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Ugliness in America Books and Resources Recommended books and articles by James Howard Kunstler and other New Urbanist thinkers.
Urban Design, New Urbanism, Town Planning, and Landscape Architecture Architects design more than buildings. They also design outdoor spaces: grounds, parks, roadways, and entire communities. Follow these links for information about landscape architecture, city and town planning, new urbanism, and outdoor art.
Architecture, - TopPicks An index of TopPicks for the Architecture guide site.
Bookstores - Cambridge Bookstores in Cambridge offer a variety of selections from new to used, from poetry to technical.
King Alfred's College - Archaeology Guide to archaeology departments, from your About.com Guide
The Artificial Landscape-Contemporary Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape Architecture in the Netherlands. . - Neo-, Super-and Second Modernism - book
Edited by Hans Ibelings. Rotterdam: Nai Publishers. 2001. [euro]41,197 Judging by grumpy mutterings current in England about the alleged airs put on by young visiting Dutch hero-architects, there...(Continue Reading) City shifts: cities are continually in flux, but recent changes in the prosperity of many industrial nineteenth-century ones offer exciting possibilities
Curious things are happening in the old industrial cities of Europe. Towns as different as Leeds, Leverkusen and Lille are being transformed by new prosperity: people, particularly the young and th...(Continue Reading)Venice's Mediterranean Colonies: Architecture and Urbanism & Venice and the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture 1100-1500 &
MARIA GEORGOPOULOU Venice's Mediterranean Colonies: Architecture and Urbanism Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, 383 pp.; 136 b/w ills, ......(Continue Reading)Becoming Corbusier: a recent exhibition traced the development of this seminal 20th-century figure from provincial designer to modern architectural master
"He lives in the extraordinary world of the acrobat" was how Le Corbusier referred to himself, describing his profession of architecture in My Work (published in 1960, five years before his death)....(Continue Reading)It Takes a Village: In praise of the New Urbanism - Well-Planned
Nate Bowman first broke ground on Vermillion, his 350-acre North Carolina village, over four years ago, and since then only one of its four neighborhoods ......(Continue Reading)
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