Planning Small and Mid-Sized Towns offers ideas and methods on how small isolated and edge towns can be designed and retooled into sustainable, affordable and adaptable communities.

Avi Friedman, Ph.D., studied architecture and town planning in Italy, Israel, and Canada. In 1988 he founded the Affordable Homes Program at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Over several decades he consulted many small towns on sustainable planning and urban renewal issues. He published extensively in academic and trade publications and has authored 14 books including Sustainable Residential Development (McGraw-Hill) and Town and Terraced Housing: For Affordability and Sustainability (Routledge). He is also a practicing architect and a planner and the recipient of many awards, including the Manning Innovation Award and the World Habitat Award. In 2000 he was selected by Wallpaper magazine as one of ten people from around the world 'most likely to change the way we live.'

Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Affixing a Lens; Chapter 2 Form and Function; Chapter 3 Green Small Towns; Chapter 4 Moving Around; Chapter 5 Dwelling in Small Towns; Chapter 6 Strengthening Core Areas; Chapter 7 Wealth Generation; Chapter 8 People, Places, and Well-Being; Chapter pro Project Teams; Chapter ill Illustration Credits;