The following is a list of readings recommended by students and faculty in the Environmental Psychology program:

Barker, Roger G. 1968. Ecological Psychology. Concepts and Methods for Studying the Environment of Human Behavior. Stanford University Press.

Becker, Howard. 1985. Writing for Social Scientists. University of Chicago Press.

Benjamin, Walter. 2007. Illuminations. Schocken Books.

Berman, Marshall. 1982. All that is Solid Melts into Air. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Booth, W.C., Colomb, G.G., and Williams, J.M. 1995. The Craft of Research. University of Chicago Press.

Cooper-Marcus, Claire. 1995. House as a Mirror of Self. Conari Press.

Creswell, J.W. 2003. Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitave, and Mixed Methods. Sage Publications.

Cronon, William. 1991. Nature's Metropolis. New York: Norton.

Davidson, Joyce, Liz Bondi, and Mick Smith. 2005. Emotional Geographies. Hampshire, England: Ashgate.

Davis, Michael. 1990. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. New York: Verso.

Fishman, R. 1977. Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century. NY: Basic Books.

Frascara, J. 2002. Design and the Social Sciences Making Connections. Contemporary Trends Institute Series. New York: Taylor & Francis.

Fullilove, Mindy. 2005. Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It. NY: Ballatine.

Gibson, J. J. 1986. The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Harvey, David. 1990. The Condition of Postmodernity. Blackwell.

Hayden, Dolores. 1995. The Power of Place. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Heft, Harry. 2005. Ecological Psychology in Context: James Gibson, Roger Barker, and the Legacy of William James's Radical Empiricism. Lawrence Erlbaum.

Hiss, Tony. 1990. The Experience of Place. New York: Vintage.

Katz, Cindi. 2005. Growing Up Global: Economic Restructuring and Children's Everyday Lives. Minneapolis: UMN Press.

Kuntzler, James Howard. 1994. Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape. Free Press.

Lippard, Lucy R. 1997. The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society. New York: The New Press.

Low, Setha. 2000. On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture. U of Texas Press.

Low, Setha, ed. 1999.Theorizing the City. Rutgers University Press.

Low, Setha, ed. 2003. The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

Mitchell, Don. 2003. The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space. NY: Guilford Press.

Mitchell, Don. 1996. The Lie of the Land. Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press.

Norman, Don. 2002. The Design of Everyday Things. NY: Basic Books.

Perec, George. 1998. Species of Spaces and Other Pieces. NY: Pengun. Trans. John Sturrock.

Perec, George. 2000. Life: A User's Manual. David R. Godine Publishers. Trans. David Bellos.

Piercy, Marge. 1979. Woman on the Edge of Time. Fawcett.

Pratt, Geradline. 2005. Working Feminisms. Temple U Press.

Robinson, Kim Stanly. 1993. Red Mars. NY: Mass Market Paperback.

Saegert, Susan, & Gary Evans. 2003. "Poverty, Housing Niches, and Health in the U.S." Journal of Social Issues, 59, 569- 90.

Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. 1988. The Railway Journey: Trains and Travel in the Nineteenth Century. University of California Press.

Sennett, Richard. 1992. The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Class. NY: Norton.

van der Voordt, D.J.M., and HBR van Wegen. 2005. Architecture in Use. An introduction to the programming, design and evaluation of buildings. Architectural Press.

Ward, Colin. 1979. The Child in the City. Random House Trade Paperbacks.

Wood, Denis. 1992. The Power of Maps. New York: The Guilford Press.

Wood, Denis, and R.J. Beck. 1994. Home Rules. Johns Hopkins U.

Zeisel, J. 2006. Inquiry by design : environment/behavior/neuroscience in architecture, interiors, landscape, and planning. New York: W.W. Norton & Company