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Greenville, South Carolina
201
Project and context description
201
Key issues and goals
205
The charrette
205
The master plan
207
Implementation
213
Conclusions
216
Critical evaluation of case study
217
Chapter 11
The Block, Case Study 5: Town Center, Cornelius, North Carolina
219
Project and context description
219
Key issues and objectives
222
The master plan
222
Implementation
224
Critical evaluation of case study
226
Afterword
227
Appendix I
The Charter of the Congress of the New Urbanism
231
The Region: Metropolis, City, and Town
231
The Neighborhood, the District, and the Corridor
232
The Block, the Street, and the Building
232
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Appendix II
Smart Growth Principles
235
Appendix III
Extracts from a typical Design-based Zoning Ordinance
237
Appendix IV
Extracts from General Development Guidelines
245
Appendix V
Extracts from Urban Design Guidelines
251
Bibliography
257
Index
269
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Acknowledgements
As with any enterprise of this nature, the authors wish to thank several people, especially colleagues at the
Lawrence Group in Davidson, North Carolina – Craig Lewis, Brunsom Russum, Dave Malushizky and
Catherine Thompson. These are fine professionals and friends as well as work partners.
Substantial thanks go out to colleagues on the faculty at the College of Architecture at the University of
North Carolina at Charlotte. Bob Sandkam was incredibly patient in helping the authors improve their com-
puter graphic skills in handling the images for the book. Our long-time friend and now Associate Dean at the
College of Architecture, Dr Lee Gray, also deserves a big thank you for continually chiding the architect
author to produce the book as an example for younger faculty. Even then, this book might not have happened
without the good offices of another university colleague, Professor Chris Grech, an established author with the
Architectural Press, who kindly introduced us to the publishers. At the Architectural Press we would especially
like to thank Alison Yates and her colleagues for their consistent advice and support throughout the project.
In another context, we want to express our appreciation of Professor Robert Craycroft, a friend and ex-
colleague from Mississippi State University, now retired after a long and distinguished career. Bob Craycroft
introduced the architect author to the Neshoba County Fairgrounds featured in Chapter 4 in the mid-1980s
and remains one of America’s leading authorities on this little-known urban phenomenon. Professor Craycroft
very kindly shared his expertise and photographs for this publication.
Nearer home, John Rogers, the administrator of the Charlotte Historic District Commission was also very
helpful in providing local information about our home city, and for sterling service in reading several chapters
of the manuscript. We have benefited from his thoughtful comments and advice. John’s wife Amy also lent
tremendous moral support, often expressed as delicious suppers provided on evenings when the authors were
too exhausted to feed themselves.
Also in terms of moral support, the authors owe debts of gratitude to Johnice Stanislawski, the owner, and
Courtney Devores, the manager of our local coffee shop, Queens Beans, next to our studio in Charlotte. We
spent many hours reading over manuscripts while drinking copious amounts of their wonderful, shade grown,
organic coffee!
And finally, we gratefully acknowledge that research for this book was supported in part by funds provided
by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Charlotte, NC
David Walters 
and 
Linda Luise Brown
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