Architecture, Historic Preservation & Town Planning

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E l e m e n t s   o f   T r a d i t i o n a l   U r b a n   D e s i g n



Edmund Bacon, Design of Cities



Bently, Murrain, et al, Responsive Environments: A Manual for Designers

Chuck Bohl, Place Making, Developing Town Centers,
Main Streets and Urban Villages




Wolfgang Braunfels, Urban Design in Western Europe,
Regime and Architecture, 900 - 1900




Daniel Burnham, Plan of Chicago

Peter Calthorpe, Planning for the End of Sprawl



Anthony Caro, The Power Broker,
Robert Moses and the Fall of New York


Moses

CNU, Charter of the New Urbanism



Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck, Suburban Nation,
The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream




John Dutton, New American Urbanism,
Reforming the Suburban Metropolis


Dutton

Ray Gindroz, The Urban Design Handbook,
Techniques and Working Methods




Allan Jacobs, Great Streets



Peter Katz, The New Urbanism,
Toward an Architecture of Community




Douglas Kelbaugh,
Common Place,
Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design


Kelbaugh

Spiro Kostof, The City Shaped,
Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History




James Howard Kunstler, The Geography of Nowhere,
The Rise and Decline of America's Landscape




James Howard Kunstler, Home From Nowhere,
Remaking Our World for the 21st Century




James Howard Kunster, The City In Mind,
Notes On the Urban Condition




William L. MacDonald, The Architecture of the Roman Empire, An Urban Appraisal



Benton MacKaye,The New Exploration,
A Philosophy of Regional Planning




New Urban News, New Urbanism,
Best Practices Guide




John Norquist, The Wealth of Cities,
Revitalizing the Centers of American Life




Ray Oldenberg, The Great Good Place,
Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons,
and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community


Great Good Place

John Reps, The Making of Urban America

Urban America

John Reps, Monumental Washington

Colin Rowe, Collage City



Vincent Scully, American Architecture and Urbanism

David Sucher, City Comforts



Anthony Sutcliffe, Paris, An Architectural History



Camillo Sitte, The Birth of Modern City Planning

J.B. Ward-Perkins, Cities of Ancient Greece and Italy,
Planning in Classical Antiquity


Carroll William Westfall, Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism



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