 cascade, the (original) village Then let it be this one—clears one's zoned-out head just like hot pepper! Donald Elliott, A Better Way to Zone, 2008. 220 pages, 1/2" thick! Prefer to start with the big picture, have time for another? Make it any of these: Jeff Rubin, Why your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller—Oil and the End of Globalization, 2009. 265 easy pages. Mike Nickerson, Life, Money and Illusion, Living on Earth as if we want to stay, 2009 425 hard-to-put-down pages. Sing Chew, Ecological Futures, What History Can Teach Us, 2008. 142 short, but compacted pages— the third of a trilogy. John Foster, The Sustainability Mirage, 2008. Living on Earth as if we were Faustus. Daniel Botkin, No Man's Garden, 2001; Discordant Harmonies, A New Ecology for the Twenty-first Century, 1990. Things are not as they seem on first thought. Spencer Wells, Pandora's Seed, the Unforeseen Costs of Civilization, 2010. Things are not as they seem on first thought. Herbert J. Gans, The Urban Villagers, Updated and Expanded Edition, 1962, 1982. Urban villagers: avoid repeating history. Oscar Neuman, Creating Defensible Space, 1996, available free here: http://www.defensiblespace.com/start.htm Yesler Terrace: avoid repeating history. Allen Jacobs, Looking at Cities, 1985 (out of print, check the libraries); Great Streets, 1995; The Boulevard Book, 2003. Urbanism without the "isms." |