What can we do better in the planning and design process to create flourishing communities? What are some basic ingredients to foster dialogue, discover possibilities, and seek visionary and achievable outcomes?

These are the driving questions behind Framework Thinking: Lessons in Community Planning and Design, a compact, illustrative handbook emphasizing visioning, process, and the “soft” skills for design excellence.

Reflecting on decades of planning and design experience, and recent projects together, Bill Johnson, FASLA, and Har Ye Kan, AICP, address the search for more complete, meaningful solutions that begin with seeing the larger picture of people and place.