Reddit reviews The City Reader, 5th Edition (The Routledge Urban Reader Series)
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Firstly on the resources for Urban planning. Well. Honestly, I haven't personally great online resources for learning about Urban planning. Various government institutions have released master plans and design guide documents (almost all are pretty boring). Your best bet (unfortunately) is in buying expensive books online and getting it shipped to you. There are plenty of great planning books for the European context. Particularly urban design books.
https://www.reddit.com/r/urbanplanning/wiki/readinglist Is worth a look at. (most are american focuses of course)
I think these might be useful to you.
https://www.amazon.com/City-Reader-5th-Routledge-Urban/dp/0415556651
https://www.amazon.com/Economics-Land-Planning-Alan-Evans/dp/140511861X
https://www.amazon.com/Urban-Economics-Arthur-OSullivan/dp/0073511471
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Streets-Press-Allan-Jacobs/dp/0262600234/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1536125765&sr=8-1&keywords=great+streets
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On the green space/parking. Well firstly it really depends on:
A) what is the land parcel you already own here. Who owns the petrol station? What is the minimum set back from the Ma-6014 road?
B) What kind of funding do you have? Are you using a loan?
C) what are your zoning and planning powers here?
D) how many cars do you need to accommodate and how much of the parking share would be given for free and how will you pay for that (will the foreign parking pay for it? Will you need general revenue or will you lease out some land for commercial purposes to cover costs -and do you have the power to do that) -I'm personally against free parking but i get it's appeal and use as a planning tool-.
E) What kind of services does your town lack? Child care? Library (if within your level of government)? Flexible community space (i.e cheaply rent-able rooms for hire by community groups)?
F) What's the parking for anyway? Do people drive to your town to go to the beach (will it compete with the beach front parking)? Or do people use the town as a dormitory suburb for Parma and is that is why people park there? Will people be using the car park all the time? On the weekends? Mornings and at night in the week days?
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Other random observations:
-How much demand is there fore more green space? The town seems to be pretty well provisioned with public space (even if there isn't much 'green' public space). There's also near by natural reserve.
-There's a lack of street trees east of the supermarket and police station.
- Whats up with the fence around the main park? For the children?
-From an urban design perspective, everything around that park is such a missed opportunity.
The City Reader is like a Cliff Notes of every important book about planning and urban theory. http://www.amazon.com/City-Reader-Routledge-Urban/dp/0415556651
I also learned a lot from City of Quartz: Fortress LA by Mike Davis.
All hail Jane Jacobs.
This is actually a really good book. It has a lot of really great articles with explanations about what they mean. Its a textbook but its a really good one for urban political economy.
Three big ones for me:
the city reader : A good 'all around' book summarising various schools of thought.
Jane Jacobs - death and life of great american cities : Classic and influential
Bernard Rudofsky - behind the picture window. : Rudofsky is incisive in his commentary on cultural norms and the simple joys of everyday living.
[edit] and another as an Australian: Robin Boyd - The Australian Ugliness : Simple primer mainly on the growth of suburbia and the ugly houses within.