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Readings

Selected texts in Urban Design and Development.
Urban Design Bibliography

Adams, Thomas. The Design of Residential Areas: Basic Considerations, Principles and Methods. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1934.

Alexander, Christopher. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.

Alexander, Christopher. A New Theory of Urban Design. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Anderson, Stanford Owen, ed. On Streets. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1978.

Appleyard, Donald. Livable Streets. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1981.

Bacon, Edmund N. Design of Cities. New York: Viking Press, 1967.

Barnett, Jonathan. An Introduction to Urban Design. New York: Harper & Row, 1982.

Barnett, Jonathan. The Elusive City: Five Centuries of Design, Ambition and Miscalculation. New York: Harper and Row, 1986.

Benevolo, Leonardo. The Origins of Modern Town Planning. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1967.

Broadbent, Geoffrey. Emerging Concepts in Urban Space Design. London: Van Nostrand Reinhold (International), 1990.

Calthorpe, Peter. The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1993.

Calthorpe, Peter, and Sim Van der Ryn. Sustainable Communities: A New Design Synthesis for Cities, Suburbs and Towns. California: Sierra Club Books, 1986.

Cullen, Gordon. The Concise Townscape. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, c1961, 1971.

Duany, Andres, and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. Towns and Town-Making Principles. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, 1991.

Easterling, Keller. American Town Plans: A Comparative Time Line. Princeton Architectural Press, 1993.

Gehl, Jan. Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space. NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1987.

Gosling, David, and Barry Maitland. Concepts of Urban Design. London: Academy Eds.; New York: St. Martinís Press, 1984.

Greenbie, Barrie B. Spaces, Dimensions of the Human Landscape. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1981.

Hester, Randolph. Neighborhood Spaces: User Need and Design Responsibility. Dowden Hutchinson & Ross, 1975.

Jacobs, Allan B. Great Streets. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996.

Kostof, Spiro. The City Assembled: The Elements of Urban Form through History. Boston, MA: Little Brown, 1992.

Krier, Rob. Urban Space. New York: Rizzoli, 1979.

Lang, Jon T. Urban Design: The American Experience. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1994.

Lynch, Kevin. Site Planning. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1971.

Lynch, Kevin. A Theory of Good City Form. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1981.

Marcus, Clare Cooper, and Carolyn Francis, eds. People Places: Design Guidelines for Urban Open Space. NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990.

McCluskey, Jim. Roadform and Townscape. London: Reed International, 1979.

Moudon, Anne Vernez, ed. Public Streets for Public Use. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.

Newman, Oscar. Defensible Space; Crime Prevention through Urban Design. New York: Macmillan, 1972.

Perry, Clarence Arthur. Housing for the Machine Age. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1939.

Porter, Douglas R. Flexible Zoning: How It Works. Washington D.C.: Urban Land Institute, 1988.

Sitte, Camillo. City Planning According to Artistic Principles. New York: Random House. (orig. 1889, 1965.)

Southworth, Michael and Eran Ben-Joseph. Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities. New York: McGraw Hill, 1997.

Trancick, Rogers. Finding Lost Space: Theories of Urban Design. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1986.

Unwin, Raymond. Town Planning in Practice. London: Fisher Unwin, 1909.

Whyte, William Hollingsworth. The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Washington D.C.: Conservation Foundation, 1980.