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Douglas Farr, Chicago architect and a leader in codifying the new LEED standards for neighborhood development, reveals some important trade secrets of green design in Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature (2007; John Wiley & Sons; 304 pp.; $75) and calls for a movement comparable to the 1960s moon shot, in which millions of Americans “get” the idea of sustainable design and act on it. “The entire built environment gets renewed or rebuilt every few generations, and we just need to do it differently.” {296} A keeper for reference, even if the movement doesn’t mushroom as fast as he hopes.