Recreation buildings: General resources

Chytry, Josef, “Disney’s design,” Boom: a journal of California, v.2, #1, Spring 2012, p.33-44

Davies, Paul, “Walt Disney,” Architectural Review, January 2016, p.44-46

Hench, John & Peggy Van Pelt, Designing Disney: Imagineering and the art of the show, Disney Editions, GV1853.3.C22 D573 2008

Kurtti, Jeff, Walt Disney’s Imagineering legends: and the genesis of the Disney theme park, Disney Editions, GV1851 .K87 2008  

Moore, Charles W., “You Have to Pay for the Public Life,” Perspecta, #9/10, 1965, p.57-65, 68-106

“Music and the Disney Theme Park Experience,” Ethnomusicology Forum, v.13, #2, November 2004 (Theme issue)

Aching, Gerard, Masking and Power: Carnival and Popular Culture in the Caribbean, University of Minnesota Press, 2002 (via Ebook Central)

Carlson, Amanda B., “Calabar Carnival: a Trinidadian tradition returns to Africa,” African Arts, Winter 2010, p.42-59 (PDF via Jstor)

“Carnival,” Oxford Art Online

Harris, Max, Carnival and Other Christian Festivals: Folk Theology and Folk Performance, University of Texas Press, 2003 (via Ebook Central)

Niekrenz, Yvonne, “The elementary forms of carnival: collective effervescence in Germany’s Rhineland,” The Canadian Journal of Sociology, v.39, #4, 2014, p.643-666 (via Jstor)

“Trinidad and Tobago Carnival,” TDR, Autumn 1998 (Theme issue)

Amunátegui, Cristóbal, “Circles, circuits, cycles,” AA Files, #71, 2015, p.75-89 (via Jstor)

Bouissac, Paul, Semiotics at the Circus, De Gruyter, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Dingles Fairground Heritage Centre (UK)

National Fairground and Circus Archive, University of Sheffield, UK

The Ringling collection of circus posters, playbills, and trade cards.

Simon, Linda, The greatest shows on earth: a history of the circus, Reaktion Books, 2014 (via Ebook Central)

"The story of the circus," Victoria and Albert Museum, [2022?]

Bucknell, Alice, “Do it, do it disco,” Metropolis, May 2018, p.152-156 (Vitra Design Museum exhibit)

“Club culture,” Architectural design (AD), November/December 2003 (Theme issue on private clubs)

Crook, J. Mordaunt, "The architecture of clubland," AA Files, #1, 1982, p.9-15 (classical tradition in clubhouse architecture) (PDF via Jstor)

“Disco mystic,” Domus, January 2008 (Theme issue)

Kries, Mateo, et al (Editors), Night fever : designing club culture, 1960-today, Vitra Design Museum, NK2195.N55 N54 2018

Lavin, Sylvia, “Andy Architect™ - or, a funny thing happened on the way to the disco,” Log, #15, Winter 2009, p.99-110

Wilkinson, Tom, “Dark matters,” Architectural Review, May 2018, p.116-119

Boorsch, Suzanne, “Fireworks! Four centuries of pyrotechnics in prints & drawings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Summer 2000, p.3-52

Cherry, Bridget, “London’s public events and ceremonies: an overview through three centuries,” Architectural History, 2013, v.56, p.1-28

Kiger, Patrick J., “Crowdfunding your way to urban identity,” Urban Land, July/August 2013, p.42-47 (On crowd-funded street festivals)

Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia et al, Sidewalks: conflicts and negotiation over public space, MIT Press, 2009 (See Ch. 4 “Performing collective identities: parades, festivals & celebrations”) (via Ebook Central)

“Pageant & festival arts,” “Catafalque,” and “Triumphal arch,” Oxford Art Online

Stevenson, Christine, “Occasional architecture in seventeenth-century London,” Architectural History, v.49, 2006, p.35-74

American Fitness Professionals & Associates  (Good links)

Bergren, Ann, “Gold's Gym in Venice, Ca.,” Assemblage, #13, December 1990, p.6-33 (via Jstor)

Diedrich, Richard J., Building type basics for recreational facilities, John Wiley & Sons, NA2543.R43 D54 2005

“Gymnasium,” Oxford Art Online

McMenamin, Mark, “Survival of the fittest,” Interior Design, January 2010, p.158-167

Schoof, Jakob, “Active cities,” Detail, 2018, #7/8, p.24-31

Thompson, Matt, “On your marks,” RIBA Journal, April 2016, p.71-72

Urban Land Institute, Health/fitness clubs and recreation centers: selected references, ULI, GV428 .U72 2000

Brenner, Neil, “Open city or the right to the city?” Topos, December 2013, p.42-45

City Parks Alliance

Conway, Hazel, “Everyday Landscapes: Public Parks from 1930 to 2000,” Garden History, Summer 2000, p.117-134 (PDF via Jstor)

Cranz, Galen, The politics of park design: a history of urban parks in America, MIT Press, SB482.A4 C73 1982

Cranz, Galen, “Women in Urban Parks,” Signs, Spring 1980, p.79-95 (PDF via Jstor)

“Five creative urban park spaces,” Urban Land, July/August 2013, p.71-81

Garcia Sanchis, Maite, “Along the High Line,” Lotus International, February 2016, p.32-41

Harnik, Peter, Urban green: innovative parks for resurgent cities, Island Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Low, Setha et al, Rethinking urban parks: public space and cultural diversity, University of Texas Press, 2005 (via Ebook Central)

 “Park,” Oxford Art Online

Cole, David N. & Laurie Yung (editors), Beyond naturalness: rethinking park and wilderness stewardship in an era of rapid change, Island Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Eagles, Paul F. J. & Stephen McCool, Tourism in national parks and protected areas: planning and management, CABI, 2003 (via Ebook Central)

Kaiser, Harvey H., National park architecture sourcebook, Princeton Architectural Press, 2008 (via Ebook Central)

Patin, Thomas et al, Observation points: the visual poetics of national parks, University of Minnesota Press, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Ross-Bryant, Lynn, “Sacred sites: nature and nation in the U.S. national parks,” Religion and American Culture, Winter 2005, p.31-62 (PDF via Jstor)

Tweed, William C. & Jonathan B. Jarvis, Uncertain path: a search for the future of national parks, University of California Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

American Trails (Searchable database of recreational trails)

Arvidson, Adam Regn, “Power to the pedalers,” Planning, May/June 2012, p.10-17

Chamberlain, Silas, “The other end of the tracks,” Landscape Architecture Magazine, September 2014, p.124-126, 128, 130, 132 (Converting rail lines to trails)

National Association of City Transportation Officials, Urban bikeway design guide, NACTO, TE301.N38 2014

Shreve, Elizabeth, “Open spaces and active transportation,” Urban Land, January/February 2014, p.75-79

Sullivan, Thomas, “Bikes across America: efforts are under way to build a national cycling network,” Planning, November 2016, p.20-270

Birks, Kimberlie, “Architects in the swing,” Abitare, July/August 2011, p.120-127

Broto, Carles, New playground design : design guidelines and case studies, Linksbooks, GV425.B76 2012

Burkhalter, Gabriela, The Playground project, 3rd edition, Park Books, GV423.B87 2023

Glas, René, et al.,The Playful Citizen: Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture, Amsterdam University Press, 2019. (Ebook available via Jstor)

Lange, Alexandra, The design of childhood, Bloomsbury Publishing, GV425 .L36 2018

Logan, Katharine, “Go wild, Oregon child” Landscape Architecture Magazine, March 2015, p.134-145 (On three nature-based playground projects)

Phemister, Molly, “Prime (play) time: today's playgrounds are for everybody,” Planning, October 2011, p.36-38

“Playgrounds in the Built Environment” (theme issue), Built Environment, vol. 25, no. 1, 1999. (PDFs available via Jstor)

Solomon, Susan G.. The Science of Play : How to Build Playgrounds That Enhance Children's Development, University Press of New England, 2014 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Tai, Lolly, Designing outdoor environments for children, McGraw-Hill, GV425 .D47 2006

Ulam, Alex, “DIY, kiddo: a program by the Trust for Public Land lets kids design their own schoolyards,"  Landscape Architecture Magazine, March 2015, p.52, 54, 56, 58, 60, 62.

Winder, Jon, Designed for Play: Children’s Playgrounds and the Politics of Urban Space, 1840–2010, University of London Press, 2024. (Ebook available via Jstor)

“Bath,” Oxford Art Online

Campanella, Thomas J., “Playground of the Century: a political and design history of New York City’s greatest unbuilt park,” JSAH, June 2013 (Projects for Brooklyn’s Gerritsen tidal marsh) (via Jstor)

Flug, Marshall & Fred A, Klancnik, Marinas, Parks and Recreation Developments, American Society of Civil Engineers, TC3289.M39 1994

Gonchar, Joann, “Ripple effect: a string of proposed projects aims to reclaim urban waterways for people,” Architectural Record, 105-108, 110

Greco, JoAnn, “Hail to the blue and the green,” Planning, November 2010, p.12-16

Gutman, Marta, “Race, Place, and Play: Robert Moses and the WPA Swimming Pools in New York City,” JSAH, December 2008, p.[532]-561 (via Jstor)

World Waterpark Association

Yegul, Fikret K., “The Thermo-Mineral Complex at Baiae and De balneis puteolanis,” Art Bulletin, March 1996, p.137-161 (PDF via Jstor)