New Urbanism: Comprehensive Report & Best Practices Guide

By Robert Steuteville, Phillip Langdon & special contributors

From New Urban News Publications, Inc., 375 pages, more than 400 illustrations and tables

ISBN 0-9745021-0-3

$79 plus shipping and handling for comb-bound edition (that's $20 off of the regular price for softcover edition, which is out of stock). Student price is $59 plus shipping and handling (must provide proof of enrollment). Shipping and handling is $6 to US; $11 to Canada & Puerto Rico; $24 all others.

The definitive reference on new urban ideas, practices, and projects.

Updated and new sections cover: Main street retail • Sales in new urbanist projects • Planning principles • Building the New Urbanism • Marketing the New Urbanism • Designing walkable streets • Sustainability/environment • Traditional neighborhood developments • Local laws and zoning • Smart growth • Transit-oriented developments • Architectural guidelines and codes • Infill strategies and projects • Costs of the New Urbanism • Operating a charrette • Building affordable housing • Promoting community with design • Civic buildings • The human-scale workplace • Directory of practitioners/resources • Finance/financial returns • Regional planning • Special development issues • New Urbanism abroad

Plus lists of projects, plans, renderings, photographs and much more!

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Here's what leading new urbanists have to say about this book:

“A magnificent effort on an essential publication – THE one essential publication of the New Urbanism. Everywhere that I have opened it, I have learned something useful.”

– Andres Duany, principal, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company

“If every planning official in America owned a copy of this book, most of the horrors and follies of our everyday environment would be fixed in a generation. It will become the standard reference for urban design in America.”

– James Howard Kunstler, author of The Geography of Nowhere and other books

“Success in new urban development requires an understanding of many disciplines – urban design, architecture, public process, marketing, finance and development regulation among them. The New Urbanism: Comprehensive Report & Best Practices Guide is the only publication that I've seen that addresses all those areas. Indeed, it does so with insight and depth. It is must reading for anyone who is serious about working in any aspect of the New Urbanism.”

– Peter Katz, design and marketing consultant

“If there is an Urban Land Institute-quality 'how-to' book on New Urbanism, this is it. Never has the nuts and bolts of New Urbanism been assembled in one place. A treasure trove of insights and on-the-ground knowledge.”

– Christopher Leinberger, developer, Arcadia Land Co.

“You could spend a few years traveling the nation talking to developers, public officials, designers, transportation experts and others to learn all you could about how to plan, design, and develop New Urbanism – or you can buy this book.”

– Charles Bohl, director, Knight Program in Community Building, Univ. of Miami

“No other book on the New Urbanism brings together so much practical, current information from so many viewpoints.”

– Doris Goldstein, attorney

“Invaluable — years of research have paid off!”

– Robert Turner, developer of Habersham, Beaufort County, SC