This book describes how consumer demands are changing, strategies for overcoming NIMBYism, and the latest trends related to open space, infill and mixed housing development, increasing density, transportation, and street design.
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Adrienne Schmitz is a director at the Urban Land Institute, the world's leading real estate and land use education and research institute. She lives in Washington DC.
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Those who dismiss the suburbs as unimportant are dismissing the places where the majority of Americans live, work, play, shop, and learn. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
new urbanist projects, new urbanist developments, car sharing, total development costs, soft costs, site acquisition, street widths, new urbanism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
King Farm, Belle Creek, Orange Shoals, Ladera Ranch, Sonoma Villero, New Shape of Suburbia, Southern Village, Austin Ranch, Winslow Mews, New York, Urban Ring, Palo Alto, Chapel Hill, National Association of Home Builders, North Carolina, United States, Bainbridge Island, San Francisco, Unit Size, Lake Elmo, Montgomery County, Orange County, Unit Type Square Meters, Energy Star, Urban Land New!
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Those who dismiss the suburbs as unimportant are dismissing the places where the majority of Americans live, work, play, shop, and learn. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
new urbanist projects, new urbanist developments, car sharing, total development costs, soft costs, site acquisition, street widths, new urbanism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
King Farm, Belle Creek, Orange Shoals, Ladera Ranch, Sonoma Villero, New Shape of Suburbia, Southern Village, Austin Ranch, Winslow Mews, New York, Urban Ring, Palo Alto, Chapel Hill, National Association of Home Builders, North Carolina, United States, Bainbridge Island, San Francisco, Unit Size, Lake Elmo, Montgomery County, Orange County, Unit Type Square Meters, Energy Star, Urban Land New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Regional City by Peter Calthorpe on page 32, page 47, and page 51
- The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Community Centers, Beauty Parlors, General Stores, Bars, Hangouts and How They Get You Through the Day by Ray Oldenburg on page 54, and page 69
- Public Transportation and Land Use Policy by Boris Pushkarev on page 51
- Final report (CCS occasional paper ; no. 6) by Speyside Project on page 39
- Transforming Suburban Business Districts by Geoffrey Booth on page 51
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