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Resources

Web Resources

Smart Growth School™: www.smartgrowthschool.com

SmartCode Central: www.smartcodecentral.com

Center for Advanced Transect Studies: www.transect.org

Congress for the New Urbanism: www.cnu.org

National Charrette Institute: www.charretteinstitute.com

New Urban News: www.newurbannews.com

Charter of the New Urbanism (64K pdf)

 

Recommended Reading

Alexander, Christopher et al
A Pattern Language
New York University Press, 1977

Beatley, Timothy
Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities
Island Press, 2000

Benyus, Janine
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
William Morrow & Co., 1998

Calthorpe, Peter
The Next American Metropolis
Princeton Architectural Press, 1993

Cooper Marcus, Clare
House as Mirror of Self: Exploring the Deeper Meaning of Home
Conari Press, 1995

Cooper Marcus, Clare and Francis, Carolyn
People Places
John Wiley & Sons, 1997

Cooper Marcus, Clare and Sarkissian, Wendy
Housing as if People Mattered
University of California Press, 1988

Downs, Anthony
Stuck in Traffic: Coping With Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion
Brookings Institution, 1992

Duany, Andres, and Plater-Zyberk, Elizabeth, and Alminana, Robert
The New Civic Art: Elements of Town Planning
Rizzoli, 2003

Duany, Andres et al
The Smart Growth Manual
McGraw Hill, 2009

Duany, Andres, et al
Suburban Nation
North Point Press, 2000

Duany, Andres and Plater-Zyberk, Elizabeth
Towns and Townmaking Principles
Rizzoli, 1991

Gehl, Jan
Life Between Buildings
Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1987

Gehl, Jan and Gemzoe, Lars
Public Spaces, Public Life
The Danish Architectural Press, 1999

Gladwell, Malcolm
Blink:  The Theory of Thinking without Thinking
Little Brown, 2000

Gladwell, Malcolm
The Tipping Point:  How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Little Brown, 2000

Jacobs, Allan B.
Great Streets
MIT Press, 1993

 

 

Jacobs, Allan B.
The Boulevard Book
MIT Press, 2001

Jacobs, Jane
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Vintage Books, 1992

Katz, Peter
The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community
McGraw-Hill, 1994

Krier, Leon
Choice or Fate

Kunstler, James Howard
Home from Nowhere
Simon & Schuster, 1996

Kunstler, James Howard
The Geography of Nowhere
Simon & Schuster, 1994

Langdon, Philip
A Better Place to Live: Reshaping the American Suburb
Harper Perennial, 1995

Lipsky, Florence
San Francisco—The Grid meets the Hills
Editions Parentheses, 1999

Neuman, Oscar
Creating Defensible Space
Rutgers Unviersity, 1996

Oldenburg, Ray
The Great Good Place
Paragon House, 1991

Shoup, Donald C.
The High Cost of Free Parking
American Planning Association, 2005

Solomon, Daniel
Rebuilding
Princeton Architectural Press, 1992

Talen, Emily
New Urbanism and American Planning: The Conflict of Cultures (Planning, History and the Environment)
Routledge, 2006

Unwin, Raymond
Town Planning in Practice
Princeton Architectural Press, 1994

Whyte, William
City: Rediscovering the Center
Anchor Books, 1990

Whyte, William
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
The Conservation Foundation, 1980

Downtown Ukiah SmartCode sketch
Transect of Hayward

 

"It [The New Civic Art] should be in the library of every architect and of those interested in architecture and urban design.”--Amazon.com reviewer