principles into local land regulation * Overcoming impediments to urban and sustainable design practice * Getting projects built and codes changed within the existing zoning framework * Using fundamentally new approaches to zoning * Managing and coping with litigation * Structuring and operating the mixed-use common interest community * Understanding legal issues specific to urbanist building types * Avoiding unnecessary conflicts between urbanist codes and sustainability codes Collectively, the authors have handled every aspect of urbanist law. The two lead authors, Daniel K. Slone and Doris S. Goldstein, are attorneys who are pioneers in the field, having worked with architects, planners, city officials, and developers at the vanguard of urban planning and sustainability. Their comments and firsthand experience, interspersed throughout the book, help illuminate how the law governs day-to-day planning and development activities. The movements toward sustainable and urbanist development are changing the landscape of America. Armed with this book, you can confidently navigate through the law as you initiate an urban development project and see it to fruition.