R E C O M M E N D E
D R E A D I N G
(selected favorites in no particular order, all relevant to shared landscapes)
Outside Lies Magic: Regaining
History and Awareness in Everyday Places
Stilgoe, John R. 1998. New York,
NY: Walker & Company.
The Thunder Tree: Lessons
from an Urban Wildland
Pyle, Robert Michael. 1993. New
York, NY: The Lyons Press
The Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Ray, Janisse. 1999. Minneapolis,
MN: Milkweed Editions
Discovering the Vernacular Landscape
Jackson, John Brinkerhoff. 1984. New Haven, CT: Yale University
Press
The Experience of
Place: A completely new way of looking at and dealing with our radically
changing cities and countryside
Hiss, Tony. 1990. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf
Crabgrass Frontier:
The Suburbanization of the United States
Jackson, Kenneth T. 1985. New York, NY: Oxford University Press
The Machine in the Garden:
Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America
Marx, Leo.1964. Oxford University University Press
Borderland: Origins of the American
Suburb, 1820-1939
Stilgoe, John R. 1990. New Haven, CT: Yale University
Press
Dead Tech: A Guide
to the Archeology of Tomorrow
Steinberg, Rolf. Photos by Manfred
Hamm. 2000. Santa Monica, CA.Hennessey + Ingalls
The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City
Sullivan, Robert. 1998. New York,
NY: Scribner
Fields of Sun and Grass: An Artist's Journal of the New Jersey
Meadowlands
Quinn, John R. 1997. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press
Reclaiming the High
Line: A Project of the Design Trust for Public Space with Friends of the
High Line
David, Joshua. 2002. Design Trust for Public
Space www.designtrust.org Friends
of the High Line www.thehighline.org
Metropolitan Corridor:
Railroads and The American Scene
Stilgoe,
John R. 1983. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press
Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike
Gillespie, Angus Kress and Michale
Aaron Rockland. 1992. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press
Diners
Baeder,John. 1978. New York, NY: Harry Abrams
Color Problems:
A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color
Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. 1903. New York: Longmans,
Green and Co.
The Artistic Anatomy of Trees:
Their Structure & Treatment in Painting
Cole, Rex Vicat. 1965. The New York, NY: Dover Publications.
(first published 1915 by Seely, Service & Co, Ltd, London)
A Collaboration With Nature
Goldsworthy, Andy. 1990. New York, NY. Harry
Abrams
The Meadow
Galvin, James. 1992. New York, NY: Henry Holt
City
Simak, Clifford D. 1952. New York, NY. Ace Books Inc.
Presenting Nature: The Historic Landscape Design of the National
Park Service
McClelland, Linda Flint. 1993. Washington,
D.C.: National Park Service.
American Plants for American Gardens
Roberts, Edith A. and Elsa Rehmann. 1929.
Geography and the Art of Life
Bunkše, Edmunds Valdemārs. 2004. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
University Press
The Poetics of Space
Bachelard, Gaston. 1994 edition. Boston, MA: Beacon Press (originally
published in 1958 in French)
The Power
Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Caro, Robert A. 1974. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf
Urban Landscapes: A New Jersey Portrait
Tice, George A. (photographer). 1975. New Brunswick, NJ. Rutgers
University Press
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
Brand, Stewart. 1994. New York, NY: Viking
Nature and Ideology: Natural
Garden Design in the Twentieth Century
Wolschke-Bulmahn, Joachim, editor. 1997.
Washington, D.C.: Dunbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Regional Garden Design in the United
States
O'Malley, Therese, and Marc Treib, editors.
1995. Washington, D.C.: Dunbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection