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Publication Review

Title: Conservation Design Portfolio Part One : Conservation Design Portfolio, Part Two
Author: Minnesota Land Trust, 2001
File: Free Design Manual: Part One, PDF 675 KB, 11 pages : Part Two, PDF
524 KB, 13 pages
Audience: Written as a design manual for designers, developers and builders interested in sustainable development.

Review
A practical guide with a checklist of issues to consider when choosing adabtable retirement housing. Comes with many basic dimensions and features to consider.

Issues covered include:

  • part one: executive summary
  • part one: benefits of conservation
  • part one: the many faces of conservation design
  • part two: planning considerations
  • part two: design considerations
  • part two: ownership and management considerations
  • part two: sales and marketing considerations
  • part two: getting started

Detail drawings include:

  • part one: diagrams of development with open space areas
  • part two: maping a communities resources
  • part two: typical and alternate growth pattern sketches
  • part two: wetland treatment system diagram

 

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