Codifying New Urbanism: How To Reform Municipal Land Development Regulations

by Congress for the New Urbanism

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.

97 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004