The Starting Place for New Urbanism

Now fifteen years old but still the best starting place for getting a basic grounding in the design/architecture/urban planning/community renewal movements known as New Urbanism, this book summarizes the basic insights behind the movement and then gives dozens of illustrated examples of completed and proposed developments that show the ideas in action. Then it closes with a fabulous, aggressive essay by Vincent Scully entitled "The Architecture of Community" that skewers the complicity of government, architects, design professionals, developers and automobile manufacturers in the destruction of communities across our land. The reference to "the truly sinister Departments of Transportation everywhere" is my personal favorite.