Charter of the New Urbanism

Charter of the New Urbanism
Author: Congress for the New Urbanism
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2000
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

An agenda for thriving urban centers, the San Francisco-based Congress for the New Urbanism is a leading force for modern design that encourages viable neighborhoods, conserves natural environments, and preserves our architectural heritage. Charter of the New Urbanism introduces you to the work of the world-class planners, architects and other professionals who are making the new urbanism happen. Charter contributors, including Andres Duany, Peter Calthorpe, and Liz Moule, explain strategies that range from large-scale, regional, to small-scale: blocks, streets and buildings. Revealing case studies help you understand the impact of geography, economics,development and urban patterns, public and private uses, transportation and pedestrian access, housing, building densities and land uses, codes, parks, shared use, safety, preservation and renewal, community identity and much more in this invaluable resource for design professionals.

New Urbanism and American Planning

New Urbanism and American Planning
Author: Emily Talen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2005-11-16
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1135992622

Surveying four approaches to city-making, the author here gives an assessment of the development of American urbanism, highlighting recurrent themes and how these interact, merge and conflict.

A Research Agenda for New Urbanism

A Research Agenda for New Urbanism
Author: Emily Talen
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2019
Genre:
ISBN: 1788118634

New Urbanism, a movement devoted to building walkable, socially diversity cities, has garnered some successes and some failures over the past several decades. A Research Agenda for New Urbanism is a forward-looking book composed of chapters by leading scholars of New Urbanism. Authors focus on multiple topics, including affordability, transportation, social life and retail to highlight the areas of research that are most important for the future of the field. The book summarizes what we know and what we need to know to provide a research agenda that will have the greatest promise and most positive impact on building the best possible human habitat—which is the aim of New Urbanism.

The Option of Urbanism

The Option of Urbanism
Author: Christopher B. Leinberger
Publisher: Island Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2010-03-18
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1597267767

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 Option of Urbanism 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. Rooted in the driving forces of the economy—car manufacturing and the oil industry—this type of growth has fostered the decline of community, contributed to urban decay, increased greenhouse gas emissions, and contributed to the rise in obesity and asthma. Highlighting both the challenges and the opportunities for this type of development, The Option of Urbanism shows how the American Dream is shifting to include cities as well as suburbs and how the financial and real estate communities need to respond to build communities that are more environmentally, socially, and financially sustainable.

China's Emerging Cities

China's Emerging Cities
Author: Fulong Wu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2007-11-13
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1134117701

With urbanism becoming the key driver of socio-economic change in China, this book provides much needed up-to-date material on Chinese urban development. Demonstrating how it transcends the centrally-planned model of economic growth, and assessing the extent to which it has gone beyond the common wisdom of Chinese ‘gradualism’, the book covers a wide range of important topics, including: local land development the local state private-public partnership foreign investment urbanization ageing home ownership. Providing a clear appraisal of recent trends in Chinese urbanism, this book puts forward important new conceptual resources to fill the gap between the outdated model of the ‘Third World’ city and the globalizing cities of the West.

Planning the Good Community

Planning the Good Community
Author: Jill Grant
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2006
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780415700740

An examination of new urban approaches both in theory and in practice. Taking a critical look at how new urbanism has lived up to its ideals, the author asks whether new urban approaches offer a viable path to creating good communities. With examples drawn principally from North America, Europe and Japan, Planning the Good Community explores new urban approaches in a wide range of settings. It compares the movement for urban renaissance in Europe with the New Urbanism of the United States and Canada, and asks whether the concerns that drive today's planning theory - issues like power, democracy, spatial patterns and globalisation- receive adequate attention in new urban approaches. The issue of aesthetics is also raised, as the author questions whether communities must be more than just attractive in order to be good. With the benefit of twenty years' hindsight and a world-wide perspective, this book offers the reader unparalleled insight as well as a rigorous and considered critical analysis.

Building the New Urbanism

Building the New Urbanism
Author: Aaron Passell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2013
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0415538971

The volume encapsulates and engages the dominant history of American suburbia, brings the work of prominent theorists of culture and science into the investigation of urban and suburban development, and broadens the focus of urban studies to the metropolitan region. It will be of particular interest to scholars of urban and suburban development, material culture, and professions, but is accessible enough for use in sociology, geography, planning, and urban and suburban studies courses.

New Urbanism and Beyond

New Urbanism and Beyond
Author: Tigran Haas
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780847831111

Best defined as the art of shaping the built environment, urban design seeks to understand and analyze the variety of forces—social, economic, cultural, legal, ecological, and aesthetic—that affect how we live. The complex challenges facing cities today—scarcity of resources, growing economic divisions, and rampant sprawl, among others—are forcing a reconsideration of urban design. New Urbanism, a leading movement within urban design, advocates a return to small-town urban forms: human-scale, pedestrian-friendly streets, a reinvigoration of cities, and a stop to suburban sprawl. This new volume, drawing on a conference and debates at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, comprehensively examines New Urbanism today and speculates about it’s future. With contributions from Christopher Alexander, Leon Krier, Peter Hall, Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck, William McDonough, Peter Calthorpe, Jan Gehl, Lars Lerup, Edward Soja, and Saskia Sassen, among others, New Urbanism and Beyond is both a comprehensive primer on urban design and a provocation for practitioners, historians, and citizens everywhere.

Geography Of Nowhere

Geography Of Nowhere
Author: James Howard Kunstler
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1994-07-26
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0671888250

Argues that much of what surrounds Americans is depressing, ugly, and unhealthy; and traces America's evolution from a land of village commons to a man-made landscape that ignores nature and human needs.

Codifying New Urbanism

Codifying New Urbanism
Author: Congress for the New Urbanism
Publisher: Amer Planning Assn
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2004
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781932364002

For planners, officials, and citizens seeking to employ the principles of new urbanism to development in their community, Codifying New Urbanism, by the Congress for the New Urbanism, examines the various ways to do so by modifying their land development regulations. Heavily illustrated and in full color, this report describes new urbanist essentials, the steps to putting new urbanism to work in your community, and the successes of 12 communities who have followed the approaches described in the report. It also contains an extensive interview with a practitioner about his experience in championing and implementing new urbanism. Finally, it contains a survey of communities using new urbanism.