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.
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 Körner (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