planning program.