New Urbanism: Best Practices Guide, 4th Ed.

By Robert Steuteville, Philip Langdon & special contributors.
From New Urban Publications Inc., 448 pages. ISBN

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

The Fourth edition of New Urbanism: Best Practices Guide is the most comprehensive sourcebook on the ideas and techniques of New Urbanism ever published. Packed with more than 800 informative photos, plans, tables, and other illustrations, this book covers the full spectrum of community-building.

The Best Practices Guide helps architects, planners, urban designers, builders, developers, public officials, and citizens to reshape cities, suburbs, small towns, and neighborhoods.

Chapters on: Architectural Styles and Building Types • Land Development • Parking • Health and Aging • Landscape design; General Principles • Shaping the Region • New Urbanism in the New Millennium • Revitalizing Cities and Towns • Urban Retail • The Human-Scale Workplace • Planning and Transit • Streets • Civic Buildings and Spaces • Codes • Legal Issues • Charrettes • Finding the Market • Finance • Building • Affordable Placemaking • Marketing • Building Community • Environment • Policy