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Adam, Robert. (1990). Classical Architecture: A Comprehensive Handbook to the Tradition of Classical Style. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.

Alvord, Katie. (2000). Divorce Your Car! Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile. Gabriola Island, B.C., Canada: New Society Publishers.

American Institute of Architects, The. (2005). Livability 101: What Makes a Community Livable? The American Institute of Architects: New York.

Beaumont, Constance E. (1996). Smart States, Better Communities: How State Governments Can Help Citizens Preserve Their Communities. Washington, D.C.: National Trust For Historic Preservation.

Gewerbemuseum Basel. (1983). New Development in Historic Towns: British Architectural Exhibition. University of Basel.

Burns, John A. (ed.). (1989). Recording Historic Structures: Historic American Building Survey/Historic American Engineering Record. Washington, D.C.: The American Institute of Architects Press.

Collins, Richard G., Elizabeth B. Waters, and A. Bruce Dotson. (1991). America’s Downtowners: Growth, Politics & Preservation. Beaumount, Constance Epton (ed.). Washington, D.C.: The Preservation Press.

Costello, Dan and Lisa Schamess (eds.). Building on the Past, Traveling to the Future: A Preservationist’s Guide to the Federal Transportation Enhancement Provision. (2nd Ed.). Washington, D.C.: Federal Highway Administration and National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Dierickx, Mary B. (April 1993). The Architecture of Public Justice: Historic Courthouses of the City of New York. New York: City of New York Department of General Services.

Duany, Andres, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck. (2000). Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream. New York: North Point Press.

English, Kim Zanelli and Laura Feaster. (2003). Community Geography: GIS in Action. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press.

Fainstein, Susan S., et al. (1986). Restructuring the City: The Political Economy of Urban Redevelopment. (Revised ed.). New York: Longman.

Farbstein, Jay and Richard Wener. (1996). Building Coalitions for Urban Excellence. Cambridge, MA: The Bruner Foundation.

Fleming, Ronald Lee and Renata Von Tscharner. (1987). Placemakers: Creating Public Art That Tells Your Where Your Are, with an essay on policy and planning. Boston: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers.

Fracchia, Charles A. (1979). So This is Where You Work! A Guide to Unconventional Working Environments. New York: Penguin Books.

Gratz, Roberta Brandes. (1989). The Living City: How Urban Residents are Revitalizing America’s Neighborhoods and Downtown Shopping Districts by Thinking Small in a Big Way. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Gratz, Roberta Brandes with Normal Mintz. (1998). Cities Back From the Edge: New Life for Downtown. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

Greene, R. W. (2000). GIS in Public Policy: Using Geographic Information for More Effective Government. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press.

Harvard Design School. (2000). Strategic Transformations: Redefining the Bluff Edge of Saint Paul on the Mississippi. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Design School.

Hiss, Tony. (1990). The Experience of Place: A new way of looking at and dealing with our radically changing cities and countryside. New York: Vintage Books.

Howard, Hugh. (1991). The Preservationist’s Progress: Architectural Adventures in Conserving Yesterday’s Houses. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Jacobs, Jane. (1961). The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Vintage Books.

Jacobs, Jane. (1984). Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life. New York: Vintage Books.

Katz, Peter. (1994). The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc.

Kay, Jane Holtz. (1997). Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back. Berkley, CA: University of California Press.

Kunstler, James Howard. (1993). The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Kunstler, James Howard. (1996). Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the Twenty-First Century. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Kunstler, James Howard. (2001). The City in the Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition. New York: Simon and Schuster.

McNulty, Robert H., Dorothy R. Jacobson, and R. Leo Penne. (1985). The Economics of Amenity: Community Futures and Quality of Life, A Policy Guide to Urban Economic Development. Washington, D.C.: Partners for Livable Places.

McNulty, Robert H., R. Leo Penne, and Dorothy R. Jacobson. (1986). The Return of the Livable City: Learning from America’s Best. Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd.

McNulty, Robert H. with Clinton Page (eds.). (1994). The State of the American Community: Empowerment for Local Action. Washington, D.C.: Partners for Livable Communities.

Mackin, Anne and Alex Krieger. (1989). A Design Primer for Cities and Towns. Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities.

Mänty, Jorma and Norman Pressman (eds.). (1988). Cities Designed for Winter. Helsinki: Building Book Ltd.

Markus, Thomas A. (1979). Building Conversion and Rehabilitation: Designing for Change in Building Use. Boston: Newnes-Butterworths.

Moe, Richard and Carter Wilkie. (1997). Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl. New York: Henry Holt and Company.

Mumford, Lewis. (1961). The City in History. San Diego: A Harvest Book, Harcourt, Inc.

National Endowment for the Arts, Design Arts Program. (1980). Design Competition Manual. Cambridge, M.A.: Vision: The Center for Environmental Design and Education.

National Trust for Historic Preservation. (1976). Economic Benefits of Preserving Old Buildings: Papers from the Economic Benefits of Preserving Old Buildings Conference 1975. Washington, D.C.: Preservation Press.

Thompson, Elizabeth Kendall (ed.). (1977). Recycling Buildings: Renovations, Remodeling, Restorations, and Reuses. New York: McGraw Hill Book Company.

Vickers, Graham. (1999). Key Moments in Architecture: The Relationship Between Man, Buildings and Urban Growth as Seen in the Metropolis Through the Ages. New York: Da Capo Press.

Wolfe, Tom. (1981). From Bauhaus to Our House. New York: Bantam Books.

Young, Billie and David Lanegran. (1996). Grand Avenue: The Renaissance of an Urban Street. St. Cloud, MN: North Star Press of St. Cloud.

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