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Libraries and References

 

This page provides information about and easy access to various Planning-related references. In particular, the contents of the City Planning Studio Library are listed, as well as directions for accessing the myriad of electronic journals that Georgia Tech subscribes to. The Architecture Library on the first floor has many hard copies of books and magazines related to our discipline.

 

City Planning Studio Library

 

Though there is already an "Architecture Library" containing many planning-related titles at Georgia Tech, we could always use more copies of the "classics" or first copies of more recent works. This library exists entirely because of student donations, and check-out is done according to the honor system.

 

Here's a list of what exists in the CP Studio Library (top two shelves on the studio bookshelf) and who has donated it.

 

 

Author Title Donated by...
David Clarke The Cinematic City [unknown]
Jerry Weitz Sprawl Busting [unknown]
Thomas M., Jr. Stanback The Transforming Metropolitan Economy [unknown]
Edward J. Blakely Planning Local Economic Development [unknown]
William A. Fischel The Homevoter Hypothesis [unknown]
Marian R. Chertow Thinking Ecologically [unknown]

Virginia Dale

 Tools to Aid Environmental Decision Making [unknown]
Donald A. Krueckeberg The American Planner [unknown]
Peter Medoff Streets of Hope [unknown]
Sim Van der Ryn Design for Life [unknown]
Alex Marshall How Cities Work Jeff Owen
Jim Klein Taken For a Ride Miguel Granier
Howard Becker Outsiders Matt Vivian
Tony Hiss The Experience of Place Matt Vivian
Witold Rybczynski City Life Matt Vivian
Bernard Rudofsky Streets for People Matt Vivian
Joseph Rykwert The Seduction of Place Jason Vargo
James Howard Kunstler The City in Mind Jason Chernock
John Norquist The Wealth of Cities Jessica Harbour
Myron Orfield American Metropolitics Jessica Harbour
G. Scott Thomas The United States of Suburbia Jessica Harbour
Aldo Leopold Sand County Almanac Kai Zuehlke

 

 

The following list contains titles that we do not yet have. Please consider donating copies if you have them!

 

 

Author Title
Robert D. Putnam Bowling Alone
Debra Galant Rattled
James Howard Kunstler Geography of Nowhere
Jane Jacobs The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Paul Hawkin Commerce of Ecology
Ian McHarg Design with Nature
Kenneth T. Jackson Crabgrass Frontier
Rachel Carson Silent Spring
Erik Larson Devil in the White City
William McDonough Cradle to Cradle
Herbert J. Gans Urban Villagers
Jane Holtz Kay Asphalt Nation
Paul Roberts The End of Oil
Barbara Ehrenreich Nickel and Dimed

 

 

 

** The City Planning Studio Library is the brainchild of Jason Vargo, MCRP/MSPH '09. **

** Thank you for making things happen! **

 

 

Electronic CRP References @ GT

 

General City Planning References through GT

 

Direct link to Georgia Tech electronic journal database (gtID & password required)