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Transect Urbanism: Readings in Human Ecology is the definitive reference on the Rural-to-Urban Transect, a compilation of the most important essays, diagrams, and images on the subject. It provides historical, practical, and theoretical insights into one of the most effective urban planning methodologies developed in the 20th Century. The Transect is a unifying theory, serving as a framework for the various fields of urban design.The editors s...

... the most articulate and insightful debate on urbanism to surface in decades. The issues raised should be at the heart of any serious dialog about the human prospect. — Peter Calthorpe, author of Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change ... scrupulously expose[s] the extent to which Landscape Urbanism is but old modernist wine presented in new greenwashed wineskins. — Leon Krier, Louis Kahn Visiting Professor, Yale University Landscape Urbanis...

Published with the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

For a decade, Suburban Nation has given voice to a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and replace the last century's automobile-based settlement patterns with a return to more traditional planning. Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are at the forefront of the movement, and even their critics, such as Fred Barnes in The Weekly Standard, recognized that "Suburb...

Explores the challenges of growth in Hertfordshire and the means of overcoming the development approaches. This guide provides insight into and specific means of analysing development across the UK.

Patterned on "The American Vitruvius: An Architect's Handbook of Civic Art "(1922), one of the most successful and well-known architecture books ever published, "The New Civic Art, " with 1, 200 new illustrations and all new text for over 1, 000 entries, exemplifies the very best urban planning and town design. This entirely new book thoroughly details the most important recent trends as well as time-honored precedents. It includes information...