Zoning is the tool that everyone loves to hate. It may also be the most important and least understood process affecting how US communities shape the lives of their residents. While almost every community comprehensive plan calls for more...
Books
256 pages
6 x 9
28 Illustrations, photographs, line art, and maps.
Growing Power, Growing Food
Most people don’t think of agriculture when they hear the term “solar farm” or “wind farm.” In fact, many fear that renewable energy installations are eating up prime farmland and threatening natural areas. But what...
276 pages
6 x 9
How States Can Lead on Environmental Health
States have tremendous power to protect their residents’ health. In the absence of adequate federal safeguards against pollution and toxic chemicals, state policies are the strongest tools available to create safe, sustainable environments...
224 pages
6 x 9
21 Illustrations, photographs, line art, and maps.
A Guide to Effective Transportation Advocacy
Your transit and street safety dreams are within your reach. While challenging our dangerous car-centric systems can feel daunting, you can win, and this book is here to help. In If You Want to Win, You’ve Got to Fight,...
216 pages
6 x 9
Black-and-white photos and illustrations.
Three Generations and the Death of the Family Dairy Farm
When Ryan Dennis’s father was crushed by heavy machinery on their New York dairy farm, both men accepted the accident as a risk of agricultural life. But it was harder to comprehend being crushed by low milk prices, big banks, and the...
264 pages
6 x 9
Reimagining Buildings for Community Benefit
While prominent buildings like Notre Dame in Paris rise from the ashes, historic buildings in disinvested communities are lost at an alarming rate. The resulting holes in the fabric of the community are not only a loss of structures, but of the...
288 pages
8 x 9
Illustrations, photographs, line art, and maps.
How a Backyard Forager Shapes Our World
Squirrels are a common sight, seemingly everywhere in wild and urban nature. Their chattering antics in city parks delight us while their raids on our backyard gardens and birdfeeders never fail to exasperate. But squirrels are more than amusing...
264 pages
6 x 9
18 Black-and-white illustrations, photographs, line art, and maps.
Igniting the City-Building Revolution
Consider your surroundings. Maybe you’re in a house or in an apartment building. Maybe you’re at a desk in an office building, or in a café looking out on a lively main street. The urban landscape is not simply the backdrop to...
320 pages
6 x 9
Black-and-white illustrations.
An Elegy for Ponderosa in a Changing West
With their towering, cinnamon-colored trunks and dusky green canopies, ponderosa pine has long been a charismatic icon of the American West. Yet a quiet unraveling has begun: in the past decade, in a vast area from Santa Fe to the Sierras, more...
176 pages
6 x 9
Illustrations.