Designing Planned Communities

"Designing Planned Communities is a clear
statement of the design issues that are critical to creating
livable and well-designed planned communities. Professor
Mandelker draws on his long experience with planned
community and land use regulation to explain the meaning of
good design for planned communities. He shows how design
concepts for planned communities can be translated into
effective design guidance by local governments. Examples of
design standards are provided from comprehensive plans,
design guidelines, design manuals, and planned community
regulations. Throughout Designing Planned Communities, the
reader is taken through the complex problems of design
regulation to an effective design program that can create
planned communities in which we want to live.

Planners and lawyers will be interested in what Mandelker
has to say about the design issues facing a growing number
of planned communities throughout the country. Planning and
local government attorneys will find the information about
the legality of innovative design plans most interesting and
helpful. Mandelker provides examples of localities that have
experimented with a variety of design approaches and
explores case law that will have an impact on these
innovations."

-Michael Allan Wolf, Professor &
Richard E. Nelson Chair in Local Government Law, University
of Florida, Fredric G. Levin College of Law