Chapter 22Sustainable Cities

General information on books can be reviewed at websites such as amazon.com.

Abbott, Carl. 2001. Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest.Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Alberti, Marina, et al. 2003. “Integrating Humans into Ecology: Opportunities and Challenges for Studying Urban Ecosystems.” BioScience, vol. 53, no. 12, 1169.

Alvord, Katie. 2000.Divorce Your Car: Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile,GabriolaIsland, B. C., Canada: New Society.

Archibugi, Franco. 1998.The Ecological City & the City Effect: Essays on Urban Planning for the Sustainable City.Aldershot, Hampshire, U. K.: Ashgate.

Associated Press. 2007. “Cities Offer Incentives to Save Energy.” MSNBC News, Dec. 27.

Babbitt, Bruce. 2007. Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision for Land Use in the United States. Washington, D. C.: Island Press.

Badshah, Akhtar A. 1996.Our Urban Future: New Paradigms for Equity and Sustainability.London: Zed Books.

Bailey, Robert G., and Lev Roses. 2002. Ecoregion-Based Design for Sustainability. New York: Springer.

Balish, Chris. 2006. How to Live Well Without Owning a Car: Save Money, Breathe Easier, and Get More Mileage Out of Life.Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press.

Bang, Jan M. 2005. Ecovillages: A Practical Guide to Sustainable Communities.GabriolaIsland, B. C., Canada: New Society.

Banister, David. 2007. Transport Policy and the Environment.London: Taylor & Francis.

Barlett, Peggy, ed. 2005. Urban Place: Reconnecting with the Natural World.Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Barton, Hugh, ed. 2001.Sustainable Communities: The Potential for Eco-Neighborhoods. London: Earthscan.

Battle, Guy, and Christopher McCarthy. 2001. Sustainable Ecosystems and the Build Environment. Washington, D. C.: National Academies Press.

Batty, Susan, et al. eds. 2001.Planning for a Sustainable Future.London: Routledge.

Beatley, Timothy. 1999. Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities.Washington, D. C.: Island Press.

Beatley, Timothy and Kristy Manning. 1997. The Ecology of Place: Planning for Environment, Economy, and Community. Washington, D. C.: Island Press.

Beck, Roy. 2003.Outsmarting Smart Growth: Population growth, Immigration, and the Problem of Sprawl. Washington, D. C.: Center for Immigration Studies.

Benfield, F. Kaid. 2001.Solving Growth: Models of Smart Growth in Communities Across America. Washington, D. C.: Island Press.

Benfield, F. Kaid, et al. 1999. Once There Were Greenfields: How Urban Sprawl Is Undermining America's Environment, Economy, and Social Fabric.New York: Natural Resources Defense Council.

Benfield, F. Kaid, et al. 2002.Solving Sprawl: Models of Smart Growth in Communities Across America. Washington, D. C.: Island Press.

Benyus, Janine. 2002. Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. New York: Harper Perennial.

Berg, Peter, et al. 1991.A GreenCity Program for San FranciscoBayAreaCities and Towns. Oakland, Calif.: Wingbow Press.

Berkowitz, Alan R., et al., eds. 2002. Understanding Urban Ecosystems.New York: Springer.

Birkeland, Janis. 2002. Design for Sustainability: A Sourcebook for Integrated Eco-logical Solutions.London: Earthscan.

Boone, Christopher G., and Ali Modarres. 2006.City and Environment.Philadelphia, Pa.: TempleUniversity Press.

Bressi, Tod, and Robert Davis, eds. 2002. The Seaside Debates: Critique of New Urbanism. New York:Rizzoli International.

Brewer, Richard. 2004.Conservancy: The Land Trust Movement in the United States.Lebanon, N. H.: Dartmouth Press.

Brockerhoff, Martin P. 2000. "An Urbanizing World." Population Bulletin, vol. 55, no. 3, 1.

Bruegmann, Robert. 2006. Sprawl: A Compact History.Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press.

Buchwald, Emilie. 2003. Toward a Livable City.Minneapolis, Minn.: Milkweed Editions.

Building Green.

Bullard, Robert D. 2000.SprawlCity: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta. Washington, D. C.: Island Press.

Bullard, Robert, ed. 2007.Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity.Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Burchell, Robert, et al. 2005.Sprawl Costs: Economic Impacts of Unchecked Development. Washington, D. C.: Island Press.

Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

Cadman, D., and G. Payne, eds. 1990.The LivingCity: Towards a Sustainable Future. London: Routledge.

Calthorpe, Peter, et al. 2005.New Urbanism. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton Architectural Press.

Calthorpe, Peter, and William Fulton. 2001.The RegionalCity: Planning for the End of Sprawl. Washington, D. C.: Island Press.

Capello, Robert, et al. 1999.Sustainable Cities and Energy Policies.New York: Springer

Car-free Cities.

Carley, Michael, et al. 2001.Urban Development and Civil Society: The Role of Communities in Sustainable Cities. London: Earthscan.

Carlson, Daniel, et al. 1995.At Road's End: Transportation and Land Use Choices for Communities. Washington, D. C.: Island Press.

Car Sharing. and

Center for Livable Communities.

Chapman, Jonathan, and Nick Gant, eds. 2007.Designers, Visionaries, and Other Stories: A Collection of Sustainable Design Essays. London: Earthscan.

Chawla, Louise, et al., eds, 2002. Growing Up in an Urbanizing World.London: Earthscan.

Chen, Donald T. 2000. “The Science of Smart Growth.” Scientific American, vol. 283, no. 6, 84.

Chiras, Daniel L. 2000.The Natural House: A Complete Guide to Healthy, Energy-Efficient, Environmental Homes. White River Junction, Vt.: Chelsea Green.

Chiras, Daniel, and Dave Wann. 2003.Superbia! 31 Ways to Create Sustainable Neighborhoods. GabriolaIsland, B. C., Canada: New Society.

Clark, George E. 2007. “Unsustainable Surburbia.” Environment, October, 3-4.

Collins, James P., et al. 2000."A New Urban Ecology." American Scientist, vol. 88, 416.

Congress for the New Urbanism. 1999. Charter of the New Urbanism.Columbus, Ohio: McGraw-Hill.

Corbett, Michael, and Judy Corbett. 1999.Designing Sustainable Communities: Learning from Village Homes. Washington, D. C.: Island Press.

Crawford, J. H. 2002.Carfree Cities.Utrecht, Germany: International Books.

Danaher, Kevin, et al. 2007. “The Future of Cities: How Sprawl and Racism are Intertwined.” AlterNet, Oct. 23.

Daniels, Thomas L. 1998.When City and County Collide: Managing Growth in the Metropolitan Fringe. Washington, D. C.: Island Press.

David Suzuki Foundation. Understanding Sprawl.

Deacon, James E., et al. 2007.“Fueling Population Growth in Las Vegas” How Large-Scale Groundwater Withdrawal Could Burn Regional Biodiversity.” BioScience, September 688-698.

Dean, Angela M. 2003. Green By Design: Creating a Home for Sustainable Living.Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith.

Devuyst, Dimitri, et al., eds. 2001.How Green is the City?New York: ColumbiaUniversity Press.

Dittmar, Hank, and Gloria Ohland, eds. 2004.The New TransitTown: Best Practices in Transit-Oriented Development. Washington, D. C.: Island Press.

Duany, Andres, et al. 2001. Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream.New York: North Point Press.

Ecological Cities Project.

Ecosustainable Hub. Environment Sustainability Links (Websites).

E. F. Schumacher Society. Resources for Community Renewal and Environmental Sustainability.

Engwicht, David. 2007. Reclaiming Our Cities and Towns: Better Living with Less Traffic. GabriolaIsland, B. C., Canada: New Catalyst Books.

Envirolink: The Online Environmental Community: Transportation.

Envirolink: The Online Environmental Community: Urban Issues.

Environmental Defense.How Green Is Your Car?

Evans, Bob. 2005. Governing Sustainable Cities.London: Earthscan.

Evans, Peter. ed. 2002. Livable Cities: Urban Struggles for Livelihood and Sustainability.Berkley: University of California Press.

Ezcurra, Exequiel, and Marisa Mazari-Hriart. 1996. "Are Megacities Viable? A Cautionary Tale from Mexico City." Environment, vol. 38, no. 1, 6.

Fitzhugh, Thomas W., and Brian D. Richter. 2004. “Quenching Urban Thirst: Growing Cities and Their Impacts on Freshwater Ecosystems.” BioScience, vol. 54, no 8, 741.

Flint, Anthony. 2006. This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America.Baltimore, Md.: JohnsHopkinsUniversity Press.

Fodor, Eben. 1999.Better Not Bigger: How to Take Care of Urban Growth and Improve Your Community.GabriolaIsland, B. C., Canada: New Society.

Frey, Hildebrand. 1999.Designing the City: Towards a More Sustainable Urban Form.London: Taylor & Francis.

Garreau, Joel. 1995. "Ten Commandments for Planners." Whole Earth Review, Winter, 64.

Garvin, Alexander. 2002. The AmericanCity: What Works, What Doesn’t. 2nd ed. Columbus, Ohio: McGraw-Hill.

Gilbert, Alan, ed. 1996. The Mega-City in Latin America. New York: United NationsUniversity Press.

Gillham, Oliver. 2002.The Limitless City: A Primer on the Urban Sprawl Debate. Washington, D. C.: Island Press.

Girard, Luigi F., et al. 2004.The Human Sustainable City: Challenges and Perspectives From the Habitat Agenda. Aldershot, Hampshire, U.K.: Ashgate.

Girardet, Herbert. 2004.Cities People Planet: Livable Cities for a Sustainable World.Hoboken. N. J. Wiley.

Gnatek, Tim. 2003. Curitiba’s Urban Experiment. Frontline World.

Goodman, Joesph, et al. 2007. Curitiba’s Bus System is Model for Rapid Transit.

Grant, Jill. 2006. Planning the Good Communities: New Urbanism in Theory and Practice.London: Routledge.

Gratz, Roberta B. 1995. The LivingCity: How America’s CitiesAre Being Revitalized by Thinking Small in a Big Way. Hoboken. N. J. Wiley

Gratz, Roberta B. 2000. Cities Back from the Edge: New Life for Downtown. Hoboken. N. J. Wiley

Great Buildings. 2005. Curitiba.

Greenberg, Michael R. 1999.Restoring America’s Neighborhoods: How Local People Make a Difference.Brunswick, N. J.: RutgersUniversity Press.

Green Map system.

Greenstein, Rosalind, and Yesim Sungy-Eryilmaz. 2004. Recycling the City: The Use and Reuse of Urban Land.Cambridge, Mass.: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

Griscom, Amanda. 2003. “Who’s the Greenest of Them All? Grist Magazine, Nov. 25.

Grogan, Paul S., and Tony Proscio. 2001. Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press.

Gustanski, Julie Ann, et al., eds. 2000. Protecting the Land: Conservation Easements Past, Present, and Future. Washington, D. C.: Island Press.

Gutfreund, Owen D. 2004.Twentieth Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping of the American Landscape.New York: OxfordUniversity Press.

Hall, Kenneth B., and Gerald A. Porterfield. 2001. Community By Design: New Urbanism for Suburbs and Small Communities.” Columbus, Ohio: McGraw-Hill.

Hall, Peter G. 2000.Urban Future 21: A Global Agenda for 21st Century Cities.London: Routledge.

Hall, Peter G. 2002. Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century. 3rd ed. Hoboken. N. J. Wiley.

Hall, Peter G. 2002. Urban and Regional Planning. 4th ed. London: Taylor & Francis.

Hallsmith, Gwendolyn. 2003. The Key to Sustainable Cities: Meeting Human Needs, Transforming Community Systems.GabriolaIsland, B. C., Canada: New Society.

Harder, Ben. 2004. “Degraded Darkness.” Conservation in Practice, vol. 5, no. 2, 21.

Hardoy, Jorge E., et al. 2001. Environmental Problems in An Urbanizing World: Finding Solutions in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. London: Earthscan.

Harrington, Winston, and Virginia McConnell. 2003. “A Lighter Tread? Policy and Technology Options for Motor Vehicles.” Environment, vol. 45, no. 9, 22.

Hayden, Dolores, and Jim Wark. 2004.A Field Guide to Sprawl.New York: W. W. Norton.

Hirschhorn, Joel S., and Richard E. Killingsworth. 2005. Sprawl Kills: How Blandburgs Steal Your Time, Health, and Money.New York:Sterling and Ross.

Hopkins, Lewis. 2001.Urban Development: The Logic of Making Plans. Washington, D. C.: Island Press.

Honachefsky, William B. 1999. Ecologically Based Municipal Land Use Planning. Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC.

Horizon Solutions. 2003. Efficient Transportation for Successful Urban Planning in Curitiba.

Hough, Michael. 2007.Cities and Natural Process: A Basis for Sustainability. 2nd ed.London: Taylor & Francis.

Irazabal, Clara. 2005.City Making and Urban Governance in the Americas: Curitiba and Portland. Aldershot, Hampshire, U.K.: Ashgate.

Jackson, Hildur, and Karen Svensson. 2002. Ecovillage Living: Restoring the Earth and Her People.Bideford, U.K.: Green Books.

Jacobs, Jane. 1970. The Economy of Cities.New York:JonathanCape.

Jacobs, Jane. 2002 The Death and Life of Great American Cities.New York:Random House.

James, Sarah, and Torbjörn Lahti. 2004. The Natural Step for Communities: HowCities and Towns Can Change to Sustainable Practices.GabriolaIsland, B. C., Canada: New Society.

Jenks, Mike. 2007. CompactCity: A Sustainable Urban Form? London: Routledge.

Jenks, Mike, and Rod Burgess. 2001.Compact Cities: Sustainable Urban Forms for Developing Countries.London: Taylor & Francis.

Jenks, Mike, and Nicola Dempsey, eds, 2005.Future Forms and Design for Sustainable Cities. Princeton, N. J.: Architectural Press

Johnson, Bart, and Kristina Hill. eds. 2001.Ecology and Design: Frameworks for Learning. Washington, D. C.: Island Press.

Johnson, Huey D. 2008.Green Plans: Blueprint for a Sustainable Earth. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Karlenzig, Warren, et al. 2007. How Green is Your City?The SustainLane U.S. city Rankings.GabriolaIsland, B. C., Canada: New Society.

Katz, Peter. 1993.The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community. Columbus, Ohio: McGraw-Hill.

Kay, Jane Holtz. 1998. Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back.Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.

Klingle, Matthew. 2007.EmeraldCity: An Environmental History of Seattle.New Haven, Conn.: YaleUniversity Press.

Kotkin, Joel. 2006. The City: A Global History.New York: Modern Library.

Kuhn, M. 2003. “Greenbelt and Green Heart: Separating and Integrating Landscapes in EuropeanCity Regions.” Landscape and Urban Planning, vol. 64, no. 1-2, 19.

Landry, Charles. 2000.The CreativeCity: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators.London: Earthscan.

Lang, Jon. 2005. Urban Design: A Typology of Procedures and Products. Illustrated With Over 50 Case Studies. Princeton, N. J.: Architectural Press.

Leitmann, Joesf. 1999.Sustaining Cities: Environmental Planning and Management in Urban Design.Columbus, Ohio: McGraw-Hill.

Levy, John M. 2005.Contemporary Urban Planning. 7th ed. UpperSaddleRiver, N. J.: Prentice Hall.

Lewis, Sunny. 2004. “Damm That Traffic Jam.” AlterNet, September 8.

Lindstrom, Matthew J., and Hugh Bartling. 2003.Suburban Sprawl: Culture, Theory, and Politics.Lanham, Md.: Rowan & Littlefield.

Local Government Commission.Working to Build Livable Communities.

Logan, Michael F. 1995. Fighting Sprawl and City Hall.Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Low, Nicholas, and Brendan Gleeson, eds. 2003. Making Urban Transport Sustainable.New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Lowe, Marcia D. 1994.Back on Track: The Global Rail Revival. Washington, D. C.: Worldwatch Institute.

Lubow, Arthur. 2007. “The Road to Curitiba.” New York Times, May 20.

Lucy, William H., and David L. Phillips. 2000.Confronting Suburban Decline: Strategic Planning for Metropolitan Renewal. Washington, D. C.: Island Press.

Lyle, John T. 1996.Regenerative Design for Sustainable Development. Hoboken. N. J. Wiley.

Macionis, John J., and Vincent N. Parrilo. 2006.Cities and Urban Life. 4th ed. UpperSaddleRiver, N. J.: Prentice Hall.

MacKenzie, James J., et al. 1992.The Going Rate: What It Really Costs to Drive. Washington, D. C.: World Resources Institute.

Marshall, Alex. 2001.How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken.Austin: University of Texas Press.

Mazmanian, Daniel A., and Michael E. Kraft, eds. 1999. Toward Sustainable Communities: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy.Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

McHarg, Ian L. 1995.Design with Nature. Hoboken. N. J. Wiley.

McHarg, Ian L., and Frederick R. Steiner, eds. 1998.To Heal the Earth: Selected Writings of Ian L. McHarg. Washington, D. C.: Island Press.

McKibben, Bill. 2005, ”Curitiba: A Global Map for Development.”

McKibben, Bill. 2007.Hope, Human, and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth.Minneapolis, Minn.: Milkweed Editions.

Moe, Richard, and Carter Wilkie. 1999.Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl.New York: Owl (Henry Holt).

Moor, Malcolm. 2006. Urban Design Futures.London: Routledge.

Morris, Douglas E. 2005. It’s aSprawl World After All.GabriolaIsland, B. C., Canada: New Society.

Mosey, Chris. 2001. Car Wars: Battles on the Road to Nowhere.London: Vision.

Motavalli, Jim. 1998. “Chattanooga On a Roll: From America’s DirtiestCity to One of Its Greenest.” E Magazine, March/April. 14.

Motavalli, Jim. 2002. “Getting Out of Gridlock.” E Magazine, March/April. 34.

Motavilli, Jim. 2003.Breaking Gridlock: Moving Toward Transportation That Works.San Francisco, Calif.: Sierra Club Books.

Mumford, Lewis. 1968. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects.New York: Harvest Books

Nadis, Steve, and James J. MacKenzie. 1993.Car Trouble. Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press.

NationalAcademy of Sciences. 2003.Travel Matters: Mitigating Climate Change with Sustainable Surface Transportation. Washington, D. C.: National Academies Press.

NationalAcademy of Sciences. 2004.Cities Transformed: Demographic Change and Its Implications in the Developing World. Washington, D. C.: National Academies Press.

NationalCenter for Biking and Walking.

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): Smart Growth.

Newman, Peter, and Jeffrey Kenworthy. 1999. Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence. Washington, D. C.: Island Press.

New Urbanism

Nicholson-Lord, David. 2007. The Greening of Cities.London: Taylor & Francis.

Noise Pollution Clearinghouse.

Northwest Environment Watch. 2004. The Portland Exception: A Comparison of Sprawl, Smart Growth, and Rural Land Loss in 15 U. S. Cities.Seattle, Wash.: Northwest Environment Watch.

Nozzi. Dom. 2003. Road to Ruin: An Introduction to Sprawl and How to Cure It.New York: Praeger.

Oberndorfer, Erica. 2007. “Green Roofs as Urban Ecosystems: Ecological Structures, Functions, and Services.” BioScience, November, 823-832.

O'Meara, Molly. 1999. Reinventing Cities for People and the Planet. Washington, D. C.: Worldwatch Institute.

Oneill, David. 2000.Smart Growth Tool Kit. Washington, D. C.: Urban Land Institute.

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). 2007.Ranking Port Cities With High Exposure and Vulnerability to Climate Extremes.

Orr, David W. 2004.Design on the Edge: The Making of a High-PerformanceBuilding. New York: OxfordUniversity Press.

Orr, David W. 2006.The Nature of Design: Ecology, Colure, and Human Intention. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Ozawa, Connie, ed. 2004.The Portland Edge: Challenges and Successes in Growing Communities. Washington, D. C.: Island Press.

Papanek, Victor. 1995. The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture. London: Thames & Hudson.

Park, Kyong, ed. 2004.Urban Ecology. New York: Map Book Publishers.

Partners for Livable Communities, ed. 2000.The Livable City: Revitalizing Urban Communities.Columbus, Ohio: McGraw-Hill.

Pearce, Fred. 2005. “Cities Lead the Way to a Greener World.” New Scientist, June 4, 8-9.

Peirce, Neil. 2007. “Do Sustainable Cities Have a Future?” AlterNet, Feb. 21.

People & Planet. Cities.

Pezzoli, Keith. 2000.Human Settlements and Planning for Ecological Sustainability: The Case of Mexico City.Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Pickett, S. T. A., et al. 2001. “Urban Ecological Systems: Linking Terrestrial, Ecological, Physical, and Socioeconomic Components of Metropolitan Areas.” Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, vol. 32, 127.

Pinderhughes, Racquel. 2004.Alternative Urban Futures: Planning for Sustainable Development in Cities Throughout the World.Lanham, Md.: Rowan & Littlefield.

Platt, Rutherford H. 2004.Land Use and Society, Revised ed.Washington, D. C.: Island Press.