Saturday, May 23, 2009
Great Books for Planners: List #2
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David Boston
The recent post about Mike Davis inspired me to post another list of great books for planners. Mike Davis has written a lot of great books pertaining to urban planning, and a lot of other authors have written books about subjects similar to that of Mike Davis's "Fortress L.A." which are great for up and coming urban planners to read. If any of you plan on working in Los Angeles, then this list is even better for you. Here's the list:
- City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
by Mike Davis: this is the book that "Fortress L.A." comes from. It provides a very detailed, critical view of urban planning decisions and trends in Los Angeles.
- The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles
by William Fulton: another book on Los Angeles that focuses on development and the political driving forces behind it.
- Dead Cities: A Natural History
by Mike Davis: a great book for environmental planners or environmental planning students who want to bring some green into our cities. It is, in the style of Mike Davis, a very critical view of the way that we have abused our natural environment.
- The Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
by Mike Davis: though the title is pretty self-explanatory, this would be a great book for students going into disaster planning or transportation planning.
- The Emergence of Los Angeles: Population and Housing in the City of Dreams
by Bernard Marchand: a great book for housing planners or housing planning students who want an example of how one city developed housing-wise over a fairly large scope of years.
- The Los Angeles Riots: Lessons for the Urban Future
by Mark Baldassare: a cautionary historically-backed look at possible future consequences of urban planning decisions that promote inequity and the sharp, physical separation of lower-class people.
- David
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