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Topia!: Science: Social Sciences: Urban and Regional Planning: Publications (31)
See Also:  Asphalt Nation - This book by Jane Holtz Kay examines how the automobile has ravaged America's cities and landscape, and how we can fight back.Design with Nature - Ian McHarg Architecture: Choice or Fate by Leon Krier - Book review by James Howard Kunstler for The American Enterprise. Metropolis Magazine - Metropolis examines contemporary life through design, architecture, interior design, product design, graphic design, crafts, planning, and preservation. Rachel Carson: Giving a Voice to the Silent Spring - Biography by Beth Cooper Benjamin of the author of the influential book that launched an environmental movement. Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream - Andres Duany The Good City and the Good Life - Daniel Kemmis The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream - Peter Calthorpe Citistates: How Urban America Can Prosper in a Competitive World - Neal Peirce Cascade Policy Institute - Growth management publication index. The City in History: Its Origin, Its Transformation, and Its Propects - Lewis Mumford Common Sense - Online collection of published essays on land use planning, the environment, development and the no-growth movement by Richard Carson. Edgier Cities - Joel Garreau's thoughts on how today's edge cities may evolve in the future. Cities and the Wealth of Nations by Jane Jacobs - A book review by John Chamberlain from The Freeman. Principles of Urban Structure - Online book by Nikos A. Salingaros, a collaborator of Christopher Alexander, offers a new understanding of urban structure based on recent scientific developments in complexity theory and fractals. The Best Laid Plans: The Rise and Fall of Growth Management in Florida - An article by Mary Dawson from the Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law. The Future Of Cities: The Absurdity of Modernism - An interview with Leon Krier by Nikos Salingaros. Smart Growth at the Federal Trough - Peter Samuel and Randal OToole Urban Sprawl: Good for Minorities? - Leonard C. Gilroy Peter Calthorpe: The Way Cities Oughta Be - Peter Gauvin interviews the design consultant behind Palo Alto's Comprehensive Plan revision, who co- coauthored the book "Sustainable Communities". Portland Regional Gov't Looks at Tax for Open Space Operations - Article from The Oregonian by R. Gregory Nokes on buying land for open space. Horizon - Monthly online magazine dedicated to inciting interest and inspiring action in communities. From The Enterprise Foundation, non-profit housing and development organization. Downtown Research & Development Center - Mainstreet programs, business improvement district, BID, urban, economic development, historic preservation, economic restructuring, business development, design, organization, promotion, parking funding, recruitment, facade and streetscape. The POGO Report - An 80-page report on the true cost of growth -- including information on how much the taxpayers are subsidizing. The Town Paper - Publications about urbanism and town design for public outreach, reporting and educational debate. Includes an archive of articles and links to traditional neighborhood developments. Land Development Today - A monthly online magazine developed for land development industry professionals and features articles on surveying, civil design, landscape and irrigation design, and current technology. Smithsonian Magazine: Sounding the Alarm - Bruce Watson records the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carsons "Silent Spring", which forever changed our view of the environment. Community and the Politics of Place - Daniel Kemmis Los Angeles Studies: The Emergence of a Specialty Field - Toric Monahan reviews research on Los Angeles; article from the journal City and Society [PDF format]. Cities Back From the Edge - Robert Brandes Gratz and Norman Mintz give an abstract of their book, the introduction and table of contents. Brookings Institution Press Online Library - Full-text versions of books on urban affairs.
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