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A legal guide to urban and sustainable development for planners, developers and architects

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Publication details: Hoboken John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 2008Description: xv, 352p. ill. 24cmISBN:
  • 9780470053294
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • 711.1 $2 18
Partial contents:
To suburbia and back, how urbanist law is different -- Sustainable urbanism -- Tweaking the system, getting projects built and codes changed within the existing zoning framework -- Changing the rules, new approaches to zoning -- Fifedoms and fire trucks, overcoming impediments in the subdivision, pla-review, and site-plan processes -- Retooling the common-interest community -- Special building types -- Litigation -- Federal policy, initiatives and alliances -- Strategies for change -- An approach to greening
Summary: Book offers commentary and guidance on urbanism and sustainable development in the United States, using case studies and real world examples. Covers many legal examples, including (but not limited to) overcoming impediments to urban and sustainable design practice, getting codes changed within the existing zoning framework and avoiding unnecessary conflicts between urbanist codes and sustainability codes.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
Book London Books 711.1 SLO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 30076313

To suburbia and back, how urbanist law is different -- Sustainable urbanism -- Tweaking the system, getting projects built and codes changed within the existing zoning framework -- Changing the rules, new approaches to zoning -- Fifedoms and fire trucks, overcoming impediments in the subdivision, pla-review, and site-plan processes -- Retooling the common-interest community -- Special building types -- Litigation -- Federal policy, initiatives and alliances -- Strategies for change -- An approach to greening

Book offers commentary and guidance on urbanism and sustainable development in the United States, using case studies and real world examples. Covers many legal examples, including (but not limited to) overcoming impediments to urban and sustainable design practice, getting codes changed within the existing zoning framework and avoiding unnecessary conflicts between urbanist codes and sustainability codes.