Planning Connections: Human, Natural and Man Made. This item is unavailable.Planning Connections: Human, Natural and Man Made

"Planning Connections - Human, Natural, Man Made" is a practical book about how to achieve more sustainable, attractive, efficient and livable human communities. It is about "green" planning, environmentally based land use planning and context sensitive design. It presents planning principles and illustrates their application with 19 case studies of approved plans and implemented projects. There are chapters on comprehensive planning, town centers, site planning, growth management tools, review and processing of development applications and transportation corridors.

Pete Pointner is an architect and planner with 47 years of experience beyond his master's degree in city and regional planning. He taught at the university level for 10 years and spent 13 years with DeLeuw Cather & Company, where he was a vice president in charge of community and environmental planning. His project experience includes direction of projects in 25 states and 4 foreigh countries. In 1981, he founded Planning Resources Inc. and developed an interdisciplinary firm which had 18 employees when he sold the firm to his partner 15 years later. Pete is now a consultant with Corporate Services Inc. in Wheaton, Illinois. He has been elected to the college of fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners and is a lifetime member of the Intitutitute of Transportation Engineers and a member of the Association of Licensed Architects. For more information go to www.petepointner.com.