Books

Form-Based Codes: A Guide to Planners, Urban Designers, Municipalities, and Developers
John Wiley & Sons, 2008

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By Daniel G. Parolek, AIA, Karen Parolek, and Paul C. Crawford, FAICP

Form-Based Codes is the only comprehensive guide to Form-Based Codes for urban designers, architects, planners, developers and city agencies. Generously illustrated at 332 pages, it includes forewords by two leading lights of the new urbanist movement and accomplished form-based coders Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Stefanos Polyzoides. The book explains the components of FBCs, a suggested process for drafting them, and many helpful case studies. Authors Daniel Parolek, Karen Parolek, and Paul C. Crawford are founding board members of the Form-Based Codes Institute.

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Form-Based Codes in Seven Steps: The Michigan Guidebook to Liveability
CNU Michigan, 2010

 

A handy "how-to" guidebook by the Michigan Chapter of the Congress of the New Urbanism, with 144 pages setting out the process of drafting a code in seven steps. This guidebook is intended primarily for small communities with limited or no professional planning staff. For more information, please click here. 

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A Legal Guide to Urban and Sustainable Development for Planners, Developers and Architects
John Wiley & Sons, 2008

                                              

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By Daniel K. Slone, Doris S. Goldstein and W. Andrew Gowder  

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 urban design and planning law.

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Form-Based Zoning
American Institute of Certified Planners

 

Faculty: Paul C. Crawford, Bill Dennis and Geoffrey Ferrell

A CD-ROM from the APA's National Planning Conference of 2004, containing an audio recording synchronized with the faculty members' presentations. 

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The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community
McGraw-Hill, 2004

 

By Peter Katz

FBCI founding board member Peter Katz is author of this seminal book on the emergence and meaning of New Urbanism. The town planning movement that motivated the development of form-based codes is deftly described in this book. 

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