A legal guide to urban and sustainable development for planners, developers, and architects
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A legal guide to urban and sustainable development for planners, developers, and architects
（A Wiley book on sustainable design）
John Wiley & Sons, c2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 338-345) and index
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Description
Written by pioneering attorneys in the emerging fields of urbanism and green building, A Legal Guide to Urban and Sustainable Development for Planners, Developers and Architects offers you practical solutions for legal issues you may face in planning, zoning, developing, and operating such communities. Find information on legal issues related to urban form, legal mechanisms and ways to incorporate good urban design into local land regulation, overcoming impediments to sound urban design practice, and state and Federal issues related to the legal issues of urban design and planning.
Table of Contents
Foreword, Andres Duany vii
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
CHAPTER 1 TO SUBURBIA AND BACK: HOW URBANIST LAW IS DIFFERENT 1
Dan Slone, Doris Goldstein, and Andy Gowder
CHAPTER 2 SUSTAINABLE URBANISM 29
Dan Slone
Case Study: The Navy Yard at Noisette 47
CHAPTER 3 TWEAKING THE SYSTEM: GETTING PROJECTS BUILT AND CODES CHANGED WITHIN THE EXISTING ZONING FRAMEWORK 63
Chris Brewster, Matt Lawlor, Brian Ohm, and Mark White
CHAPTER 4 CHANGING THE RULES: NEW APPROACHES TO ZONING 89
Brian Ohm and Mark White
Form-Based Codes, Bob Sitkowski and Bill Spikowski 111
The Smart Code, Chad Emerson 128
CHAPTER 5 FIEFDOMS AND FIRE TRUCKS: OVERCOMING IMPEDIMENTS IN THE SUBDIVISION, PLAT-REVIEW, AND SITE-PLAN PROCESSES 149
Dan Slone
CHAPTER 6 RETOOLING THE COMMON-INTEREST COMMUNITY 179
Doris S. Goldstein
Case Study: Seaside, Florida 218
CHAPTER 7 SPECIAL BUILDING TYPES 227
Doris S. Goldstein
CHAPTER 8 LITIGATION 255
Andy Gowder
Case Study: The Fight for Entitlements: I ' On, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina 275
CHAPTER 9 FEDERAL POLICY, INITIATIVES, AND ALLIANCES 289
Chris Brewster and Matt Lawlor
CHAPTER 10 STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE 313
Dan Slone
APPENDIX: AN APPROACH TO GREENING PROJECTS OR MUNICIPALITIES 333
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND RESOURCES 338
INDEX 346
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