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< on 10/13/2004 1:54 PM >
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What books, magazines, websites, other relating to Architecture and Urban Planning do you subscribe to, recommend buying or checking out?

I have a subscription to Metropolis, borrow Dwell from my nieghbors and sometimes glance at Architectural Digest and Interior Design magazines at work. I am looking for something a little more out of the mainstream as all of the above seem to be headed towards a certain mediocrity that sells the most ads. Any suggestions?

What about books? I've been meaning to add to my library but haven't had any inspiration or great recommendations in a while. Help!

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< Reply # 1 on 10/18/2004 1:10 AM >
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I am taking a urban planning class right now, I will get you some of the titles from my reading list after I look through them more. It sucks, the class is so boring its like eatting glass for 2 and a half hours.




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< Reply # 2 on 10/18/2004 11:14 PM >
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You should check out Jane Jacobs "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" which deals with making livable, workable neighborhoods. "Fixing Broken Windows" by George L. Kelling and Catherine M. Coles is also a good read about how to restoring order in our communities makes the neighborhood feel safer although doesn't necessarily lower the crime rate.




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I will once again recommend How Cities Work by Alex Marshall. It is a very readable study on how transportation issues shapes our cities. Much of the book is devoted to criticizing "New Urbanism" and exploring the role that government plays in deciding transportaion policy (and thus the form modern cities take.)

It's a short book, and Mr. Marshall is quite a good writer, even injecting a bit of humor into his text. It's not the dry, acedemic prose one comes to expect when opening up a book on urban planning policy, and it's not at all like eating glass for 2 1/2 hours.

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http://www.skyscrapercity.com

I stumbled onto this forum by accident while researching something yesterday. I cannot really say how good/ usefull it is, seeing that I just found it, but from what I can tell the forum is worth a look--it deals with urban architecture mostly, and the posts seem to be relatively intelligent without being academic. So, uh, yea...there you go.

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http://www.skyscrapercity.com


A very good website, which I also follow regulary. Even when the name implies it to be concentrated on skycrapers, there's now and then talk about abandoned and historical buildings, especially in the Baltic States, which of course interestes me very much.

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A cool mag I pick up once in awhile is "Wallpaper". It's basically a very slick, European outlook on all forms and functions of the latest art, architecture, furniture and fashion. Its in a larger format than most periodic magazines. Found at any Chapters or by chance at an independent convenience store.




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H5N1--Great list...now there's a few more books I need to go buy. Damn.


I recently read Industrial Ruins : Space, Aestheics and Materiality by Tim Edensor. It's a bit academic and I wish it was edited for a more general readership, but the book is a very worthwhile read. It makes a good argument for urban ruins being an antidote to the pre-planned and regimented city spaces we are normally accustomed to. The book is of obvious UE interest (the author obviously does his fair share of exploring), but I think anyone interested in architecture and urban planning would get a lot out of it.

www.amazon.com/exe...5?v=glance&s=books




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< Reply # 9 on 11/23/2005 11:49 PM >
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i have a subscription to "Domus", i don't know if you get it over there, it's italian, but it is written in english too. Anyway... it's not the best, i think.

i have a book which i love, although it's not about architecture, but it sure helps for any kind of art, i think:

"Concerning the spiritual in art", by W. Kandinsky




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Home from Nowhere and the City in Mind by James Kunstler, and

The Experience of Place by Tony Hiss

are a few of the more enjoyable ones I've read, lately. I've just peeked at "Dark Age Ahead" (Jane Jacob's latest), and "The Long Emergency" (Kunstler's latest).




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I was looking at this today, it's pretty amazing. There's reproductions of the sketches used for designing some of the lights, that's how in depth it is.

Subway Style: 100 Years of Architecture & Design in the New York City Subway




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< Reply # 12 on 1/5/2006 5:28 PM >
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One of my favourite architectural books is How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand, all about how buildings evolve to meet the changing demands of their occupants etc. Fascinating and highly recommended.



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ok... these are books I think are good (Im leaving out a lot of classics figuring they're easier to find out about)

Urban Planning/Urban Design/Urban Studies

- The City Reader
by R. LEGATES (Editor), Richard T. LeGates, Frederic Stout
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415271738/104-8939321-6308762?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

- Downtown : Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950
by Robert M. Fogelson
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300098278/104-8939321-6308762?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

-The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities
by Richard Sennett [HIGHLY RECCOMMENDED!!!]
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393308782/104-8939321-6308762?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

-Delirious New York : A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
by Rem Koolhaas
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1885254008/104-8939321-6308762?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

-The Architecture of the City
by Aldo Rossi, Diane Ghirardo (Translator), Joan Ockman (Translator)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262680432/104-8939321-6308762?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

-The Fall of Public Man
by Richard Sennett
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393308790/104-8939321-6308762?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155


Architectural Theory

-The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays
by Colin Rowe
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262680378/104-8939321-6308762?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

-Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture
by Ulrich Conrads (Editor)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262530309/104-8939321-6308762?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

-Modern Architecture: A Critical History
by Kenneth Frampton
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0500202575/104-8939321-6308762?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

-Essays in Architectural Criticism: Modern Architecture and Historical Change
by Alan Colquhoun
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262530635/104-8939321-6308762?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

-The Dynamics of Architectural Form: Based on the 1975 Mary Duke Biddle Lectures at the Cooper Union
by Rudolf Arnheim
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0520035518/104-8939321-6308762?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

-S M L XL
by Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau, Hans Werlemann
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1885254865/104-8939321-6308762?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

-Inside Architecture
by Vittorio Gregotti
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262571153/104-8939321-6308762?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

More tertiary but interesting reads:

-Massive Change
by Bruce Mau, Jennifer Leonard
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0714844012/104-8939321-6308762?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

-Mutations
by Rem Koolhaas, Stefano Boeri, Sanford Kwinter, Nadia Tazi, Daniela Fabricius
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8495273519/104-8939321-6308762?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

-Life Style
by Bruce Mau
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0714845205/104-8939321-6308762?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155


All in all, a pretty expensive list... you might want to try your local library first. Happy Reading!




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Of the books that I'm currently reading for my urban planning class I'm really enjoying The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler. Heres a quote to kind of give an idea of what he's all about:

"Eighty percent of everything ever built in America has been built in the last fifty years, and most of it is depressing, brutal, ugly, unhealthy, and spiritually degrading- the jive-plastic commuter tract home wastelands, the Potemkin village shopping plazas with their vast parking lagoons, the Lego block hotel complexes, the "gourmet mansardic" junk-food joints, the Orwellian office "parks" featuring buildings sheathed in the same reflective glass as the sunglasses worn by chain-gang guards, the particle-board garden apartments rising up in every meadow and cornfield, the freeway loops around every big and little city with their clusters of discount merchandise marts, the whole destructive, wasteful, toxic, agoraphobia-inducing spectacle that politicians proudly call "growth"."




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http://www.spacing.ca/

Spacing is a magazine about Toronto's public spaces and urban landscape. We cover any and every issue that concerns life in the city's public realm...

Yea, I know it says "Toronto", but most of the content is general urban issues that aren't Toronto specific. Topics incluse graffiti/public art, UE, public space issues, preservation, etc...The website is well worth a look, as is their blog. I haven't seen the actual magazine in the flesh, but I just ordered a 6 issue subscription so I'll let you know what it's like.

For the record, I found this via a link published in issue 3 of 5100, which is pretty good too.





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How could i forget to write these titles, God only knows... they are at the top of my thesis:

by Marc Auge:
Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity http://www.amazon....0?%5Fencoding=UTF8

In the Metrohttp://www.amazon....0?%5Fencoding=UTF8

and there are other ones that i suppose have still not been translated, being that i can't find them: the most important in italian is "Rovine e macerie" (which means literally "ruins and Rubble(?) ".

Without mentioning Guy Debord and psychogeography.

I didn't find the english version either of books from Franco La Cecla ("local mind" and "getting lost", literally)

Francesco Careri "Walkscapes, walking has an aesthetic practice"
http://www.amazon....0?%5Fencoding=UTF8

and to relax, why not the book where Stalker was taken from:
Roadside Picnic
Arkady Strugatsky + Boris Strugatsky
http://dannyreview.../h/Worlds_End.html




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-Delirious New York : A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
by Rem Koolhaas

-The Architecture of the City
by Aldo Rossi, Diane Ghirardo (Translator), Joan Ockman (Translator)

-Modern Architecture: A Critical History
by Kenneth Frampton

-S M L XL
by Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau, Hans Werlemann

-Inside Architecture
by Vittorio Gregotti




these i've read. Boy, i'm way far from finishing your list! Frampton i had to study for my exam in contemporary architecture. Nice book.
I can't stand Gregotti, the things he does are horrible, i think: for example the university of Bicocca in Milan: he forgot to put green and trees in the big plaza. Aldo Rossi... mmm... i'm not crazy about those architects that have to put their logo all over (see zaha adid or frank o. gery)




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