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Small Town Apocalyptic Values

24 July 2008 - 5:00am
Josh Stephens reviews James Howard Kunstler's novel of post-peak oil existence, World Made By Hand.
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The City as Factory

11 February 2008 - 6:00am
Josh Stephens reviews "The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City", by Elizabeth Currid -- a look at the planning, sociology, and history behind New York's creative economy. While Currid's observations and theories are enlightening and sometimes entertaining, the book misses its opportunity to establish a strong case for planning's role in the cultivation of a creative economy, says Stephens.
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Modernism In Fragments

24 September 2007 - 9:45am
Nathan Glazer's From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City reveals how this influential social movement's good intentions shaped the look of the 20th century.
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Book Review: Worthy Of The Nation

16 July 2007 - 10:00am
The second edition of this seminal historical planning study of Washington, D.C. offers readers an in-depth look at the city's birth and creation.
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Top Books - 2007

20 November 2006 - 6:24pm

Planetizen Top 10 Books List, 2007 Edition

Top Books 2007Planetizen is pleased to release its sixth annual list of the ten best books in the planning field.

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The Real And The Unreal: Perceptions And Articulations Of The City In Novels And Film

11 July 2006 - 7:00am
Are the city and the metaphor of the city, as depicted in film and literature, one in the same? In Cityscapes: Cultural Readings in the Material and Symbolic City, Ben Highmore highlights familiar cultural texts in an attempt to show how artists capture the essence of the rhythm, networks, and contradictions of city life, writes Planetizen Correspondent Lainie Herrera in this book review.
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Book Review: 'Better Models for Development in Pennsylvania'

19 June 2006 - 7:00am
In Better Models for Development in Pennsylvania, author Ed McMahon outlines the best ways to harness inevitable urban growth and development without sacrificing a community's character, natural resources, and sense of place. As reviewer Tom Kane finds, these rules apply not only to Pennsylvania, but across the country.
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Book Review - 'Sprawl: A Compact History'

13 June 2006 - 7:00am
With Sprawl: A Compact History, author Robert Bruegmann has become a favorite sprawl apologist, yet his flawed arguments and dismissal of the most serious concerns of the anti-sprawl movement ultimately add little to the prevailing land use debate of our time, writes Josh Stephens in this book review.
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Book Review - 'Imagined Cities'

6 June 2006 - 7:00am
A comparison of six 19th- and 20th-Century authors shows that the complex character of urban areas can be interpreted in ways beyond physical experience, as exemplified by the language used in fiction to chronicle the "stimuli of the city", writes Lainie Herrera in this review of Robert Alter's Imagined Cities.
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Book Review - 'Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America'

12 April 2006 - 7:00am
In his "deeply insightful yet broadly accessible narrative of environmental progress", former Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt chronicles the battles of environmental and land use law in the United States, with specific strategies for success at the local, state, and federal levels.
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Book Review - 'Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination'

21 September 2005 - 8:00am
Bob Ransford reviews the magical and often paradoxical relationship Vancouver shares with its natural surroundings as described in Lance Berelowitz's Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination.
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Top 10 Books - 2005

4 September 2005 - 10:46am

The following list of top 10 books published in 2004 was compiled by the Planetizen editorial staff based on a number of criteria, including editorial reviews, sales rankings, popularity, Planetizen reader nominations, number of references, recommendations from experts and the book's potential impact on the urban planning, development and design professions.

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Top 10 Books - 2004

4 September 2005 - 10:40am

The following list of top 10 books published in 2003 was compiled by the Planetizen editorial staff based on a number of criteria, including editorial reviews, sales rankings, popularity, Planetizen reader nominations, number of references, recommendations from experts and the book's potential impact on the urban planning, development and design professions.

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Top 10 Books - 2003

4 September 2005 - 10:30am

The Planetizen 2003 List features the top 10 popular titles published in 2002. The Planetizen 20 features the all-time top 20 planning titles that every planner and developer should read. Planetizen has partnered with Amazon.com to enable you to purchase any title by selecting the link, "Buy this book."

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