Sprawl & the New Urbanism
Sprawl & the New Urbanism is a selective
bibliographic research guide to Internet sites and UC Berkeley library
resources on sprawl and the New Urbansim. Please see the bibliographic
research guide Urban
Design for general resources of images, maps, and aerial photographs.
Many additional resources and reference assistance are available in the
Environmental Design Library,
210 Wurster Hall.
UC Berkeley faculty, registered students, and staff who are off campus may use items marked
UCB Only or UC Only by using The Library's
off-campus access services.
Content reviewed: June 2010. Compiled by Deborah Sommer.
Gateway Sites
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Better! Cities & Towns Articles and resources on new urbanism and new urban design. http://newurbannetwork.com/
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Sprawl
guide (Planning Commissioners Journal) "Designed to
familiarize you with key issues associated with sprawl, and direct you
to some of the wealth of information available on the web." http://www.plannersweb.com/sprawl/home.html
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Sprawl
watch clearinghouse Includes electronic newsletter, "best
practices," links, etc. http://www.sprawlwatch.org/frames.html
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Finding Books
Here is a selection of subject terms to help locate books, reports, etc., in the library catalogs. For the best coverage search first in the Melvyl:
Land use, urban -- Environmental aspects
Neotraditional development
Planned communities
Streets -- Design and construction
Suburbs
Urban ecology
Urban landscape architecture
Urban renewal
Urbanization
Urbanization -- Environmental aspects
Zoning
SPRAWL: Use the following subject
searches to find books on sprawl.
Cities and towns --
Growth AND City Planning
Cities and towns --
Growth AND Suburbs
Land use, Urban AND
Urban policy
Urban sprawl
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Bibliographies
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Bibliography on growth management, by Lynne De Merritt.
Chicago: Council of Planning Librarians, 1993. (CPL bibliography, no. 292)
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EnvDesign HT166 A12 C6a no.292 Index
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Edge cities, by Christine M. Sala. Chicago: Council
of Planning Librarians: Dist. by the American Planning Association, 1995.
(CPL bibliography, no. 317)
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EnvDesign HT166 A12 C6a no.317 Index
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Land, infrastructure, housing costs and fiscal impacts
associated with growth: the literature on the impacts of sprawl versus
managed growth, by Robert W. Burdell and David Listokin. [Cambridge,
MA]: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 1995.
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EnvDesign HD205 B87 1995
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Neotraditional developments, the new urbanism, by
Alexander Christoforidis. Chicago: Council of Planning Librarians:
Dist. by the American Planning Association, 1995. (CPL bibliography,
no. 322.)
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EnvDesign HT166 A12 C6a no.322 Index
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New towns/planned communities: selected references.
[Rev. ed.] Washington, DC: Urban Land Institute, 2000. (ULI information
service infopacket series, no. 326) Includes bibliography and
reprinted journal articles and book chapters from a variety of sources.
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EnvDesign HT169.57 U6 N58 2000
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New
urbanism bibliography (Architectural Resources Network--Periferia)
Dhiru
A. Thadani, comp. http://www.periferia.org/publications/cnubibliography.html
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New urbanism/neotraditional planning: selected references.
Rev. May 2000. [Washington, DC]: Urban Land Institute, 2000.
(ULI Information Service infopacket no. 338)
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EnvDesign HT167 N48 2000
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A Select, annotated bibliography on sustainable cities,
by Mary Ann Beavis and Jeffrey Patterson. Winnipeg, Man.: Institute of
Urban Studies, University of Winnipeg, 1992. (Bibliographica (University
of Winnipeg. Institute of Urban Studies), no.4)
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EnvDesign HT391 A12 B43 1992 Noncirculating
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Finding Journal Articles
Please see the
Urban Design research guide for a list of indexes and abstracts. In addition,
see City Planning
Indexes & Abstracts, Architecture
Indexes & Abstracts, and Environmental
Planning Indexes & Abstracts.
Journals
Here are a few journals that focus on the New Urbanism or sprawl; these titles are not
indexed. For a list of other urban
design journals, please consult the
Urban Design research guide.
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Growth/no growth. Flagstaff, AZ: Mandolin Publishing.
(Continues: Growth/no growth alert) Focuses on urban growth management.
2000--.
- EnvDesign HT384 U5 G76 Current & Bound Periodicals
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New urban news. Emmaus, PA: New Urban
News. Journal with a focus on the new urbanism.
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EnvDesign HG167 N48 Current & Bound Periodicals
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The Town paper:
a publication for traditional neighborhoods
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Online ed.: 1999-; tables of contents & archived
articles without images http://www.tndtownpaper.com/
Print ed.: 1999-; EnvDesign fNA9000 T543
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Measuring Sprawl
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Defining & measuring urban sprawl: three different
studies of sprawl from somewhat different perspectives are provided.
IN: Urban quality indicators. Issue 20 (winter 2001), pp. 1-4, 9. Features three approaches to the question "What is sprawl?:" Sierra Club:
trends approach; Denver: land use planning approach; Fannie Mae Foundation:
physical dimensions approach.
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EnvDesign HT123 U733 Bound Periodicals
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Urban sprawl: the big picture (NASA) Satellite images demonstrating urban
sprawl. http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2002/11oct_sprawl/
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Who
sprawls most?: how growth patterns differ across the U.S., by William
Fulton, et. al., Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, Center on Urban
and Metropolitan Policy, [2001]
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Online ed.: http://www.brookings.edu/es/urban/publications/fulton.pdf
Print ed.:
EnvDesign HT384 U5 W46 2001
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Wrestling
sprawl to the ground: defining and measuring an elusive concept (PDF),
by George Galster, et al. [Washington, DC]: Fannie Mae Foundation,
2000.
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Print ed.: IGSL 2001 0854
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Case Studies
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Constructing suburbs: competing voices in a debate over
urban growth, by Ann Forsyth. Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach, 1999.
(Cities and regions: planning, policy and management, v. 2) Case
studies.
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EnvDesign HT371 F67 1999
- Development case studies (Urban
Land Institute) - UCB only Formerly titled Project reference file. Provides detailed case studies of completed projects
ranging from low-income housing to mixed-use downtown developments to commercial
and industrial sites.
- Online ed.: 1985-; request User ID and Password at the Environmental Design
Reference Desk
- Print ed.: 1971-1997; EnvDesign NA9000 U725 P7 Reference
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Solving sprawl: models of smart growth in communities
across America, by F. Kaid Benfield, Jutka Terris, Nancy Vorsanger.
NY: Natural Resources Defense Council, 2001. Case studies.
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EnvDesign HT167 B46 2001
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Theory in action: smart growth case studies in the San
Francisco Bay Area and around the nation, Association of Bay Area Governments,
Oakland, CA: ABAG, 2000.
- EnvDesign HT167 T44 2000
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Professional Practice
- The Ahwahnee principles for smart economic development: an
implementation guidebook, by Rick Cole. [Sacramento, CA]: Local Government Commission's Center for
Livable Communities, [1998]. Includes the text of the
Ahwahnee principles.
- EnvDesign HN90 C6 A644 1998
- Codifying new urbanism: how to reform municipal land development
regulations, by Congress for the New Urbanism
Chicago: American Planning Association, 2004. (PAS Report no. 526
- EnvDesign HD1391 C63 2004
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Conducting a smart growth audit, by Jerry Waite. IN:
PAS Memo (American Society of Planning Officials, Planning Advisory
Service), April 2002. Includes a short bibliography.
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EnvDesign HT167 A1 P14 Current & Bound Periodicals
- New urbanism: best practices guide, by
Robert Steuteville, Philip Langdon and special contributors. 4th ed.
Ithaca, NY: New Urban News Pubications, 2009. Good case studies source.
- EnvDesign HT175 N582 2009
- SmartCode. V 5.1, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company. Transect Codeware Co., 2003?
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EnvDesign KF5697 A4 2003 Reference & circulating
- The SmartCode Solution to sprawl, by Chad Emerson. Washington, DC: Environmental Law Institute, 2007.
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EnvDesign HT169.7 E43
- The Smart growth manual, by Andres Duany, Jeff Speck with Mike Lydon. NY: McGraw-Hill, 2010.
- EnvDesign HT392 D83 2010
- The Smart growth policies: an evaluation of programs and outcomes, [edited by] Gregory K. Ingram, [et al.], eds. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2009.
- EnvDesign HT167 S53 2009
- Smart growth zoning codes: a resource guide , by Local Government
Commission; Steve Tracy, principal author.
[Sacramento, CA]: Local Government Commission, 2003.
- EnvDesign HT384 U5 S54 2003 CD on Reserve; book in stacks
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Selected Readings
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Carfree.com
Accompanies the book Carfree Cities by J.H. Crawford (EnvDesign
HE305 C73 2000). Focuses on urban sustainability and includes many
interesting links.
http://www.carfree.com/
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Charter of the new urbanism, essays by Randall Arendt, [et al.]; Michael Leccese and Kathleen McCormick, eds.
NY: McGraw Hill, 2000.
- EnvDesign HT334 U5 C478 2000
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Critiquing
sprawl's critics, by Peter Gordon and Harry W. Richardson.
Washington, DC: Cato Institute, [2000]. (Policy analysis, no. 365)
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Online ed.: http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-365es.html
Print ed.: EnvDesign HT384 U6 G67 2000 & IGSL A8319 no.365
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Documentation on new urbanism: selected from presentations
at the International Making Cities Livable Conferences. Carmel,
CA: IMCL Council, 1997.
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EnvDesign HT107 I7 1997
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Edge city: life on the new frontier, by Joel Garreau.
NY: Doubleday, 1991.
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EnvDesign HT334 U5 G37 1991
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The Limitless city: a primer on the urban sprawl debate,
by Oliver Gillham, Washington, DC: Island Press, 2002.
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EnvDesign HT384 U5 G55 2002
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New American urbanism: re-forming the suburban metropolis,
by John A. Dutton. NY: Dist. by Abbeville Pub. Group, 2000.
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EnvDesign HT123 D88 2000
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New urban timeline
(The Town Paper) Andres Duany,
lead ed. A
searchable database that records key events in the history of new urbanism, as well as
historical influences reaching back to the 19th century. 900+ entries.
http://www.nutimeline.net/
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New
urbanism: an online NewsHour special report (Public Broadcasting
Service & MacNeil Lehrer-Productions) Site includes an interview
with Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, a critique of new urbanism, excerpts from
Suburban
Nation, and more.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/newurbanism/index.html
- New urbanism and American planning: the conflict of cultures, by
Emily Talen. NY: Routledge, 2005.. Online table of contents.
- EnvDesign HT167 T35 2005
- New urbanism: best practices guide, by
Robert Steuteville, Philip Langdon and special contributors. 4th ed.
Ithaca, NY: New Urban News Pubications, 2009. Good case studies source.
- EnvDesign HT175 N582 2009
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The Regional city: planning for the end of sprawl,
by Peter Calthorpe,William Fulton. Washington, DC: Island Press,
2001.
- EnvDesign HT392 C28 2001
- Remaking American communities: a reference guide to urban sprawl,
David C. Soule, ed. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Pr., 2007. Online table of contents.
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EnvDesign HT384 U5 U74 2007
- Smart growth: form and consequences,
Terry S. Szold and Armando Carbonell, eds. [Cambridge, MA]: Lincoln Institute
of Land Policy, 2002. Includes a chapter by Dolores Hayden.
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EnvDesign HT392 S557 2002
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Special issue on New Urbanism, IN: Planners network:
the magazine of progressive planning, No.150 (winter 2002), pp.1-25.
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EnvDesign HT390 P71 Bound Periodicals
- Special issue: from smart growth to new urbanism: multidisciplinary views on the American
spacial pattern, IN:
International regional science review, Vol.28:2 (April 2005),
pp.107-265.
- EnvDesign HT390 I56 Unbound periodicals
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Suburban nation: the rise of sprawl and the decline of
the American dream, by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff
Speck. NY: North Point Press, 2000.
- EnvDesign HT384 U5 D83 2000
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Towns and town-making principles, by Andres Duany
and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk; edited by Alex Krieger with William Lennertz.
NY: Rizzoli, 1991.
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EnvDesign NA9051 D8 1991
- Urban sprawl: a comprehensive reference guide, David
C. Soule, ed. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 2006. Online
table of contents.
- EnvDesign HT384 U5 U75 2006
- Urban sprawl and public health: designing, planning,
and building for healthy communities, by Howard Frumkin,
Lawrence Frank, and Richard Jackson. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2004. Online
table of contents.
- EnvDesign HT371 F78 2004
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Walkable suburbs?: an evaluation of neotraditional communities
at the urban edge, by Michael Southworth. Berkeley: Univ. of California
at Berkeley, Institute of Urban and Regional Development, 1995. (Working
paper, no. 639).
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EnvDesign HT393 C2C25 W6 no.639
- The Willamette Valley: choices for the future: prepared for Willamette Valley Environmental Protection & Development Planning Council ... [et al.], prepared by Lawrence Halprin & Associates. An early precedent of the New Urbanism.
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EnvDesign fHT393 O72 W5 1972
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Organizations & Networks
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