The case for sustainable urbanism: The built environment : where we are today: The American lifestyle on the wrong course, Pioneering reforms : setting the stage for sustainable urbanism ; Sustainable urbanism : where we need to go: Sustainable urbanism : the grand unification, The three steps of sustainable urbanism
Implementing sustainable urbanism: Leadership and communications : Leadership talking points for sustainable urbanism / Jim Hackler and Irina Woelfle, The power of paired choices, Implementation agendas for leaders ; The process and tools for implementing sustainable urbanism: RFQ for sustainable urbanist professionals, Benchmarking municipal sustainability : the Santa Monica Sustainable City Plan / City of Santa Monica, Documenting community preference in form and sustainability : Image Preference Survey (IPS) / Christina Anderson, Conducting a charrette / Bill Lennertz, Shaping sustainable neighborhoods with the Toledo Smart Neighborhood Analysis Protocol (SNAP) / Carolee Kokola, Regulating plan and form-based code / Christina Anderson, Incorporating sustainability through codes, covenants, and restrictions (CC & Rs) / Dan Slone, RFP for a sustainable urbanist developer / City of Victoria, British Columbia
Emerging thresholds of sustainable urbanism: Increasing sustainability through density: Explaining density, Illustrating density, The transect of the everyday, Water and the density debate / Lynn Richards, Transit supportive densities ; Sustainable corridors: The sustainable corridor / Doug Farr, Leslie Oberholzer, and Christian Schaller, The integration of transportation, Biodiversity corridors / Rebecca L. Kihslinger, Jessica Wilkinson, and James McElfish ; Sustainable neighborhoods: Neighborhood diagrams, Neighborhood definition / Victor Dover and Jason King, Neighborhood completeness / Eliot Allen and Doug Farr, Neighborhood housing / Laurie Volk and Todd Zimmerman, Car-free housing, Neighborhood retail / Robert J. Gibbs, Economic benefits of locally owned stores / Matt Cunningham, Third places, Healthy neighborhoods / Melanie Simmons, Kathy Baughman McLeod, and Jason Hight, Walkable streets and networks / Dan Burden, Complete streets / Fred Dock, Universal basic home access / Eleanor Smith, Managing travel demands / Jeffery Tumlin, Car sharing / Jeffery Tumlin.
Biophila: Open space / Carolee Kokola, Public darkness / Nancy Clanton and Todd Givler, Stormwater systems / Jim Patchett and Tom Price, Food production / Lynn Peemoeller and Jim Slama, with Cathy Morgan, Outdoor wastewater treatment / Thomas E. Ennis, Indoor wastewater treatment / John Todd Ecological Design ; High-performance buildings and infrastructure: The impact of planning on building energy usage / Alan Chalifoux, 2030 ° challenge / Ed Mazria, High-performance infrastructure / Hillary Brown, Large district energy systems / Doug Newman [and others], The 2030 Community Challenge : economic growth with sustainable urbanism
Case studies in sustainable urbanism: Lessons learned from sustainable urbanism: Built infill : BedZED : London, Glenwood Park : Atlanta, Georgia, United States, Holiday neighborhood : Boulder, Colorado, United States, Christie Walk : Adelaide, Australia, Newington : Sydney, Australia, High Point : Seattle, Washington ; Built greenfield: Upton : Northampton, England, Kronsberg : Hannover, Germany, Loreto Bay : Baja California Sur, Mexico, Civano : Tucson, Arizona, Poundbury : Dorchester, England ; State of the art in unbuilt sustainable urbanism: Unbuilt infill: Dockside Green : Victoria, Canada, Lloyd Crossing : Portland, Oregon, Z-Squared : London, England, New Railroad Square : Santa Rosa, California, Uptown Normal : Normal, Illinois ; Unbuilt greenfield: Dongtan : Shanghai, China; Galisteo Basin Preserve : Santa Fe, New Mexico, Pulelehua : Maui, Hawaii, Coyote Valley : San Jose, California ; Scales of intervention ; Epilogue ; Glossary.