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Best defined as the art of shaping the built environment, urban design seeks to understand and analyze the social, economic, cultural, legal, ecological, and aesthetic forces that affect how we live. The complex challenges facing cities today—scarcity of resources, growing economic divisions, and rampant sprawl—are forcing a reconsideration of urban design. New Urbanism, a leading movement within urban design, advocates a return to small-town urban forms: human-scale, pedestrian-friendly streets, a reinvigoration of cities, and a stop to suburban sprawl. Drawing on a conference and debates at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, this new volume comprehensively examines New Urbanism today and speculates about its future. With contributions from Christopher Alexander, Leon Krier, Peter Hall, Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck, William McDonough, Peter Calthorpe, Jan Gehl, Lars Lerup, Edward Soja, and Saskia Sassen, among others, New Urbanism and Beyond is both a comprehensive primer on urban design and a provocation for practitioners, historians, and citizens everywhere. This is probably the best collection of essays on new urbanism written by some of the leading urban minds of today and a primer anthology on urbanism in general.