URBS 4/531—Urban Design Principles Bibliography

Principles of Design

ALEXANDER, C. 1967. Notes on the Synthesis of Form. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

ALEXANDER, C., S. ISHIKAWA and M. SILVERSTEIN. 1977. A Pattern Language. New York: Oxford University Press.

ALEXANDER, C., H. NEIS, A. ANNINOU and I. KING. 1987. A New Theory of Urban Design. New York: Oxford University Press.

APPLEYARD, D. 1981. Livable Streets. Berkeley: University of California Press.

ASHIHARA, Y. 1983. The Aesthetic Townscape. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

BACON, E. 1974. Design of Cities, Rev. Ed. New York: The Viking Press.

BARNETT, J. 1982. An Introduction to Urban Design. New York: Harper & Row.

BARNETT, J. 2004. Redesigning Cities. Washington, DC: APA Press

BECHTEL, R. 1977. Enclosing Behavior. Stroudsburg, PA: Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross.

BECKER, F.D. 1977. Housing Messages. Stroudsburg, PA: Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross.

BOWDEN, C. and L. KREINBERG. 1981. Street Signs Chicago: Neighborhood and Other Illusions of Big-City Life. Chicago: Chicago Review Press.

BROLIN, B. 2002. The Designer’s Eye NY: W.W.Norton

CHING, F.D.K. 1979. Architecture: Form, Space and Order. New York: VanNostrand Rheinhold and Company.

CLAY, G. 1973. Close-Up: How to Read the American City. New York: Praeger Publishers.

CULLEN, G. 1961. The Concise Townscape. New York: Van Nostrand Rheinhold Co.

DEASY, C.M. 1974. Design for Human Affairs. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

FISCHER, C.S. 1976. The Urban Experience. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.

FREEDMAN, J. 1975. Crowding and Behavior. New York: The Viking Press.

GELFANT, B.H. 1954. The American City Novel. Norman: The University of Oklahoma Press.

GREENBIE, B.B. 1976. Design for Diversity. Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co.

HALL, E.T. 1966. The Hidden Dimension. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co.

HUMMON, D.M. 1990. Commonplaces: Community Ideology and Identity in American Culture Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

JAYE, M.C. and A.C. WATTS, eds. 1981. Literature and the Urban Experience. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

LOFLAND, L.H. 1973. A World of Strangers: Order and Action in Urban Public Space. New York: Basic Books.

LOUKAKI, A. 1997. “Whose Genius Loci? Contrasting interpretations of the ‘Sacred Rock of the Athenian Acropolis’,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 87(2), 306-329.

LYNCH, K., ed. 1977. Growing Up in Cities. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

NEWMAN, O. 1973. Defensible Space: Crime Prevention Through Urban Design. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co.

OLDENBURG, R. 1989. The Great Good Place. New York: Paragon House.

PICKERING, J.H., ed. 1977. The City in American Literature. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers.

PUSHKAREV, B.S. 1975. Urban Space for Pedestrians. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

SCHEFLEN, A.E. 1976. Human Territories: How We Behave in Space-Time. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.

SENNETT, R. 1974. The Fall of Public Man: On the Social Psychology of Capitalism. New York: Random House.

SHARPE, W. and L.WALLOCK, eds. 1987. Visions of the Modern City: Essays in History, Art, and Literature. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

SIEGEL, A. 1981. The Image of the American City in Popular Literature 1820-1870. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press.

STEELE, F. 1981. The Sense of Place. Boston: CBI Publishing Co.

SUTTLES, G.D. 1968. The Social Order of the Slum. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

SUTTLES, G.D. 1972. The Social Construction of Communities. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

URBAN DESIGN ASSOCIATES. 2004. The Architectural Pattern Book. NY: W.W.Norton

VICKERY, R.L., Jr. 1972. Anthrophysical Form: Two Families and Their Neighborhood Environments. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia.

WIEMER, D.R. 1966. The City as Metaphor. New York: Random House.

WEINSTEIN, C.S. and T.G. DAVID, eds. 1987. Spaces for Children: The Built Environment and Child Development. New York: Plenum Press.

WHITE, M. and L. WHITE. 1962. The Intellectual Versus the City. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

WHYTE, W.H. 1980. The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Washington, DC: The Conservation Foundation.

Sources for Drawing & Modeling:

ATHEARN, F.J. (1998) How to Improve the Quality of Photographs for National Register Nominations. Washington, DC: US Department of Interior, National Park Service, National Register, History and Education. Available online at http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/publictions/bulletins/photobul/

EDWARDS, B. 1989. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc.

GUPTHILL, A.L. 1949. Pencil Drawing Step-by-Step. NY: Reinhold Publishing Corp. (The notes on drawing are very good; the gallery of professional examples—the last half of the book—is very instructive.)

LASEAU, P. 2004. Freehand Sketching: An Introduction NY: W.W.Norton

SUTHERLAND, M. 1999. Modelmaking: A Basic Guide NY: W.W.Norton

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