By Peter Calthorpe
(New York: Princeton
Architectural Press, 1995); 978-1878271686
One of
the foremost practitioners of New Urbanism, Peter Calthorpe, an urban designer
and architect based in Berkeley, California, offers one of the most coherent
and persuasive arguments for moving the United States away from sprawl and
toward more compact, mixed-use, economically diverse, and ecologically sound
communities. This book presents 24 of Calthorpe's regional urban plans, in
which towns are organized so that residents can be less dependent upon their
cars and can walk, bike, or take public transportation between work, school,
home, and shopping. This book is not just for architects and urban planners,
but for all concerned citizens interested in developing a cohesive, feasible
vision of the sustainable city of the future.