Community Design Assessment: A Citizens' Planning Guide

Afraid that your community is losing its identity? That mushrooming chain stores will turn it into Anyplace, USA? If so, take action! The Community Design Assessment: A Citizens’ Planning Guide by Kennedy Smith and Leslie Tucker provides a step-by-step process for evaluating the design and visual impact of buildings and corporate graphics in your community in order to guide decisions about future development. The accompanying CD-ROM includes: (1)PowerPoint presentation for assessment team leaders; (2)Assessment score sheets and tabulation worksheets; and (3) Image file of community-friendly design by national chain stores.

In an age of generic design overload, at last a tool has emerged that gives a quantitative measure to determine how "corporate" your town is. This is such a nifty resource for local design review boards, local preservation and planning staff, and revitalization programs in every part of the country.
-- Pratt Cassity, Director, Center for Community Design, Planning & Preservation, University of Georgia