Linda Brown is a writer, critic, teacher and professional painter. A fellow of the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, her paintings hang in many prestigious public and private collections, including the Federal Reserve and IBM. Her art criticism has been published in regional and national magazines, including Art Papers and Ceramics Monthly. Under a pseudonym, Brown has written three novels, published in the UK. She has taught graduate courses in art criticism with an emphasis on postmodern art and architecture, and has been a public art consultant on several community design workshops.

• Introduction; I. HISTORY: Paradigms Lost, Development Control, Traditional Urbanism; II. THEORY: Good Urbanism, Public Space vs. Cyberspace, Urban Design Principles, Land use, Transportation & Building Form, Managed Growth & the Market Economy, Community-based Design; III. PRACTICE: Setting Goals, Anglo-American Variations, Design Workshop, The Master Plan, Implementation Strategies; IV. CASE STUDIES; V. AFTERWORD

Years on the front lines of urban design, advocacy & teaching have equipped (the authors) with a considerable store of wisdom… - The Charlotte Observer…for all citizens with an interest in what might be taking shape outside their front doors and down their streets. - The Charlotte Observer….written with well-founded confidence that new planning projects in this region can hold lessons for national -- even international audiences. - The Charlotte Observer... the book falls into the classic format epitomized by Robert Venturis' Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. - New Urban NewsThe scope of the material is exhaustive. - New Urban NewsThe book is a lucid and welcome addition to the literature for many reasons – Planning Magazine