Sustainable Urbanism: A Pattern Language for LEED Neighborhood Development

This manual designates the human settlement pattern—and not just the dwelling—as the crucial variable in the environmental equation. This makes a great deal of difference, as the absence of community scale in the environmental literature has been masked by the recent obsession with “green” building—the latest of the silver bullets.

—From the foreword by Andres Duany

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