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New towns: General resources

Recommended resources on planned and built communities worldwide, from prehistory to now, providing location info for print resources and links for digital resources.

Other resources

Chandigarh Administration (official website)

"City Beautiful Movement" (Oxford Art Online) 

Congress for the New Urbanism (official website)

L’Enfant plan” (Oxford Art Online) 

Pienza” (Oxford Art Online) 

Urban Land Institute (official website)

Recommended for all architectural research

Specialized resources on related topics

Aboriginal Environments Research Centre (U. of Queensland)

Boyd, Andrew, Chinese architecture and town planning, 1500 B.C.-A.D. 1911, University of Chicago Press, NA1540.B6812 1987

Castrum,” Oxford Art Online (On the Roman fort plan)

Favro, Diane G., The Urban Image of Augustan Rome, Cambridge University Press, DG69.F38 1996

Freund, Bill, The African city: a history, Cambridge University Press, HT148.A2A3435 2007

Kazhdan, Alexander, “The Italian and Late Byzantine city” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol. 49, 1995, p. 1-22 (PDF via Jstor)

Lilley, Keith D., City and cosmos: the medieval world in urban form, Reaktion, 2009 (ebook via Ebook Central)

Monk, Daniel Bertrand, “The Art of castramentation,” Assemblage, #36, August 1998, p. 64-83 (PDF via Jstor)

Pollak, Martha D., “From Castrum to capital: autograph plans and planning studies of Turin, 1615-1673,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 1988, p. 263-280 (PDF via Jstor)

Rykwert, Joseph, The Idea of a town: the anthropology of urban form in Rome, Italy and the ancient world, Princeton University Press, HT166.R94

Saalman, Howard, Planning and cities: medieval cities, Braziller, HT115.S2

Satō, Tsugitaka,, Islamic urbanism in human history, Kegan Paul International, HT147.5.I86 1997

Simmons, Alan H., Neolithic revolution in the Near East: transforming the human landscape, University of Arizona Press, 2011 (ebook via Ebook Central)

Sorenson, André, The making of urban Japan: cities and planning from Edo to the twenty-first century, Routledge, HT169.J3S67 2004

Tate, Carolyn Elaine, Yaxchilan: the Design of a Maya ceremonial city, University of Texas Press, F1435.Y3T38 1992

Van de Mieroop, Marc, The ancient Mesopotamian city, Oxford University Press, DS69.5.V36 1997

Ward-Perkins, J. B., Planning and cities: ancient Greece and Italy, Braziller, HT166.W25 1974

Xu, The Chinese city in space and time : the development of urban form in Suzhou, HT169.C62S999 2000

Adams, Nicholas, “The Acquisition of Pienza 1459-1464,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, May 1985, p. 99-110 (PDF via Jstor)

Argan, Giulio Carlo, Planning and cities: Renaissance city, Braziller, NA9094.A713

Ayres, James, Building the Georgian city, Yale University Press, NA966.A98 1998

Bednar, Michael J., L'Enfant's legacy: public open spaces in Washington, D.C., Johns Hopkins University Press, NA9127.W2B43 2006

Chordas, Nina, Forms in early modern utopia, Ashgate, 2010 (ebook via Ebrary)

Crouch, Dora P., et al., Spanish city planning in North America, MIT Press, HT169.N68C76

Emlen, Robert P., Shaker village views: illustrated maps and landscape drawings by Shaker artists of the nineteenth century, G1201.E4E7 1987 

"Foundations / Fundaciones," The New City, NA900.N48 1991 (On Spanish colonial planning in the New World)

Hayden, Delores, Seven American utopias : the architecture of communitarian socialism, 1790-1975, MIT Press, HX653.H39

Jäger, Thomas, “The Art of Orthogonal Planning: Laparelli's Trigonometric Design of Valletta,”Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 2004, p. 4-31 (PDF via Jstor)

The Laws of the Indies (1573 city-building guidelines, via Fordham University)

Luria, Sarah, Capital speculations: writing and building Washington, D.C., University Press of New England, PS253.D6L87 2006

Mack, Charles R., Pienza: the creation of a Renaissance city, Cornell University Press, NA1121.P5M33 1987 

Orr, Robert, “Pienza, lessons at the edge,” Places, Spring 2006, p. 56-59

Pierini, Marco & Bruno Santi, Pienza: guide to the town and surroundings, Nuova immagine, DG975.P54P53 1999

Reps, John W., "Thomas Jefferson's Checkerboard Towns," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians , October 1961, p. 108-114 (PDF via Jstor)

Reps, John W., Cities of the American West: a history of frontier urban planning, Princeton University Press, HT123.5.A17R46

Reps, John W., Town planning in frontier America, University of Missouri Press, NA9106 .R46 1980

Baburov, A. & A. E. Gutnov, The Ideal communist city, Braziller, NA9035.B313

Bald, Sunil, ”Brasilia's levitational field,” Perspecta, # 39, 2007, p. 58-70 (PDF via Jstor)

Beal, Sophia, “The Real and promised Brasília: an asymmetrical symbol in 1960s Brazilian literature,” Hispania, March 2010, p. 1-10 (PDF via Jstor)

Bharne, Vinayak, “Le Corbusier's ruin: the changing face of Chandigarh's capitol,” Journal of Architectural Education, March 2011, p. 99-112

“Brasilia, a new national capital city,” Arts & architecture, April 1959, p. 15-21 (also November 1959)

“Brasilia, majestic concept or autocratic monument?” Progressive architecture, October 1959, p. 8-89

Buder, Stanley, Visionaries and planners: the Garden City movement and the modern community, Oxford University Press, 1990 (ebook via Ebrary)

“The Countersense of Chandigarh,” Daidalos, #64, 1997, p. 30-31

Crawford, Margaret, Building the Workingman's Paradise, Verso, HT123.C688 1995

El-Dahdah, Farès, CASE: Lucio Costa, Brasilia’s superquadra, Prestel, NA9166.B7 C37 2005

Epstein, David G., Brasilia, plan and reality, University of California Press, HD7323.B7 E67

Forsyth, Ann, “Planning lessons from three U.S. new towns of the 1960s and 1970s: Irvine, Columbia, and the Woodlands,” Journal of the American Planning Association, Autumn 2002, p. 387-416

Frantz, Douglas & Catherine Collins, Celebration U.S.A.; living in Disney's brave new town, Henry Holt & Company, HT165.C45F73 1999

Fry, Maxwell, “Chandigarh: new capital city,” Architectural Record, June 1955, p. 139-148

Gans, Herbert J., People and plans, Basic Books, HT167.G35

Gans, Herbert J., The Levittowners, Pantheon Books, HN80.W497G36 1982 (originally published 1967)

Ghirardo, Diane Yvonne, Building new communities: New Deal America and Fascist Italy, Princeton University Press, HT169.57.U6G48 1989

Gorlin, Alexander, “An analysis of the Governor's Palace of Chandigarh,” Oppositions, #19, 1980, p. 160-183

Hardy, Dennis, From Garden cities to new towns: campaigning for town and country planning, 1899-1946, Spon, 1991 (ebook via Ebrary)

Hardy, Dennis, From New towns to green politics: campaigning for town and country planning, 1946-1990, Spon, 1991 (ebook via Ebrary)

Hine, Robert V., California's utopian colonies, Yale University Press, HX655.C2H5 1983

Howard, Ebenezer, Garden cities of tomorrow, MIT Press, HT161.H6

Katz, Peter, et al., New Urbanism: toward an architecture of community, McGraw-Hill, NA2542.4.K38 1994

Kelly, Barbara M., Expanding the American dream: building and rebuilding Levittown, State University of New York Press, NA7571.K44 1993

Le Corbusier, The Radiant City; elements of a doctrine of urbanism to be used as the basis of our machine-age civilization, Orion Press, NA9030.J4213

Lee, Chang-Mon, “Is Kentlands better than Radburn? The American garden city and New Urbanist paradigms,” Journal of the American Planning Association, Winter 2003, p. 50-71

Mittner, Dunia, New towns: an investigation on urbanism, Jovis, HT169.55 .N4785 2017

“New towns,” Architectural design, September/October 1994 (Theme issue, mostly on Milton Keynes)

Niemeyer, Oscar, “Clearing Brasília,” Perspecta, # 34, 2003, p. 91-93 (PDF via Jstor)

Ross, Andrew, Celebration chronicles; life, liberty and the pursuit of property values in Disney's new town, Ballantine Books, HT169.57.U62C457 1999

Serenyi, Peter, “Timeless but of its time: Le Corbusier's architecture in India,” Perspecta, #20,1983, p. 91-118 (PDF via Jstor)

Stein, Clarence S., Toward new towns for America, Reinhold, NA9108.S8 1967

Upton, Dell, Common Places, University of Georgia Press, NA705.C58 1985 (Anthology of essays on early US community development)

Vidler, Anthony, “The New industrial world: the reconstruction of urban utopia in late nineteenth century France,” Perspecta, #13/14, 1971, p. 243-256 (PDF via Jstor)

“What Corbu has been up to: building an entire new city in India,” Architectural Forum, September 1953, p. 142-149

Williamson, June, “ Revisiting Levittown,” Places, Summer 2005, p. 46-51

Wittman, Richard, “Space, networks, and the Saint-Simonians,” Grey Room, #40, Summer 2010, p. 24-49 (PDF via Jstor)

Wright, Gwendolyn, The Politics of design in French colonial urbanism, University of Chicago Press, NA1590.2.M44W75 1991 

Angélil, Marc & Cary Siress, “Dubai, Inc.,” Log, #8, 2006, p. 137-142 (PDF via Jstor)

Berbić, Amir, “Dubai: land of contrasts,” Design Issues, Summer 2006, p. 42-47 (PDF via Jstor)

Bouman, Ole, “Desperate decadence,” Volume, #6, 2006, p. 4-8 (followed by Ayesha Al Sager’s rebuttal, “Neither desperate nor decadent,” p. 9-11)

Brown, Barbara B. & Vivian L. Cropper, “New urban and standard suburban subdivisions: evaluating psychological and social goals,” Journal of the American Planning Association, Autumn 2001, p. 402-420

Campanella, Thomas J., Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World, Princeton Architectural Press, 2008 (ebook via Ebrary)

Davis, Mike & Daniel Bertrand Monk, “Sand, fear & money in Dubai,” in Evil paradises, New Press, HB501.E848 2007

Donald, Alastair, “Ghost towns,” Architectural review, September 2012, p. 32-35

Donis, Fernando, “Dubai,” AA Files, #53, 2006, p. 48-55 (PDF via Jstor)

Duany, Andres, et al., The new civic art: elements of town planning, Rizzoli, NA9031.D72 2003

Dubai architecture & design. Köln, NA1473.2.D8D8 2006

Esquivel, Alberto & Jaime R. Alvayay, A Guide to Understanding Residential Subdivisions in California, Sacramento State College of Continuing Education, 2014 (PDF via Sacramento State)

Fahey, Marge, “Dubai's next phase,” Urban Land, August 2005, p. 81-85

Friedman, John, China's Urban Transition, University of Minnesota Press, 2005 (ebook via Ebrary)

Chung, Chuihua Judy, et al., Great leap forward: Harvard Design School project on the city, Taschen, HT384.C6G82 2001

Ideal city-real projects by Gerkan, Marg and Partner in China, Hatje Cantz, NA1545.I34 2005

Ivy, Robert Adams, “Dubai rises,” Architectural Record, February 2006, p. 60-65

Kanna, Ahmed, Dubai, the city as corporation, University of Minnesota Press, 2011 (ebook via Ebrary)

Machado, Rodolfo, “Dubai ... is not yet,” Harvard Design Magazine, #25, 2006/2007, p. 97-103

Miller, Tom, China's urban billion, Zed Books, 2012 (ebook via Ebrary)

Mittner, Dunia, New towns: an investigation on urbanism, Jovis, HT169.55 .N4785 2017

Nordenson, Guy, et al., New Haiti villages (Pamphlet Architecture #31), Princeton Architectural Press, 2010 (ebook via Ebrary)

Peacock, Edward, “’Toun town,” Wallpaper, #47, 2002, p. 270-283 (on Dubai)

Ramos, Stephen J., Dubai amplified: the engineering of a port geography, Ashgate, 2010 (ebook via Ebrary)

Yusuf, Shahid & Tony Saich, China urbanizes: consequences, strategies, and policies, World Bank, 2008 (ebook via Ebrary)

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  • These guides are intended to provide initial orientation, and suggest a variety of different lines of investigation—not take the place of individual research.
  • All the resources cited here--print and digital--are available through the Kappe Library at SCI-Arc.Items not available at SCI-Arc are not included.
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