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Our Changing Landscape

Brown, David L. and Kenneth L. Deavers, "Rural Change and the Rural Economic Policy Agenda for the 1980s." Rural Economic Development in the 1980's: Prospects for the Future. Washington, D.C.: USDA, Economic Research Service, 1988: 1-28.
Duany, Andres; Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck. Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream. New York: North Port Press, 2000.
Howe, Jim; Ed McMahon and Luther Propst. Balancing Nature and Commerce in Gateway Communities. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1997.
Jackson, John Brinckerhoff. Discovering the Vernacular Landscape. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.
Kunstler, James Howard. The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscapes. Simon & Schuster, 1993.
Langdon, Philip. A Better Place to Live: Reshaping the American Suburb. University of Massachusetts Press, 1994.
McHarg, Ian. "On Values," Design with Nature. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1969.
Meinig, D.W., ed. The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Platt, Rutherford H. and George Macinko, eds. Beyond the Urban Fringe: Land Use Issues of Nonmetropolitan America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983.
Reid, J. Norman and Martha Frederick. Rural America: Economic Performance, 1989. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Agriculture Information Bulletin No. 609, 1990.
Rouche, Breton. Special Places. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1982.
Stokes, Samuel N.; A. Elizabeth Watson, and Shelley S. Mastran. Saving America's Countryside: A Guide to Rural Conservation. Second Edition. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.
Whyte, William H. The Last Landscape. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1968.
Zube, Ervin H. and Margaret J. Zube, eds. Changing Rural Landscapes. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1977.

Suggested Reading: The Planning & Design Process back to top

Arendt, Randall. Crossroads, Hamlet, Village, Town. Chicago: American Planning Association, 1999.
Arendt, Randall. Rural by Design: Maintaining Small Town Character. Chicago: American Planning Association, 1994.
Barker, James F., Michael J. Buono, and Henry P. Hildebrandt. The Small Town Designbook. Center for Small Town Research and Design, School of Architecture, Mississippi State University, 1981.
Bishop, Kirk R. Designing Urban Corridors. American Planning Association, Chicago, 1989.
Calthrope, Peter. The Next American Metropolis. Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1993
"Community Design Guidelines Manual." The Fort Drum Land Use Team, Watertown, New York..
Craighead, Paula M. (ed.). The Hidden Design in Land use Ordinances. Maine Arts Commission University of Southern Maine Design Arts Project, 1991.
Daniels, Thomas L.; John W. Keller, and Mark B. Lapping. The Smalltown Planning Handbook. Second Edition. Chicago: American Planning Association, 1995.
Doble, Cheryl and George McCulloch. Managing Change: A Pilot Study in Rural Design and Planning. Tug Hill Commission, 1992.
Duany, Andres and Plater-Zyberk, Elizabeth. Towns and Town-Making Principles. New York:Rizzoli, 1991.
Dyballa, Cynthia D., Lyle S. Raymond, Jr., and Alan J. Hahn. The Tug Hill Program. A Regional Planning Option for Rural Areas. Syracuse University Press, 1981.
Fleming, Ronald Lee. Saving Face: How Corporate Franchise Design Can Respect Community Identity. American Planning Association, Chicago, 1994.
Ford, Kristina with James Lopach and Dennis O'Donnell. Planning Small Town America. American Planning Association, 1990.
Herr, Philip B. The Art of Swamp-Yankee Planning. Herr Associates, 1995
Herr, Philip B. Saving Place. A Guide and Report Card for Protecting Community Character. National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1991.
Hester, Randolph. Community Design Primer. Ridge Times Press, 1990.
Hester, Randolph. Planning Neighborhood Space with People. New York: Van Reinhold Co., 1984.
Hester, Randolph. "The Sacred Structure in Small Towns: A Return to Manteo, North Carolina" Small Town. Jan.-Feb. 1990, pp 5-21.
Jarvis, Frederick D. 1993. Site Planning and Community Design for Great Neighborhoods. Washington, D.C.: Home Builder Press.
Katz, Peter. The New Urbanism: Towards an Architecture of Community. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc. 1994.
Knack, Ruth E. "Tony Nelessen's Do-It-Yourself Neotraditionalism," Planning, Dec. 1991, pp.18-22.
Lapping, Mark B., Thomas L. Daniels, and John W. Keller. Rural Planning and Development in the United States. New York: The Guilford Press, 1989.
Lynch, Kevin. Managing A Sense of Region. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1984.
Lynch, Kevin. Site Planning. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1984.
Managing Change: A Pilot Study in Rural Design and Planning. Tug Hill Commission under Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC, 1990.
Morrish, William R., and Catherine R. Brown. Planning to Stay. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1994.
Naylor, A.; Tate, A.; and Russell, J. "Community Planning That Works," Planning Commissioner's Journal, Jan.-Feb. 1993, pp. 10-14.
Nelessen, Anton. Visions for a New American Dream: Process, Principles, and am Ordinace to Plan and Design Small Communities. Chicago: APA Planners Press, 1994
Sargent, Frederick O., Paul Lusk, Jose A. Rivera, and Maria Varela. 1991. Rural Environmental Planning for Sustainable Communities. Washington, D.C., and Covelo, California: Island Press.
So, Frank, et al, The Practice of Local Government Planning, 2nd Ed. Chicago: International City Management Association, 1988.
Sucher, David. City Comforts: How to Build an Urban Village. Seattle: City Comfort Press, 1995.
Trancik, Roger. 1985. Hamlets of the Adirondacks, A Manual of Development Strategies. Prepared by Urban Design Consultant, Cornell University, with public funds from New York State Council on the Arts and the Adirondack North Country Association.
Van der Ryn, Sim and Peter Calthrope. Sustainable Communities. Sierra Club Books, 1991.
Village Planning Handbook. Bucks County Planning Commission, Doylestown, PA, 1989.

Suggested Reading: Graphic Tools for Design back to top

Calvert, Patricia, ed. The Communicator's Handbook. Gainesville, FL: Maupin House, 1990
Ching, Frank. Architectural Graphics. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1975.
Cooper, Douglas. Drawing and Perceiving. New York: VanNostrand Reinhold Company, 1992
Hanks, Kurt and Belliston, Larry. Draw! Los Altos, CA: William Kaufmann, 1977.
Hanks, Kurt and Belliston, Larry. Rapid Viz. Los Altos, CA: William Kaufmann, 1980.
Porter, Tom and Goodman, Sue. Manual of Graphic Techniques, Vols. I-III. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982.
Robbins, Edward, ed. Why Architects Draw. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994.
Wang, Thomas. Pencil Sketching. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1977.

Suggested Reading: Cultural Resources in Community Design back to top

Daniels, Thomas T., et al. The Small Town Planning Handbook. Chicago: American Planning Association, 1988.
Dollar$ and Sense of Historic Preservation: The Complete Set. Washington, DC: National Trust for Historic Preservation, n.d.
Fleming, Ronald Lee. Placemakers: Creating Public Art That Tells You Where You Are. Cambridge: Townscape Institute, 1988.
Forum Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2, Washington, DC: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1999.
Fossum, Harold L. Communities in the Lead: The Northwest Rural Development Sourcebook. Seattle: Northwest Policy Center -University of Washington, 1993.
Gamble, Robert. The Alabama Catalog: A Guide to the Early Architecture of the State. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1987.
Getting Started: How to Succeed in Heritage Tourism. (Book and Video). Washington, DC: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1993.
Guidelines for Evaluating and Documenting Traditional Cultural Properties. National Register Bulletin #38. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, n.d.
Hiss, Tony. The Experience of Place. New York: Knopf, 1990.
Hough, Michael. Out of Place: Restoring Identity to the Regional Environment. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.
Hufford, Mary. One Space, Many Places: Folklife and Land Use in New Jersey's Pinelands National Reserve. Washington, DC: American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, 1986.
Hylton, Thomas. Save or Land, Save our Towns. Harrisburg: RB Books, 1995
Loomis, Ormond. Cultural Conservation: The Protection of Cultural Heritage in the United States. Washington, DC: American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, 1983.
Melnick, Robert Z. Cultural Landscapes: Rural Historic Districts in the National Park System. Washington, DC: National Park Service, 1984.
Morris, Maya. Innovative Tools for Historic Preservation. Washington, D.C.: American Planning Association, 1992.
National Register of Historic Places, Alabama listings. Information on historic properties from nomination forms on file at the Alabama Historical Commission.
Forum, Volume 5, No. 2. Washington, DC: National Trust for Historic Preservation, January/February 1991.
Preserve Alabama: Volumes I and II. Alabama Historical Commission, 1998.
Rypkema, Donovan. The Investor Looks at a Building. Washington, DC: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1991.
Stovall, Allen D. The Sautee and Nacoochee Valleys: A Preservation Study. Atlanta: Georgia Department of Natural Resources and Autee Nacoochee Community Association, 1982.
"The Grouse Creek Cultural Survey: Integrating Folklife and Historic Preservation Field Research." Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1988.
White, Bradford J., and Richard J. Roddewig. Preparing a Historic Preservation Plan. Washington, DC: American Planning Association, 1994
Yaro, Robert P. Dealing with Change in the Connecticut River Valley: A Design Manual for Conservation and Development. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 1989.

Suggested Reading: Natural Resources in Community Design back to top

Arendt, Randall. Growing Greener. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1999.
Building Greener Neighborhoods as Part of the Plan. A publication by American Forests and National Association of Home Builders. Washington, DC; Home BuilderPress, 1995.
Flink, Chuck; Loring Schwarz, and Bob Stearns. Greenways: A Guide to Planning, Design and Development. Arlington: The Conservation Fund.
Frazer, Elizabeth and Ann F. Morris. Getting It All Together, The Application of Environmental Information to Land Use Planning. The Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions, 1980.
Jaffe, Martin and Frank Dinovo. Local Groundwater Protection. Chicago: American Planning Association, 1987.
Lai, Richard Tseng-yu. Law in Urban Design and Planning. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. 1988.
Little, Charles E. Greenways for America. Arlington: The Conservation Fund.
Lowrance, Richard; Paul F. Hendrix, and Eugene P. Odum. 1986. "A Hierarchial Approach to Sustainable Agriculture." American Journal of Alternative Agriculture 1 (4): 168-173.
Lyle, John. Design for Human Ecosystems. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. 1985.
Lynch, Kevin. Managing the Sense of a Region. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1978.
Marsh, William. Landscape Planning, Environmental Applications. (second edition). New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1991 .
McHarg, Ian. Design With Nature. New York: Doubleday/Natural History Press, 1969.
Milne, Bruce T. (ed.). 1988. Observation Across Scales: Function and Management of Landscapes (Third Annual Landscape Ecology Symposium Abstracts). Albuquerque: University of New Mexico.
Nature to be Commanded. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 950. Earth Science Maps Applied to Land and Water Management. U.S. Geological Survey, 1979.
Olson, Gerald W. Soils and the Environment: A Guide to Soil Surveys and Their Applications. New York: Chapman and Hall, 1981.
Quinby, Peter A. 1988. "The Contribution of Ecological Sciences to the Development of Landscape Ecology: A Brief History." Landscape Research 12(3): 9-11.
Sargent, Frederick O. Rural Environmental Planning. University of Vermont, 1976.
Sargent, F.; Lusk,P.; Rivera, J; and Varela, M.. Rural Environmental Planning for Sustainable Communities. Washington: Inland Press, 1991.
Simpson, John W. 1988. "Ecological Transects: An Alternative Method of Landscape Analysis." Jeffery K. Olson, Kenneth S. Nakaba, and Budd Sutton, eds. Sustainable Landscapes (Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Conference Proceedings). Pomona, California: California State Polytechnic University.
Steiner, Frederick. Ecological Planning for Farmlands Preservation. American Planning Association, 1981.
Steiner, Frederick. 1991. The Living Landscape. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Steiner, Frederick. 1991. "Landscape Planning: A Method Applied to a Case Study of Growth Management." Environmental Management 15.
Steiner, Frederick and Douglas Osterman. 1988. "Landscape Planning: A Working Method Applied to a Case Study of Soil Conservation." Landscape Ecology 1 (4):214-226.
Yaro, Robert D., Randall G. Arendt, Harry L. Dodson, and Elizabeth A. Brabec. 1988. Dealing with Change in the Connecticut River Valley: A Design Manual for Conservation and Development. Amherst, Massachusetts: Center for Rural Massachusetts, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and Environmental Law Foundation.

 

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