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The Smart Growth Manual
by: Andres Duany and Jeff Speck, with Mike Lydon
Everyone is calling for smart growth, but what exactly is it? In The Smart Growth Manual noted new urbanists Andres Duany and Jeff Speck, who co-authored the acclaimed Suburban Nation, provide a thorough answer. This full-color manual, written with Mike Lydon, organizes the latest contributions of new urbanism, green design, and healthy communities into a comprehensive handbook. It is intended to be a central resource for those who aim to put smart growth into practice, and to assess the work of those who purport to do so.
The Smart Growth Manual presents a clear blueprint for developing cities and suburbs in the most user-friendly, cost-efficient, and environmentally sustainable manner. The authors explain how to create and enhance mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly communities as an alternative to suburban sprawl. They also cover preservation of natural amenities and the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Neighborhood Development standard.
With their landmark book Suburban Nation, Andres Duany and Jeff Speck “set forth more clearly than anyone has done in our time the elements of good town planning” (The New Yorker). With this companion volume, the authors have organized the latest contributions of new urbanism, green design, and healthy communities into a comprehensive manual, fully illustrated with the built work of the nation’s leading practitioners.
“Simply put, we believe that new places should be designed in the manner of existing places that work,” say the authors. “The old, dependable neighborhood structure is the very heart of smart growth. Its details are missing from most books on the subject, and they are not sufficiently emphasized in the LEED standards. Restoring the centrality of the neighborhood structure to the American environmental movement would be the most important contribution of this manual. It has been a struggle to relearn the full range of techniques surrounding good neighborhood design, but the last decades have witnessed great progress toward this essential goal. We hope that this manual gets us there sooner.”
Resource: http://www.amazon.com/Smart-Growth-Manual-Andres-Duany/dp/0071376755
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