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Achieving Great Federal Public Spaces
Achieving Great Federal Public Spaces is a valuable tool for federal and non-federal public building property managers seeking to evaluate and improve their lobbies, atriums, plazas, courtyards, and other public spaces. 
Affordable Housing: Designing an American Asset
Affordable Housing: Designing an American Asset is a new book from The Urban Land Institute and National Building Museum that will help you make the case for affordable housing and demonstrate that low-cost housing need not be of low quality.
Agenda for a Sustainable America
Agenda for a Sustainable America is a comprehensive book that assesses U.S. progress toward sustainable development and a roadmap of necessary next steps toward achieving a sustainable America.
American Metropolitics: The New Suburban Reality
Brookings Institution. 2001. This book combines demographic research with state-of-the-art mapping technology to illustrate social, racial, fiscal, land use and political trends in the nation's top 25 metrolpolitan areas.
America's Park Roads and Parkways
America's National Park Roads and Parkways brings together 331 measured and interpretive drawings commissioned by Historic American Engineering Record to illustrate the physical characteristics, design strategies, construction practices, and visitor experiences of roads in national parks from Acadia to Zion and parkways from the Blue Ridge to the Natchez Trace.
Award Winning Green Roof Designs
Award Winning Green Roof Designs from author Steven W. Peck includes more than 100 informative photos of the green roofs technology that is quickly becoming a fundamental element of the emerging practice of living architecture.
Balancing the Land Use/Transportation Equation
Balancing the Land Use/Transportation Equation, from the American Institute Of Certified Planners, discusses recent research and examples of the integration of land-use and transportation policies.
Best Practices for Preservation Organizations
Best Practices for Preservation Organizations from the National Trust for Historic Preservation provides preservation easement holding organizations with guidance on the operation of easement programs and organizational best practices by applying Land Trust Standards and Practices.
Better Models for Development in Maryland
Authors Edward McMahon and Shelley Mastran offer practical advice on key issues facing communities throughout Maryland in Better Models for Development in Maryland, published by the Conservation Fund.
Better Models for Development in Pennsylvania
Better Models for Development in Pennsylvania is a 134-page book that offers officials and citizens dozens of ideas and examples of ways to balance conservation with economic development.
Boomburbs: The Rise of America's Accidental Cities
In Boomburbs: The Rise of America's Accidental Cities, from the Brookings Institution Press, authors Robert E. Lang and Jennifer B. LeFurgy explain who lives in the boomburbs, what they look like, how they are governed, and why their rise calls into question the definition of urban.
Breaking the Development Logjam
Breaking the Development Logjam from the Urban Land Institute explains in plain terms how developers and planners can involve the community in the development process using the latest community engagement tools.
Building Commons and Community
Building Commons and Community documents 45 years of the late Karl Linn's legacy creating neighborhood spaces for communities and by communities. In this richly-illustrated landscape-format hardcover book, Linn presents his philosophies and practical wisdom to help people use the resources they find in their own surroundings to create welcoming shared spaces.
Changing Metropolitan America
As the nation looks to make significant new federal investments in infrastructure, Changing Metropolitan America: Planning for a Sustainable Future, a new publication from the Urban Land Institute, outlines strategies for building and maintaining infrastructure that fosters sustainable cities and metropolitan areas.
Civilizing Downtown Highways
Civilizing Downtown Highways from the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) is a must-read for anyone interested in traffic management. Using California as a case study, this book discusses the struggle New Urbanists face in reconstructing inner-city super highways into walkable, business-friendly thouroghfares.
Conserving Florida's Natural Legacy
30 Years/30 Stories: Conserving Florida's Natural Legacy is a book that celebrates more than 30 years of land conservation in Florida by The Trust for Public Land (TPL) through stories and photos of 30 signature conservation projects. The publication is a virtual tour of the state's open spaces, featuring Floridians who personify the state's great cultural diversity and environmental variety.
Contemporary Debates in Urban Planning
Planetizen announces the release of Contemporary Debates in Urban Planning, a new book featuring thought-provoking commentary and insights from the some of the leading thinkers and practitioners in the field.
Creating a Vibrant City Center
This book from the Urban Land Institute will give you the key planning and design guidelines you need to create a lively, appealing city center in any metropolitan area.
Creating Great Town Centers and Urban Villages
Creating Great Town Centers and Urban Villages from the Urban Land Institute (2008) is a book that describes the inside story and details on how town centers were developed, what makes them special, and provides facts on costs, rents, land uses, and more.
Creating Value: Smart Development and Green Design
In Creating Value: Smart Development and Green Design, a new book from the Urban Land Institute, architect Vernon Swaback argues convincingly that financial success in real estate development will increasingly require design that is smarter, greener, and more sustainable.
Creating Walkable Places
Richly illustrated with color photographs, site plans, and diagrams, Creating Walkable Places: Compact Mixed-Use Solutions is a book from the Urban Land Institute that explains how to create pedestrian-friendly, mixed-use developments.
Density by Design: New Directions in Residential Development
Urban Land Institute. 2000. Fourteen case studies showcase developments of small lot subdivisions, accessory units, housing in new urbanists communities, higher-density and transit-oriented development, mixed-income and mixed housing types, infill, and adaptive use.
Design for Aging
Authored by the American Institute of Architects Design for Aging Center, Design for Aging: Post-Occupancy Evaluations features well-researched post-occupancy evaluations for approximately forty senior living facilities previously featured in the AIA's Design for Aging Review.
Design for Diversity: Exploring Socially Mixed Neighborhoods
Design for Diversity: Exploring Socially Mixed Neighborhoods offers detailed studies of socially diverse neighborhoods and evidence that such neighborhoods are better off than more homogenous neighborhoods. Author Emily Talen's analysis in this book shows planners and urban designers how their work can support diversity.
Designing Greenways
Greenways can protect natural landscapes, allow wildlife to move freely, and offer residents ways to connect with nature. Designing Greenways: Sustainable Landscapes for Nature and People shows how to incorporate greenways into your community, and the pitfalls to avoid when developing them.
Developing Successful Infill Housing
Urban Land Institute. 2002. This book explains how to develop profitable, market-rate infill housing in urban and inner-ring suburban areas. Twelve case studies describe the development of flourishing multifamily, mixed-use, townhouse, adaptive use, and manufactured home projects throughout the nation.
Developing Sustainable Planned Communities
Developing Sustainable Planned Communities from the Urban Land Institute provides down-to-earth, reality-based insights into designing and developing sustainable planned communities that are environmentally responsible, attractive to the market, and profitable.
Directory of the New Urbanism 2008
New Urban News Publications offers the 2008 Directory of the New Urbanism, a guide to people and products with experience in quality urbanism linked to the places they have created. The book is a unique portal into the collective wisdom of an ever-growing industry.
Dollars and Cents of Multifamily Housing
Based on the largest survey of multifamily housing properties in the industry, Dollars & Cents of Multifamily Housing provides the benchmarks you need to compare properties to evaluate investments, and to prepare appraisals.
Ecological Design and Building Schools
Ecological Design and Building Schools is the first and only directory of ecological design and building schools in North America, featuring an annotated listing of schools and educational centers that offer top programs in ecological building design and construction.
Ecological Riverfront Design
Ecological Riverfront Design puts forth a new vision for the nation's urban riverfronts and provides a set of planning and design principles that will allow communities to reclaim urban river edges in the most ecologically sound and economically viable manner possible.
Ecological Urbanism
What are the key principles of an ecological urbanism? How might they be organized? And what role might design and planning play in the process? These are the major questions addressed in Ecological Urbanism.
Ecologically Based Municipal Land Use Planning
Lewis Publishers. 1999. This book provides easily understood, nuts and bolts solutions for controlling urban sprawl, emphasizing the integration of federal, state, and local land use plans
Engaging the Future: Forecasts, Scenarios, Plans, and Projects
Engaging the Future: Forecasts, Scenarios, Plans, and Projects is a new book from the Lincoln Institute by authors , Lewis D. Hopkins and Marisa A. Zapata. This richly illustrated volume offer a variety of tools and examples for planners in situations where they are positioned to advocate for a new kind of planning -- one that allows communities to face uncertain and malleable futures with continuous and deliberative planning activities.
Genius of the European Town Square
Genius of the European Town Square, by Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard and Henry L. Lennard, celebrates and analyzes the European Town Square, a living model of community, and explores great Town Squares throughout Europe.
Getting Density Right
Getting Density Right from the Urban Land Institute is a book that describes tools used to better support compact development, including visioning, planning, and new regulations. Case studies profile the experiences of eight communities, the policy tools they used to encourage compact development, and the development projects built using the new regulations.
Getting Real about Urbanism
How do you create a flourishing, livable place appealing to residents and visitors of all ages, incomes, and backgrounds? Offering a ground-breaking alternative to uniform, ''cookie-cutter'' urban designs, Getting Real About Urbanism is a book that describes techniques for creating ''Real Urbanism'' -- designing places with personality that reflect what is distinctive and original in a neighborhood, district, city, or region.
Green Building Trends: Europe
Europe has been in the forefront of green building technology, and Green Building Trends: Europe provides an comprehensive overview of these energy-efficient, environmentally aware architecture and design and their applications.
Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment
What exactly is a green city? What does it mean to say that San Francisco is greener than Houston, or that Vancouver is a green city while Beijing is not? When does urban growth lower environmental quality, and when does it produce environmental gains? These are the questions that drive Green Cities, a smart and engaging book from Brookings Institution Press.
Green Community: Essays on Community Health
Based on the National Building Museum's exhibit, Green Community is a collection of thought-provoking essays that illuminate the connections among personal health, community health, and our planet's health.
Green Infrastructure: Linking Landscapes and Communities
With illustrative and detailed examples, Green Infrastructure: Linking Landscapes and Communities, by Mark Benedict and Ed McMahon, advances smart conservation: large-scale thinking and integrated action to plan, protect and manage our natural and restored lands. Providing both the historical framework for the importance of greenways and green space networks, and practical advice on how to design and implement them, Benedict and McMahon’s book is a valuable resource for anyone who wants to understand innovative approaches to conservation-minded land use.
Green Office Buildings
Green Office Buildings: A Practical Guide to Development, from the Urban Land Institute, is a how-to book that gives you information on how to cost-effectively develop an environmentally sustainable office building.
Green Roof Systems
Green Roof Systems: A Guide to the Planning, Design and Construction of Building Over Structure goes beyond the fashionable green roof movement and provides solid information on building accessible space, often as important public space, over structure. It offers brief coverage of the entire process, including planning and collaboration, and focuses on the technical aspects of these roof systems, their components, and their applications.
Green Roof: A Case Study
Green Roof: A Case Study describes Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates' design for a 3,300-square-foot green roof garden at the headquarters of the American Society of Landscape Architects in Washington, D.C. Author Christian Werthmann explains the history, methodology, and design process of green roof garden construction, providing a rich source of inspiration and technical knowledge in the process for anybody interested in this simple solution to many of the environmental challenges we face today.
Green Urbanism Down Under
In Green Urbanism Down Under, a 2008 book from Island Press, author Timothy Beatley reports on the current state of ''sustainability practice'' in Australia and the many lessons that U.S. residents can learn from the best Australian programs and initiatives.
Greening Your Title
West Coast Environmental Law Research Foundation announces the second edition of Greening Your Title: a Guide to Best Practices for Conservation Covenants.
Groundswell: Stories of Saving Places, Finding Community
Published by the Trust for Public Land, Groundswell: Stories of Saving Places, Finding Community celebrates the role of land conservation in preserving community character and connecting people to the land and to each other.
Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change
In Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change, a 2007 book published by the Urban Land Institute, a team of leading urban planning researchers report that the key to mitigating climate change is less auto-dependent development, and that key changes in land development patterns could help reduce vehicle greenhouse gas emissions.
Growing Smarter
Growing Smarter from the MIT Press is a book that examines smart growth from an environmental justice/equitable development perspective.
Housing for Niche Markets
Housing for Niche Markets is a book from the Urban Land Institute that explains how changing demographics, lifestyles, and preferences are turning the old predictable housing models upside down, and what it takes to attract these new market segments.
ICMA Municipal Yearbook 2005
The International City/County Management Association (ICMA) Municipal Yearbook offers a complete source of information about local government contains hundreds of pages of facts and figures; explains basic statistical computations; contains easy-to-read tables and graphs that accompany research-based articles; and includes a five-year cumulative index.
Incentive Zoning
Incentive Zoning from APA's Planning Advisory Service is a book that oulines how local governments can consider and draft guidelines that allow developers to build larger, higher-density projects in exchange for creating amenities to benefit the community at large.
Infrastructure 2009: A Pivot Point
The United States desperately needs a 21st-century national infrastructure plan to emerge from its deep recession and ensure future prosperity, according to Infrastructure 2009: A Pivot Point, a new publication by the Urban Land Institute and Ernst & Young.
Innovative Communities: Community-Centered Environmental Management -- Cases in Asia and the Pacific
Innovative Communities: Community-Centered Environmental Management from The Brookings Institution looks at nine case studies from the Asia-Pacific region where communities are adopting innovative methods to address complex and unpredictable environmental problems.
Integrating Planning and Public Health
Integrating Planning and Public Health, published by the APA Planning Advisory Service, examines collaborations between planners and public health professionals committed to building healthy communities. It outlines the five strategic points of intervention at which planners and public health professionals can coordinate their efforts, and uses case studies to illustrate the specific tools used in such collaborations. The report also examines the role of universal design in creating healthy communities.
Intown Living: A Different American Dream
The American dream of a single family home on its own lot is still strong, but a different dream of living and prospering in a major city is beginning to take hold. After decades of abandonment by the middle class, a detectable number of people are moving into urban downtown areas.
Invisible City: Poverty, Housing, and New Urbanism
Author John I. Gilderbloom draws on case studies in Houston, Louisville, and New Orleans and analyzes census information as well as policy reports in Invisible City, a book that outlines how housing can be remade with a progressive vision.
Landmarks for Sustainability
Landmarks for Sustainability is a high-impact, quick-reference guide to many of the most critical events and initiatives that have shaped our world, and the sustainable development agenda, over the past 20 years and more. These include high-profile historic events -- such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the Rio Earth Summit, the anti-globalization protests in Seattle and Genoa, and the collapse of Enron -- as well as more subtle but no less important developments, such as trends in fairtrade, ethical codes and sustainable investment.
Layperson’s Guide to Preservation Law
Layperson’s Guide to Preservation Law is a look at the various laws and regulations that protect historic resources, as well as laws governing nonprofit organizations and museum properties. The current edition, available through Preservation Books, has been revised and updated in 2004.
Learning for Sustainability
Learning for Sustainability is a book from SoL, the Society for Organizational Learning, that was written to spark conversation and encourage dialogue about how to develop the confidence and capabilities to create a world we will be proud to leave our grandchildren.
Local Planning: Contemporary Principles and Practice
Local Planning: Contemporary Principles and Practice is the all-new edition of the popular book, The Practice of Local Government Planning, which has been the valued resource for preparing for the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) exam. This new edition helps the reader understand the complexities of planning at the local level, and prepare to make decisions in a challenging environment.
Making Smart Growth Work
This 170-page book provides an in-depth look at the underlying principles of smart growth, explains how developers and planners have applied them, and how the public and private sectors can collaborate to make smart growth effective.
Mental Speed Bumps: The Smarter Way to Tame Traffic
Mental Speed Bumps: The Smarter Way to Tame Traffic is a practical, down-to-earth guide for residents, parents, health professionals and city planners that turns conventional wisdom on its head.
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co., 1999. In this groundbreaking blueprint for a new economy, three leading business visionaries explain how the world is on the verge of a new industrial revolution. The book describes a future in which business and environmental interests increasingly overlap, and in which companies can improve their bottom lines, help solve environmental problems--and feel better about what they do--all at the same time.
Nature-Friendly Ordinances
Nature-Friendly Ordinances is a book written to help communities take affirmative steps to conserve and restore those biodiversity features of their environment that add value regionally and locally.
New Geographies of the American West: Land Use and the Changing Patterns of Place
Land Use and the Changing Patterns of Place is a sweeping diagnosis of land use trends in the West and a prescription for better planning and policy decisions. Authored by 2005-2006 Orton Family Foundation Fellow and University of Colorado-Boulder Professor of Geography, William Travis, this is the first book in a series that explores the complex land use issues underlying many of the nation's most pressing social problems while highlighting new models and visions for vibrant and sustainable communities.
New Urbanism: Best Practices Guide, 4th Edition
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. Thoroughly revised and substantially expanded by the editors of New Urban News, this brand new book explains how New Urbanism came about, what its principles are, and how it is improving communities in the United States and other countries.
New Urbanism: Comprehensive Report and Best Practices Guide
This definitive reference on new urban ideas, practices, and projects from New Urban Publications, Inc. includes updates and new sections as well as more than 400 illustrations and tables, projects, plans, and renderings.
Open Ground: Effective Local Strategies for Protecting Natural Resources
This book is designed to offer a comprehensive source of information about strategies available to localities to protect the environment.
Open Ground: Effective Local Strategies for Protecting Natural Resources
The preservation of open space has captured the public's imagination. Disappearance of open space is associated with the general degradation of the quality of community life, and in a broader sense, what is happening to open space is what is happening to the local environment.
Planners Book Service Catalog
Planners Book Service, part of the American Planning Association's website, is the Internet's best source for books, reports, audio and video tapes, computer software, and curricula on planning and related subjects.
Planning and Urban Design Standards
Planning and Urban Design Standards is a comprehensive sourcebook on everything from regional plans to streetscapes. Edited by the American Planning Association and including extensive illustrations and concise explanations, this book is a quick reference focused on practical applications.
Planning for a Low-Energy Future
Planning for a Low-Energy Future from the American Planning Association and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is a book that outlines how communities, businesses, and individuals can work toward greater sustainability.
Planning Policy and Politics: Smart Growth and the States
Updating his two previous books on growth management in the states, John M. DeGrove examines the history and current systems for planning and smart growth in nine states: Oregon, Florida, New Jersey, Maine, Rhode Island, Vermont, Georgia, Maryland, and Washington.
Planning Support Systems for Cities and Regions
In Planning Support Systems for Cities and Regions, a book from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, editor Richard K. Brail invites the reader to join in a virtual dialogue with its authors -- educators, theorists, model builders, and planners -- about technology and the social context in which technology is employed.
Preserving Resources from the Recent Past
Preserving Resources from the Recent Past, a new Preservation Book by Jeanne Lambin from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, looks at the historic context of the postwar building boom, the special challenges of preserving this legacy, and some case studies of community successes.
Prevention Is Primary: Strategies for Community Well Being
Prevention is Primary: Strategies for Community Well Being is an academic text co-edited by Larry Cohen and Sana Chehimi of Prevention Institute along with Vivian Chavez of San Francisco State University. Prevention Is Primary aims to move future practitioners from the margins of prevention to its core by defining the elements of quality prevention efforts, identifying best practices and illustrating the application of prevention principles in a multitude of settings.
Re-Creating Neighborhoods for Successful Aging
The aging of the U.S. population and the rising average life span are transforming current perspectives on growing older, retirement, and senior living communities. To ensure that environments meet the changing needs of older adults, a reconception of housing, communities, and neighborhoods is required. Re-creating Neighborhoods for Successful Aging, a 2008 book from Health Professions Press, provides the foundation for confronting this pressing challenge.
Redefining Urban and Suburban America -- Vol. III
The results from Census 2000 continue to disclose remarkable population trends in the nation's cities and suburbs during the last decade of the twentieth century. They confirm that American metropolitan areas lie at the heart of the nation's most pronounced demographic and economic changes.
Redefining Urban and Suburban America: Volume 3
Redefining Urban and Suburban America: Volume 3 from the Brookings Institution Press describes anew the changing shape of metropolitan America and the consequences for policies in areas such as employment, public services, and urban revitalization.
Regenerating Older Suburbs
Regenerating Older Suburbs from the Urban Land Institute is a book that describes the strategies and solutions employed by ten inner-ring suburbs trying to remain vital and attract investment from private developers.
Remaking the North American Food System
Written by a diverse group of scholars and practitioners, Remaking the North American Food System: Strategies for Sustainability from University of Nebraska Press describes the many efforts throughout North America to craft and sustain alternative food systems that can improve social, economic, environmental, and health outcomes.
Restorative Commons: Creating Health and Well-being through Urban Landscapes
''Restorative Commons: Creating Health and Well-being through Urban Landscapes'' is a book from the Urban Ecology Collaborative (UEC), a group dedicated to cultivating healthy, safe and vibrant cites through collective learning and united action.
Revisiting Rental Housing
In Revisiting Rental Housing: Policies, Programs, and Priorities, leading housing researchers build on decades of experience, research, and evaluation to inform our understanding of rental housing challenges and what to do about them.
Small Town Sustainability
In Small Town Sustainability, authors Heike Meyer and Paul Knox examine how small towns can meet the challenge of a fast-paced, globalized world, and they use case studies to introduce movements, programs, and strategies that promote local cultures, traditions, and sustainability.
Smart Growth and Climate Change
Smart Growth And Climate Change: Regional Development, Infrastructure and Adaptation is a book that brings together two strands of applied research that to date that have only been carried out in isolation from each other -- ''smart growth'' research and research into adaptation to climate change and variability. Both entail similar concerns, draw on complementary modelling tools and are concerned with bridging the gaps that may exist between science and engineering stakeholder interests and policy implementation.
Smart Growth and Climate Change
Smart Growth And Climate Change: Regional Development, Infrastructure and Adaptation is a book that systematically brings together two strands of applied research that, to date, have been carried out separately -- ‘smart growth’ research and climate change adaptability research.
Smart Growth in a Changing World
Smart Growth in a Changing World, the latest book from planner and urban designer Jonathan Barnett, documents the United States' hidden crisis and shows how balanced transportation and natural resources preservation can make new urban development sustainable, as well as more efficient and more equitable.
Smart Growth Policies Book
In the 2009 book Smart Growth Policies: An Evaluation of Programs and Outcomes, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy collaborated with 18 leading land use researchers and planners to measure and compare outcomes in four states with statewide smart growth programs (Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, and Oregon) and four states without such programs (Colorado, Indiana, Texas, and Virginia). The investigation reveals great heterogeneity. No state did well on all smart growth principles or on all measures, although individual states typically succeeded in their top priority policy area.
Smart Growth Street Design
Smart Growth Street Design from the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) is a book that discusses how slower streets improve livability and can be designed to meet traffic engineering requirements and improve safety. Learn about changing standards and successes in implementing street design using smart growth.
Smart Growth: Form and Consequence
Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2002. The chapters in this book are adapted from the presentations at the March 2000 symposium on smart growth sponsored by the Lincoln Land Institute and MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning. They address the questions of what is smart growth and how it should direct our future planning and development.
Smart Urban Growth for China
In 2009, the Lincoln Institute published Smart Urban Growth for China, a book that presents various perspectives on shaping a sustainable urban future for China based on discussions from a 2007 conference.
Sprawl and Politics: The Inside Story of Smart Growth in Maryland
Sprawl and Politics: The Inside Story of Smart Growth in Maryland, a book by John W. Frece, traces the evolution of the Smart Growth program from its substantive underpinnings to the political and public relations strategies needed to assure the program's adoption.
Sprawl Costs
In 1996, a team of experts undertook a multi-year study designed to provide quantitative measures of the costs and benefits of different forms of growth. Sprawl Costs from Island Press presents a concise and readable summary of the results of that study.
Strategies for Protecting Quality of Place and Expanding Economic Opportunity
Grow Smart Rhode Island has produced a briefing book, Strategies for Protecting Quality of Place and Expanding Economic Opportunity, that provides background information about a variety of issues that are critical for the state's healthy economic development, quality of life, and social well-being. The book also include Grow Smart Rhode Island's recommendations for state and local action on each of these issues, along with references for further information.
Street Smart: Streetcars and Cities in the 21st Century
Reconnecting America presents Street Smart: Streetcars and Cities in the 21st Century, a book that goes in-depth into the modern revival of streetcars in America, from Portland's modern Inekon-Skoda streetcars to Kenosha, Wisconsin's heritage trolley.
Suburban Transformations
Smart Growth advocates, environmentalists, and New Urbanists have all tried in their own ways to spread the message of reforming current land use patterns. Their solutions are often criticized for being overly prescriptive, opposed to growth, or nostalgic. Suburban Transformations from Princeton University Press offers an alternative to these practices while synthesizing many of the ideas and proposals that they put forth.
Sustainability on Campus
The MIT Press offers Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change, edited by Peggy Barlett and Geoffrey W. Chase. These personal narratives of greening college campuses offer inspiration, motivation, and practical advice.
Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature
Written by the chair of the LEED-Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) initiative, Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature is both an urgent call to action and a comprehensive introduction to ''sustainable urbanism'' -- the emerging and growing design reform movement that combines the creation and enhancement of walkable and diverse places with the need to build high-performance infrastructure and buildings.
The Costs and Benefits of High Performance Buildings
The Costs and Benefits of High Performance Buildings is the third in Earth Day New York's Lessons Learned series and includes more than two dozen essays from green building practitioners.
The GIS Guide for Local Government Officials
In The GIS Guide for Local Government Officials, municipal geographic information system (GIS) experts suggest practical approaches for incorporating this powerful mapping technology into a city or county, no matter what size. Case studies drawn from throughout North America illustrate how officials have successfully applied GIS to their specific needs, from monitoring storm drains in Hawaii to finding child care in Canada.
The Great Neighborhood Book
Jay Walljasper's The Great Neighborhood Book, published by New Society, explains how any community can be improved and enlivened, not by vast infusions of cash, not by government, but by the people who live there. Through real-life stories, this book addresses such challenges as traffic control, crime, comfort and safety, and developing economic vitality.
The Green Quotient: ULI Collection of Interviews
From the Urban Land Institute (ULI) comes The Green Quotient, a book of interviews with cutting-edge thinkers around the world, based on The Green Quotient column that appears in Urban Land magazine.
The High Cost of Free Parking
In The High Cost of Free Parking, Donald Shoup proposes new ways for cities to regulate parking, namely, charge fair market prices for curb parking, use the resulting revenue to pay for services in the neighborhoods that generate it, and remove zoning requirements for off-street parking.
The Humane Metropolis
Four-fifths of Americans now live in the nation's sprawling metropolitan areas, and half of the world's population is now classified as ''urban.'' As cities become the dominant living environment for humans, there is growing concern about how to make such places more habitable, more healthy and safe, more ecological, and more equitable -- in short, more humane. The Humane Metropolis, edited by Rutherford H. Platt, is a book that explores the prospects for a more humane metropolis through a series of essays and case studies that consider why and how urban places can be made greener and more amenable.
The Learning Garden
The Learning Garden: Ecology, Teaching, and Transformation is a book that tells the story of building a campus ''Learning Garden'' over a series of cohorts of student teachers and environmental education students.
The New Politics of Planning
The New Politics of Planning from the Urban Land Institute is a new book that chronicles land use controls used in the past generation, and then describes recent trends that show how states are changing their perspective.
The New Transit Town
The New Transit Town: Best Practices in Transit-Oriented Development is an edited volume that brings together experts in planning, transportation and sustainable design to examine the first generation of TOD projects and derive lessons for the next generation.
The Option of Urbanism
Americans are voting with their feet to abandon strip malls and suburban sprawl, embracing instead a new type of community where they can live, work, shop, and play within easy walking distance. In the book The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream, visionary developer and strategist Christopher B. Leinberger explains why government policies have tilted the playing field toward one form of development over the last sixty years: the drivable suburb.
The University as Developer
There Goes the 'Hood
In this revealing book, Lance Freeman sets out to answer a seemingly simple question: How does gentrification actually affect residents of neighborhoods in transition? To find out, Freeman does what no scholar before him has done. He interviews the indigenous residents of two predominantly black neighborhoods that are in the process of gentrification: Harlem and Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. His analysis suggests new ways of limiting gentrification's negative effects and of creating more positive experiences and equitable development for newcomers and natives alike.
Tomorrow’s Cities, Tomorrow’s Suburbs
Old city neighborhoods are growing at the suburbs' expense. Tomorrow's Cities, Tomorrow's Suburbs, published by the American Planning Association, analyzed metro areas and found that by 2000, older neighborhoods (pre-1940s) have made comebacks, while many suburbs have sunk lower in relative income than poor cities like Detroit.
Train Time: Railroads and the Imminent Reshaping of the United States Landscape
In the 2008 book Train Time, Harvard landscape historian John R. Stilgoe states that the era of the train in the U.S. is returning, and that every sector of the rail industry -- freight, commuter, inter-city, and tourism -- will be a part of this resurgence.
True Urbanism: Cities Embracing Density
True Urbanism, a book from the American Planners Association, is a vivid account of cities small and large emerging from the cobwebs of late 20th century development that will show communities with lingering antiurban tendencies how to embrace density as destiny.
ULI's Award Winning Projects 2005
The Urban Land Institute's Award Winning Projects 2005 profiles more than 35 top commercial and residential projects throughout the world. Each project includes photos, the development story, project data, and is a winner or finalist for the prestigious ULI Award for Excellence.
Unplanning: Livable Cities and Political Choices
The conventional wisdom says that we need strict planning to build walkable neighborhoods around transit stations – even though these neighborhoods are like the streetcar suburbs that were common in America before anyone heard of city planning.
Yet many of our greatest successes in urban design occurred when we treated the issues as political questions – not as technical problems that the planners should solve for us. The anti-freeway movement of the 1960s and 1970s and the anti-sprawl movement of recent decades were both political movements, and citizen-activists often had to work against projects that planners proposed and approved.
This book uses an intriguing thought experiment to show that, in order to build livable cities, we should go further than the anti-freeway and anti-sprawl movements by putting direct political limits on urban growth.
Political choices about how we want to live can transform our cities more effectively than planning.
Urban Design and the Bottom Line
How can you calculate the ''design dividend'' -- the added value generated from good design before an investment is made? This book from the Urban Land Institute (ULI) answers that question using verifiable figures and drawing on the experiences and lessons learned from developers, public officials, and designers.
Urban Design Reclaimed
In Urban Design Reclaimed, a forthcoming title from APA Planners Press, author Emily Talen challenges planners to reengage in urban design to ensure that it supports diverse, sustainable, vibrant and equitable communities.
Urban Sprawl and Public Health
Urban Sprawl and Public Health offers a comprehensive look at the interface of urban planning, architecture, transportation, community design, and public health. It summarizes the evidence linking adverse health outcomes with sprawling development, and outlines the complex challenges of developing policy that promotes and protects public health.
Visions of Smart Growth and Sustainability
Visions of Smart Growth and Sustainability is a comprehensive book about sustainable development from the Florida Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (FLASLA). This 150-page-plus publication is available as a free download from the FLASLA website.
Visualizing Density
Landscape architect and land planner Julie Campoli and aerial photographer Alex S. MacLean have joined forces with the Lincoln Institute to create Visualizing Density, a full-color, richly illustrated book to help planners, designers, public officials, and citizens better understand, and better communicate to others, the concept of density as it applies to the residential environment.
Well Grounded, Using Land Use Authority to Achieve Smart Growth
Environmental Law Institute. 2001. This book explores the growing interest in land use law and practice that has been stimulated by the public's increasing disfavor with urban sprawl and its support of smart growth initiatives.
When Bad Things Happen to Good Property
When Bad Things Happen to Good Property is a book from the Environmental Law Institute that features a review of economics and theory of real estate environmental damages, empirical results from peer-reviewed literature, and legal outcomes of environmental contamination litigation in the United States.
Who's Your City
Who's Your City,a 2008 book by Dr. Richard Florida, provides the first ever-rankings of cities by life-stage, rating the best places for singles, young families and empty-nesters. It grounds its new ideas and data to provide an essential guide for the more than 40 million Americans of who move each year on how to choose where to live, and what those choices mean for their lives, happiness and communities.
Workforce Housing: Innovative Strategies and Best Practices
The Urban Land Institute (ULI) offers Workforce Housing: Innovative Strategies and Best Practices, a 2006 book that describes some of the most innovative and successful strategies that have been employed to ease the affordable housing crunch, turning upside down the old ways of thinking about affordable housing, and producing housing that working families can afford.
Wye Island: Insiders, Outsiders and Change in a Chesapeake Community
This special reprint edition of the popular Wye Island includes a foreword by historian Adam Rome. Wye Island is an intimate account of the struggle over the future of an island off the Eastern Shore of Maryland that covers the early stages of smart growth.
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