Recommended Books

The Neighborhood

Beatley, Timothy. Biophilic Cities. Island Press, 2010.
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Byrne, David. The Bicycle Diaries. Penguin, 2010.
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Farr, Douglass. Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature. Wiley, 2007.
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Fosket, Jennifer. Living Green: Communities that Sustain. New Society Publishers, 2009.
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Gehl, Jan. Cities for People. Island Press, 2010.
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Ghent, Randall. Cutting Your Car Use. New Society Publishers, 2006.
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Harnick, Peter. Urban Green: Innovative Parks for Resurgent Cities. Island Press, 2010.
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Karlenzig, Warren. How Green Is Your City? The SustainLane U.S. City Rankings. New Society Publishers, 2007.
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Nicholson, Geoff. The Lost Art of Walking. Riverhead, 2008.
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Owen, David. The Green Metropolis. Riverhead, 2009.
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Piedmont-Palladino, Susan, ed. Green Community. APA Planners Press, 2009.
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Rybczynski, Witold. Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas about Cities . Scribner, 2010.
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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.
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Farr, Douglas. Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
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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.
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Gehl, Jan. Cities for People. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2010.
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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.
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Mitchell, William. Mee++. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004.

Owen, David. Green Metropolis. New York, NY: Riverhead Books, 2009.
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Piedmont-Palladino, Susan and Timothy Mennel, ed. Green Community. Chicago, IL: American Planning Association and National Building Museum, 2009.
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Rybczynski, Witold. Makeshift Metropolis. New York, NY: Scribner, 2010.