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Reports

Title

Publish
Date

Author

Creative Ecology: Where Thinking Is a Proper Job

2009

John Howkins

Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature

2008

Doug Farr, ed.

The Endless City

2008

Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic

The Intercultural City: Planning for Diversity Advantage

2008

Phil Wood, Charles Landry

Caught in the Middle: America’s Heartland in the Age of Globalism

2008

Richard Longworth

Hot, Flat, and Crowded

2008

Thomas L. Friedman

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

We-Think

2008

Charles Leadbeater

The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream

2008

Chris Leinberger

Urban Design and the Bottom Line: Optimizing the Return on Perception

2008

Dennis Jerke
(Publisher: Urban Land Institute)

Who's Your City? How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life

2008

Richard Florida

Michigan’s Defining Moment: A Common Ground Agenda for Michigan’s Transformation (PDF) 2008 Lou Glazer

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

The Municipal Mind

2007

Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century

2007

Thomas L. Friedman

Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow (Electronic Mediations Series)

2007

Victoria Vesna, ed.

Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World

2006

Brian Walker and David Salt

The Art of City Making

2006

Charles Landry

A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

2006

Daniel H. Pink

The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent

2006

Richard Florida

Planning Active Communities

2006

Marya Morris, ed.

Can Small Towns Be Cool? (PDF) 2006 Dave Ivan (Michigan State University Extension)

Designing Greenways: Sustainable Landscapes for Nature and People

2006

Paul Cawood Hellmund and Daniel Somers Smith

Code Name Ginger: The Story Behind Segway and Dean Kamen's Quest to Invent a New World

2005

Steve Kemper

Designing Small Parks: A Manual Addressing Social and Ecological Concerns

2005

Ann Forsyth, Laura Musacchio, Frank Fitzgerald

Practical Ecology for Planners, Developers, and Citizens

2005

Dan L. Perlman and  Jeffrey C. Milder

Herman Miller: The Purpose of Design

2004

John R. Berry

Massive Change

2004

Bruce Mau, with Jennifer Leonard

Virtual Museum (of Canada): The Next Generation

2004

Steve Dietz, Howard Besser, Ann Borda, and Kati Geber with Pierre Lévy

Creating a Vibrant City Center

2004

Cyril B. Paumier

Riding The Rapids: Urban Life in the Age of Complexity

2004

Charles Landry

Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment

2003

Ethan Watters

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 Death and Life of Great American Cities

2002

Jane Jacobs

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

2002

Malcolm Gladwell

The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life 

2002

Richard Florida

The Creative Economy: How People Make Money from Ideas

2001

John Howkins

Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival

2001

Paul S. Grogan, Tony Proscio

Celebrating the Third Place: Inspiring Stories About the "Great Good Places" at the Heart of Our Communities

2001

Ray Oldenburg, ed.

Culture at the Crossroads: Culture and Cultural Institutions at the Beginning of the 21st Century

2001

Marc Pachter, Charles Landry

The Creative City

2000

Charles Landry

Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There

2000

David Brooks

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

Testing the Water: Young People and Galleries

2000

Naomi Horlock, ed.

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

Growing Greener: Putting Conservation into Local Plans and Ordinances

1999

Randall Arendt

Ecologically Based Municipal Land Use Planning

1999

William B. Honachefsky

Cities Back from the Edge: New Life for Downtowns  

1998

Roberta Brandes Gratz, with Norman Mintz

Lost Landscapes and Failed Economies: The Search for a Value of Place

1996

Thomas Michael Power

Where We Live: A Citizen's Guide to Conducting a Community Environmental Inventory

1995

Donald F. Harker and Elizabeth Ungar Natter

The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape

1993

James Howard Kuntsler

Edge City: Life on the New Frontier

1991

Joel Garreau

Events Social Media Intership Program