Urban Revisions: Bibliography


Selected Bibliography of books and catalogues on architecture, architects, cultural theory, cultural history, sociology, urbanism, urban design and urban planning for the exhibition "Urban Revisions: Current Projects for the Public Realm"

Agrest, Diana I. Architecture from Without: Theoretical Framings for a Critical Practice. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1992.

Attoe, Wayne, and Donn Logan. American Urban Architecture: Catalysts in the Desing of Cities. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

Balch, Clifton J. and Mojdeh Baratloo. ANGST: Cartography. New York: SITES/Lumen Books, 1989.

Banerjee, Tridib and Michael Southworth, eds. City Sense and City Design: Writings and Projects of Kevin Lynch. Cambridge, MA; The MIT Press, 1990.

Brown, Catherine R. and William R. Morrish. The Fourth Coast: An Expedition on the Mississippi River. Design Quarterly 150. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1991.

Calthorpe, Peter. The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1993.

Calthorpe, Peter and Sim Van der Ryn. Sustainable Communities: A New Design Synthesis for Cities, Suburbs and Towns. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1986.

Colquhoun, Alan. Modernity and the Classical Tradition: Architectural Essays 1980-1987. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989.

Davis, Mike. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. London: Verso, 1990.

Duany, Andres and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk eds. Towns and Town-Making Principles. Cambridge: Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 1990.

Frieden, Bernard J. and Lynne B. Sagalyn. Downtown, Inc.: How America Rebuilds Cities. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1989.

Gandelsonas, Mario. The Urban Text. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1991.

Gardiner, Stephen. Le Corbusier. New York: Da Capo Press, 1974. Garreau, Joel. Edge City: Life on the New Frontier. New York: Doubleday, 1991.

Ghirardo, Diane, ed. Out of Site: A Social Criticism of Architecture. Seattle: Bay Press, 1991.

Gandelsonas, Mario. The Urban Text. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1991.

Ghirardo, Diane, ed. Out of Site: A Social Criticism of Architecture. Seattle: Bay Press, 1991.

Gordon, J.E. Structures, or, Why Things Don't Fall Down. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978.

Hatton, Brian and Sudjic, Deyan and Thackara, John. Metropolis: New British Architecture and the City. London: The Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1988.

Helman, Claire. The Milton-Park Affair. Montreal: Vehicule Press, 1987.

Holl, Steven. Edge of a City. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1991.

Karasov, Deborah and Steve Waryan. The Once and Future Park. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, Inc., 1993.

Katz, Peter. The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. Kostof, Spiro. The City Assembled: The Elements of Urban Form Through History. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1992.

Kostof, Spiro. The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meaning through HIstory. Toronto: Bulfinch Press, 1991.

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

Lacy, Bill; Susan deMenil, eds. Angels & Franciscans: Innovative Architecture from Los Angeles and San Francisco. New York: Rizzoli, 1992.

LeCorbusier. The City of To-Morrow and Its Planning. New York: Dove Publications, Inc., 1987.

LeCorbusier. The Modular 1 & 2. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980.

Lejeune, Jean-Francois, ed. The New City: Foundations. Coral, Gables, FL: University of Miami School of Architecture, 1991. Martinez, Ruben. saber es poder/interventions; Urban Revisions: Current Projects for the Public Realm. Los Angeles, Adobe LA, CA, 1994.

Nelson, Doreen. City Building Education: A Way to Learn. Santa Monica: Center for City Building Educational Programs, 1982.

Nelson, Doreen. Transformations: Process and Theory. Santa Monica: Center for City Building Educational Programs, 1984.

Nothard, Margi Glavovic. Time Defines Place, The Thin Moments and Fat Moments in Los Angeles. Los Angeles: the Public Access Press, CA, 1992.

Perez-Gomez, Alberto. Polyphilo, or, The Dark Forest Revisited: An Erotic Epiphany of Architecture. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994.

Robbins, Mark. Framing American Cities, Design Quarterly 151. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1991.

Rowe, Peter G., Urban Public Spaces of Barcelona, 1981-1987, The. Boston: Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 1991.

Rowe, Peter G. Making a Middle Landscape. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1991.

Scully, Vincent. American Architecture and Urbanism. Revised Edition. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1988.

Sennet, Richard. The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.

Shepheard, Pual. What is Architecture? An Essay on Landscapes, Buildings, and Machines. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994.

Solomon, Daniel. Rebuilding. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992.

Sorkin, Michael. Local Code: Constitution of a City at Forty-Two Degrees North Latitude. New York: Princeton University Press, 1993.

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

Sudjic, Deyan. The Hundred Mile City. London: Andre Deutsch Ltd., 1992.

Suisman, Douglas R. Los Angeles Boulevard: Eight X-Rays of the Body Public. Los Angeles: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, 1989.

Travis, Jack, ed. African American Architects in Current Practice. Princeton: Princeton Archtictural Press, 1991.

Tuan, Yi-Fu. Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perceptrion, Attitudes, and Values. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1974.

Wallis, Brian, ed. If You Lived Here: The City in Art, Theory, and Social Activism. A Project by Martha Rosler. Seattle: Bay Press, 1991.

Webb, Michael. Architects Guide to Los Angeles. San Francisco: TheUnderstandingBusiness, 1994.

Weisser, Amy S. The Pedestrian Pcket Book: A New Suburban Design Strategy. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1989.

Whyte, William H. City: Rediscovering the Center. New York: Doubleday, 1988.


Selected Bibliography of children's books on architecture for "Urban Revisions: Current Projects for the Public Realm"

Crosbie, Michael J; Steve Rosenthal. Architecture Shapes. Washington D.C: The Preservation Press, 1993.

Gaff, Jackie. Building Bridges & Tunnels. New York: Random House, 1991.

Klein, Marilyn W.; Fogle, David P. Clues to American Architecture. Washington and Philadelphia: Starrhill Press, 1985.

MacCaulay, David. Castle. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977.

Cathedral. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973.

The Way Things Work. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988.

Tryon, Leslie. Albert's Alphabet. New York: Collier MacMillan, 1991.

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