The Small Town Planning Handbook, 3rd Edition

The Small Town Planning Handbook, 3rd Edition

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<span><span>This is </span><span style="font-style:italic;">the </span><span>go-to guide for planners in small towns. </span></span><br /><br /><span><span>For decades, </span><span style="font-style:italic;">The Small Town Planning Handbook</span><span> has helped small towns and rural communities plan for change. It is a step-by-step guide to drafting and implementing a comprehensive plan through zoning ordinances, subdivision regulations, and capital improvements programs, with sensitivity to local character and limited resources. </span></span><br /><br /><span><span>The third edition shows how technologies such as GIS and the Internet can improve the planning process. This edition contains a wealth of information on ways to maintain or improve the design of small towns and explains how to create a small town economic development plan. The authors emphasize strategic planning for economic, social, and environmental sustainability both in remote towns and in towns on the edge of metropolitan regions. </span></span><br /><br /><span><span>The authors are planners with more than six decades of experience in small towns, rural counties, and planning departments—including hundreds of evenings before rural planning commissions.</span></span>