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The SPUR Reading List
Are you looking for some background on cities and city planning? We compiled the following reading list based on suggestions from our members. It represents a sampling of the sources of our thinking. Let us know how you like it. And please feel free to suggest additions by emailing us so this list can evolve over time.
Alexander, Christopher, Murray Silverstein, et al. A Pattern Language. Oxford University Press, 1977.
Appleyard, Donald. Livable Streets. University of California Press, 1981.
Barnett, Jonathan. The Fractured Metropolis: Improving the New City, Restoring the Old City, Reshaping the Region. Harper Collins, 1996.
Beatley, Timothy. Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities. Island Press, 2000.
Brand, Stewart. How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built. Viking Studio-Penguin Group, 1994.
Brechin, Gray. Imperial San Francisco. University of California Press, 1999.
Brook, James, et al. (eds). Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture. City Lights Books, 1998.
California Citizens Budget Commission. Citizens' Budget Commission: A 21st Century Budget Process for California. Center for Government Studies, 1998.
Calthorpe, Peter. The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community and the American Dream. Princeton Architectural Press, 1993.
Cervero, Robert. The Transit Metropolis: A Global Inquiry. Island Press, 1998.
Comerio, Mary C. Disaster Hits Home: New Policy for Urban Housing Recovery. University of California Press, 1998.
Davis, Mike. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. Vintage Books, 1992.
Deleon, Richard Edward. Left Coast City: Progressive Politics in San Francisco, 1975–1991. University Press of Kansas, 1992.
Engwicht, David. Reclaiming Our Cities and Towns: Better Living with Less Traffic. New Society Publishers, 1993.
Fogleson, Richard E. Planning the Capitalist City: The Colonial Era to the 1920s. Princeton Press. 1986.
Ford, Larry. Cities and Buildings. Johns Hopkins University Press. 1994.
Foundation for San Francisco's Architectural Heritage. Splendid Survivors: San Francisco's Downtown Architectural Heritage. California Living Books, 1976.
Fulton, William. Guide to California Planning. Solano Press Books, 1991
Fulton, William, and Peter Calthorpe. The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl. Island Press, 2001.
Garvin, Alexander. The American City. McGraw-Hill, 1996.
Hall, Peter Geoffrey. Cities of Tomorrow: Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century. Blackwell Publishing, 1996.
Hayden, Dolores. Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work and Family Life. W.W. Norton, 1984.
Hayden, Dolores. A Field Guide to Sprawl. W. W. Norton & Company.
Hester, Randolph T. Jr. Community Design Primer. Ridge Times Press, 1990.
Hiss, Tony. The Experience of Place: A New Way of Looking At and Dealing with Our Radically Changing Cities and Countryside. Random House, 1990.
Hough, Michael. City Form and Natural Processes. Routledge, 1984.
Issel, William and Robert W. Cherny. San Francisco, 1865-1932: Politics, Power and Urban Development. University of California Press, 1986.
Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. Oxford University Press, 1987.
Jacobs, Allan. Great Streets. MIT Press, 1993.
Jacobs, Allan. Making City Planning Work. American Society of Planning Officials, 1978.
Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Vintage Books, 1961.
Jacobs, Jane. The Economy of Cities. Random House, 1969.
Keeney, Gavin, John Hunt Dixon, and Allen S., Weiss. On the Nature of Things. Birkhauser, 2001.
Kostof, Spiro. The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History. Bulfinch, 1991.
Kuntsler, James Howard. The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-MadeLandscape. Simon and Schuster, 1993.
Lynch, Kevin. A Theory of Good City Form. The MIT Press, 1981.
Lynch, Kevin. The Image of the City. The MIT Press, 1960.
McHarg, Ian. Design with Nature. Doubleday Natural History Press, 1969.
Mollenkopf, John H. The Contested City. Princeton University Press 1983.
Moore, Terry and Paul Thorsnes. The Transportation/Land Use Connection. American Planning Association, Planning Advisory Service, Report448/449, 1994.
Moudon, Anne Vernez. Built for Change: Neighborhood Architecture in San Francisco. MIT Press. 1986.
Mouden, Anne Vernez, ed. Public Streets for Public Use. Columbia University Press, 1987.
Mumford, Lewis. The City in History, Its Origins, Its Transformation and its Prospects. Harcourt Brace & World, 1961.
Newman, Oscar. Defensible Space: Crime Prevention Through Urban Design. MacMillian Company, 1972.
Newman, P. and J. Kenworthy. Cities and Automobile Dependence. Gower Publishing, 1989.
Osborne, David and Ted Gaebler. Reinventing Government: How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transofrming the Public Sector. Plume Books, 1993.
Pulido, Laura. Environmentalism and Economic Justice. University of Arizona Press, 1994.
Register, Richard. Ecocity Berkeley: Building Cities for a Healthy Future. North Atlantic Books, 1987.
Rothblatt, Donald N. and Andrew Sancton. Metropolitan Governance: American/Canadian Intergovernmental Perspectives. University of California Press, 1993.
Saxenian, AnnaLee. Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128. Harvard University Press, 1994.
Scott, Mel. The San Francisco Bay Area: A Metropolis in Perspective. University of California Press, 1985.
So, Frank (Ed). The Practice of Local Government Planning, 4th Edition. International City Management Association, 2001.
Vance, James. The Continuing City: Urban Morphology and Western Civilization. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.
Vance, James. Geography and Urban Evolution in the San Francisco Bay Area. University of California Berkeley, Institute of Governmental Studies, 1964.
Vuchic, Vukan R. Transportation for Livable Cities. CUPR Press, 1999.
Whyte, William H. City: Rediscovering the Center. The Conservation Foundation, 1998.
Yaro, Robert D. and Tony Hiss. RPA's Third Regional Plan. Region at Risk: A Plan for Our Future. The Regional Plan Association, 1996.
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