Who we are
Kendig Keast Collaborative represents the collaboration of Lane Kendig, Bret Keast, AICP, and a select group of talented principals and associates. The firm's highly qualified, multi-disciplinary staff provide a variety of planning and plan implementation services to public and private sector clients. We listen carefully to our clients to ensure that our plans and codes reflect their shared values, and we apply our broad and deep experience to ensure that our clients understand the difficult choices they must make and to build consensus around decisions based on full information and strengthening of shared values. Our diverse group of professionals with experience in land planning, development, analysis, and information technology deliver broad perspectives and thoughtful solutions to our clients.
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2011 APA National Conference
Better Planning Using Community Character
Session Powerpoint
Community Character, Principles for Design and Planning
Lane H. Kendig with Bret C. Keast
Island Press, 2010
 Community Character provides a design-oriented system for planning and zoning communities but accounts for how people who participate in a community live, work, and shop there. The relationships that Lane Kendig defines here reflect the complexity of the interaction of the built environment with its social and economic uses, taking into account the diverse desires of municipalities and citizens. Among the many classifications for a community’s “character” are its relationship to other communities, its size and the resulting social and economic characteristics.
According to Kendig, most comprehensive plans and zoning regulations are based entirely on density and land use, neither of which effectively or consistently measures character or quality of development. As this book shows, there is a wide range of measures that define character and these vary with the type of character a community desires to create. Taking a much more comprehensive view, this book offers “community character” as a real-world framework for planning for communities of all kinds and sizes.
A companion book, A Practical Guide to Planning with Community Character, provides a detailed explanation of applying community character in a comprehensive plan, with chapters on designing urban, sub-urban, and rural character types, using character in comprehensive plans, and strategies for addressing characteristic challenges of planning and zoning in the 21st century. |
