Community and Neighborhood Development
Historical Urban Patterns
Sprawl
Sustainable Development
Transportation
Urban Planning / Design / Theory
Urban Restoration

Community and Neighborhood Development

Building Communities From the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and
Mobilizing Community Assets
1997, John P. Kretzmann, Assisting Christians To Act Publications
ISBN 087946108X

The Careless Society: Community and Its Counterfeits
1996, John McKnight, Basic Books
ISBN 0465091261

Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design
1997, Douglas Kelbaugh, Univ. of Wash. Press
ISBN 0295975903

Community and the Politics of Place
1992, Daniel Kemmis, Univ. of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 0806124776

Community Building: What Makes It Work: A Review of Factors Influencing
Successful Community Building
1997, Paul Mattessich and Barbara Monsey, Amherst H. Wilder Foundation
ISBN 0940069121

A Concise Guide to Community Planning
1994, Gerald A. Porterfield and Kenneth B. Hall, Jr., McGraw Hill
ISBN 0070255911

Conservation Design for Subdivisions: A Practical Guide to Creating Open
Space Networks
1996, Randall G. Arendt, Island Press
ISBN 1559634898

The Good City and the Good Life: Renewing the American Community
1995, Daniel Kemmis, Houghton Mifflin Co.
ISBN 039568630X

Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability
1998, Myron Orfield and David Rusk, Brookings Institution
ISBN 0815766394

Neighborhoods and Urban Development
1981, Anthony Downs, Brookings Institution
ISBN 0815719191

The Poetics of Cities: Designing Neighborhoods That Work
1995, Mike Greenberg, Ohio State Univ. Press
ISBN 0814206573

Streets of Hope: The Rise and Fall of an Urban Neighborhood
1994, Peter Medoff, South End Press
ISBN 0896084825

Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place
1996, William Vitek and Wes Jackson, eds., Yale Univ. Press
ISBN 0300069618

Urban Problems and Community Development
1999, Ronald F. Ferguson and William T. Dickens, eds., Brookings Institution
ISBN 0815718756 

Historical Urban Patterns

Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America
1983, Gwendolyn Wright, MIT Press
ISBN 0262739642

City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History
1999, Spiro Kostof, Bulfinch
ISBN 0821220160

Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in
the Twentieth Century
1996, Peter Geoffrey Hall, Blackwell Publications
ISBN 0631199438

The Death and Life of Great American Cities
1993, Jane Jacobs, Vintage Books
ISBN 067974195X

The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
1994, James Howard Kunstler, Touchstone Books
ISBN 0671888250

Sprawl

The 100-Mile City
1993, Deyan Sudjic, et al., Harvest Books
ISBN 015642357X

Alternatives to Sprawl
1996, Dwight Young, Brookings Institution
ISBN 0815796870

Better Not Bigger: How to Take Control of Urban Growth and Improve Your Community
1999, Eben V. Fodor, New Society Publishers
ISBN 0865713863

Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in an Age of Sprawl
1997, Richard Moe and Carter Wilkie, Henry Holt & Company, Inc.
ISBN 0805043683

Costs of Sprawl
1998, Robert Burchell, Transportation Research Board
ISBN 030906306X

Edge City: Life on the New Frontier
1992, Joel Garreau, Anchor Books
ISBN 0285424345

How Superstore Sprawl Can Harm Communities and What Citizens Can Do About It
1994, Constance E. Beaumont, National Trust for Historic Preservation
ISBN 0891333924

Once There Were Greenfields: How Urban Sprawl is Undermining America's
Environment, Economy, and Social Fabric
1999, F. Kaid Benfield, et al., Natural Resources Defense
ISBN 1893340171

Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and Decline of the American Dream
2000, Andres Duany, et al., North Point Press
ISBN 0865475571

The Transit Metropolis: A Global Inquiry
1998, Robert Cervero, Island Press
ISBN 1559635916

Urban Development Issues: What is Controversial in Sprawl: An Annotated Bibliography of Often-Overlooked Sources
1989, Ivonne Audirac, Council of Planning Librarians
ISBN 0866022473

When City and Country Collide: Managing Growth in the Metropolitan Fringe
1998, Thomas L. Daniels, Island Press
ISBN 1559635975

Sustainable Development

Achieving Broad-Based Sustainable Development: Governance, Environment, and Growth with Equity
1996, James H. Weaver, et al., Kumarian Press
ISBN 1565490584

Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development
1997, Herman E. Daly, Beacon Press
ISBN 0807047090

The Ecology of Hope: Communities Collaborate for Sustainability
1996, Ted Bernard and Jora M. Young, New Society Publ.
ISBN 0865713553

Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence
1999, Peter Newman and Jeffrey Kenworthy, Island Press
ISBN 1559636602

Toward Sustainable Communities: Resources for Citizens and Their Communities
1998, Mark Roseland, et al., New Society Publ.
ISBN 086571374X

 Transportation

Alternate Route: Toward Efficient Urban Transportation
1998, Clifford Winston and Chad Shirley, Brookings Institution
ISBN 0815793812

Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence
1999, Peter Newman and Jeffrey Kenworthy, Island Press
ISBN 1559636602

The Transit Metropolis: A Global Inquiry
1998, Robert Cervero, Island Press
ISBN 1559635916

Transit Villages in the 21st Century
1996, Michael Bernick, et al., McGraw Hill
ISBN 0070054754

Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities
1996, Michael Southworth, McGraw-Hill
ISBN 0070598088

Urban Planning/Design/Theory

The American City: What Works and What Doesn't
1995, Alexander Garvin, McGraw-Hill
ISBN 0070229198

America's Downtown: Growth, Politics, and Preservation
1995, Richard C. Collins, et al., John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 0471144991

An Even Better Place: America in the 21st Century
1999, Richard Gephardt and Michael Wessel, Public Affairs
ISBN 1891620169

Balancing Nature and Commerce in Gateway Communities
1997, Jim Howe, Island Press
ISBN 1559635452

A Better Place to Live
1997, Philip Langdon, Univ. of Mass. Press
ISBN 1558491066

Cities Back From the Edge: New Life for Downtown
1998, Roberta Brandes Gratz and Norman Mintz, John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 0471144177

Cities Fit for People
1997, United Nations Publications
ISBN 9211260728

Cities for a Small Planet
1998, Richard Rogers and Philip Gumuchdjian (ed.), Westview Press
ISBN 0813335531

Cities in Our Future: Growth and Form: Environmental Health and Social Equity
1996, Robert Geddes, ed., Island Press
ISBN 1559634960

Cities Without Suburbs
1995, David Rusk, Woodrow Wilson Center Press
ISBN 0943875703

The City of To-Morrow and Its Planning
1987, Le Corbusier, Dover Publ.
ISBN 0486253325

Civilizing American Cities: Writings on City Landscapes
1997, Fredrick Law Olmstead, et al., Da Capo Press
ISBN 0306807653

The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities
1992, Richard Sennet, W. W. Norton & Co.
ISBN 0393308782

The Concise Townscape
1995, Gordon Cullen, Butterworth Heinemann
ISBN 0750620188

The Death and Life of Great American Cities
1993, Jane Jacobs, Vintage Books
ISBN 067974195X

The Economy of Cities
1970, Jane Jacobs, Random House
ISBN 039470584X

Fortress America: Gated Communities in the U.S.
1997, Edward J. Blakely and Mary Gail Snyder, Brookings Institution
ISBN 0815710038

The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of America's Big Cities
1997, Frederick F. Siegel, Free Press
ISBN 0684827476

The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
1994, James Howard Kunstler, Touchstone Books
ISBN 0671888250

Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age
1998, Michael H. Shuman, Free Press
ISBN 0684830124

Good City Form
1984, Kevin Lynch, MIT Press
ISBN 0262620464

Great Streets
1995, Allan B. Jacobs, MIT Press
ISBN 0262600234

Home From Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the Twenty-first Century
1998, James Howard Kunstler, Touchstone Books
ISBN 068437374

Inside Game / Outside Game: Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America
1999, David Rusk, Brookings Institution
ISBN 0815776500

Laws of the Landscape: How Policies Shape Cities in Europe and America
1999, Pietro S. Nivola, Brookings Institution Press / Inter-American
Development Bank
ISBN 0815760817

Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability
1998, Myron Orfield and David Rusk, Brookings Institution
ISBN 0815766394

A New Theory of Urban Design
1987, Christopher Alexander, Oxford Univ. Press
ISBN 0195037537

New Visions for Metropolitan America
1994, Anthony Downs, Brookings Institution
ISBN 0815719256

The New Urban Reality
1985, Paul E. Peterson, ed., Brookings Institution
ISBN 0815770170

The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community
1993, Peter Katz and Vincent Scully, McGraw Hill
ISBN 0070338892

The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream
1993, Peter Calthorpe, Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 1878271687

Rural by Design: Maintaining Small Town Character
1994, Elizabeth A Brabec, et al., American Planning Assoc.
ISBN 0918286867

Towns and Townmaking Principles
1991, Andres Duany, et al., Rizzoli Bookstore
ISBN 084781436X

Urban Problems and Community Development
1999, Ronald F. Ferguson and William T. Dickens, eds., Brookings Institution
ISBN 0815718756

Urban Land Use Planning
1995, Edward J. Kaiser, et al., Univ. of Illinois Press
ISBN 0252021010

Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place
1988, John R. Logan and Harvey L. Molotch, eds., Univ. of Calif. Press
ISBN 0520063414

Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space
1992, Michael Sorkin, ed., Noonday Press
ISBN 0374523142

Urban Restoration

Downtown, Inc.: How America Rebuilds Cities
1991, Bernard J. Frieden, MIT Press
ISBN 0252560593

The Fractured Metropolis: Improving the New City, Restoring the Old City, Reshaping the Region
1996, Jonathan Barnett, Harpercollins
ISBN 0064302229

The Living City: How America's Cities are Being Revitalized by Thinking Small in a Big Way
1994, Roberta Brandes Gratz, Preservation Press
ISBN 0471144258

Restoring At-Risk Communities: Doing It Together and Doing It Right
1996, John Perkins (ed.), Baker Book House
ISBN 080105463X

The Wealth of Cities: Revitalizing the Centers of American Life
1999, John O. Norquist, Perseus Books
ISBN 0738201340