The New Urbanism has dramatically transformed the way illustrations are used to advance the dialogue of community planning and place making. New Urbanists have revived and advanced techniques of visual communication that enable professionals, elected officials and citizens from all walks of life to engage in designing their neighborhoods and communities. While created as means to an end, these visualizations are often compelling artworks in their own right.

The Art of the New Urbanism features the first-ever, comprehensive collection of New Urbanist artworks, with more than 200 selected works produced by more than 100 practitioners and firms. The collected works include plans, renderings of buildings, streetscapes and gathering places, studies of precedents, and photographs of built projects. This book includes seminal material from the early history of the movement that has inspired generations of community building professionals, as well as a wide variety of hand-drawn and digital works that represent methods used today.

Through their commentaries on each work, designers share the place making principles visualized through their plans and renderings and how their work responded to the public process. The Art of the New Urbanism contributors include:

Joseph Altuna; Andrés Duany; Dana P. Little; Peter Richards; ARCAS Paris; Edward Erfurt; Jeffrey Loman; Robin Riley; Jonathan Arnold; Manuel Fernandez-Noval; Tom Low; Chris Ritter; Eusebio Azcue; Steven Fett; Michael McCann; Joshua J. Rivera; Charles Barrett; Jennifer García; Scott Merrill; Abel Rodriguez; Marcos Bastian; Kenneth García; John Miki; David Rodríguez; Drew Bowman; Mark Garzon; Elizabeth Moule; Clay Rokicki; Peter Calthorpe; Andrew Georgiadis; Steve Mouzon; SCENESIS PICTURES; Brian Canin; Ernesto Gloria; John Moynahan; David M. Schwarz; David Carrico; Bonnie Gonzalez; Juan Mullerat; Robert Scott; Christopher Carrigan; Jennifer Griffin; Peter Musty; Jennifer Settle; Juan A. Caruncho; John Griffin; Thai Nguyen; Shailendra Singh; Eduardo Castillo; Arti Harchekar; Anne Marie Noll; Joe Skibba; Maricé Chael; Peter Harmatuck; Colleen O'Keeffe; Daniel Solomon; Dede Christopher; Seth Harry; Lew Oliver; Sandy Sorlien; Anthony Cissell; Xiaojian He; Dan Osborne; Christian Sottile; Craig Clements; Brian Hendrickson; Paul Ostergaard; Kristen Sparenborg; Andrew Cogar; Steve Hinds Eric Osth; Lucien Steil; David Colgan; Troy Homenchuk; Daniel Parolek; Robert A.M. Stern; Daniel W. Cook; C.J. Howard; Karen Parolek; Dhiru A. Thadani; Chad Cooper; Randall Imai; Stefan Pellegrini; John Torti; Jaime Correa; Christopher Janson; Christopher M. Pizzi; Erick Valle; Cindy Cox; Joseph Kabriel; Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk; Estela Valle; David R. Csont; Peter Katz; Chris Podstawski; David VanGroningen; Brian Kelly; Stefanos Polyzoides; Max Von Trott; Lohren Ray Deeg; Kevin Klinkenberg; Evan Posley; James Wassell; Bill Dennis; Joseph Kohl; Asa Prentice; Anthony Way; Harry Dodson; Leon Krier; Russell Preston; Vladislav Yeliseyev; James Dougherty; Matthew Lambert; Steve Price; JJ Zanetta; Victor Dover; Jacob Lindsey; Ian Rasmussen; Art Zendarski