New in the Library
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The publications listed below are available to Washington State city/town/county officials and staff to borrow at no charge through the MRSC Library Loan Request Form. If you are not a Washington city/town/county official or employee, we suggest you contact your local public library or law library for information or research direction.
Featured Library Acquisitions
Each month, we select one or two titles from our new acquisitions that we feel will be particularly interesting to our site's visitors and feature them on this page.
Urban Planning Tools for Climate Change Mitigation
Urban Planning Tools for Climate Change Mitigation (Lincoln Institute od Land Policy, 2009). Land use and urban form are key contributors to greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) through the physical arrangement of streets, building types, and land uses that influence vehicle use and energy consumption in buildings. City and regional officials now facing new emissions reduction requirements are increasingly turning to urban design as a key component of climate mitigation. But, this approach requires decision support tools that illustrate the GHG implications of land use and transportation options. While a wide spectrum of tools currently exists, few have the capacity to work simultaneously at both the regional and local scale, or to capture both building performance and transportation demand analysis.
This report reviews existing tools by scope, scale, methodology, and policy support, and presents four case studies illustrating how existing tools at various stages of development have been used.
Form-Based Codes : A Guide for Planners, Urban Designers, Municipalities, and Developers
Form-Based Codes : A Guide for Planners, Urban Designers, Municipalities, and Developers , (J. Wiley & Sons, 2008). Form-Based Codes are the latest evolutionary step in the practice of development and land-use regulation. A growing alternative to conventional zoning laws, Form-Based Codes go beyond land use to address not just the physical form of buildings but also surrounding streets, blocks, and public spaces in order to create, protect, and revitalize sustainable communities.
Written by three recognized leaders in the field of New Urbanism, including an urban planner and an architect, this book is the first to address this subject comprehensively. After defining Form-Based Codes and explaining why they are a necessary alternative to conventional zoning regulations, the authors detail the various components of Form-Based Codes and then go step by step through the process of creating and implementing them. Finally, a series of case studies illustrates best practice applications of Form-Based Coding at various scales from county-wide to site specific, and various project types from city-wide development code replacement to the preservation or evolution of downtowns.
All New Library Acquisitions
This is a listing of new materials received by the Municipal Research & Services Library in the past month.
Also see our bibliographies of selected library holdings. These bibliographies contain current and exemplary materials relating to subjects of municipal interest are also available.
These publications are available to Washington State city/town/county employees and officials to borrow at no charge through the MRSC Library Loan Request Form. If you are not a Washington city/town/county official or employee, we suggest you contact your local public library or law library for information or research direction.
Click on any one of the topics in the "Contents" list below to go directly to that topic or use your scroll bar to browse through the entire acquisitions list:
CONTENTS:
- Airports
- Cemeteries
- Construction
- Economic Development
- Elections
- Energy Resources and Conservation
- Environment
- Finance
- Franchises
- Governance [includes Management]
- Health & Human Services
- Housing
- Information Systems
- Insurance
- Legal
- Library Services
- Local Improvement Districts
- Licensing and Regulation
- Parks and Recreation
- Personnel
- Planning, Land Use
- Property Management
- Public Relations
- Public Safety [includes Police, Fire, Emergency Services, Criminal Justice and Courts[
- Public Works and Utilities
- Telecommunications
- Transportation (includes Streets, Sidewalks, Traffic)
- Miscellaneous Publications
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT [No New Items]
ENERGY RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION
Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change, by Pe¬ter Newman, Timothy Beatley, and Heather Boyer, 2009 [EC 2.0500 R58 2009]
Urban planning tools for climate change mitigation / Patrick M. Condon, Duncan Cavens, and Nicole Miller. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2009 [EN 10.6000 U73 2009]
Budget Suggestions for 2010 / by Judith Cox, Municipal Research and Services Center of Washington, MRSC, 2009 [F 3.0000 B84 2010]
An Elected Official’s Guide to Investing, by Sofia Anastopoulos, 2007 [F 5.7100 E54 2007]
An Introduction to Broker-Dealers for State and Local Governments, by Sofia Anastopoulos, 2008 [F 7.3200 I58 2008]
An Introduction to Investment Advisers for State and Local Governments, by Sofia Anastopoulos, 2007 [G 9.5200 I58 2007]
A Revenue Guide for Washington Cities and Towns, by Judith Cox, Municipal Research and Services Center of Washington, MRSC, 2009 [F 5.0000 R451 2009]
What Everyone Needs to Know About the New Fund Balance, by Stephen J. Gauthier, Chicago, Government Finance Officers Association, 2009 [F 2.4000 W53 2009]
Code City Handbook, MRSC, 2009 [G 2.6000 C65 2009]
A Whole New Mind, by Daniel Pink, ICMA, 2008 [G 9.1200 D35 2008 DVD]
Good to Great: Moving Our Communities from Good to Great, by Jim Collins, ICMA, 2007 [G 9.1000 J56 2007 DVD]
Community: The Structure of Belonging, by Peter Block, ICMA, 2009 [G 1.6000 P58 2009 DVD]
Guide for Consultant Contracting, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, Washington, D.C., AASHTO, 2008 [G 9.5100 G85 2008]
"Do Local Governments Tweet? A Town Manager’s Insights about Twitter," by Craig Chavez, Public Management, October 2009 [G 1.6100]
"Join the Movement: How to Embrace Social Networking in Local Government," by Pamela Weaver Antil, Public Management, October 2009 [G 1.6100]
"Social Media: What Does it Mean for Public Managers?" by Rick Cole, Public Management, October 2009 [G 1.6100]
Guide for Consultant Contracting, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, Washington, D.C., AASHTO, 2008 [G 9.5100 G85 2008]
Knowing the Territory : Basic Legal Guidelines for Washington City, County and Special Purpose District Officials / Municipal Research and Services Center of Washington (MRSC), 10th ed. 2009 [G 6.0000 K561 2009]
Many Unhappy Returns : One Man’s Quest to Turn Around the Most Unpopular Organization in America / Charles O. Rossotti. Harvard Business School Press, 2005 [G 9.1500 M35 2005]
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES [No New Items]
Better than Bullet Points : Creating Engaging E-learning with PowerPoint / Jane Bozarth. Pfeiffer, 2008 [p IS 4.5500 B58 2008]
LIBRARY SERVICES [No New Items]
Signage and Wayfinding Design : A Complete Guide to Creating Environmental Graphic Design Systems / Chris Calori. John Wiley, 2007 [LR 82.4500 S54 2007]
The Wayfinding Handbook : Information Design for Public Places / David Gibson. Princeton Architectural Press, 2009 [LR 82.4500 W38 2009]
"Skateboarding Immunity Laws Limit Liability," by James C. Kozlowski, Parks & Recreation, September 2009
Creating a Multidimensional Talent Strategy to Avert Brain Drain and Other Future Disasters, by Frank Benest, 2009 [G 0.0000 I5m v.41 no.5]
Community Building: How to do it, Why it Matters, by Ed Everett, 2009 [G 0.0000 I5m v.41 no.4]
Conservation Buffers: Design Guidelines for Buffers, Corridors, and Greenways, by Gary Bentrup, 2008 [PL 5.2820 C65 2008]
NCI Charrette System: Stories of Community Transformation, National Charrette Institute, 2009 [PL 2.8000 N36 2009 DVD 2009]
Small Town Sustainability: Economic, Social, and Environmental Innovation, by Paul L. Knox and Heike Mayer, 2009 [PL 3.6000 S63 2009]?
A Better Way to Zone : Ten Principles to Create More Liveable Cities / Donald L. Elliott. Island Press, 2008 [PL 8.1000 B58 2008]
Form-Based Codes : A Guide for Planners, Urban Designers, Municipalities, and Developers / Daniel G. Parolek, Karen Parolek, Paul C. Crawford. J. Wiley & Sons, 2008 [PL 8.3000 F67 2008]
"Lending a Helping Hand: What Planners Can Do to Turn Around Distressed Properties," by Dwight H. Merriam. Zoning Practice, December 2009
"Distinguishing Between Detrimental and Benign Nonconformities," by V. Gail Easley. Zoning Practice, November 2009
PROPERTY MANAGEMENT [No New Items]
PUBLIC RELATIONS [No New Items]
PUBLIC WORKS & UTILITIES - GARBAGE, SOLID WASTE [No New Items]
PUBLIC WORKS & UTILITIES - GENERAL
Standard Specifications for Road, Bridge, and Municipal Construction / Washington State Department of Transportation. Dept. of Transportation : American Public Works Association, Washington State Chapter, 2010 [PW 2.1000 W3 S83 2010]
"What in the world is BIM [building information modeling] and why should I care about it?" by Stanley J. Dobrowski. Ohio Cities and Villages, November/Decemeber 2009 [PW 2.0000]
PUBLIC WORKS & UTILITIES - SEWER & WASTEWATER
PUBLIC WORKS & UTILITIES - WATER [No New Items]
TELECOMMUNICATIONS [No New Items]
TRANSPORTATION - [Includes Streets, Sidewalks, Traffic] [No New Items]