Community Design: A Team Approach to Dynamic Community Systems

By W. Arthur Mehrhoff

Book Overview

Arthur Mehrhoff′s Community Design represents a unique way of analyzing a community and the steps needed to help design a sustainable community. In this important contribution, Mehrhoff, through his work with the Minnesota Design Team, seeks to "help communities take control of shaping a sustainable future of their own by means of information, insight, and civic dialogue." He urges readers to rethink the shape and shaping of their communities by looking at "community" in a more holistic and multidisciplinary manner. Mehrhoff tackles such topics as defining community, understanding the history of a community, understanding the issues and problems affecting a community, examining the visual aspects of a community, and obtaining citizen opinion throughout the process of becoming a sustainable community. Small communities everywhere can replicate the process discussed in this book. Community Design is well written and thought-provoking and provides a nice blend of theory and practice.

This book should be useful to all students, academics, local policy makers, and citizens who are interested in creating a common sustainable vision for their communities.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761905979
• ISBN13: 9780761905974
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.3" x 11.0"