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Bibliography on Ecological Cities

Compiled by R. H. Platt and Others
Revised September 2003

Environment, History, General Urban
Planning, Landscape Design, Smart Growth
Ecology and General Science

ENVIRONMENT, HISTORY, GENERAL URBAN

Brewster, G. B. 1997. "The Ecology of Development: Integrating the Built and Natural Environments." Working Paper 649. Washington, DC Urban Land Institute.

Calthorpe, P. 1993. The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream. New York: Princeton University Press.

Chadwick, G. F. 1966. The Park and the Town. New York: Praeger.

Cortner, H. J. and M. A. Moote, 1999. The Politics of Ecosystem Management. Washington, DC: Island Press.

Cronon, W. 1991. Nature's Metropolis. New York: Norton.

Esty, D. C. and M. R. Chertow, eds. 1989. Thinking Ecologically: The Next Generation of Environmental Policy. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Farber, D. A. 1999. Eco-Pragmatism: Making Sensible Decisions in an Uncertain World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Geddes, P. 1915/1950. Cities in Evolution. New York: Oxford University Press.

Gore, A. 1992. Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit. New York: Houghton Mifflin.

Goudie, A. 1997. The Human Impact Reader: Readings and Case Studies. Oxford: Blackwell.

Hardin, G. 1968. "The Tragedy of the Commons." Science 162: 1243-1248.

Hiss, T. 1990. The Experience of Place. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Hough, M. 1990. Out of Place: Restoring Identity to Regional Landscape. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Howard, E. 1899/1965. Garden Cities of To-Morrow. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Jackson, J. B. 1990. Discovering the Vernacular Landscape. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Jacobs, H. M. 1989. Who Owns America? Social Conflict over Property Rights. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

Kaplan, R. D. 1997. Empire Wilderness: Travels into America's Future. New York: Vintage Books.

Lowenthal, D. 2000. George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

McKibben, B. 1989. The End of Nature. New York: Random House.

_________. 1995. Hope, Human, and Wild. Boston: Little, Brown.

McPhee, J. 1989. The Control of Nature. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux.

Mumford, L. 1956. "The Natural History of Urbanization," in W. L. Thomas, Jr. and Others, eds., Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Nash, R. F. 1989. American Environmentalism: Readings in Conservation History 3rd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.

National Research Council. 1999. Our Common Journey: A Transition Toward Sustainability. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission. 1962. Outdoor Recreation for America. Washington: U. S. Government Printing Office.

_________ 2000. "Ecology and Land Development: Past Approaches and New Directions" in D. R. Porter, ed., The Practice of Sustainable Development. Washington, DC: Urban Land Institute.

Platt, R. H., R. A. Rowntree, and P. C. Muick, eds. 1994. The Ecological City: Preserving and Restoring Urban Biodiversity. Amherst, MA: The University of Massachusetts Press.

Postel, S. 1993. Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity. New York: W. W. Norton.

Putnam, R. D. 2000. Bowling Alone. New York: Simon and Schuster Touchstone Books.

Ruckelshaus, W. D. 1989. "Toward a Sustainable World." Scientific American 261(3): 166-174.

Suarez, R. 1999. The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration: 1966-1999. New York: Free Press.

Teaford, J. C. 1993. The Twentieth-Century American City (2nd Edition). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Thomas, C. W. 2003. Bureaucratic Landscapes: Interagency Cooperation and the Preservation of Biodiversity. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Tuan, Y. F. 1983. Space and Place. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

UNCED (U. N. Conference on Environment and Development). 1992. Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. Rio de Janeiro: United Nations. ("Agenda 21").

Winks, R. W. 1989. Laurance S. Rockefeller: Catalyst for Conservation. Washington, DC: Island Press.

Weisman, A. 1998. Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishers.

World Commission on Environment and Development ("Brundtland Commission"). 1987. Our Common Future. New York: Oxford University Press.

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PLANNING, LANDSCAPE DESIGN, SMART GROWTH

Beatley, T. 1998. Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities. Washington, DC: Island Press.

Beatley, T. and K. Manning. 1997. The Ecology of Place: Planning for Environment, Economy, and Community. Washington: Island Press.

Blakely, E. J. and M. G. Snyder. 1997. Fortress America: Gated Communities in the United States. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

Bullard, R. D., G. S. Johnson, and A. O. Torres, eds. Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta. Washington: Island Press.

Burby, R. J., ed. 1998. Cooperating with Nature: Confronting Natural Hazards with Land Use Planning for Sustainable Communities. Washington, DC: Joseph Henry/National Academy Press.

Chen, D. D. T. 2000. "The Science of Smart Growth" Scientific American (Dec.) 283(6): 84-91.

Daniels, T. 1989. When City and Country Collide: Managing Growth on the Metropolitan Fringe. Washington, DC: Island Press.

Diamond, H. L. and P. F. Noonan. 1989. Land Use in America: The Report of the Sustainable Use Project. Washington, DC: Island Press.

Downs, A. 1989. New Visions for Metropolitan America. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution.

Forman, R. T. T. and M. Godron. 1986. Landscape Ecology. New York: John Wiley.

Fulton, W., R. Pendall, M. Nguyen, and A. Harrison. 2001. "Who Sprawls Most? How Growth Patterns Differ Across the United States" (Survey Series Monograph) Washington: The Brookings Institution.

Garreau, J. 1989. Edge City: Life on the New Frontier. New York: Doubleday Anchor.

Geddes, R., ed. 1997. Cities in Our Future: Growth and Form, Environmental Health and Social Equity. Washington, DC: Island Press.

Hall, P. 1989. Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century. Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell.

Harnik, P. 2000. Inside City Parks. Washington: Urban Land Institute and Trust for Public Land.

Jackson, K. T., 1989. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press.

Kayden, J. S. 2000. Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience. New York: Wiley.

Krueckeberg, D. A., ed. 1983. Introduction to Planning History in the United States. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Center for Urban Policy Research.

LaFarge, A., Ed. 2000. The Essential William H. Whyte. New York: Fordham University Press.

Leinberger, C. B. and C. Lockwood. 1986. "How Business is Reshaping America" The Atlantic 258(4): 43-52.

Little, C. E. 1995. Greenways for America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

O'Meara, M. 1999. Reinventing Cities for People and the Planet. Working Paper 147. Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute.

Orfield, M. 1997. Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability (Rev. Ed.) Washington: Brookings Institution Press and Cambridge: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

Platt, R. H. 1996. Land Use and Society: Geography, Law, and Public Policy. Washington, DC: Island Press.

________ .1999. Disasters and Democracy: The Politics of Extreme Natural Events. Washington, DC: Island Press.

Porter, D. R. 1989. Managing Growth in America's Communities. Washington, DC: Island Press.

_________. 2000. The Practice of Sustainable Development. Washington, DC: Urban Land Institute.

Rome, A. 2001. The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Rusk, D. 1999. Inside Game, Outside Game: Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America. Washington: Brookings Institution Press.

Spirn, A. W. 1989. The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design. New York: Basic Books.

Whyte, W. H. 1968. The Last Landscape. New York: Doubleday. Republished 2001 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. (Republished 2002 by The University of Pennsylvania Press.)

________. 1981. The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. New York: Project for Public Spaces.

________. 1989. City: Rediscovering the Center. New York: Doubleday.

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ECOLOGY AND GENERAL SCIENCE

Baskin, Y. 1997. The Work of Nature: How the Diversity of Life Sustains Us. Washington, DC: Island Press.

Berkowitz, A., C. Nilon, and K. Holleg. 2003. Understanding Urban Ecosystems. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Carson, R. 1962. Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Chicago Wilderness. 1999. An Atlas of Biodiversity. Chicago: Chicago Wilderness.

Commoner, B. 1971. The Closing Circle. New York: Knopf.

Daily, G. C., ed. 1997. Nature's Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems. Washington, DC: Island Press.

Darling, F. F. and J. P. Milton, eds. 1965. Future Environments of North America. Garden City, NY: Natural History Press.

Houck, M. and M. J. Cody. 2000. Wild in the City: A Guide to Portland's Natural Areas. Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press.

Johnson, K. N., et al., eds., 1999. Bioregional Assessments: Science at the Crossroads of Management and Policy. Washington, DC: Island Press.

Leopold, A. 1949/1966. Sand County Almanac. New York: Oxford University Press.

Nicholson-Lord, D. 1987. The Greening of the Cities. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Reaka-Kudla, M L., D. E. Wilson, and E. O. Wilson, eds. 1997. Biodiversity II: Understanding and Protecting our Biological Resources. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

Stewart, F. 1995. A Natural History of Nature Writing. Washington, DC: Island Press.

Turner, B. L. II et al., eds. 1990. The Earth as Transformed by Human Action: Global and Regional Changes in the Biosphere over the Past 300 Years. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Wilson, E. O. 1989. Biodiversity. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

Worster, D. 1979. Nature's Economy: The Roots of Ecology. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books.

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