New Urbanism: Best Practices Guide, 4th Ed.

By Robert Steuteville, Philip Langdon & special contributors.
From New Urban News Publications, Inc., 448 pages. ISBN 0-9745021-6-2

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

The Fourth edition of New Urbanism: Best Practices Guide is the most comprehensive and up-to-date sourcebook on the ideas and techniques of New Urbanism ever published.

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

Packed with more than 800 informative photos, plans, tables, and other illustrations, this book covers the full spectrum of community-building.

New chapters on: Architectural Styles and Building Types • Land Development • Parking • Health and Aging • Landscape design; Revised chapters on: 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