RESOURCES
If you would like to increase your knowledge about traditional neighborhood planning and development, we recommend exploring some of the books, videos and organizations listed below.
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Recommended Reading
- Power Broker by Robert Caro
- Death and Life of Great American Cities, The Economy of Cities, Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs
- Suburban Nation, The New Civic Art by Andres Duany
- Walkable City by Jeff Speck
- “A Good Place to Live” article from Atlantic Magazine you can find online by Philip Langdon
- 101 Things I learned in Architecture School by Mathew Frederick
- Building Construction Illustrated, Building Codes Illustrated Francis Ching
- The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup
- City Comforts: How to Build an Urban Village by David Sucher
- How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand
- The Architecture of Community, Architecture: Choice or Fate by Leon Krier
- The Culture of Building by Howard Davis
- Courtyard Housing in Los Angeles: A Typological Analysis by Stefanos Polyzoides
- The Language of Towns & Cities: A Visual Dictionary by Dhiru Thadani
- Sustainable Nation: Urban Design Patterns for the Future by Douglas Farr
- Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With Nature by Douglas Farr
Industry Organizations:
American Planning Association
www.planning.org
Congress for the New Urbanism
www.cnu.org
Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America
www.classicist.org
National Charrette Institute
www.charretteinstitute.org
National Governors Association
www.nga.org
New Urban Guild
www.newurbanguild.com
Seaside Institute
www.seasideinstitute.org
Smart Growth America
www.smartgrowthamerica.com
The Mayors’ Institute on City Design
www.archfoundation.org/micd
Urban Land Institute
www.uli.org
Video Resources
Dan Slone – CNU 20 – Understanding the Role of Sustainable Urbanism in the Conservative Agenda
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Dan Slone – CNU XII Denver, CO 2009 Dan Slone The Coding Challenge
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Dan Slone on CNU 20’s 202-G: Reshaping the Homeowners’ Association in Tough Times
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Story-telling as community-building.
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New Urbanism 101: Principles of New Urbanism
Speaker: Andres Duany, Principal, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company
Congress for the New Urbanism – Published on May 14, 2015
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Lean Urbanism: An Introduction, CNU 23
Project for Lean Urbanism – Published on Jul 9, 2015
Andrés Duany explains why Lean Urbanism is needed.
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Andres Duany: Principles of New Urbanism
Congress for the New Urbanism – Published on Aug 5, 2016
Speaker: Andrés Duany, Principal, DPZ Partners
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Built to Last – animated short film about new urbanism and the environmental crisis
John Paget – Published on Apr 30, 2009
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Dhiru Thadani discusses his drawings with Steve Mouzon at CNU 19
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Dhiru Thadani on Housing Affordability | Seaside, Florida
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Dhiru Thadani: Successional Urbanism
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The Original Green – Published on Jun 1, 2016
This is Steve Mouzon’s presentation on architecture and city identity at the Spring 2016 CityBuilding Exchange in New Orleans.
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