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

Arts & Photography

Duany, Andrés

Plater-Zyberk, Elizabeth

Alminana, Robert

Architecture

Rizzoli

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

While this is the third monograph on the work of the prolific Washington, DC based architectural firm, David M. Schwarz Architects, this book, unlike the previous two, features essays by different authors on each of the 25 new projects included in this book. The range of the work presented is broad, from concert halls, to civic buildings to a private home. Reflecting this diversity, essayists from many professions - historians, critics, entertainers, architect and entrepreneurs - were invited to comment on specific projects providing wholly unique views of the firm s architecture.University of South Carolina Upstate George Dean Johnson Jr. College of Business and Economics, SPARTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA - Essay by Christopher Forbes; Carnegie Building , FORT WORTH, TEXAS - Essay by Witold Rybczynski; The Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts, CARMEL, INDIANA - Essay by Michael Feinstein; Spartanburg Day School , SPARTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA - Essay by Nicholas Zeppos; Orioles Training Facilities, SARASOTA, FLORIDA - Essay by Jim Palmer; Orioles Year-Round Training Complex at Ed Smith Stadium, Buck O Neil Baseball Complex at Twin Lakes Park, Private Residence, ARIZONA - Essay by Tom Delavan; Lon Evans Corrections Center, FORT WORTH, TEXAS - Essay by Witold Rybczynski; The Smith Center for the Performing Arts, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - Essay by Gary Hanson; Master Plan, Reynolds Hall - Essay by Cheyenne Jackson; Boman Pavilion - Essay by Elaine Wynn; Donald W. Reynolds Discovery Children's Center - Essay by Myron Martin; Cook Children's Medical Center, FORT WORTH, TEXAS - Essay by Richard Jackson; Master Plan, North Tower, Dodson Specialty Clinics, Seventh Avenue Garage Expansion, The Pennsylvania Building, WASHINGTON, D.C. - Essay by Robert A. Peck; Sundance Square, FORT WORTH, TEXAS - Essay by Paul Goldberger; Sundance Square Plaza, The Westbrook, The Commerce Building, The Cassidy & the Trust Building, FORT WORTH, TEXAS - Essay by Witold Rybczynski; Downtown Crown, GAITHERSBURG, MARYLAND - Essay by Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk; The Woodley, WASHINGTON, D.C. - Essay by Adele Chatfield-Taylor; The Linq, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - Essay by Robert A. M. Stern; Alpharetta City Hall, ALPHARETTA, GEORGIA - by Joe Riley.

David M. Schwarz Architects

Goldberger, Paul

Feinstein, Micheal

Grayson Publishing

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