For those who want to find out more about planning for their community we recommend reading any of the following books. In addition, you will find useful links on the sidebar to important documents, news items, and project stakeholders.
The Smart Growth Manual
Andres Duany, Jeff Speck, and Mike Lydon
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
Great Streets
Allan B. Jacobs
Charter of the New Urbanism
Congress for the New Urbanism
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and Decline of the American Dream
Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck
Place Making: Developing Town Centers , Main Streets, and Urban Villages
Charles Bohl
New Civic Art: Elements of Town Planning
Andrés Duany, Editor
Traffic Engineering for Neo-Traditional Neighborhood Design
ITE Technical Council Committee
The New Urbanism
Peter Katz
Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America, and How We Can Take It Back
Jane Holtz Kay
The Geography of Nowhere
James Howard Kunstler
Defensible Space
Oscar Newman
The Wealth of Cities
John Norquist