Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With Nature

Foreword ( Andres Duany ). Preface. How to use this book. Acknowledgments. Part One The Case for Sustainable Urbanism. Chapter 1: The Built Environment: Where We Are Today. The American Lifestyle on the Wrong Course. Pioneering Reforms: Setting the Stage for Sustainable Urbanism. Chapter 2: Sustainable Urbanism: Where We Need to Go. Sustainable Urbanism: The Grand Unification. The Three Steps of Sustainable Urbanism. Part Two Implementing Sustainable Urbanism. Chapter 3: Leadership and Communications. Leadership Talking Points for Sustainable Urbanism ( Jim Hackler and Irina Woelfle ) The Power of Paired Choices. Implementation Agendas for Leaders. Chapter 4: The Process and Tools for Implementing Sustainable Urbanism. RFQ for Sustainable Urbanist Professionals. Benchmarking Municipal Sustainability: The Santa Monica Sustainable City Plan ( City of Santa Monica ). Documenting Community Preference in Form and Sustainability: Image Preference Survey (IPS) ( Christina Anderson ) Conducting a Charrette ( Bill Lennertz ) Shaping Sustainable Neighborhoods with the Toledo Smart Neighborhood Analysis Protocol (SNAP) ( Carolee Kokola ). A Sustainable Urbanist Neighborhood Plan: Toledo SNAP ( Carolee Kokola ). Regulating Plan and Form-Based Code ( Christina Anderson ). Incorporating Sustainability through Codes, Covenants, and Restrictions (CC&Rs) ( Dan Slone ). RFP for a Sustainable Urbanist Developer ( City of Victoria, British Columbia ). Part Three Emerging Thresholds of Sustainable Urbanism. Chapter 5: Increasing Sustainability Through Density. Explaining Density. Illustrating Density. The Transect of the Everyday. Water and the Density Debate ( Lynn Richards ). Transit Supportive Densities. Chapter 6: Sustainable Corridors. The Sustainable Corridor ( Doug Farr, Leslie Oberholtzer, and Christian Schaller ). The Integration of Transportation, Land Use, and Technology ( Shelley Poticha ). Biodiversity Corridors ( Rebecca L. Kihslinger, Jessica Wilkinson, and James McElfish ). Chapter 7: Sustainable Neighborhoods. Neighborhood Diagrams. Neighborhood Definition ( Victor Dover and Jason King ). Neighborhood Completeness ( Eliot Allen and Doug Farr ). Neighborhood Housing ( Laurie Volk and Todd Zimmerman ). Car-Free Housing. Neighborhood Retail ( Robert J. Gibbs ). Economic Benefits of Locally Owned Stores ( Matt Cunningham ). Third Places. Healthy Neighborhoods ( Melanie Simmons, Kathy Baughman McLeod,and Jason Hight ). Walkable Streets and Networks ( Dan Burden ). Complete Streets ( Fred Dock ). Universal Basic Home Access ( Eleanor Smith ). Managing Travel Demand ( Jeffery Tumlin ). Car Sharing ( Jeffery Tumlin 0. Chapter 8: Biophilia. Open Space ( Carolee Kokola ). Public Darkness ( Nancy Clanton and Todd Givler ). Stormwater Systems ( Jim Patchett and Tom Price ). Food Production ( Lynn Peemoeller and Jim Slama, with Cathy Morgan ). Outdoor Wastewater Treatment ( Thomas E. Ennis ). Indoor Wastewater Treatment ( John Todd Ecological Design ). Chapter 9: High-Performance Buildings and Infrastructure. The Impact of Planning on Building Energy Usage ( Alan Chalifoux ). 2030 Challenge ( Ed Mazria ). High-Performance Infrastructure ( Hillary Brown ). Large District Energy Systems ( Doug Newman and Robert Thornton, John Kelly, and Adam Lund ). The 2030 Community Challenge: Economic Growth with Sustainable Urbanism. Part Four Case Studies in Sustainable Urbanism. Chapter 10: Lessons Learned from Sustainable Urbanism. Built Infill. BedZED: London, England. Glenwood Park: Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Holiday Neighborhood: Boulder, Colorado, United States. Christie Walk: Adelaide, Australia. Newington: Sydney, Australia. High Point: Seattle, Washington, United States. Built Greenfield. Upton: Northampton, England. Kronsberg: Hannover, Germany. Loreto Bay: Baja California Sur, Mexico. Civano: Tucson, Arizona, United States. Poundbury: Dorchester, England. Chapter 11: State of the Art in Unbuilt Sustainable Urbanism. Unbuilt Infill. Dockside Green: Victoria, Canada. Lloyd Crossing: Portland, Oregon, United States. Z-Squared: London, England. New Railroad Square: Santa Rosa, California, United States. Uptown Normal: Normal, Illinois, United States. Unbuilt Greenfield. Dongtan: Shanghai, China. Galisteo Basin Preserve: Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. Pulelehua: Maui, Hawaii, United States. Coyote Valley: San Jose, California, United States. Scales of Intervention. Epilogue. Glossary. Index.