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Here are a few titles I recommend. Check back periodically, more will be coming in the near future!
The City After the Automobile : An
Architect's Vision
Moshe Safdie, Wendy Kohn
City Comforts - How to Build an Urban
Village
David Sucher
I have this book... The "devil is in the details" as far as urban design goes; and this book is FANTASTIC! I recommend that you purchase multiple copies of it to give to your planning commissioners or appeals board members. The book shows examples of small things - City
Comforts - that make urban life pleasant: places where
people can meet, methods to tame cars and to make
buildings good neighbors, art that infuses personality into
locations and makes them into places. Many of these
small details are so obvious as to be invisible.
US$14.40
Edge City : Life on the New Frontier
Joel Garreau
First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs.
Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the
most sweeping changes in 100 years by moving their
jobs out to where they live and shop. In this
groundbreaking and highly readable book, the author
chronicles this dramatic trend and sheds revealing light
on who we are, how we got that way, and where we
are headed. US$12.76
Home From Nowhere : Remaking Our
Everyday World for the Twenty-First
Century
Howard Kunstler
The acclaimed author of The Geography of
Nowhere, the book that described the
horrendous blighting of America's landscape, now
explores the movement to restore our everyday world
and create places to live and work that are worthy of
our affection. US$16.80
A Field Guide to American Houses
Virginia McAlester, Lee McAlester
"The guide that enables you to
identify, and place in their historic and architectural
contexts, the houses you see in your neighborhoods or in
your travels across America - houses built for American
families (rich, poor and in-between), in city and
countryside, from the 17th century to the present."
US$19.16
The New Urbanism : Toward an
Architecture of Community
Peter Katz, Vincent Scully
The New Urbanism advocates an ambitious yet
pragmatic agenda for the building and rebuilding of our
neighborhoods, cities and towns. The book provides an
invaluable guide to this emerging movement for
architects, urban planners, civic leaders, and concerned
citizens; it is also most readable for anyone who cares
about the future of America's communities. US$49.95
The Next American Metropolis : Ecology,
Community, and the American Dream
Peter Calthorpe
California-based architect and planner Peter Calthorpe
has moved beyond suburb bashing and published an
intelligent, coherent vision of humane, walkable,
ecologically sound cities that could shape American
development into the 21st century. The Next American
Metropolis is equal parts polemic, practical how-to
guidelines, and personal portfolio. US$19.96
Placemaking - The Art and Practice of
Building Communities
Lynda H. Schneekloth, Robert G. Shibley
Addresses the current need for design professionals
(placemakers) to work with constituents in creating
space. Provides excellent advice to help designers
understand the human requirements which are at the
core of their profession. The authors share four
narratives of placemaking in action. These stories
demonstrate how placemakers have worked with
people to plan a new church building, coordinate
neighborhood development in a small city and assist the
facility managers in a large banking institution. Photos,
drawings and worksheets accompany each story.
US$49.95
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