Time for only one book?

Time to read only one book?

Let it be one of these—

Matthew Klingle, EMERALD CITY, An Environmental History of Seattle, 2007.

"A modern moral fable that all American cities should heed." And most of all, Seattl

Sandi Doughton, FULL RIP 9.0, the Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest, 2013.

Smart growth in dumb places

Michael Hudson, KILLING THE HOST, How Financial Parasites and Debt Destroy the Global Economy, 2015.

Pre-revisionist history par excellence!

Donald Elliott, A Better Way to Zone, 2008.

220 pages, 1/2" thick! Clears one's zoned-out head just like hot pepper!

Have time for another? Make it any of these:

Bill Speidel, Doc Maynard—the Man Who Invented Seattle, 1978; Sons of the Profits, Or, There's No Business Like Grow Business: the Seattle Story, 1851-1901, 1967

Human nature & Domain Land Claims Act—1850 institute Emerald City (see also Matthew Klingle above

Ruth Grant, Strings Attached, Untangling the Ethics of Incentives, 2012.

Before and after governments let the Interests get away with "what's in it for me?"

James Howard Kunstler, Too Much Magic, Wishful Thinking, Technology and the Fate of the Nation, 2012.

Reading all factions improves ones reasoning, however only cross-faction readers can confirm—no references.

Spencer Wells, Pandora's Seed, the Unforeseen Costs of Civilization, 2010.

Things are not as they seem on first thought.

Simon Fairlie, Meat, a Benign Extravagance, 2010

Things are not as they seem on first thought.

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.

Allen Jacobs, Looking at Cities, 1985 (out of print, check the libraries); Great Streets, 1995; The Boulevard Book, 2003.

Urbanism without the "isms."

Oscar Neuman, Creating Defensible Space, 1996, available free here: http://www.defensiblespace.com/start.htm

Yesler Terrace: avoid repeating history.

Herbert J. Gans, The Urban Villagers, Updated and Expanded Edition, 1962, 1982.

Urban villagers: avoid repeating history.''