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The Plan of Nashville Bibliography on Urban Design

American Institute of Architects. R/UDAT: A Plan for East Nashville. 1999.

Bel Geddes, Norman. Magic Motorways. New York: Random House, 1940.

Benevolo, Leonardo. The History of the City. Cambridge, MIT Press, 1980.

Burnham, Daniel and Edward H. Bennett. Plan of Chicago. 1909. Reprint, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1933.

Calthorpe, Peter. The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1993.

Crouch, Dora P., Daniel J. Garr, and Axel I. Mundigo. Spanish City Planning in North America. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1982.

Downs, Anthony. New Visions for Metropolitan America. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 1994.

Duany, Andres and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Robert Alminana. The New Civic Art: Elements of Town Planning. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003.

Garvin, Alexander. The American City: What Works, What Doesn’t. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996.

Gratz, Roberta Brandes and Norman Mintz. Cities Back from the Edge: New Life for Downtown. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1998.

Hegemann, Werner and Elbert Peets. The American Vitruvius: An Architects’ Handbook of Civic Art. 1922. Reprint, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1988.

Hylton, Thomas. Save Our Land, Save Our Towns: A Plan for Pennsylvania. Harrisburg, Penn.: RB Books, 1995.

Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Jacobs, Allan B. Great Streets. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993.

Jacobs, Allan Elizabeth Macdonald, and Yodan Rof. The Boulevard Book: History, Evolution, Design of Multi-way Boulevards. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.

Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Random House, 1961; reprint, New York: Vintage Books, 1992.

Katz, Peter. The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994.

Kellbaugh, Douglas. Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997.

Kelbaugh, Douglas, ed. The Pedestrian Pocket Book: A New Suburban Design Strategy. News York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1989.

Kostof, Spiro. The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History. Boston: Bulfinch Press, Little, Brown and Co., 1991.

Krier, Leon. Houses, Palaces, Cities. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1984.

Kulash, Walter. Essay 12 in Charter of the New Urbanism, edited by Michael Leccese and Kathleen McCormick, 83-86. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.

Kunstler, James Howard. The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.

Langdon, Philip. A Better Place to Live: Reshaping the American Suburb. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994; New York: Harper Perennial, 19995.

Leccess, Michael, and Kathleen McCormick, eds. Charter of the New Urbanism. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.

Lejeune, Jean-Francois, ed. The New City. Vol 3, Modern Cities. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996.

Lewis, Pierce F. New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape. 2nd ed. Santa Fe, N. Mex., and Harrisonburg, Va.: Center for American Places in association with the University of Virginia Press, 2003.

MacKaye, Benton. The New Exploration: A Philosophy of Regional Planning. 1928. Reprint, Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Mumford, Lewis. The City in History. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1961, reprint 1989.

Neary, Pam. “OutLANDish TAXes?” The New Rules. Summer 1999. http://www.new rules.org/resources/outland (July 2004).

Pederson, Martin C. “Cities in the Digital Age.” Metropolis, January 2004. http://www.metrolpolismag.com/html/content_0104/ob/ob 01_0104.html (January 2004).

Plater-Zyberk, Elizabeth. Essay 11 in Charter of the New Urbanism, edited by Michael Leccese and Kathleen McCormick, 79-82. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.

Polyzoides, Stefanos, et al. Courtyard Housing in Los Angeles: A Typological Analysis. 2nd ed. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992.

Powell, Colin with Joseph E. Persico. My American Journey. New York: Random House, 19995. Reprint, New York: Ballantine Books, 19996.

Reps, John. The Making of Urban America: A History of City Planning in the United States. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 19965, reprint 1992.

Rybczynski, Witold. City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World. New York: Scribner, 1995.

Schaffer, Kristen. Introduction to Plan of Chicago, by Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett. 1909. Reprint, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1993.

Sennett, Richard. The Fall of Public Man. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977. Reprint, New York: W. W Norton, 1992.

Sitte, Camillo. City Planning According to Artistic Principles. Translated by George R. Collins and Christiane Crasemann Collins. First published Vienna, 1889. New York: Random House, 1965.

Unwin, Raymond. Town Planning in Practice: An Introduction to the Art of Designing Cities and Suburbs. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1994.

U. S. Public Interest Research Group. “More Highways, More Pollution: Road Building and Air Pollution in America’s Cities.” U.S. PIRG Reports, 9 march 2004. http://www.uspirg.org (March 2004).

Van Pelt, Robert Jan and Carroll William Westfall. Architectural Principles in the Age of Historicism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.

Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour. Learning from Las Vegas. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1972.

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From The Plan of Nashville: Avenues to a Great City.
Vanderbilt University Press (Nashville) 2005.