The New Urbanism : Toward an Architecture of Community Peter Katz An exploration of new suburban communities and neighborhoods on the edge of the 21st century. Table of Contents: I. Introduction; II. Examples of the New Urbanism: Satellite Towns; New Towns on the Edge; Urban Insertions; Urban Reconstruction; Regional Plan, Policy Studies; III. Appendix, Reference Material. Index. 11 x 8 1/2. 500 illustrations.	ORDER
		Sustaining Cities Joseph Leitman Sustaining Cities in the 21st Century is the first book to address in depth, and in one place, the many environmental problems--and their solutions--that face world cities. In the year 2000, for the first time in human history, more than half the world's population will live in cities. Cities generate two-thirds of the world's wealth and account for 80% of GNP. Increasing population and economic growth generate more waste. The book addresses, from the urban designer/planner's point of view, all the concomitant problems resulting from this scenario: "brownfields"--distressed industrial area; eroding infrastructure; pollution; resource losses; environmental hazards; and global enviromental issues.	ORDER

		ORDER	Highways in the Netherlands Tracy Metz, Theo Baart (Photographer), Cary Markerink (Photographer)
		ORDER	The Livable City: Revitalizing Urban Communities editors: Partners for Livable Communities Includes 50+ best-practice case studies Written by respected members of the premier nonprofit group promoting livability, Partners for Livable Communities (representing 1,000 organizations), The Livable City gives you innovative tools that help you get a handle on the problems of cities today. The Livable City addresses every facet of improving livability--from building private, business, and governmental coalitions to obtaining funding--and provides a clear roadmap from urban nightmare to "Most Livable City" status. It's a valuable and much-needed resource for urban designers, planners, architects, elected officials, business leaders, civic leaders, landscape architects, students, and anyone concerned with the condition of urban communities, anywhere in the world.

City of Bits : Space, Place, and the Infobahn William J. Mitchell Entertaining, concise, and relentlessly probing, City of Bits offers a comprehensive introduction to a new type of city, an increasingly important system of virtual spaces interconnected by the information superhighway. "The digital realm has at last the writer it deserves."--Andrew Leonard, The Nation. 16 illustrations.

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The Next American Metropolis : Ecology, Community, and the American Dream Peter Calthorpe One of the foremost practitioners of New Urbanism, Peter Calthorpe, an urban designer and architect based in Berkeley, California, offers one of the most coherent and persuasive arguments for moving the United States away from sprawl and toward more compact, mixed-use, economically diverse, and ecologically sound communities. This book presents 24 of Calthorpe's regional urban plans, in which towns are organized so that residents can be less dependent upon their cars and can walk, bike, or take public transportation between work, school, home, and shopping. This book is not just for architects and urban planners, but for all concerned citizens interested in developing a cohesive, feasible vision of the sustainable city of the future.

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