Above the Pavement, the Farm! by Ag 101 (U.S. Department of Agriculture’s concise overview of current American food production)
American Planning Association, Small Town & Rural Planning division
Farm Equipment magazine
Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N.
Rural Transportation (website of Rural Planning Organizations of America, part of the National Association of Development Organizations)
Successful Farming magazine
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Strategic Economic and Community Development programs
U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library
See also agribusiness leaders : ADM/Archer Daniels Midland, Bayer Crop Science (formerly Monsanto), Cargill, Corteva Agriscience (DowDuPont), DeanFoods, General Mills, Land O’Lakes Inc., SGS, Syngenta, Tyson Foods, Wilbur-Ellis, Yara International, …
Banham, Reyner, "The Grain Elevator," Chapter 2 of A concrete Atlantis, MIT Press, NA958.I58B36 1986
Becher, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Grain elevators, MIT Press, TR654.B4313 2006
Cellauro, Louis & Gilbert Richaud, “François Cointereaux's École d'Architecture Rurale (1790-91) and its influence in Europe and the colonies,” Architectural history, v. 49, 2006, p. 129-148 (PDF available via Jstor)
Kirby, Jack Temple, "Designs necessary and sublime: historical and aesthetic meditations on agriculture," Harvard Design Magazine, Winter/Spring 2000, p. 41-46
Kohlmaier, Georg & Barna von Sartay, Houses of glass : a nineteenth-century building type, MIT Press, NA4140.K5813 1986
Koppelkamm, Stefan, Glasshouses and wintergardens of the nineteenth century, Rizzoli, NA8360.K6613 1981
Larkin, David, Farm : the vernacular tradition of working buildings, Monacelli Press, NA8201.L37 1995
Mahar-Keplinger, Lisa, Grain elevators, Princeton Architectural Press, TH4461.M34 1993
McMurry, Sally, “Buildings as sources for US agricultural history,” Agricultural History, Winter 2014, p. 45–67 (PDF available via Jstor)
Meyhöfer, Dirk, The architecture of wine: architecture and wine-growing in Bordeaux and the Napa Valley, Art Books International, NA6423.F7M49 1999
Noble, Allen G. & Richard K. Cleek, The old barn book: a field guide to North American barns and other farm structures, Rutgers University Press, NA8230.N63 1995
Robinson, John Martin, “Model farm buildings of the Age of Improvement,” Architectural history, v. 19, 1976, p. 17-31, 89-92 (PDF available via Jstor)
Saudan-Skira. Sylvia, Orangeries: palaces of glass, their history and development, Atelier d'edition/Le septieme, Oversize-NA8360.S2813 1998
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Wells, Camille, “The planter's prospect: houses, outbuildings, and rural landscapes in eighteenth-century Virginia,” Winterthur Portfolio, Spring 1993, p. 1-31 (PDF available via Jstor)
“Wineries,” Architecture & Urbanism, October 2008 (Theme issue)
Zwerger, Klaus, Cereal drying racks: culture and typology of wood buildings in Europe and East Asia, Birkhauser, NA8240 .Z8413 2020
Carlow, Vanessa, Ruralism: the future of villages and small towns in an urbanizing world, Jovis, HT361.R867 2016
Hobbes, Marieke, Figuring rural development, Leiden University Press, 2010 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Rewilding Europe (Advocating the planned de-civilization of large tracts of Europe)
Stilgoe, John R., Common landscape of America, 1580 to 1845, Yale University Press, E169.1.S83 1982
Tischler, William H., “The site arrangement of rural farmsteads,” Bulletin of the Association for Preservation Technology, 1978, p. 63-78 (PDF via Jstor)
“Vineyard, field, and orchard: landscapes of drink,” SiteLines: a journal of place, Fall 2014 (Theme issue; PDFs available via Jstor)
… Also see that Kappe Library Research Guide on Rural spaces
Benco, Nancy L. (Editor), The origins of agriculture : an international perspective, University of Alabama Press, 2009 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Blay-Palmer, Alison, Imagining sustainable food systems : theory and practice, Routledge, 2010 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Denham, Timothy P., Rethinking agriculture: archaeological and ethnoarchaeological perspectives, Routledge, 2009 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Federico, Giovanni, Feeding the world: an economic history of agriculture, 1800-2000, Princeton University Press, 2010 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Lockeretz, W, Organic farming: an international history, Centre for Agriculture & Bioscience International, 2007 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Pollan, Michael, The omnivore's dilemma : a natural history of four meals, Penguin, GT2850.P65 2006
Petrini, Carlo, Slow food: the case for taste, Columbia University Press, 2003 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Rusk, J. M., “American farming a hundred years hence,” The North American Review, March 1893, p. 257-264 (PDF available via Jstor)
Stoll, Steven, The fruits of natural advantage: making the industrial countryside in California, University of California Press, HD9247.C2S73 1998
Animal Estates (“The on-going Animal Estates initiative produces events and exhibitions to consider the animals that we share our cities with, and creates dwellings for animals that have been unwelcome or displaced by humans.”)
Breeds of livestock (Concise overview of animals in production, from Oklahoma State University)
Faccin, F., “Bee-keeping in an urban key,” Domus, May 2015. p. 46–48
Henderson, Jaime, “The L.A. bees,” California History, Fall 2014, p. 6–18 (PDF available via Jstor)
Prud'homme Farges, Olga, et al. (Editors), Stables : majestic spaces for horses, Rizzoli, NA8340.P7813 2006
Sadler, Julius Trousdale, American stables : an architectural tour, New York Graphic Society, NA8340.S22
Beecher, Mary Anne, “Building for ‘Mrs. Farmer’: published farmhouse designs and the role of the rural female consumer, 1900-1930,” Agricultural History, Spring 1999, p. 252–262 (PDF available via Jstor)
Blecksmith, Anne, “‘Raccolte di vedute’: early twentieth century architects' books and the making of a landscape for California,” Art Documentation, Fall 2002, p. 14–17 (PDF available via Jstor)
Fathy, Hassan, Architecture for the poor: an experiment in rural Egypt, University of Chicago Press, HN790.Q7F33 1973 (ebook also available via Ebook Central)
Franklin, Jill, The gentleman’s country house and its plan, 1835-1914, Routledge, NA7562.F7
Girouard, Mark, The Victorian country house, Yale University Press, NA7562.G5 1979
Henderson, Susan R., “Ernst May and the campaign to resettle the countryside: rural housing in Silesia, 1919-1925,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, June 2002, p. 188-211 (PDF available via Jstor)
Hise, Greg, " From roadside camps to garden homes: housing and community planning for California's migrant work force, 1935-1941,” in Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, NA705.G36 1995 (also available as PDF via Jstor)
Hyatt, Peter, Out of town : the country house, Images, NA7560.H67 2006
Kawashima, Chuji, Minka: traditional houses of rural Japan, Kodansha International, NA7451.K313 1986
Knapp, Ronald G. China’s old dwellings, University of Hawaii Press, NA7448.K567 2000
Lazzaro, Claudia, “Rustic country house to refined farmhouse: the evolution and migration of an architectural form,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 1985, p. 346–367 (PDF available via Jstor)
McMurry, Sally Ann, Families and farmhouses in 19th century America: vernacular design and social change, Oxford University Press, 1988 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Peterson, Fred W., Homes in the Heartland : balloon frame farmhouses of the Upper Midwest, University of Minnesota Press, 2008 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Bataille, Georges, & Annette Michelson, “Slaughterhouse,” October, #36, 1986, p. 11–13 (PDF aviailable via Jstor)
Brennan, James G., et al., Food processing handbook, Wiley, 2012 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Gideon, Sigfried, “Mechanization encounters the organic,” Part IV of Mechanization takes command, TH19.G54 2013
Howard, Robert A., “A primer on waterwheels,” Bulletin of the Association for Preservation Technology, v. 15, #3, 1983, p. 27–33 (PDF available via Jstor)
Lee, Paula Young, “Still life, after death,” Log, #20, 2010, p. 133–140 (PDF available via Jstor)
Pacyga, Dominic A., Slaughterhouse : Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the world it made, The University of Chicago Press, HD9419.U4 P33 2018
Rahman, Mohammad Shafuir & Jasim Ahmed, Handbook of food process design, Wiley, 2012 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Delillo, Don, "The most photographed barn in America," from White Noise (1985), reprinted in Storming the Reality Studio, Larry McCaffery (editor), Duke University Press, PS374.S35S76 1991
Hiltner, Ken, What Else Is Pastoral? Renaissance Literature and the Environment, Cornell University Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)
Martin, Meredith, Dairy queens: the politics of pastoral architecture from Catherine de' Medici to Marie-Antoinette, Harvard University Press, 2011 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Van Sickle, John, Virgil’s book of bucolics, the ten eclogues translated into English verse, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)
Virgil (Janet Lembke, translator), Virgil’s Georgics : a new verse translation, 2005, Yale University Press, 2006 (via Ebrary)
Williams, Raymond, The country and the city, Oxford University Press, PR409.C5W5 1973
Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums (ALHFAM)
Burden, Earnest E., Living barns; how to find and restore a barn of your own, Schiffer Publishing, TH3411.B87 2006
[Farm Cultural Park], Abitare, October 2016, p. 86-95 (Farm village turned into art center)
Hall, Derek, et al (editors), New directions in rural tourism, Routledge, 2016 (via Ebook Central)
Krugler, John D., Creating old world Wisconsin : the struggle to build an outdoor history museum of ethnic architecture, University of Wisconsin Press, 2013 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Salamon, Sonya, et al, Newcomers to old towns: suburbanization of the heartland, University of Chicago Press, 2007 (via Ebook Central)
Underill, Michael, An Architecture of substance : farm structures to contemporary houses, Brunnier Gallery and Museum, Iowa State University, NA8208.A7255 1990
Alex Tarr, “‘Carrots are nine-tenths of all you eat’: the urban geography of Los Angeles's cooperative exchange movement,” California History, Spring 2014, p. 74–76 (PDF available via Jstor)
"Architecture Surrounding Food," Architecture and Urbanism (A+U), #643, April 2024 (Theme issue)
Giseke, U. & Kaspar, C., “Connecting urban and rural spheres,” Topos: the international review of landscape architecture & urban design, 2017, #98, p. 70–77
Gorgolewski, Mark, Carrot City: creating places for urban agriculture, Monacelli Press, S494.5.U72 G67 2011
Hanson, David, and Edwin Marty, Breaking through concrete : building an urban farm revival, University of California Press, 2012 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Horst, M., et al., “The intersection of planning, urban agriculture, and food justice: a review of the literature,” Journal of the American Planning Association, 2017. v. 83, n. 3, p. 277–295
“Lotus in the fields,” Lotus International, 2012, #149 (Special issue)
Miazzo, Francesca & Mark Minkjan, Farming the city : food as a tool in today’s urbanization, Valiz, HD9000.5.F282 2013
Philips, April, Designing urban agriculture : a complete guide to the planning, design, construction, maintenance and management of edible landscapes, John Wiley & Sons, 2013 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Roo, Rosten, et al., Above the pavement: the farm! architecture & agriculture at P.F.1, Princeton Architectural Press, NA737.W67 A84 2010 (ebook also available via Ebook Central)
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