Modules

To supplement the base SmartCode and to respond to climate change imperatives, CATS has commissioned numerous transect-based Modules from prominent New Urbanist practitioners. Most Modules are annotated with advice for calibration. The downloads below are free and open source. Adobe PDF files are provided in spreads for screen viewing as well as in single pages for two-sided or code-only printing. Editable InDesign files are provided with all links. Font names are listed in the Instructions file. Text (not tables) will be provided in Word on request, and will be posted here as they are completed.

SmartCode Modules

Adaptive Agricultural Reuse, Town-Green: Steve Coyle, Daniel Dunigan
PDF | InDesign

Affordable Housing Incentives, Munsun Park, Sandy Sorlien, Emily Talen
PDF | InDesign

Affordable Housing Policy, Jennifer Hurley, Hurley-Franks & Associates
PDF | InDesign

Agrarian Urbanism, Christina Miller and Andrés Duany, DPZ & Co.
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Architectural Standards, DPZ & Co.
PDF | InDesign

Bicycling, Mike Lydon with Zachary Adelson and Tony Garcia
PDF | InDesign

Building Types, Todd Zimmerman

California Model Code and General Plan Module, Hall Alminana, Inc. with Kevin Colin and Lisa Porras

Canal Urbanism, Dan Bartman
PDF | InDesign   

Civic Space, Geoff Dyer/PlaceMakers, Patrick Pinnell, Peter Swift, Howard Blackson

Complete Thoroughfare Assemblies, DPZ & Co. with Rick Chellman,
Rick Hall, Peter Swift
PDF | InDesign

Comprehensive Planning, Ann Daigle with Paul Crabtree

Crime Prevention, Randall I. Atlas, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)
PDF | InDesign     

Existing Thoroughfares, DPZ & Co with Sandy Sorlien
PDF | InDesign   

Fire Mitigation in the Wildland Urban Interface, Martin Dreiling
PDF | InDesign   

Flood Hazard Mitigation, William Wright, Balch & Bingham
PDF | InDesign

Generative Coding, Bruce Donnelly and Michael Mehaffy / Environmental Structure Research Group

Incentives, DPZ & Co.
PDF | InDesign

Landscape, Susan Henderson/Placemakers with Paul Westhelle & Mary Dennis
PDF | InDesign   

Lifelong Communities Tables, Scott Ball, DPZ & Co.

Light Imprint Stormwater Matrix, Tom Low, DPZ Charlotte
PDF

Light Levels, DPZ & Co.
PDF | InDesign

Lighting Design, Sara Hines

Live-Work Design and Policy, Thomas Dolan

Natural Drainage, PlanGreen -Mary Vogel
PDF | InDesign

Noise Levels, DPZ & Co.
PDF | InDesign

Place Types, DPZ & Co./Sandy Sorlien, with Robert Alminana, Kevin Colin & Ann Daigle
PDF | InDesign  

Regional Watersheds, Paul Crabtree, Crabtree Group, Inc.
PDF | InDesign

Renewable Resources, Jaime Correa with Maria Bendfeldt & Jennifer Hamilton
PDF | InDesign

Residential Markets, Zimmerman Volk Associates

Retail Markets, Robert J. Gibbs
PDF | InDesign     

Retail: Sustainable Commerce, Seth Harry and Associates
PDF | InDesign   

Riparian and Wetland Buffers, DPZ & Co. with Daniel Slone
PDF | InDesign

Sector Planning with Community Units, Hoyt Cousins

Signs, Mark Keener and Matt Wanamaker, Brown & Keener Urban Design
PDF | InDesign    

Sprawl Repair, Galina Tahchieva, DPZ & Co.
PDF | InDesign

Sustainable Urbanism Performance-Based Modules, Farr Associates: Leslie Oberholtzer, Doug Farr
PDF | InDesign

Transit-Oriented Development, Hank Dittmar with Laura Pinzon, PFBE, and CTOD
PDF | InDesign   

Visitability, DPZ & Co.
PDF | InDesign

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Transect-Based Images

Image Library, assembled by CATS, DPZ & Co, and Laura Hall
available here

Transect Collection Photographic Resource, Sandy Sorlien
available here   

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Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing patterns of change...

– Peter Senge,
The Fifth Discipline