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Here are reading suggestions culled from the virtual "shelves" of Amazon.com, the well-known online bookstore. These books are for sale, and you can read more about them and purchase them by clicking on the book title or jacket photo below. I've selected titles that promise to broaden or deepen our understanding of design concepts, human behavior, or notable architects and thinkers in the realm of architecture and design.
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Sun, Wind & Light: Architectural Design Strategies New! by G.Z. Brown, Mark DeKay
paperback
Published by
Publication date: October 2000
Urban Design: Street & Square New! by Cliff Moughtin James C. Moughtin
hardcover (out of print, available used)
Published by: Butterworth Architecture
Publication date: July 2000
Urban Design: The Architecture of Towns New! by Paul D. Spreiregen
(out of print, available used)
Published by: McGraw-Hill
Publication date:
The New Civic Art: Elements of Town Planning by Andres Duany, Ed.
Published by Rizzoli
Publication date: September, 2002
Charter of the New Urbanism by Michael Leccese, Ed.
Published by McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Publication date: November 22, 1999
Comeback Cities by Paul S. Grogan, Tony Proscio
Published by Westview
Publication date: December 4, 2001
The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition by James Howard Kunstler
Published by Free Press
Publication date: January 1, 2002
Smart Growth Manual by Andres Duany, et al.
Published by McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Publication date: June 1, 2002
From Sprawl to Smart Growth by Robert H. Freilich
Published by ABA Publishing
Publication date: December, 1999
Smart Growth Tool Kit by David O'Neill
book & video
Published by Urban Land Institute
Publication date: February 1, 2000
A Guide to Smart Growth: Shattering Myths, Providing Solutions by Jane S. Shaw
Published by Heritage Foundation
Publication date: April 21, 2000
Solving Sprawl: Models of Smart Growth in Communities Across America by F. Kaid Benfield, et al.
Published by Natural Resource Defense Council
Publication date: November, 2001
A Better Place to Live: Reshaping the American Suburb by Philip Langdon
first edition, hardcover
Published by University of Massachusetts Press
Publication date: August, 1994
City Comforts: How to Build an Urban Village by David Sucher
paperback
Published by City Comforts
Publication date: November 1, 1994
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape by James Howard Kunstler
Reprint edition, paperback
Published by Touchstone Books
Publication date: July 1, 1994
Home to Nowhere: Remaking our Everyday World for the 21st Century by James Howard Kunstler
hardcover, 320 pages
Published by Simon & Schuster
Publication date: October 1, 1996
The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community by Peter Katz
hardcover
Published by McGraw-Hill
Publication date: December 1, 1993
The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream by Peter Calthorpe
paperback, 175 pages
Published by Princeton Architectural Press
Publication date: June 1993
Seaside by Steven Brooke
hardcover, 128 pages
Published by Pelican Publishing Co.
Publication date: March 1995
Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities by Michael Southworth & Eran Ben-Joseph (Contributor)
hardcover, 184 pages
Published by McGraw-Hill
Publication date: August 1996
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RETAIL DESIGN || SPECIAL NEEDS || SUSTAINABLE DESIGN || URBAN DESIGN
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