Greening Cities, Growing Communities: Learning from Seattle's Urban Community Gardens
Jeffrey Hou, Julie M. Johnson, Laura J. Lawson

Greening Cities, Growing Communities: Learning from Seattle's Urban Community Gardens," focuses on cases of community gardens in Seattle where there has been a strong network of knowledge and resources. These case studies reveal the capacity of community gardens to serve larger community issues, such as community food security; urban ecosystem health; demonstration of sustainable gardening and building practices; active living and pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods; and equity concerns.

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Urban Open Space: Designing for User Needs
Mark Francis, FASLA

Successful public spaces respond to the needs of their users, are democratic in their accessibility, and are meaningful for the larger community and society. While numerous publications offer fragments of research on user needs and conflicts in open space, this Land and Community Design Case Study integrates all this knowledge and makes it available to professionals, students, and researchers. Mark Francis draws on archival research, published case studies, site visits, and interviews with scholars, designers, facility managers, and open space users.

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Village Homes: A Community by Design
Mark Francis, FASLA

The Village Homes neighborhood in Davis, California, built in the 1970s, is one of the few long-standing examples or sustainable community design. Mark Francis has been studying Village Homes for more than two decades. In this Land and Community Design Case Study he brings together new information-studies about children of the community and interviews with Village Homes designers, residents, and maintenance staff-as well as existing research. The author takes a critical look at Village Homes, addressing its contributions as well as its limitations.

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The Paris-Lexington Road: Community-Based Planning and Context Sensitive Highway Design
Krista L. Schneider

The Paris-Lexington Road, located in the heart of the historic Kentucky Bluegrass Region, is a scenic, twelve-mile corridor between Lexington and Paris. Beginning in 1969, the state of Kentucky set out to widen the road and improve safety and capacity, a plan that lead to a bitter twenty-year battle pitting local conservationists, historians, and property owners against motorists and pro-development interests. The objections resulted in a 1979 federal court injunction that halted the project for fourteen years.

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