Books for the Country

Boarnet, Marlon G. Transportation Infrastructure: The Challenges of Rebuilding America. APA Planners Press, 2009.
Purchase in the Museum Shop online

Duany, Andres, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck. Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl & the Decline of the American Dream. North Point Press, 2010.
Purchase in the Museum Shop online

Fischer, Claude S. America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940. University of California Press, 1994.
Purchase in the Museum Shop online

Gilbert, Richard and Anthony Perl. Transport Revolutions: Moving People & Freight Without Oil. New Society Publishers, 2010.
Purchase in the Museum Shop online

Koch, Richard and Greg Lockwood. Superconnect: Harnessing the Power of Networks & the Strength of Weak Links. W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.
Purchase in the Museum Shop online

Kotkin, Joel. The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050. Penguin Press HC, 2010.
Purchase in the Museum Shop online

McCommons, James and James Kunstler. Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service: A Year Spent Riding Across America. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2009.
Purchase in the Museum Shop online

Perl, Anthony. New Departures: Rethinking Rail Passenger Policy in the 21st Century. The University Press of Kentucky, 2002.
Purchase in the Museum Shop online

Further reading on Intelligent Cities

Duany, Andres, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck. Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream. New York, NY: North Point Press, 2000.
Purchase in the Museum Shop online

Farr, Douglas. Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
Purchase in the Museum Shop online

Fishman, Robert. Bourgeois Utopia. United States. Basic Books, 1987.

Frumkin, Howard, Lawrence Frank, and Richard Jackson. Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities. Washington, D.C.:  Island Press, 2004.

Gallagher, John. Reimagining Detroit: Opportunities for Redefining an American City. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press. 2010.
Purchase in the Museum Shop online

Gehl, Jan. Cities for People. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2010.
Purchase in the Museum Shop online

Jackson, Kenneth. Crabgrass Frontier. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Lynch, Kevin. The Image of the City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1960.

Kats, Greg. Greening our Built World. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2010.
Purchase in the Museum Shop online

Mitchell, William. Mee++. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004.

Owen, David. Green Metropolis. New York, NY: Riverhead Books, 2009.
Purchase in the Museum Shop online

Piedmont-Palladino, Susan and Timothy Mennel, ed. Green Community. Chicago, IL: American Planning Association and National Building Museum, 2009.
Purchase in the Museum Shop online

Rybczynski, Witold. Makeshift Metropolis. New York, NY: Scribner, 2010.