Recommended Reading

Title	Publish Date	Author
How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken	2000	Alex Marshall
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream	2000	Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart	2008	Bill Bishop, with Robert G. Cushing
Make the Impossible Possible	2007	Bill Strickland
Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World	2006	Brian Walker and David Salt
Massive Change	2004	Bruce Mau, with Jennifer Leonard
The Creative City	2000	Charles Landry
The Art of City Making	2006	Charles Landry
Riding The Rapids: Urban Life in the Age of Complexity	2004	Charles Landry
We-Think	2008	Charles Leadbeater
The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream	2008	Chris Leinberger
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future	2006	Daniel H. Pink
Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There	2000	David Brooks
Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature	2008	Doug Farr, ed.
Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment	2003	Ethan Watters
The Municipal Mind	2007	Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape	1993	James Howard Kuntsler
The Death and Life of Great American Cities	2002	Jane Jacobs
Edge City: Life on the New Frontier	1991	Joel Garreau
Herman Miller: The Purpose of Design	2004	John R. Berry
The Creative Economy: How People Make Money from Ideas	2001	John Howkins
Creative Ecology: Where Thinking Is a Proper Job	2009	John Howkins
The Influentials: One American in Ten Tells the Other Nine How to Vote, Where to Eat, and What to Buy	2003	Ed Keller, Jon Berry
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference	2002	Malcolm Gladwell
Culture at the Crossroads: Culture and Cultural Institutions at the Beginning of the 21st Century	2001	Marc Pachter, Charles Landry
Testing the Water: Young People and Galleries	2000	Naomi Horlock, ed.
Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival	2001	Paul S. Grogan, Tony Proscio
The Endless City	2008	Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic
The Intercultural City: Planning for Diversity Advantage	2008	Phil Wood, Charles Landry
Celebrating the Third Place: Inspiring Stories About the "Great Good Places" at the Heart of Our Communities	2001	Ray Oldenburg, ed.
The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life	2002	Richard Florida
The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent	2006	Richard Florida
Caught in the Middle: America’s Heartland in the Age of Globalism	2008	Richard Longworth
Cities Back from the Edge: New Life for Downtowns	1998	Roberta Brandes Gratz, with Norman Mintz
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community	2000	Robert D. Putnam
The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World	2000	Paul H. Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson, Ph.D.
Innovative and Sustainable Cities	1999	Sir Peter Hall, Charles Landry
Virtual Museum (of Canada): The Next Generation	2004	Steve Dietz, Howard Besser, Ann Borda, and Kati Geber with Pierre Lévy
Code Name Ginger: The Story Behind Segway and Dean Kamen's Quest to Invent a New World	2005	Steve Kemper
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century	2007	Thomas L. Friedman
Hot, Flat, and Crowded	2008	Thomas L. Friedman
Lost Landscapes and Failed Economies: The Search for a Value of Place	1996	Thomas Michael Power
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)	2008	Tom Vanderbilt
The City in 2050: Creating Blueprints for Change	2008	Urban Land Institute
Getting Real on Urbanism	2008	Bernard Zyscovich
Creating a Vibrant City Center	2004	Cyril B. Paumier
Urban Design and the Bottom Line: Optimizing the Return on Perception	2008	Dennis Jerke (Publisher: Urban Land Institute)
Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow (Electronic Mediations Series)	2007	Victoria Vesna, ed.
Who's Your City? How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life	2008	Richard Florida
Where We Live: A Citizen's Guide to Conducting a Community Environmental Inventory	1995	Donald F. Harker and Elizabeth Ungar Natter
Practical Ecology for Planners, Developers, and Citizens	2005	Dan L. Perlman and Jeffrey C. Milder
Designing Greenways: Sustainable Landscapes for Nature and People	2006	Paul Cawood Hellmund and Daniel Somers Smith
Designing Small Parks: A Manual Addressing Social and Ecological Concerns	2005	Ann Forsyth, Laura Musacchio, Frank Fitzgerald
Ecologically Based Municipal Land Use Planning	1999	William B. Honachefsky
Planning Active Communities	2006	Marya Morris, ed.
Growing Greener: Putting Conservation into Local Plans and Ordinances	1999	Randall Arendt
From Neurons to Neighborhoods : The Science of Early Childhood Development	2000	Jack P. Shonkoff and Deborah A. Phillips