“Contentment Is Hard Work” by Carol Tavris
From the New York Times: Years ago I came upon a melancholy fact: As the popularity of television increased in […]
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Books-and-publications-by-leaders-in-the-planning and urban design professions plus books on climate change and other relevant topics.
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“Site Analysis: A Contextual Approach to Sustainable Land Planning and Site Design” by James A. LaGro Jr. Wiley
From Amazon, From the Back Cover The complete guide to site analysis—for better plans and better projects Context-sensitive site planning
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The City Beautiful Movement by William H. Wilson
From CT.org…Like many movements and theories, they are forced into an all or nothing mode; often rejected because “all” is
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Rationality: What it is, Why it seems Scarce, Why it Matters.
Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it help us understand why there is so much irrationality in
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Recast Your City: How to Save Your Downtown with Small-Scale Manufacturing
“Too many U.S. cities and towns have been focused on a model of economic development that relies on recruiting one
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Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs
“Updated with a new Introduction by the authors and a foreword by Richard Florida, this book is a comprehensive guide
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Building A Vibrant Community: How Citizen-Powered Change Is Reshaping America
by Quint Studer “Every community wants to become a great place to live and work. The why is no mystery: We
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Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
by Charles L. Marohn Jr. From the Back Cover, from Amazon… “The costs of the North American transportation system are too
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“Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation”
by Edward Glaeser and David Cutler From Amazon….“Cities can make us sick. They always have—diseases spread more easily when more
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Cities of Knowledge, Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley by Margaret Pugh O’Mara
The premise is that the “cities of knowledge”, such as Silicon Valley, were not the result of random, market driven forces,