New Urbanism: Best Practices Guide, 4th Edition

By Robert Steuteville, Philip Langdon & special contributors.

From New Urban News Publications, Inc., 448 pages with more than 800 illustrations and tables.

ISBN 0-9745021-6-2

Regular rate is $129 plus shipping and handling;

$99 plus shipping and handling for New Urban News subscribers and members of CNU. Student price is $79 plus shipping and handling (must provide proof of enrollment). Shipping and handling is $8 to US; $11 to Canada & Puerto Rico; $24 all others.

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

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 • New Urbanism Abroad

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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.

Nowhere will you find a more comprehensive examination of New Urbanism — its methods, research, and development.

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.

The Best Practices Guide helps architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, builders, developers, public officials, students, and citizens understand one of the most vital planning movements of our time — a movement that is reshaping 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.

Here's what leading new urbanists have to say about this book:

"It just might be the most useful single book on the New Urbanism I  have ever seen. This has been a work in progress for several years.  Originally, the spiral-bound book was very good, to the point of being essential. But at this point, it's beyond essential... you  really must buy a copy if you haven't already."

– Stephen A. Mouzon, Principal, Mouzon Design (Read the entire review on Steve’s blog.)

"There are many best practices guides and then there is the New Urbanism: Best Practices Guide. Buy it and you'll find it getting dog eared from constant use- which is just about the nicest thing you can say about a best practices manual."

– John Norquist, President and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism

“This wonderful publication will be of enormous value to big cities, small communities, civic officials, architects, planners, developers, and citizens.”

– Joseph P. Riley, Mayor, City of Charleston

"The New Urbanism: Best Practices Guide is like the communities it describes. The book is compact, with a remarkable density of useful information that is easily accessible, visually appealing, and gracefully laid out. While retaining the best of the past, this fourth edition has also expanded into new territory, addressing matters such as sustainability and human health and aging that are rarely associated with this type of development, but that may be among the most compelling reasons to live this way in the future. The book rewards repeated visits, like new urbanism itself."

– Tom Fisher, professor and dean of the College of Design, University of Minnesota

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