Making Plans How to Engage with Landscape, Design, and the Urban Environment 制定城市环境景观设计规划

弗雷德里克·施泰纳说：“社区和区域规划涉及提前思考，正式展望自己和他人的未来。” “改进的计划可以为我们和其他物种带来更健康，更安全，更美丽的地方。我们还可以计划更公正，更有利可图的地方。计划不仅可以帮助我们维持我们的价值，还可以帮助我们通过创造真正的再生社区来超越可持续性，即有能力恢复，更新和振兴自己的能源和材料的地方。“
在制定计划时，施泰纳通过对奥斯汀市和德克萨斯大学校园发展计划的生动，第一手资料，提供了规划过程的入门读物。作为UT建筑学院的院长，施泰纳曾担任规划委员会的成员，这些委员会致力于解决城市和大学未来的发展问题，由于UT在奥斯汀的中心位置，这一增长不可避免地重叠。当他向读者介绍规划过程时，施泰纳阐述了大规模规划需要如何设定目标和目标，阅读景观，确定最佳用途，设计选项，选择前进课程，采取行动以及适应变化。他还表明，规划是一种固有的政治，有时是凌乱的行为，需要受影响社区的智慧和所有权。无论是明智还是坦诚，制定计划都是一个重要的哲学和实践的声明，由该领域的领导者进行规划。
"Community and regional planning involve thinking ahead and formally envisioning the future for ourselves and others," according to Frederick R. Steiner. "Improved plans can lead to healthier, safer, and more beautiful places to live for us and other species. We can also plan for places that are more just and more profitable. Plans can help us not only to sustain what we value but also to transcend sustainability by creating truly regenerative communities, that is, places with the capacity to restore, renew, and revitalize their own sources of energy and materials."
In Making Plans, Steiner offers a primer on the planning process through a lively, firsthand account of developing plans for the city of Austin and the University of Texas campus. As dean of the UT School of Architecture, Steiner served on planning committees that addressed the future growth of the city and the university, growth that inevitably overlapped because of UT's central location in Austin. As he walks readers through the planning processes, Steiner illustrates how large-scale planning requires setting goals and objectives, reading landscapes, determining best uses, designing options, selecting courses for moving forward, taking actions, and adjusting to changes. He also demonstrates that planning is an inherently political, sometimes messy, act, requiring the intelligence and ownership of the affected communities. Both wise and frank, Making Plans is an important philosophical and practical statement on planning by a leader in the field.