Sustainable urbanism : urban design with nature Part I. The case for sustainable urbanism : 1. The built environment: where we are today : The American lifestyle on the wrong course ; Pioneering reforms: setting the stage for sustainable urbanism 2. Sustainable urbanism: where we need to go : Sustainable urbanism: the grand unification ; The three steps of sustainable urbanism Part II. Implementing sustainable urbanism : 3. Leadership and communications : Leadership talking points for sustainable urbanism Jim Hackler and Irina Woelfle ; The power of paired choices ; Implementation agendas for leaders 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 ; 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 III. Emerging thresholds of sustainable urbanism : 5. Increasing sustainability through density : Explaining density ; Illustrating density ; The transect of the everyday ; Water and the density debate Lynn Richards ; Transit supportive densities 6. Sustainable corridors : The sustainable corridor Doug Farr Leslie Oberholzer and Christian Schaller ; The integration of transportation ; Biodiversity corridors Rebecca L. Kihslinger Jessica Wilkinson and James McElfish 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 demands Jeffery Tumlin ; Car sharing Jeffery Tumlin