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Everyone is calling for smart growth...but what exactly is it? In
The Smart Growth Manual, two leading city planners provide a
thorough answer. From the expanse of the metropolis to the detail
of the window box, they address the pressing challenges of urban
development with easy-to-follow advice and broad array of best
practices. With their landmark book Suburban Nation, Andres Duany
and Jeff Speck "set forth more clearly than anyone has done in our
time the elements of good town planning" (The New Yorker). With
this long-awaited companion volume, the authors have organized the
latest contributions of new urbanism, green design, and healthy
communities into a comprehensive handbook, fully illustrated with
the built work of the nation's leading practitioners. "The Smart
Growth Manual is an indispensable guide to city planning. This kind
of progressive development is the only way to fully restore our
economic strength and create new jobs, new industries, and a
renewed ability to compete in the first rank of world economies."
-- Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco "Authors Andres Duany, Jeff
Speck, and Mike Lydon have created The Smart Growth Manual, a
resource which not only explains the overarching ideals of smart
growth, but a manual that takes the time to show smart growth
principles at each geographic scale (region, neighborhood, street,
building). I highly recommend [it] as a part of any community
participant's or urban planner's desktop references." --
LocalPlan.org Planetizen Top 10 Books - 2010 On the ninth annual
list of the ten best books in urban planning, design and
development: "The goal of The Smart Growth Manual is clear from
page 1: to create a guidebook for smart growth following the
pattern of the Charter for New Urbanism. Duany, Speck and Lydon
have achieved that in spades (the Charter is included in the
appendix, in case we missed the connection). It even clears up some
of the architectural arguments that attach themselves to New
Urbanists, such as this segment of Section 14.1, Regional Design;
'While new buildings should not be compelled to mimic their
historic predecessors, designers should pay attention to local
practices regarding materials and colors, roof pitches, eave
lengths, window-to-wall ratios, and the socially significant
relationship of buildings to their site and the street; these have
usually evolved in intelligent response to local conditions.' In
addition to making the old 'traditional vs. modern' argument
irrelevant, Duany, Speck and Lydon have truly managed to boil down
the best parts of current practices into a highly readable,
portable book."
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