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BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
  1. London: The Biography, Peter Ackroyd
  2. Toward the Livable City, Emilie Buchwald
  3. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Robert Caro
  4. Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
  5. Faith in Nature: Environmentalism as Religious Quest, Thomas R. Dunlap
  6. Ecology of Fear, Mike Davis
  7. Magical Urbanism, Mike Davis
  8. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman
  9. The Question of Bruno, Aleksandar Hemon
  10. Halfway to Everywhere: A Portrait of America’s First-Tier Suburbs, William H. Hudnut III (available from ULI)
  11. The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
  12. Land of the Burnt Thigh, Edith Eudora Kohl
  13. There Are No Children Here, Alex Kotlowitz
  14. The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler
  15. The Long Emergency, James Howard Kunstler
  16. Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
  17. The City of Tomorrow and its Planning, LeCorbusier
  18. Ecology of Place, Timothy Beatley; Kristy Manning
  19. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, William McDonough, Michael Braungart
  20. Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner
  21. Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York, Luc Sante
  22. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
  23. Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, Wallace Stenger
  24. Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants, Robert Sullivan
  25. Walden, Henry David Thoreau
  26. Poletown: Community Betrayed, Jeanie Wylie