Practical guide to the legal issues of using urbanist and
sustainable development principles
By examining and explaining the particular legal issues that
accompany urbanist design and sustainable development, this timely
book shows urban planners, developers, designers, and architects
how to make the law work for them in planning and executing
sustainable urban projects. Written by experienced attorneys, this
book thoroughly explains the practical implications of the current
law and legal theories surrounding urbanism and sustainability, and
forecasts its future directions.
Using case studies, photographs, and illustrations, this book
offers real-world solutions to the legal issues of urban and
sustainable development, including:
Incorporating good urban design principles into local land
regulation
Overcoming impediments to urban and sustainable design
practice
Getting projects built and codes changed within the existing
zoning framework
Using fundamentally new approaches to zoning
Managing and coping with litigation
Structuring and operating the mixed-use common interest
community
Understanding legal issues specific to urbanist building
types
Avoiding unnecessary conflicts between urbanist codes and
sustainability codes
Collectively, the authors have handled every aspect of urbanist
law. The two lead authors, Daniel K. Slone and Doris S. Goldstein,
are attorneys who are pioneers in the field, having worked with
architects, planners, city officials, and developers at the
vanguard of urban planning and sustainability. Their comments and
firsthand experience, interspersed throughout the book, help
illuminate how the law governs day-to-day planning anddevelopment
activities.
The movements toward sustainable and urbanist development are
changing the landscape of America. Armed with this book, you can
confidently navigate through the law as you initiate an urban
development project and see it to fruition.
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