A Legal Guide to Urban and Sustainable Development for Plann ...
Daniel K. Slone
- 12 september 2008
- 9780470053294
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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.
Practical guide to the legal issues of using urbanist and sustainable development principles
By examining and explaining the particular legal issues that accompany urbanist design and sustainable development, this timely book shows urban planners, developers, designers, and architects how to make the law work for them in planning and executing sustainable urban projects. Written by experienced attorneys, this book thoroughly explains the practical implications of the current law and legal theories surrounding urbanism and sustainability, and forecasts its future directions.
Using case studies, photographs, and illustrations, this book offers real-world solutions to the legal issues of urban and sustainable development, including:
- Incorporating good urban design principles into local land regulation
- Overcoming impediments to urban and sustainable design practice
- Getting projects built and codes changed within the existing zoning framework
- Using fundamentally new approaches to zoning
- Managing and coping with litigation
- Structuring and operating the mixed-use common interest community
- Understanding legal issues specific to urbanist building types
- Avoiding unnecessary conflicts between urbanist codes and sustainability codes
Collectively, the authors have handled every aspect of urbanist law. The two lead authors, Daniel K. Slone and Doris S. Goldstein, are attorneys who are pioneers in the field, having worked with architects, planners, city officials, and developers at the vanguard of urban planning and sustainability. Their comments and firsthand experience, interspersed throughout the book, help illuminate how the law governs day-to-day planning and development activities.
The movements toward sustainable and urbanist development are changing the landscape of America. Armed with this book, you can confidently navigate through the law as you initiate an urban development project and see it to fruition.
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.