Joanna Linn's HONR259J Bibliography

URBANISM/SUBURBANISM

Preservation, Mixed Use and Urban Vitality
Synopsis: This project examines the roles of preservation and mixed use as
two among several interconnected factors contributing to urban vitality.

An ecological/environmental view of urban sustainability by California
based Indigo Development

Suburbs Bibliography - Swarthmore College

NEW URBANISM AND NEO-TRADITIONAL TOWN PLANNING

Read about Paul Soleri and his theory of Arcology

Duany Plater - Zyberk & Company is an architectural firm, designers of Seaside, Florida and Prospect, Colorado.

Read some of Andre Duany's and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk's writings.

Robert S. Davis, founder of the Seaside Institute - The Seaside Story

Peter Calthorpe founder of the Congress for New Urbanism and Calthorpe Associates

SPECIAL COMMUNITIES

Meta Housing Sites--sites with various types of living alternatives for
the elderly

Links to sites for gay-friendly cities

CoHousing and Community Resources Online

Communal Studies Bibliography

UTOPIAS

Student Project - The Demise of Utopian Societies - George Orwell - 1984,
The Giver by Lois Lowry, and Koreshan community of Florida.

Student web projects for ohio state class - Utopias and Dysutopias

DESIGNED IDEAL COMMUNITIES

Levittown

George Mason University Special Collections & Archives - Planned
Communities/New Towns

The Seaside Institute

Walt Disney's Celebration

Site of Canin Associates, a consulting firm for new towns and communities
Another page about the communities

Propect, Colorado

Columbia, Maryland

Columbia's sister planned city- Reston, VA

Arcosanti, Arizona
 

SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES


Cyburbia: The Planning and Architectural Internet Resource Center

Sustainable Communities Network
 
Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development

PreserveNet Home Page

SPRAwL, an electronic journal

BOOKS

1.Columbia : A Celebration / by David Hobby, Susan Thornton Hobby
This book takes a close look at the history and current
day-to-day life of what is widely considered to be the
most successful planned community in the United States.
The town also is considered to be one of the best communities
in the country with regard to race relations.

2. The City / by Park Robert Ezra

3. The writings of Clarence S. Stein :  architect of the planned community
/  edited by Kermit Carlyle Parsons.

4. Cities on a hill :  a journey through contemporary American cultures /
Frances FitzGerald.

5. The Community of the future / Frances Hesselbein

6. Communes USA; a personal tour / Richard Fairfield.

7. If I live to be 100-- congregate housing for later life / Vivian F.
Carlin, Ruth Mansberg.

8. Community: reflections on a tragic ideal / Glenn Tinder.

9. The place of the ideal community in urban planning. / Reiner, Thomas A

10. Paradise dreamed :  how utopian thinkers have changed the modern world
/  Pamela Neville-Sington and David Sington.

11. Voyages to Utopia :  from monastery to commune, the search for the
perfect society in modern times /  William McCord.

12. Utopia and anti-utopia in modern times /  Krishan Kumar.

13. Cities of difference / edited by Ruth Fincher, Jane M. Jacobs.

14. The death and life of great American cities. / Jacobs, Jane

15. Toward new towns for America  / Clarence S. Stein. With an introd. by
Lewis Mumford.

16.  THE NEW URBANISM: TOWARD AN ARCHITECTURE OF COMMUNITY, edited by Peter Katz.

JOURNALS

PLACES: A QUARTERLY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN