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)
Outside Lies Magic:
Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places
Stilgoe, John R. 1998. New York,
NY: Walker & 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
Shop Class as Soulcraft:
An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
Crawford, Matthew B., 2009. New York,
NY: The Penguin Press
Uncommon Ground: Toward
Reinventing Nature
Cronon, William (editor).1995. New York,
NY: W.W.Norton & Company
The Idea of Wilderness
Oelschlaeger, Max.1991. New Haven, CT:
Yale University Press
Wild Urban Woodlands: New
Perspectives in Urban Forestry
Kowarick, Ingo, and Stefan Kö
rner (editors). 2005. Berlin: Springer
The Geography of Nowhere:
The Rise and Decline of Americas' Man-Made Lanscapes
Kunstler, James Howard. 1993. New York,
NY: Touchstone
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)
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
Regional Garden Design in the United States
O'Malley, Therese, and Marc Treib, editors. 1995.
Washington, D.C.: Dunbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection