"Design Charrettes for Sustainable Communities" by Patrick M. Condon (Repost)

This is a practical manual to accomplish complex community design decisions and create more green, clean, and equitable communities. Drawing on years of experience designing sustainable urban environments and bringing together communities for charrettes, this manual provides step-by-step instructions for making this process work to everyone’s benefit.

The book translates emerging sustainable development concepts and problem-solving theory into concrete principles in order to explain what a charrette is, how to organize one, and how to make it work to produce sustainable urban design results.

Patrick Condon outlines the key features of the charrette, an inclusive decision-making process that brings together citizens, designers, public officials, and developers in several days of collaborative workshops.


Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Charrette Theory for People in a Hurry
2. Two Kinds of Charrettes
3. The Design Brief
4. The Nine Rules for a Good Charrette
5. The Workshops
6. The Charrette
7. After the Charrette
Case Study One: The East Clayton Sustainable
Community Design Charrette
Case Study Two: The Damascus Area Design Workshop
Appendix
Endnotes
Index