Resources - Urban Planning General

• Alvord, Katie.  Divorce Your Car:  Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile, New Society Publishers, 2000, 305 pages, paperback. (INT)
• Armstrong, Melissa, et al.  Community Planning Handbook:  Tools and Techniques for Guiding Community Change, prepared for Michigan Society of Planning by Planning and Zoning Center, Inc., 1991, 440 pages.* (BAS)
• Barnett, Jonathan. Redesigning Cities: Principles, Practice, Implementation, APA Planners Press, 2003, hardcover.
• Bogdan, Albert.  “The Cocooning of America:  Technology Drives People Geographically Apart,” Planning and Zoning News, June 1995, p. 5-10. (BAS)
• Duany, Andres; Plater-Zyberk, Elizabeth; and Speck, Jeff.  Suburban Nation:  The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream, North Point Press, 2001, 293 pages, paperback. (BAS)
• Ewing, Reid.  Best Development Practices APA Planners Press, 1996, 180 pages, paperback.* (INT)
• Freestone, Robert, editor.  Urban Planning in a Changing World: The Twentieth Century Experience, Routledge, 2000, 293 pages, hardcover. (BAS)
• Garreau, Joel.  Edge City:  Life on the New Frontier, Anchor Books, 1992, 548 pages, paperback. (INT)
• Garvin, Alexandar. The American City: What Works What Doesn’t, McGraw-Hill Companies, 2002, 560 pages, hardcover.
• Gudis, Katherine. Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles and the American Landscape, Routledge Publishing, 2004, 333 pages.
• Hartman, Chester.  Between Eminence and Notoriety: Four Decades of Radical Urban Planning, CUPR Press, 2002, paperback.
• Howe, Deborah.  “Aging and Smart Growth:  Building Aging-Sensitive Communities,” Funder’s Network for Smart Growth,. (INT)
• Hughes, James and Seneca, Joseph J.  America’s Demographic Tapestry: Baseline For The New Millennium, Rutgers University Press, 1999, 228 pages, paperback. (INT)
• Isberg, Gunnar.  Creating Successful Communities, Metropolitan Council, 1997, 46 pages, paperback. (BAS)
• Jacobs, Jane.  The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Vintage Books, 1961, 458 pages, paperback.* (BAS)
• Kaiser, Edward; Godschalk, David; and Chapin, F. Stuart.  Urban Land Use Planning, 4th edition, University of Illinois Press, 1995, 493 pages, hardcover. (ADV)
• Kehde, Karl.  Smarter Land Use, LUFNET, 2002, 183 pages, paperback. (INT)
• Kellabaugh, Douglas. Repairing the American Metropolis: Common Place Revisited, University of Washington Press, 2002, 221 pages.
• Konvitz, Josef.  The Urban Millennium:  The City-Building Process from the Early Middle Ages to the Present, Southern Illinois University Press, 1985, 265 pages, hardcover. (INT)
• Kunstler, James Howard.  “Home from Nowhere,” The Atlantic Monthly, September 1996, p. 43-66. (BAS)
• Kunstler, James Howard.  The City in Mind:  Meditations on the Urban Condition, Simon and Schuster, 2001, 272 pages, paperback. (INT)
• Kunstler, James Howard.  The Geography of Nowhere, Simon and Schuster, 1993, 304 pages, paperback.*(BAS)
• Langdon, Philip.  “A Good Place to Live,” The Atlantic Monthly, March 1988, p. 39-60. (BAS)
• Larson, Eric. Devil in the White City, Vintage, 2004, 464 pages, paperback.
• Larson, Naomi.  Land Use Issues Identification Working Paper, MSP, July 1995. (INT)
• Levy, John M.  “What has Happened to Planning,” APA Journal, Winter 1992, p. 81-84. (BAS)
• Olson, Joshua. Better Places, Better Lives: A Biography of James Rouse, Urban Land Institute, 2003, 442 pages.
• Orfield, Myron, American Metropolitics: The New Suburban Reality, Brookings Institution Press, 2002, hardcover.* (INT)
• Puentes, Robert and Orfield, Myron.  Valuing America’s First Suburbs: A Policy Agenda for Older Suburbs in the Midwest, Brookings Institution, 2002, 48 pages, paperback. (INT)
• Rodwin, Lloyd and Sanyal, Bishwapriya.  The Profession of City Planning:  Changes, Images, and Challenges:  1950-2000, Center for Urban Policy Research, 2000, 400 pages, paperback. (ADV)
• Samuel P. Hunington, Simon and Schuster. Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity, 2004, 428 pages.
• Sandercock, Leonie, editor.  Making the Invisible Visible:  A Multicultural Planning History, University of California Press, 1998, 268 pages, paperback. (INT)
• Schmaltz, Norman.  “The Elusive Dream of State Comprehensive Planning,” Planning and Zoning News, December 1995, p. 3-43.* (BAS)
• Scott, Mel.  American City Planning Since 1890, APA Planners Press, 1971, 745 pages, paperback. (ADV)
• Southeast Michigan Council of Governments.  Land Use Tools and Techniques: A Handbook for Local Communities, 2nd edition, SEMCOG, 2003, 173 pages, paperback.* (INT)
• Sutcliffe, Anthony.  The History of Urban and Regional Planning: An Annotated Bibliography, Mansell Publishing, 1981, 284 pages, hardcover. (BAS)
• Weaver, Clyde.  Regional Development and the Local Community: Planning, Politics, and Social Context, John Wiley and Sons, 1984, 205 pages, hardcover. (BAS)