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
Your letters May 13 Durham News Jeff Speck, the past director of design at the National Endowment for the Arts and co-author of “The Smart Growth Manual, “ gave the project a Smart Growth grade of 96 percent. By using Smart Growth principles and following the EPA's own ... |
Preservation Foundation to host speaker, architect-urban planner Andrés Duany Palm Beach Daily News They have co-authored three books, Suburban Nation, The New Civic Art and The Smart Growth Manual. The event is free to members, students and Palm Beach government employees; $20 for nonmembers. For reservations, call 832-0731. |
Birdbrain Scheme Is Now Big Idea of the Century? Dissident Voice Lydon is also co-author of The Smart Growth Manual (2009), with Andres Duany and Jeff Speck. “Take LEED, for example,” Lydon continues. “The new urbanists and other likeminded people helped awaken the world to the fact that a LEED platinum building is ... and more » |
