Category: Books
Unsprawl: Remixing Spaces as Places
Utilizing a dozen case studies from throughout North America, this new book examines successful strategies employed to introduce new patterns of development into a regulatory, cultural and financial landscape structured to encourage sprawl. Highlighted… more »
Independent for Life: Homes and Neighborhoods for an Aging America
With the fastest population growth in the United States among people over 65, finding solutions for successful aging in neighborhoods is important not only for individual families, but for our whole society. In this new book, former HUD Secretary Henry… more »
High-Rise and the Sustainable City
Can high-rises make a fruitful contribution to making cities more sustainable? Is it possible to develop high-rise projects that energize city life? This new book addresses the meaning of high-rise for a sustainable city and asks when urban form can be… more »
Principles of Urban Retail Planning & Development
This new book reveals the retail industry's current principles and practices for implementing sustainable commerce—the knowledge needed to increase retail sales and market share in historic urban centers and ensure their viability in new ones. The book… more »
Reshaping Metropolitan America
Nearly half the buildings that will be standing in 2030 do not exist today. That means we have a tremendous opportunity to reinvent our urban areas, making them more sustainable and livable for future generations. This book shows how redevelopment can m… more »
Creating Green Roadways
Roads don't have to be the enemy of sustainability, argues the author of this book. America is dependent on cars, and 30% of our roads and 25% of our bridges are decaying. We must find a practical way to create environmentally friendly, cost-effective,… more »
Car Country—An Environmental History
The prevalence of car-dependent landscapes seems perfectly natural to us today, but it is, in fact, a relatively new historical development. In Car Country, author Christopher Wells charts the ways that transportation policies and land-use practices hav… more »
Practice of Sustainable Community Development—A Participatory Framework for Change
This book details a systemic approach to the practice of sustainable community development. It takes the reader step-by-step through a community development procedure that includes processes of community assessment, visioning, setting of goals and objec… more »
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