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CLASSICS

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Kunstler, James A. (1994) Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man Made Landscape. Northampton, Massachusetts: Free Press.

 

Kunstler, James A. (1996) Home From Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century. New York: Touchstone.

 

Jacobs, Jane (1992) The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Random House.

 

Rybczynski, Witold (1995) City Life. New York: Touchstone.

 

Luria, Daniel D. and Joel Rogers. (1999) Metro Futures: Economic Solutions for Cities and Their Suburbs. Boston: Beacon Books.

 

Stein, Jay M. ed. (1993) Growth Management: The Planning Challenge of the 1990’s. Newbury Park, California: Sage Publishing, Inc.

 

Sorkin, Michael ed. (1992) Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the end of Public Space. New York: Hill and Wang.

 

ECONOMIC

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Asefa, Sisay. (2005) The Economics of Sustainable Development. Kalamazoo, Michigan: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

 

Ballard, Charles L. Michigan at the Millennium: A benchmark and analysis of its fiscal and economic structure. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press.

 

Evans, Alan W. (2004) Economics and Land Use Planning. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

 

Johnston, Robert J. and Stephen K. Swallow. (2006) Economics and Contemporary Land Use Policy: Development and Conservation at the Rural-Urban Edge. Washington D.C.: RFF Press.

 

Fischel, William A. (2005) The Homevoter Hypothesis : How Home Values Influence Local Government Taxation, School Finance, and Land-Use Policies. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

 

ENVIRONMENTAL

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Bryant, Bunyan I. (1995) Environmental Justice: Issues, policies, and solutions. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.

 

Kosobud, Richard F. and Jennifer M. Zimmerman. Market-based Approaches to Environmental Policy: Regulatory innovations to the fore. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.

 

National Academy of Public Administration (2003) Addressing Community Concerns: How Environmental Justice Relates to Land Use Planning and Zoning. Washington, D.C.: The Academy.

 

Randolph, John (2004) Environmental Land Use Planning and Management. Washington D.C.: Island Press.

 

Rocky Mountain Institute (1998) Green DevJanuary 3, 2008John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

 

LAND USE

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Babbit, Bruce (2005) Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America. Washington D.C.: Shearwater Books.

 

Charla, Leonard F. (2002) Michigan Land Use: Current Issues in Subdivision Annexation and Zoning Law. Altoona, Wisconsin: NBI.

 

Dalton, Daniel P. and Kenneth C. Gold (2004) Rural Land Uses in Michigan. Eau Claire, Wisconsin: NBI, Inc.

 

Katz, Diane. (2003) Michigan's Primary Land-Use Plan a Failure (Viewpoint on public issues). Midland, Michigan: Mackinac Center for Public Policy.

 

Platt, Rutherford H. (2004) Land Use and Society: Geography, Law, and Public Policy.  Washington D.C.: Island Press.

 

Wiewel, Wim and  Gerrit Knaap (2005). Partnerships for Smart Growth : University-community collaboration for better public places. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

 

Southwest Michigan Council of Governments (2002) Land Use Tools and Techniques: A Handbook for Local Communities. Detroit, MI : Southeast Michigan Council of Governments

 

Squires, Gregory D. ed. (2002) Urban Sprawl: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses. Washington D.C.: the Urban Institute Press.

 

Walsh, Stephen Joseph and Kelley A Crews-Meyer. (2002) Linking People, Place and Policy: a GIScience Approach. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

 

Wyckoff, Mark A. (2003) How Much Development is too much? A Guidebook on using Impervious Surface and Gravel Road Capacity Analysis to Manage Growth in Rural and Suburban Communities. Lansing, Michigan: Planning & Zoning Center.

 

NEW URBANISM

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Burayidi, Michael A. (2001) Downtowns: Revitalizing the Centers of Small Urban Communities. New York: Routledge.

 

Dutton, Joseph A. (2001) New American Urbanism: Re-forming the Suburban Metropolis. Milan, Italy: Skira.

 

Fishman, Robert ed. New Urbanism: Peter Calthorpe vs. Lars Lerup : Michigan Debates on Urbanism. Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan Press.

 

Ford, Larry R. (2003) America's New Downtowns: Revitalization or Reinvention? Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press.

 

Grant, Jill. (2006) Planning the Good Community: New Urbanisms in Theory and Practice. New York: Routledge.

 

Hall, Kathryn B. and Gerald. A. Porterfield. (2001) Community by Design: New Urbanism for Suburbs and Small Communities. New York:  The McGraw-Hill Companies.

Steuteville, Robert and Philip Langdon, et al.  (2003) New Urbanism: Comprehensive Report & Best Practice Guide, 3rd ed. New Urban Publications, Inc.

Talen, Emily (2005) New Urbanism and American Planning: The Conflict of Cultures. New York: Routledge.
 

REGIONALISM

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Katz, Bruce. (2000) Reflections on Regionalism. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Brooking Institution Press.

 

Rusk, David. (2003) Cities Without Suburbs, 3rd ed. Washington D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press.

 

Miller, David Y. (2002) The Regional Governing of Metropolitan America: Essentials of Public Policy and Administration. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Westview Press.

 

Orfield, Myron. (2002) American Metropolitics: The New Suburban Reality. Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.

 

SOCIAL JUSTICE

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Barry, Brian (2005) Why Social Justice Matters. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Polity Press.

Beito, David T., Peter Gordon and Alexander Tabarrok (2002) The Voluntary City : Choice, Community, and Civil Society. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Bonds, Michael. (2004) Race, Politics and Community Development Funding: The Discolor of Money. Binghampton, New York: Haworth Social Work.

Frankel Paul, Ellen; Fred D. Miller, and Jeffrey Paul (2002) Should Differences in Income and Wealth Matter?: Volume 19, Part 1. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge University Press.

 

Kotlikoff, Laurence J and Scott Burns (2004) The Coming Generational Storm: What you Need to Know About America's Economic Future. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

 

Mitchell, Don. (2003) The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space. New York: The Guilford Press.

 

Moss, Laurence S. (2001) City and Country. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

Reeves, Dory (2005) Planning for Diversity; Policy and Planning in a World of Difference. New York: Routledge.

Rozie-Battle, Judith L. (2002) African-American Adolescents in the Urban Community: Social Services Policy and Practice Interventions. : Harrington Park Press.

University of Toronto Centre for Urban and Community Studies, et al. (2001) The Challenge of Urban Government: Policies and Practices. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Publications.

Waste, Robert J. (1998) Independent Cities: Rethinking U.S. Urban Policy. New York: Oxford University Press, USA.

Williams, Christopher R. and Bruce A. Arrigo (2005) Theory, Justice, and Social Change: Theoretical Integrations and Critical Applications. Berlin: Springer Press.

 

SUSTAINABILITY

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Bell, Simon and Stephen Morse. (2003) Measuring Sustainability: Learning by Doing. London: Earthscan

 

Dresner, Simon (2002) The Principles of Sustainability. London: Earthscan.

Edwards, Andres R. and David W. Orr. (2005) The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift. Gabriola Island, British Columbia: New Society Publishers.

Silberstein, Jane and Chris Maser. (2000) Land-Use for Sustainable Development. Boca Raton: CRC Press LLC.

Porter, Douglas R. (1997) Managing Growth in America’s Communities. Washington D.C.: Island Press.

 

Wheeler, Stephen M. (2004) Planning for Sustainability. Routledge: New York.

 

TRANSPORTATION

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Carlson, Dan, et al. (1995) At Roads End: Transportation and Land Use Choices for Communities. Washington D.C.: Island Press.

 

Hanson, Susan and Genevieve Giuliano (2004) The Geography of Urban Transportation, 3rd ed. New York: The Guilford Press.

 

Jackle, John A. and Keith A. Sculle. (2005) Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture. Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia.

 

Rodríguez David A. and  David R Godschalk, et al. (2004) The Connection Between Land Use and Transportation in Land Use Plans. Raleigh, North Carolina : Research & Analysis, State of North Carolina, Department of Transportation.

 

URBAN PLANNING

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Calvin, Andrew I (2003) Urban Planning. New York: H.W. Wilson.

 

Florida, Richard. (2005) Cities and the Creative Class. New York: Routledge.

 

Frantz, Douglas and Catherine Collins. (1999) Celebration, U.S.A.: Living in Disney’s Brave New World. New York: Henry Holt and Company, LLC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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