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Duany, Andrés

Plater-Zyberck, Elizabeth

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Rizzoli

Patterned on The American Vitruvius: An Architect's Handbook of Civic Art (1922), one of the most successful and well-known architecture books ever published, The New Civic Art, with 1,200 new illustrations and all new text for over 1,000 entries, exemplifies the very best urban planning and town design. This entirely new book thoroughly details the most important recent trends as well as time-honored precedents. It includes information drawn from over 200 international sources. Information has been selected to make this volume the essential encyclopedic reference and textbook for decades to come.

New Civic Art : Elements of Town Planning

Plater-Zyberk, Elizabeth

Alminana, Robert

Architecture

Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

A manifesto by America's most controversial and celebrated town planners, proposing an alternative model for community design. There is a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and to replace the automobile-based settlement patterns of the past fifty years with a return to more traditional planning principles. This movement stems not only from the realization that sprawl is ecologically and economically unsustainable but also from a growing awareness of sprawl's many victims: children, utterly dependent on parental transportation if they wish to escape the cul-de-sac; the elderly, warehoused in institutions once they lose their driver's licenses; the middle class, stuck in traffic for two or more hours each day. Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are at the forefront of this movement, and in Suburban Nation they assess sprawl's costs to society, be they ecological, economic, aesthetic, or social. It is a lively, thorough, critical lament, and an entertaining lesson on the distinctions between postwar suburbia-characterized by housing clusters, strip shopping centers, office parks, and parking lots-and the traditional neighborhoods that were built as a matter of course until mid-century. It is an indictment of the entire development community, including governments, for the fact that America no longer builds towns. Most important, though, it is that rare book that also offers solutions.

Politics & Social Sciences

Speck, Jeff

Social Sciences

NORTH POINT PRESS

For a decade, Suburban Nation has given voice to a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and replace the last century's automobile-based settlement patterns with a return to more traditional planning. Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are at the forefront of the movement, and even their critics, such as Fred Barnes in The Weekly Standard, recognized that "Suburban Nation is likely to become this movement's bible." A lively lament about the failures of postwar planning, this is also that rare book that offers solutions: "an essential handbook" (San Francisco Chronicle). 
This tenth anniversary edition includes a new preface by the authors.

Reference

Landscape Urbanism and New Urbanism - negotiating the relationship between cities and the natural world 
 In contemporary Western society, urban development is regarded as an unfortunate blight from which nature provides a much-needed respite. This apparent dichotomy ignores the interdependence between human settlement and the natural world. In fact, one of the most pressing problems facing urban theorists today is determining how to resolve the tension between the built and natural environments, in the process creating truly sustainable cities. 
 Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents is a collection of essays exploring the debate over urban reform, now polarized around the two competing paradigms of Landscape Urbanism and the New Urbanism. Landscape Urbanism is conceived as a more ecologically based approach, while New Urbanism is more concerned with the built form. Well-known and influential urban theorists such as Andrés Duany and James Howard Kunstler delve into the impact of the tension between the two perspectives on: 
<ul>
<li> Smart growth </li>
<li> Neighborhood design </li>
<li> Sustainable development </li>
<li> Creating cities that are in balance with nature </li>
</ul>
 While there is significant overlap between Landscape Urbanism and the New Urbanism, the former has assumed prominence amongst most critical theorists, whereas the latter's proponents are more practically oriented. Given that these two sets of ideas are at the forefront of sustainable urban design, the analysis– and potential reconciliation―offered by Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents is long overdue. 
 Andrés Duany is a leading proponent of the New Urbanism and is a founding principal at Duany Plater-Zyberk &amp; Company. 
 Emily Talen is a professor at Arizona State University and the author of four previous books on urban design.

Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents: Dissimulating the Sustainable City

Talen, Emily

New Society Publishers

The SmartCode is a unified development ordinance that incorporates the sustainable Transect-based planning principles of Smart Growth and New Urbanism. This concise, flexible template requires calibration for local conditions and is used by numerous municipal planning departments and urban design firms in towns, cities, regions, and private developments. First released in 2003, the open-source SmartCode is continually updated.

SmartCode: Version 9.2

Wright, William

Sorlien, Sandy

Administrative Law

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Garden Cities: Theory and Practice of Agrarian Urbanism presents design strategies and management practices for comprehensively integrating food production into modern development across the transect, from small-scale rural farming to urban container gardening.

Garden Cities: Theory & Practice of Agrarian Urbanism

The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment

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