The Charrette Handbook: The Essential Guide for

The Charrette Handbook: The Essential Guide for Accelerated, Collaborative Community Planning is scheduled to be made available August 1 by the National Charrette Institute (NCI) and the American Planning Association’s Planners Book Service. NCI Executive Director Bill Lennertz and Aarin Lutzenhiser, director of operations, produced the 208-page paperback, which guides charrette sponsors and managers through problem-solving step by step, aided by diagrams, charts, forms, and case studies. The $39.95 guide contains contributions by Andres Duany and 20 others. It also includes a complete history of the NCI charrette process and its evolution.