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Resilient Urban Design Research Guide

Research support for the Clemson Design Center in Charleston-based Master's in Resilient Urban Design Program, School of Architecture

History & Major Figures

Cities of Tomorrow : An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design Since 1880 by Peter Hall
eBook, 4th edition
The history of the city by Leonardo Benevolo
ARCH HT111 .B4513 1980
CDCL HT111 .B4513 1980
The city in history : its origins, its transformations, and its prospects by Lewis Mumford
ARCH HT111 .M8
CDCL HT111 .M8
The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928-1960 by Eric Mumford
ARCH NA680.I475 M86 2000
and eBook
Camillo Sitte : the birth of modern city planning by George R. Collins, Christiane Crasemann Collins
ARCH NA9030.S63 C6 1986
The architecture of community by Leon Krier ; Thadani & Hetzel, eds.
eBook
The making of urban America : a history of city planning in the United States by John W. Reps
ARCH NA9105 .R42
CDCL NA9105 .R42

Elements of Urbanism

The city shaped : urban patterns and meanings through history by Spiro Kostof
ARCH HT111 .K63 1991
CDCL HT111 .K63 1999
The city assembled: the elements of urban form through history by Spiro Kostof
ARCH HT111 .K625 1992
CDCL HT111 .K625 2005
Palimpsests, biographies of 50 city districts : international case studies of urban change by Paul L. Knox
eBook
The image of the city by Kevin Lynch
ARCH NA9108 .L98
CDCL NA9108 .L98
Squares: urban spaces in Europe by Sophie Wolfrum, ed.
ARCH NA9070 .S683 2015
and eBook
Streets : critical perspectives on public space by Çelik, Ingersoll & Favro, eds.
ARCH NA9053.S7 S82 1994
CDCL NA9053.S7 S82 1994
Great public squares : an architect's selection by Robert F. Gatje
ARCH & CDCL NA9070 .G37 2010

Theory & Manifestos

Toward new towns for America by Clarence S. Stein
ARCH NA9108 .S81
The radiant city : elements of a doctrine of urbanism to be used as the basis of our machine-age civlization by Le Corbusier
ARCH NA9030 .J43r
CDCL NA9030 .J43r
The city of to-morrow and its planning by Le Corbusier; trans. Frederick Etchells
ARCH NA9090 .J413 1929a
Learning from Las Vegas : the forgotten symbolism of architectural form by Venturi, Scott Brown, Izenour
ARCH NA735.L3 V4 1977
CDCL NA735.L3 V4 1977
City planning according to artistic principles by Camillo Sitte
ARCH NA9030 .S613 1965
The architecture of the city by Aldo Rossi ; introd. by Peter Eisenman ; translation by Diane Ghirardo and Joan Ockman ; rev. for the American edition by Aldo Rossi and Peter Eisenman
ARCH NA9031 .R6713 1982
CDCL NA9031 .R6713
Garden cities of to-morrow by Ebenezer Howard
CDCL HT161 .H84 2013