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, true Wildness, and the New Economy)


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Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places
Stilgoe, John R. 1998. New York, NY: Walker & Company.

A Collaboration With Nature
Goldsworthy, Andy. 1990. New York, NY. Harry Abrams

The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of Americas' Man-Made Landscapes
Kunstler, James Howard. 1993. New York, NY: Touchstone

Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature

Cronon, William (editor).1995. New York, NY: W.W.Norton & Company

Nature and Ideology: Natural Garden Design in the Twentieth Century
Wolschke-Bulmahn, Joachim, editor. 1997. Washington, D.C.: Dunbarton Oaks
Research Library and Collection

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


World Made by Hand
Kunstler, James Howard. 2008. New York, NY: Atlantic Monthly Press

Wild Urban Woodlands: New Perspectives in Urban Forestry
Kowarick, Ingo, and Stefan K
örner (editors). 2005. Berlin: Springer

The Flora of the Future: Celebrating the Botanical Diversity of Cities
Del Tredici, Peter in PLACES journal April 2014


The Idea of Wilderness
Oelschlaeger, Max.1991. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press

Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence
Morton, Timothy. 2016. Columbia University Press.

Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics
Morton, Timothy. 2007. Harvard University Press.

The Ecological Thought
Morton, Timothy. 2010. Harvard University Press.

The Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
Marris, Emma. 2011 Bloomsbury, USA

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


Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939
Stilgoe, John R. 1990. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press

The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America
Marx, Leo.1964. Oxford University 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)


The Meadow
Galvin, James. 1992. New York, NY: Henry Holt

City
Simak, Clifford D. 1952. New York, NY. Ace Books Inc.

Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
Crawford, Matthew B., 2009. New York, NY: The Penguin Press
 
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


Regional Garden Design in the United States
O'Malley, Therese, and Marc Treib, editors. 1995. Washington, D.C.: Dunbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection



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