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Why So Much New Development Feels Bad: And What It Would Take to Build Places People Actually Like (Urban Planning Field Guides) - Softcover
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New development can be legal, financed, approved, and newly built—and still feel sterile, confusing, hostile, or disconnected from the people who use it.
Why So Much New Development Feels Bad explains how that happens. Looking beyond simple arguments about whether a building is attractive or ugly, this plain-language field guide shows how zoning, parking, site design, cost cutting, mixed-use requirements, access, operations, and the public realm shape the experience of a project.
Readers will learn how to evaluate whether a development’s use and scale fit its location; how entrances, edges, parking, circulation, and ground-floor design affect daily life; how to separate personal style preferences from observable performance; and how to spot the gap between a project’s promises and what it actually delivers.
The central question is practical: Do the use, scale, access, operation, public realm, and human experience make sense here?
This book is not anti-development. Communities need housing, stores, services, jobs, and investment. It is a guide to asking who a project serves, what burdens it creates, and whether its design choices will support the surrounding place before those choices become permanent.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. New development can be legal, financed, approved, and newly built-and still feel sterile, confusing, hostile, or disconnected from the people who use it.Why So Much New Development Feels Bad explains how that happens. Looking beyond simple arguments about whether a building is attractive or ugly, this plain-language field guide shows how zoning, parking, site design, cost cutting, mixed-use requirements, access, operations, and the public realm shape the experience of a project.Readers will learn how to evaluate whether a development's use and scale fit its location; how entrances, edges, parking, circulation, and ground-floor design affect daily life; how to separate personal style preferences from observable performance; and how to spot the gap between a project's promises and what it actually delivers.The central question is practical: Do the use, scale, access, operation, public realm, and human experience make sense here?This book is not anti-development. Communities need housing, stores, services, jobs, and investment. It is a guide to asking who a project serves, what burdens it creates, and whether its design choices will support the surrounding place before those choices become permanent. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798186065173
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. New buildings are everywhere. New apartments. New mixed-use projects. New shopping centers. New restaurants. New offices. New redevelopment sites.But too often, something feels wrong.The building may be legal, financed, approved, newly constructed, and full of planning language about walkability, vibrancy, community, or activation. And still, in real life, it feels sterile, confusing, cheap, hostile, disconnected, or not designed for the people who actually have to use it.Why So Much New Development Feels Bad explains why. This plain-language field guide looks beyond simple arguments about whether a building is ugly or attractive. It shows how development is shaped by zoning, parking, site design, public realm, cost cutting, mixed-use requirements, access, operations, and the gap between what a project promises and what it actually does. The book asks one central question: Is this a good fit for where it is being placed? Not "does it copy the neighborhood?"Not "do I personally like the style?"But does the use, scale, access, operation, public realm, and human experience make sense in this location? Inside, readers will learn how to evaluate: Why some new buildings feel sterile or mass-producedWhy mixed-use development often fails at the ground floorHow parking can support a place - or become its public faceWhy "human scale" is not just about building heightHow value engineering can cut the features people depend on mostWhy the public realm is not leftover spaceWhat residents should ask at public meetings before saying yes or noThis book is not anti-development. It is anti-bad-fit development.Cities and communities need housing, stores, services, jobs, and new investment. But new development should still answer basic civic questions: Who is this for? Why here? How does it support the surrounding community? What burdens does it create, and who absorbs them? Part of the Urban Planning Field Guide Series, this book gives ordinary readers a practical framework for understanding new development before bad design choices become permanent. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798186065173
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