READING LIST

I have compiled this selection of many of the books on urban design and related subjects. It is a pretty decent list and if you check any of these books out at the library, please keep them around at the studio so we can also refer to them during classes. The list of films we will watch will not be handed out but you will find out as we go along, as well as any texts we will read out in class.

Christopher Alexander A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction, 1977

Paul Arthur, Romedi Passini, Wayfinding: People, Signs, and Architecture, 1992

Edmund Bacon, Design of Cities, 1968

Bednar, Interior Pedestrian Places, 1999

Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, 1972

Peter Calthorpe, The Next Metropolis; 1993

Cullen, Townscape, 1991

Joel Garreau, Edge City: Life on the New Frontier, 1992

Gehl, Life Between Buildings, 1987

Goffman, Behavior in Public Places, 1985

Allan B. Jacobs, Great Streets, 1995

Jane Jacobs, Death and Life of Great American Cities, 1961

Peter Katz The New Urbanism, 1993

Kay, Asphalt Nation, 1998

Spiro Kostof, The City Shaped , 1991

Spiro Kostof, The City Assembled, 1999

James Kunstler Home From Nowhere, 1998

Kevin Lynch, Image of the City, 1960

Ian McHarg, Design with Nature, 1969

Richard Moe, Changing Places, 1997

Lewis Mumford, The City in History, 1961

Max Page, The Creative Destruction of Manhattan 1900-1930, 1999

Eugene Raskin, Sequel to cities; what happens when cities are extinct, 19??

Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter, Collage City, 1978

Peter Rowe, Civic Realism, 1997

Sennett, Flesh and Stone, 1996

Joseph Ma. Serra, Urban Elements, 19??

Dora Wiebenson, Tony Garnier:The Cité Industrielle, 1969

William Whyte, City: Discovering the Center, 1988

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