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Effective Land Use

In today's climate, building smarter is more important than ever.

By Francis Reiner | Updated on June 01, 2009

The benchmark for sound urban design and planning is to understand how future development, land use, traffic and public transportation will affect and transform a community. The decisions municipalities make on these complex and often competing forces will have a dramatic impact on the future of any community. It is in understanding these issues that urban design and planning professionals can provide municipalities with the appropriate guidelines that meet today’s needs while allowing for positive growth in the future.

Planners help municipalities by providing the appropriate guidelines that keep mixed-use communities and large urban areas operating smoothly. When the appropriate principles and guidance are not applied to a project, neighborhood, or community, the problems that arise can be far reaching and long lasting.

To create effective and memorable places, there are a number of urban design principles that are employed. Design professionals consider every detail in understanding what makes certain places more memorable and more successful than others. Urban design and planning professionals are trained to look not only at individual buildings and thoroughfares, but to understand how groups of buildings work together and how the spaces between those building create memorable and usable places.

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