What's New

December 2002 – January 2003

Architecture

Kamin, Blair. Why Architecture Matters: Lessons from Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

"Why Architecture Matters" collects the best of Kamin's columns, including his acclaimed series advocating the intelligent development of Chicago's lakefront. The columns are organized thematically, providing an accessible and thought-provoking view of architecture in the 1990s, from soaring skyscrapers to vibrant immigrant neighborhoods, troubled public housing projects, and sprawling suburbs. Because Chicago serves as a barometer of national design trends, these writings shed new light on American architecture and urbanism during a decade that Kamin labels "The Nervous Nineties" — a period of unparalleled affluence and underlying anxiety, of soothing retro buildings and provocative new ones that express the frenzied state of modern life.

Built Environment

Great Planned Communities. Washington, D.C.: Urban Land Institute, 2002.

The book features 26 innovative planned communities. Following an introduction by Alexander Garvin that describes how planned communities have evolved, you get an inside look at the concept, the plan elements, the design, and how the master plan reflects the vision for traditional and new urbanist communities, both established and just off the drawing board.

Commercial Districts

Bohl, Charles C. Place Making: Developing Town Centers, Main Streets, and Urban Villages. Washington, D.C.: Urban Land Institute, 2002.

Planners: Bet you didn't know that one of the hottest trends in real estate is the creation and re-creation of town centers in (primarily) suburban settings. ULI is marketing this book as a breakthrough text; should we burst their bubble?

Dollars & Cents of Shopping Centers, 2002: A Study of Receipts and Expenses in Shopping Center Operations. Washington, D.C.: Urban Land Institute, 2002.

The only source of comprehensive tenant and centerwide income and expense data, this edition tracks more than 170 tenant types and almost 1,000 neighborhood, community, regional, and super regional shopping centers.

Commercial Uses

Gerard, Jules B. Local Regulation of Adult Businesses: 2003 Edition. St. Paul, Minn.: Thomson/West, 2002.

Environmental Planning

Mitigation Success Stories in the United States. Madison, Wis.: Association of State Floodplain Managers, 2000.

The purpose of this document is twofold: to showcase examples of natural hazard mitigation activities and to publicize the benefits of mitigation successes across our country. Hopefully, these examples can serve as models for others to use and provide decision makers with valuable information about how to formulate, undertake and ultimately achieve natural hazard reduction in our communities.

A New Beginning in a New Millennium: Floodplain management 2000 and Beyond. Madison, Wis.: Association of State Floodplain Managers, 2001.

Growth Management

Center for Urban Policy Research. Costs and Benefits of Alternative Growth Patterns: The Impact Assessment of the New Jersey State Plan. New Brunswick, N.J.: CUPR, Rutgers University, 2000.

This impact assessment measures two alternative futures for New Jersey: one in which growth is managed according to the strategies in the State Plan and one in which growth continues according to historical trends.

Housing

Engaging the Private Sector in HOPE VI. Washington, D.C.: Urban Land Institute, 2002.

Learn how private developers and government have collaborated to develop quality affordable housing under the HOPE VI program. This new book explains the role of the developer, public/private partnerships, the financial structure, and the challenges and their solutions in developing HOPE VI communities. Included are six case studies of successful projects describing the development process and costs, community and support services, the timeline to completion, and lessons learned.

Housing Statistics of the United States. Lanham, Md.: Bernan Press, 2001. 4th Ed.

Housing Statistics is the most comprehensive source for current and historical statistics on households, housing, and housing finance. New to this edition are newly available data from the 1999 American Housing Survey, several tables from the 1997 Census of Construction Industries, and new tables from the Construction and Manufactured Homes Survey.

Industrial Uses

Consensus Planning, Inc. Sandia Science and Technology Park Master Development Plan. Albuquerque, N.M.: Sandia Science and Technology Park, 2001.

Information Technology

Brail, Richard K., and Richard E. Klosterman, Eds. Planning Support Systems: Integrating Geographic information Systems, Models, and Visualization Tools. Redlands, Cal.: ESRI Press, 2001.

The integration of community concerns with GIS technologies has had the effect of bringing community planners and designers together at the planning table. Planners no longer plan for the people in the communities, they plan with them. With planning support software, citizen planners can move buildings from block to block, tear them down, build complete subdivisions, run new highways in and around town, analyze any number of scenarios, and see with their own eyes the consequences of each action.

Institutional Uses

Memorials and Museums Master Plan. Washington, D.C.: National Capital Planning Commission, 2001.

Creating Communities of Learning: Schools and Smart Growth in New Jersey. Trenton, N.J.: New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, 2001.

The school-funding law creates a new opportunity for municipal involvement in schools facilities planning, which did not exist before. It brings municipal planning boards into the decision-making process by requiring school districts to file their long-range facilities plans with local planning boards. This landmark school-construction effort presents an opportunity to completely rethink how our state provides learning to its residents, not just the 1.3 million children in New Jersey's elementary and secondary schools, but adults in continuing education programs.

Mixed Use

Employment and Community: Reintegrating the Work Place into Mixed-Use Centers. Trenton, N.J.: New Jersey Office of State Planning, 2000.

Open Space

Dixon, John Morris. Urban Spaces: No. 2. New York: Visual Reference Publications, 2001.

The second volume showcasing urban spaces created by leading architects, landscape architects, urban designers, and planners.

Machlis, Gary E., and Donald R. Field, Eds. National Parks and Rural Development: Practice and Policy in the United States. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2000.

Offers a thorough examination of the interdependent roles of national parks and the economies of rural communities in the United States. Bringing together the thinking and views of economists, historians, sociologists, recreation researchers, and park managers, the book considers how those roles can be most effectively managed.

Taking Control of Your Land: A Land Stewardship Guide for Landowners. West Chester, Pa.: Chester County Planning Commission, 2002.

Parks and Recreation

Grant Park Framework Plan: A Plan for Restoration and Development. Chicago: Chicago Park District, 2002.

Three goals arose from the site analysis and public input received from the participatory planning process. First is to reconnect the city and the park, the park and the lake, and the city to its waterfront. Barriers in the form of large roadways and a depressed railway corridor running the length of the site have severed the city's connection with Lake Michigan, and sliced the Park into a series of adjacent, yet psychologically separated blocks of green space. Mitigation of the detrimental effects of such barriers is critical to the design proposals. The second goal is to envision ways in which these independent park blocks can be stitched back together both physically and perceptually, and re-created as single entity. The final goal is to design and locate major program elements, such as a proposed landform amphitheater, a festival-event loop and sporting facilities in a way that will allow the park to effectively serve the evolving needs of adjacent neighborhoods, the city, and the region.

Planning and Zoning Law and Legislation

Roberts, Thomas E., Ed. Taking Sides on Takings Issues: Public and Private Perspectives. Chicago: American Bar Association, 2002.

This new guide compiles and contrasts the public and private perspectives on the most controversial issues in takings law, written by leading practitioners who are involved in litigating these issues before the United States Supreme Court and other courts around the country, and by leading academics with extensive backgrounds in writing and practice in this area.

Redevelopment

Downtown Delray Beach Master Plan: Creative Inclusive Partnerships: A Case Study in Community Participation. Delray Beach, Fla.: Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency, 2001.

The Community Redevelopment Area consists of the older central core of the city that had become deteriorated due to age, obsolescence and the lack of investment. As conditions worsened, residents and private businesses became less willing to put financial resources into the area, severely limiting the ability of private enterprise to stop the spread of slum and blight without public assistance.

Von Hoffman, Alexander. Fuel Lines for the Urban Revival Engine: Neighborhoods, Community Development Corporations, and Financial Intermediaries. Washington, D.C.: Fannie Mae Foundation, 2001.

This report examines CDCs and their relationships to financial intermediaries. The study includes a history and analysis of the community development system and three case studies of rental housing development projects carried out by CDCs in Washington, D.C.; Boston; and Miami in concert with the financial intermediary Local Initiatives Support Corporation.

Regional Planning

Barnett, Jonathan, Ed. Planning for a New Century: The Regional Agenda. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2001.

Planning for a New Century brings together leading thinkers in the fields of planning, urban design, education, welfare, and housing to examine those issues and to consider the ways in which public policies have helped create — and can help solve — many of the problems facing our communities. Each chapter identifies issues, provides background, and offers specific policy suggestions for federal, state, and local initiatives.

Orfield, Myron. American Metropolitics: The New Suburban Reality. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 2002.

Orfield's new work applies the next generation of cutting-edge research on a much broader scale. The book provides an eye-opening analysis of the economic, racial, environmental, and political trends of the 25 largest metropolitan regions in the United States — which contain more than 45 percent of the U.S. population. Using detailed maps and case studies, Orfield demonstrates that growing social separation and wasteful sprawling development patterns are harming regional citizens wherever they live.

Statistics

U.S. Census Bureau. County and City Data Book, 2000. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2001.

Transportation

Mason Street Transportation Corridor. Fort Collins, Col.: Fort Collins Planning Department, 2000.

Urban Sociology

African American Men Project: Crossroads, Choosing a New Direction. Minneapolis: Hennepin County Office of Planning and Development, 2002.

This report focuses on Hennepin County's young African American men, especially those who live in the five poorest communities in Minneapolis. Many of these men are in trouble-with money, with employment, with their families, with their health and with the criminal justice system. This trouble stems from a web of interrelated and mutually reinforcing causes. As a result, many of these men are unable to create much social, political, economic or human capital for themselves. A wide range of individuals and organizations in Hennepin County have a direct stake in the success of these men. This echoes a simple but often-overlooked reality: what is good for young African American men is good for the county, and vice versa. (One obvious example: when the local economy thrives, the unemployment rate among this group drops dramatically; when the economy does poorly, these men are typically among the first to lose their jobs.)

Zoning

Owens, David W. Introduction to Zoning. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Institute of Government, 2001.

Provides a clear, understandable explanation of zoning law for citizen board members and the public. It serves as both an introduction for citizens new to these issues and a refresher for those who have been involved with zoning for some time. Each chapter deals with a distinct aspect of zoning, such as where a city can apply its ordinance, the process that must be followed in rezoning property, or how an ordinance is enforced.

Zoning for the New Century: A Fifty Year Perspective: Record of a Two-Day Conference for Professionals. New York: Real Estate Board of New York, 2000.