{"product_id":"planners-estimating-guide-arthur-nelson-9781884829765","title":"Planner's Estimating Guide: Projecting Land-Use and Facility Needs","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe United States faces enormous changes in the next 25 years. Arthur C. (Chris) Nelson starts this book with a few projections: The population will grow by one-third to 375 million. We will need 60 million new housing units to house these people. There will be 60 percent more jobs, requiring 50 billion additional square feet of nonresidential space. The bottom line is that half of all development in 2030 will have been built since 2000. Nelson estimates the cost of new construction alone to be at least $20 trillion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book gives planning practitioners a powerful tool to help decide where to put this new development. It does not advocate one development scenario over another, but it revolutionizes the job of estimating land-use and facility needs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlanner's Estimating Guide\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e offers easy-to-use formulas and worksheets that are formatted in an Excel workbook on CD-ROM and carefully explained in the text. They make it easy to figure future requirements for countless scenarios. The workbook and text deal with a 20-year planning horizon for a fictitious county, but both the time projection and scale are entirely adaptable to myriad local circumstances.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe program allows you to gather a first impression of future land-use needs, and revise it to reflect local limitations. For example, if the landscape in question won't support the land-use estimations, change the assumptions in the workbook to devise new estimates. The workbook shows the implications of growth based on standard assumptions; you can change the assumptions as needed to reflect local conditions â \" including public input â \" to see how outcomes change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse the workbook as a model for testing local sensitivities with respect to land supply constraints and changes in policy assumptions. The results won't tell you what to do, but will reveal the numerical implications of different scenarios. The book is written principally for practitioners, and also for planning students as a primary or supplementary text.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsed creatively, the powerful tools in \u003cem\u003ePlanner's Estimating Guide\u003c\/em\u003e will help you determine the numerical implications of an almost infinite number of future circumstances that may affect your community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Arthur Nelson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1884829767\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781884829765\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.80h x 8.40w x 0.50d","brand":"Arthur Nelson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48448012058879,"sku":"9781884829765","price":126.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8bd29e95-f531-4b25-9b2d-b328dccc8c0c.jpg?v=1777236303","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/planners-estimating-guide-arthur-nelson-9781884829765","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}