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The New Civic Art:  Elements of Town Planning
by Duany, Plater-Zyberk, & Alminana


The New Transit Town
by Dittmar and Ohland - (Best practices in Transit Oriented Development)

Sustainability and Cities
by Newman & Kenworthy - (Overcoming Automobile Dependence)

 
Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design
by Watson, Plattus, & Shibley


The Transit Metropolis
by Robert Cervero - (Regional urban form is shaped by transit)


Sustainable Urbanism
by Douglas Farr - (Urban Design with Nature)


 
The Urban Design Handbook
by Gindroz & Levine
 

Urban Transit Systems and Technology
by Vukan R. Vuchic


Green Urbanism
by Timothy Beatley


  urbanism


  transportation


  sustainability


New City Spaces
by Jan Gehl & Lars Gemzo


Future Transport in Cities
by Brian Richards

 
Car-Free Cities
by J.H. Crawford
 

 
Visualizing Density
by Campoli & MacLean


Modern Trains and Splendid Stations
by Martha Thorne


Eco-Cities
by Richard Register - (Building Cities in Balance With Nature)


 
PLACE MAKING
by Charles C. Bohl - (Developing Town Centers, Main Streets, and Urban Villages)

SUBURBAN NATION
by DPZ - (A must read)

TOWN PLANNING IN PRACTICE
by Raymond Unwin - (An Introduction to the Art of Designing Cities and Suburbs)

CIVIC ART - THE AMERICAN VITRUVIUS
by Elbert Peets & Werner Hegemann - (American Vitruvius: An Architect's Handbook of Civic Art)

NEW AMERICAN URBANISM
by John A. Dutton - (Re-forming the Suburban Metropolis)

REPAIRING THE AMERICAN METROPOLIS
by Douglas Kelbaugh - (Common Place Revisited)

GLOBAL CITY BLUES
by Dan Solomon - (New Urbanism and fresh architectural thinking)

THE NEW URBANISM
by Peter Katz - (Toward an Architecture of Community)

POWERDOWN
by Richard Heinberg (Options and Actions for a Post Carbon World )

THE LONG EMERGENCY
by James Howard Kunstler - (Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century)

BUILDING CITIES
by Crowe, Economakis, & Lykoudis - (Towards a Civil Society and Sustainable Environment)

CHARTER OF THE NEW URBANISM
by The Congress For The New Urbanism

GEOGRAPHY OF NOWHERE
by James Howard Kunstler - (The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape)

HOME FROM NOWHERE
by James Howard Kunstler - (Remaking Our Everyday World for the Twenty-First Century)

CITY IN MIND
by James Howard Kunstler - (Meditations on the Urban Condition)

        FIilms and Movies

      
The End of Suburbia - Order DVD

        An Inconvenient Truth - DVD

        How Cuba Survived Peak Oil - DVD

        A Crude Awakening - The Oil Crash 

        Crude Impact - DVD

        Energy Crossroads - DVD

       
Subdivided - DVD

        Contested Streets - Order DVD

        Community by Design - Order DVD

        Subdivide and Conquer - Order DVD

        Save Our Land, Save Our Towns

        My Architect - Order DVD

        Frank Lloyd Wright - Order DVD       

       
The Corporation - Order DVD

        Wal-Mart:  The High Cost of Low Price

        Super Size Me - Order DVD

        Weapons of Mass Deception - Order DVD

        Outfoxed - Order DVD


URBAN VILLAGES: THE MAKING OF COMMUNITY
by Peter Neal

CITY COMFORTS: HOW TO BUILD AN URBAN VILLAGE
by David Sucher

NEW DEPARTURES
by Anthony Perl - (Rethinking Rail Passenger Policy in the Twenty-First Century)


 
CAR FREE CITIES
by J.H. Crawford

NEW URBANISM: COMPREHENSIVE REPORT AND BEST PRACTICES GUIDE
by New Urban News

ECO-ECONOMY
by Lester R. Brown - (Building a New Economy for the Environmental Age)

MAKING CITIES LIVABLE
by Lennard, von Ungern-Sternberg, & Lennard - (How to Make Cities Livable, and Appropriate Strategies for Controlling Urban Sprawl)

TOWARD THE LIVABLE CITY
by Emilie Buchwald - (Strategies for creating successful cities)

A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE
by Philip Langdon - (Reshaping The American Suburb)

URBAN DESIGN, CONSERVATION, AND PRESERVATION
by Nahoum Cohen - (Comprehensive presentation of the wide range of issues involved in urban conservation)

FUNDAMENTALS OF URBAN DESIGN
by Richard Hedman - (A standard reference on urban planning and design)


CRUELTY AND UTOPIA

by Jean Francois Lejeune - (Cities and Landscapes of Latin America)


SMART GROWTH

by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, & Jeff Speck - (New Urbanism in American Communities)

BUILDING THE 21ST CENTURY HOME
by David Rudlin & Nicholas Falk - (The Sustainable Urban Neighborhood)

COMMON PLACE
by Doug Kelbaugh - (Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design)

THE REGIONAL CITY
by Calthorpe & Fulton - (Planning for the End of Sprawl)

THE NEXT AMERICAN METROPOLIS
by Peter Calthorpe - (Ecology, Community, and the American Dream)

ARCHITECTURE: CHOICE OR FATE
by Leon Krier

THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN CITIES
by Jane Jacobs - (A Classic)

TOWNS AND TOWN MAKING PRINCIPLES
by Andres Duany & Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk

THE SEASIDE DEBATES
(A Critique of the New Urbanism)

THE CITY SHAPED
by Spiro Kostof - (Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History)

THE CITY ASSEMBLED
by Spiro Kostof - (The Elements of Urban Form Through History)

THE CITY SQUARE
by Michael Webb - (A Historical Evolution)

DESIGN OF CITIES
by Edmund Bacon

THE ART OF BUILDING CITIES
by Camillo Sitte - (City Building According to its Artistic Fundamentals)

THE CITY AS A WORK OF ART
by Donald J. Olsen - (London, Paris, Vienna)

LIVABLE CITIES OBSERVED
by Lennard & Lennard - (Excellent survey of cities around the globe, and what makes them livable)

HOW CITIES WORK
by Alex Marshall - (Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken)

THE CITY IN HISTORY
by Lewis Mumford - (Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects)

REDESIGNING CITIES
by Jonathan Barnett - (Principles, Practice, Implementation)

THE IMAGE OF THE CITY
by Kevin Lynch - (One of the most important modern contributions to large-scale design theory)

GOOD CITY FORM
by Kevin Lynch - (A major work exploring city form)

GREAT STREETS
by Allan Jacobs - (Excellent study of the greatest streets from around the world)

THE BOULEVARD BOOK
by Jacobs, MacDonald, & Rofe - (History, Evolution, Design of Multiway Boulevards. Follow up to 'Great Streets')

PLACE MAKING
by Charles Bohl - (Developing Town Centers, Main Streets, and Urban Villages)

COURTYARD HOUSING IN LOS ANGELES
by Stefanos Polyzoides - (A comprehensive study of this wonderful housing type)

HOW BUILDINGS LEARN
by Stewart Brand - (What Happens After They're Built)

THE AMERICAN PORCH
by Michael Dolan - (An Informal History of an Informal Place)

SIDEWALKS IN THE KINGDOM
by Eric O. Jacobsen - (New Urbanism and the Christian Faith)

TRANSIT VILLAGES IN THE 21st CENTURY
by Michael Bernick & Robert Cervero - (Comprehensive study of this exciting trend in land planning, including an extensive history of early American trains & trolleys)

BULLET TRAINS
by Brian Solomon - (A profile of the world's fastest trains)

SUPER-TRAINS
by Joseph Vranich - (Solutions to America's Transportation Gridlock)

NOTHING LIKE IT IN THE WORLD
by Stephen Ambrose - (The men who built the transcontinental railroad 1863-1869)

GETTING THERE
by Stephen Goddard - (The Epic Struggle Between Road and Rail in the American Century)

URBAN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
by Sigurd Grava - (Comprehensive Analysis of all Forms of Transportation)

BREAKING GRIDLOCK
by Jim Motavalli - (Moving Towards Transportation That Works)

ASPHALT NATION
by Jane Holtz Kay - (How the Automobile Took Over America, and How We Can Take It Back)

DIVORCE YOUR CAR
by Katie Alvord - (Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile)

BEYOND THE AUTOMOBILE
by Tabor Stone - (Reshaping the Transportation Environment)

SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
by Van der Ryn & Calthorpe - (A New Design Synthesis for Cities, Suburbs, and Towns)

ECO-CITY DIMENSIONS
by Mark Roseland - (Healthy Communities, Healthy Planet)

ECOLOGICAL DESIGN
by Van Der Ryn & Cowan - (A vision of how the living world and humanity can be reunited by making ecology the basis for design)

ECO-ECONOMY
by Lester R. Brown - (Building a New Economy for the Environmental Age)

STATE OF THE WORLD 2007
by the Worldwatch Institute - (Our Urban Future)

Click here for our featured books


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PUBLICATIONS

NEW URBAN NEWS

THE TOWN PAPER

JOURNAL OF URBAN DESIGN

URBAN DESIGN INTERNATIONAL

PLACES MAGAZINE

TOWN PLANNING REVIEW

THE CLASSICIST

KATARXIS WEBZINE

PRESERVATION MAGAZINE

RAILWAY GAZETTE INTERNATIONAL

TODAY'S RAILWAYS

THE RAILWAY MAGAZINE

TRAMWAYS & URBAN TRANSIT MAGAZINE

THE URBAN ECOLOGY JOURNAL

THE ECOLOGIST

TERRAIN MAGAZINE

SOLAR TODAY MAGAZINE

ENVIRONMENT MAGAZINE

E - THE ENVIRONMENTAL MAGAZINE

WORLD-WATCH MAGAZINE

MOTHER JONES MAGAZINE

METROPOLIS MAGAZINE

CAR-BUSTERS

ADBUSTERS

YES MAGAZINE

EARTH ISLAND JOURNAL


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SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION

SMART GROWTH TRANSPORTATION

RECONNECTING AMERICA

TRANSPORTATION PLANET

CALIFORNIA HIGH SPEED RAIL

US RAIL LINKS

SIERRA CLUB TRANSPORTATION SOLUTIONS

SIERRA CLUB SPRAWL CHALLENGE

SIERRA CLUB SPRAWL FACTSHEET

SIERRA CLUB SPRAWL LINKS

SPRAWL WATCH

SMART GROWTH AMERICA

SMART GROWTH

SMART CITY RADIO

RUDI - RESOURCE FOR URBAN DESIGN INFORMATION

THE SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE

CENTER OF EXCELLENCE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

TERRAIN

URBAN VILLAGES

URBAN ECOLOGY

ECO-CITIES

ECO NET

ECOLOGY

WORLD-WATCH ORG

MOTHER JONES

GREENPEACE

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY

FORESTS ORG

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS

NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES

URBAN ADVANTAGE

WALKABLE COMMUNITIES

AMERICA WALKS ORG

ACTIVE LIVING NETWORK

LEAGUE OF AMERICAN BICYCLISTS

CAR-FREE

CAR-FREE PLANNING

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

TOD COMMUNITIES

INSTITUTE FOR TRANSPORTATION & DEVELOPMENT POLICY

TRANSPORTATION & LIVABILITY LINKS

RAIL-VOLUTION

INTERNATIONAL MAKING CITIES LIVABLE ORG

PROJECT FOR PUBLIC SPACES

ABOUT PLANNING

LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION

PLANNING COMMISSIONERS JOURNAL

CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION

NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION

NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM

AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION

THE CONGRESS FOR THE NEW URBANISM

NEW URBAN NEWS

NEW URBAN GUILD

CYBURBIA

SMART GROWTH NETWORK

SMART GROWTH EPA

TRANSECT SMART CODES

AHWAHNEE PRINCIPLES

CHARRETTE CENTER

NATIONAL CHARRETTE INSTITUTE

THE SEASIDE INSTITUTE

THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE

THE INSTITUTE FOR TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE

THE PRINCE'S FOUNDATION

INTBAU, UK

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

KNIGHT PROGRAM IN COMMUNITY BUILDING

PERIFERIA

THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS

THE NEW FARM


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QUOTES

"The world we have created today as a result of our thinking thus far has problems which cannot be solved by thinking the way we thought when we created them." -Albert Einstein

"We complain that the streets of the urban peripheries are boring, that they do not offer the same opportunities for encounter, exchange, curiosity, attention, offered by the streets of the historic centers. It is not surprising, as the streets of the historic centers were made for the motion of human beings whereas the streets of the periphery have been made for the motion of automobiles." -Giancarlo De Carlo (The Contemporary Town)

"The automobile was, and remains, the agent of chaos, the breaker of the city." -Vincent Scully

"A city's internal transportation system - the layout of its streets and roads, the layout of streetcar systems and subways - determines the character of the city, how its citizens live and work. It has less to do with the direct engines of wealth creation. Build subways and people will live in dense neighborhoods and walk to corner stores; build broad suburban streets and they will live in subdivisions and drive to the Wal-Mart." -Alex Marshall (How Cities Work)

"Above all else, a city is a means of providing a maximum number of social contacts and satisfactions. When the open spaces gape too widely, and the dispersal is too constant, the people lack a stage for their activities and the drama of their daily life lacks sharp focus." -Lewis Mumford (The Highway and the City)

"America at the turn of the millennium is suffering the woeful consequences, largely unanticipated, of trying to become a drive-in utopia. The attempt took roughly eighty years, from the end of the First World War to the brink of global warming, oil depletion, and other epochal disorders hard upon us. This nation's massive suburban build-out was an orgy of misspent energy and material resources that squandered our national wealth and left us with an infrastructure of daily life that, left as is, has poor prospects in the new centruy. It is also hard to overstate the cultural destruction that was one of its chief side effects, especially the loss of knowledge, tradition, skill, custom, and vernacular wisdom in the art of city-making that was thrown into the dumpster of history in our effort to fulfill General Motors' 'World of Tomorrow'" -James Howard Kunstler (The City In Mind)

"City-making is an art rather than a product of statistical analysis or social service casework." "The future will compel us to change our way of life, to give up the fiasco of suburbia and all its revolting accessories and recondense our living and working places into the traditional human habitats called cities, towns, and neighborhoods." -James Howard Kunstler (The City In Mind)

"Since my early youth I have been acutely aware of the chaotic ugliness of our modern man-made environment when compared to the unity and beauty of old, pre-industrial towns." -Walter Gropius

"Now that we have built the sprawling system of far-flung houses, offices, and discount marts connected by freeways, we can't afford to live in it. We also failed to anticipate the costs of the social problems we created in letting our towns and cities go to hell. Two generations have grown up and matured in America without experiencing what it is like to live in a human habitat of quality. We have lost so much culture in the sense of how to build things well. Bodies of knowledge and sets of skills that took centuries to develop were tossed into the garbage, and we will not get them back easily. The culture of architecture was lost to Modernism and its dogmas. The culture of town planning was handed over to lawyers and bureaucrats, with pockets of resistance mopped up by the automobile, highway, and real estate interests." -James Howard Kunstler (The Geography of Nowhere)

"Has there ever been another place on earth where so many people of wealth and power have paid for and put up with so much architecture they detested? I doubt it seriously. Every child goes to school in a building that looks like a duplicating-machine replacement-parts wholesale distribution warehouse. Not even the school board, who commissioned it and approved the plans, can figure it out. The main thing is to try to avoid having to explain it to the parents." -Tom Wolfe (From Bauhaus to Our House)

"The road is now like television, violent and tawdry. The landscape it runs through is littered with cartoon buildings and commercial messages. We whiz by them at 55 miles an hour and forget them, because one convenience store looks like the next. They do not celebrate anything beyond their mechanistic ability to sell merchandise. We don't want to remember them. We did not savor the approach and we were not rewarded upon reaching the destination, and it will be the same next time, and every time. There is little sense of having arrived anywhere, because everyplace looks like noplace in particular." "Suburbia is economically catastrophic, socially toxic, ecologically suicidal and spiritually degrading. It has become a cartoon of country life, an abstraction of it, in many cases a mockery of it." -James Howard Kunstler (The Geography of Nowhere)

"The goal of the city is to make man happy and safe." -Aristotle

"The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares." -John Ruskin


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