This best-selling and richly illustrated book by landscape architect Julie Campoli and aerial photographer Alex S. MacLean helps planners, designers, public officials, and citizens better understand how residential density can help save energy, dollars, and the environment.

Visualizing Density

Politics & Social Sciences

Campoli, Julie

Social Sciences

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Through hundreds of photographs and maps, landscape architect and urban designer Julie Campoli showcases 12 vibrant North American neighborhoods where residents can live comfortably without a car. By identifying the policies and amenities that foster such streetscapes, Campoli teaches urban developers, decision makers, and students how to create similar communities and help to mitigate climate change by lowering vehicle miles traveled.

Made for Walking: Density and Neighborhood Form

Arts & Photography

Above and Beyond takes an aerial view to conclusively demonstrate how suburban sprawl is forever changing the look of America—and how that can be avoided. Alex MacLean's photographs—many of them combined with computer simulations to illustrate how landscapes are transformed over time—show how traditional development patterns produce more compact cities and towns. In conjunction, the authors introduce communities that have successfully fought sprawl, invigorated their town areas, and overcome the car-culture mentality of sprawl development. The case they make, and the examples they offer, will inspire planners, officials, and concerned citizens everywhere.

Above and Beyond: Visualizing Change in Small Towns and Rural Areas

MacLean, Alex

Humstone, Elizabeth

American Planning Association

How exactly do small towns become suburbs? How do country roads turn into commercial strips? And what can planners do to prevent these changes in the future? Using the state of Vermont as the rural ideal, the authors compare contemporary vs. traditional development to demonstrate how today's primary way of developing land-suburban sprawl is forever changing the look of rural American. Using a host of aerial photographs-many altered through computer simulation to illustrate how landscapes are transformed over time- ?Above and Beyond ? argues for a return to traditional development patterns that produce more compact cities and towns. Highlighting widespread trends in contemporary land development-from fragmentation (our tendency to spread out) to separation (our tendency to allocate separate areas of town for living, working, shopping and playing)-the authors offer case examples of communities that have succeeded in curbing those trends. They show how these communities have invigorated their town centers; lured home buyers back to town; integrated working, shopping and recreation areas; nurtured a sense of identity and community; rewritten land-use regulations to allow for more compact developing; and overcome the cars rule mentality of suburban development.

Above and beyond: Visualizing change in small towns and rural areas

Planners Press, American Planning Association

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Visualizing Density

Made for Walking: Density and Neighborhood Form

Above and Beyond: Visualizing Change in Small Towns and Rural Areas

Above and beyond: Visualizing change in small towns and rural areas