The City

aerial view blocks in a city surrounding courtyardsApplied Urban Design: A Contextually Responsive Approach
Philip Black
Available online

 

 

elevated walkway winds through the tree canopyCanopy Cities: Protecting and Expanding Urban Forests
Timothy Beatley
Available online

 

 

 

people walking on a curving path under a tall metal frameGraphic Design in Urban Environments
Robert Harland
Available online

 

 

exploded view of house with arrows pointing out on a blue groundBig House Little City: Architectural Design Through an Urban Lens
Benedict Zucchi
Available online

 

 

black and white title on greyscale backgroundThe Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy 
Vishaan Chakrabarti
Available in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library

 

 

View of skyscraper from belowDry Urbanism: Designing for Drought in the City
Rob Roggema, ed.
Available online

 

 

 

People with colorful paper umbrellas stand in front of city buildingsHumanizing the High-rise City: Podiums, Plazas, Parks, Pedestrian Networks, and Public Art 
Kheir Al-Kodmany
Available online

 

 

faint drawings on a monochrome orange coverKenzō Tange and the Metabolist Movement: Urban Utopias of Modern Japan 
Zhongjie Lin; foreword by Arata Isozaki
Available online

 

 

view across a park with a skyline behind in spring/summerRethinking Urban Green Spaces
Cecil C. Konijnendijk
Available to request

 

 

 

blurred green backgroundThe Role of Architects in Informal Settlements: Claiming the Right to the City 
Nastaran Sedehi and Seyed Hossein Iradj Moeini
Available online

 

 

figures dotted across a cream ground with curving linesTemporal Urban Design: Temporality, Rhythm and Place
Filipa Wunderlich
Available online

 

 

 

red book coverLivable Cities: Urban Heat Islands Mitigation for Climate Change Adaptation Through Urban Greening
Mohsen Aboulnaga, Antonella Trombadore, Mona Mostafa, and Ahmed Abouaiana
Available online

Education & Teaching

Rethinking the Crit
Patrick Flynn, Maureen O’Connor, Mark Price, and Miriam Dunn
Routledge 2023
Available Online

 

 

 

 

A Manual of Anti-Racist Architecture Education
Cruz Garcia
WAI, Architecture Think Tank, 2023
Available in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library

 

 

Title on grey book cover with author namesTeaching Graphic Design: Approaches, Insights, the Role of Listening and 24 Interviews with Inspirational Educators
Sven Ingmar Thies, ed.
Birkhauser, 2023
Available online

 

 

Architectural Education Through Materiality: Pedagogies of 20th Century Design
Elke Couchez and Rajesh Heynickx
Routledge, 2022
Available Online

 

 

Designing Landscape Architectural Education: Studio Ecologies for Unpredictable Futures
Rosalea Monacella and Bridget Keane
Routledge, 2023
Available Online

 

 

Radical Pedagogies
Beatriz Colomia, Ignacio G. Galan, Evangalos Kotsioris, Anna-Maria Meister
The MIT Press, 2022
Available in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library

 

 

The Routledge Handbook of Landscape Architecture Education
Diedrich Bruns and Stefanie Hennecke
Routledge, 2023
Available Online

 

 

A person holds up a poster with the title of the book with annotation linesThe Graphic Design Process: How to be Successful in Design School
Anitra Nottingham and Jeremy Stout
Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020
Available Online

Health & Wellness

Architecture for Health and Well-Being: A Sustainable Approach
María Eugenia Molar Orozco, ed.
CRC Press, 2023
Available online

 

 

 

Book Cover person in a wheelchair on a forest pathNature, Design, and Health: Explorations of a Landscape Architect
David Kamp
2023
On display in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library

 

The Routledge Companion to Ecological Design Thinking: Healthful Ecotopian Visions for Architecture and Urbanism
Mitra Kanaani, ed.
Routledge, 2023
Available online

 

 

Book cover man and child standing in front of a Brutalist buildingWork-life Balance in Architecture: Playing the Game
Igea Troiani
Routledge, 2024
Available online

 

 

Book cover naturalized steps amongst treesPeace by Design
Mardelle McCuskey Shepley, ed.
Routledge, 2025
Available online

 

 

Urban Blue Spaces: Planning and Design for Water, Health and Well-Being
Simon Bell, Friedrich Kuhlmann, Mathew P. White, Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen, James Grellier and Lora E. Fleming, eds.
Routledge, 2022
Available online

 

Book cover the multicolored title is set in an abstract house shape with a band of green below and yellow above

Happy by Design: A Guide to Architecture and Mental Wellbeing
Ben Channon
RIBA Publishing, 2023
Available online

 

 

Neuroscience for Designing Green Spaces: Contemplative Landscapes
Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo
Routledge, 2023
Available online

In the Civic Realm

Visualizations of Urban Space: Digital Age, Aesthetics, and Politics
Christiane Wagner
Routledge, 2023
Available online

 

 

The Garden in the Machine: Planning and Democracy in the Tennessee Valley Authority
Avigail Sachs
University of Virginia Press, 2023
Available in Pattee

 

Why Cities Need Large Parks: Large Parks in Large Cities
Richard Murrary, ed.
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022
Available in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library

 

 

Temporary and Tactical Urbanism : (Re)assembling Urban Space
Quentin Stevens and Kim Dovey
Routledge, 2023
Available online

 

 

Architecture of Threshold Spaces: a Critique of the Ideologies of Hyperconnectivity and Segregation in the Socio-Political Context
Laurence Kimmel
Routledge, 2022
Available online

 

 

Digital Participatory Planning: Citizen Engagement, Democracy, and Design
Alexander Wilson and Mark Tewdwr-Jones
Routledge, 2022
Available online

 

 

The Politics of Street Trees
Jan Woudstra and Camilla Allen, eds.
Routledge, 2022
Available online

 

 

Public Space: Notes on Why it Matters, What We Should Know, and How to Realize its Potential
Vikas Mehta
Routledge, 2022
Available online

 

 

Radical Functionalism: A Social Architecture for Mexico
Luis E. Carranza
Routledge, 2022
Available in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library

 

 

 

Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship: Transformative Methods in Social Sustainability Research
Alex Franklin, ed.
Springer Nature, 2022
Available online

New Books on Sustainability

Green coverPlanning with Landscape: Green Infrastructure to Build Climate-Adapted Cities 
Camila Gomes Sant’Anna, Ian Mell, Luciana Bongiovanni Martins Schenk, eds.
Springer, 2023
Available online

 

Title in front of a multicolored globeDesign for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered
Don Norman
MIT Press, 2023
Available in Pattee

 

 

Mountains and a troubled foregroundArchitects, Sustainability and the Climate Emergency: A Political Ecology 
Peter Raisbeck
Emerald Publishing, 2023
Available in Pattee

 

 

Illustration of pastel buildings on a steep slope, trees, and a craneRIBA Climate Guide
Mina Hasman
RIBA Publishing, 2023
Available online

 

a ridge pattern of wood Design Build with the Scarcity and Creativity Studio 
Christian Hermansen Cordua and Solveig Sandness
Routledge, 2023
Available online

 

 

An orange coverAchieving Building Comfort by Natural Means 
Ali Sayigh, ed.
Springer, 2022
Available online

 

 

yellow, blue, and white overlays on a city mapA Beginner’s Guide to Urban Design and Development: The ABC of Quality, Sustainable Design
Laura B. Alvarez
Routledge, 2023
Available online

 

 

drawings of cacti and other plants in black and white with a rainbow behindHeating with Wolves, Cooling with Cacti: Thermo-bio-architectural Framework (ThBA)
Negin Imani and Brenda Vale
Taylor & Francis Group, 2022
Available in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library

 

 

Text in black and blue on a white coverBuild Beyond Zero: New Ideas for Carbon-smart Architecture
Bruce King and Chris Magwood
Island Press, 2022
Available in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library

Designers: Life and Work

Title in front a curving wood frameAlvar Aalto And the Future of Architecture
Robert Cody
Routledge, 2023
Available Online

 

 

 

Brutalist style buildings fill the letters of the titleThe Brutalists: Brutalism’s Best Architects 
Owen Hopkins
Phaidon Press Limited, 2023
Available in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library 

 

 

Illustration of a woman in front of multi story buildingsLouise Blanchard Bethune 
Kelly Hayes McAlonie
State University of New York Press, 2023
Available Online

 

 

 

a long building sits across from a field of grass and paversAlvar Aalto and The Art of Landscape
Teija Isohauta
Routledge, 2022
Available Online

 

 

 

Two women sit in an open top car with curving linesAmaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern: Architecture and the Black American Middle Class
Jacqueline Taylor
The MIT Press, 2023
Available in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library 

 

 

drawings of arches separated by columns resting on the same with views of the landscape and figures beyond Giuliano da Sangallo and The Ruins of Rome
Cammy Brothers
Princeton University Press, 2022
Available at Pattee

 

 

a sculpture rests on a terrace that seems to float on water stairs to building rise on the rightMinoru Yamasaki and the Fragility of Architecture
Paul Kidder
Routledge, 2022
Available Online

 

 

 

black title text on a red backgroundNotes From Another Los Angeles : Gregory Ain and the Construction of a Social Landscape
Anthony Fontenot
The MIT Press, 2022
Available in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library 

 

 

a garden with trees and a walkway on the rightGarden As Art: Beatrix Farrand at Dumbarton Oaks
Thaïsa Way; with photographs by Sahar Coston-Hardy
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2022
Available in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library 

Society & Design

Architectures of Spatial Justice
Dana Cuff
The MIT Press, 2023
Available in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library 

 

 

Multisensory Landscape Design : A Designer’s Guide for Seeing
Daniel Roehr
New York, NY: Routledge 2022
Available online 

 

 

 

The Architecture of Disability : Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes Beyond Access
David Gissen
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 2022
Available at Pattee 

 

 

 

MANY VOICES: Architecture for Social Equity
Sara Caples
Riba Publishing, 2022
Available online

 

Queering Architecture: Methods, Practices, Spaces, Pedagogies
Marko Jobst, ed. Naomi Stead, ed.
London; New York; Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023
Available in Pattee 

 

 

 

A Guide to Socially-Informed Research for Architects and Designers
Michelle Yvonne Janning
Routledge, 2022
Available online 

 

 

 

Neurodivergence and Architecture
Anthony Clarke, ed. Jos Boys, ed. John Gardner, ed. 
Cambridge, MA: Academic Press, 2022
Available online 

 

 

 

A Bittersweet Heritage : Slavery, Architecture and the British Landscape
Victoria Perry
London: Hurst & Company, 2022. New York, NY: Distributed in the United States, Canada, and Latin America by Oxford University Press. Glasgow: Printed by Bell and Bain Ltd.
Available in Pattee 

 

 

Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation
Amanda Cachia, ed.
Routledge, 2022
Available Online  

 

 

 

Post-Industrial Urban Greenspace Ecology, Aesthetics and Justice
Jennifer J. Foster
Abingdon, Oxon; New York NY: Routledge, 2023
Available Online 

 

 

 

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado-Perez
New York: Adams Press, 2019
Available Online 

Podcasts

Recommendations from the Association for Architecture School Librarians and ASLA

99% Invisible
“the unnoticed architecture and design that shape our world”

About Buildings+Cities
History, but with ties to today.

American Planning Association
Talks with planners and on topics of health, transportation, etc.

Archispeak
Chats on life, school, and jobs surrounding architectural practice.

ArchitectureTalk
Focused on contemporary projects and theory

Building Hope
Projects and ideas that focus on resiliency and community.

DESIGN:ED
Weekly guests from prominent firms.

Design Matters
Guest discussions with designers as well as other figures in the arts

Scratching the Surface
Discussions with figures in the arts lead by a graphic designer.

The Second Studio
They’re very clear that some of their content is not PG.

Talking Practice
Designers discuss current topics in practice.

US Modernist Radio
Hear discussions of Modernism before heading over to their open-access Architecture Magazine Library.

Amusement Parks

New and Noteworthy

Night view of Luna Park, Coney IslandElectric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity
Lauren Rabinovitz
2012

 

 

 

A view of an 18th century landscapeThe Pleasure Garden: From Vauxhall to Coney Island
Jonathan Conlin
2013

 

 

 

A white man confronts a black man with a carousel horse in betweenRace, Riots, and Roller Coasters
Victoria W. Wolcott
2012
Available online and in paper 

 

 

 

Teal houses in front of pink castles on a teal fieldA Cultural History of the Disneyland Theme Parks: Middle Class Kingdoms
Sabrina Mittermeier
2020

 

 

LA+
Issue on Pleasure
Fall 2015

“Enjoyment in the Night: Discovering Leisure in Philadelphia’s Eighteenth-century Rural Pleasure Gardens”
Anne Beamish
Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes, Vol 35 No. 3 2015

 

Not Quite So New, But Quite Topical

Snow White's castle on a yellow fieldDesigning Disney’s ThemeParks: The Architecture of Reassurance
Karal Ann Marling
1997

 

 

park landscapesThemeParkLandscapes: Antecedents and Variations
Terence Young and Robert B. Riley
2002 

 

 

 

Fish eye view of park, city skyline, and skyThe Invention of the Park: Recreational Landscapes from the Garden of Eden to Disney’s Magic Kingdom 
Karen R. Jones and John Wills
2005

 

 

 

A Coney Island scale crowd below a wooden coasterThe PlayfulCrowd: Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century
Gary S. Cross and John K. Walton
2005

 

 

Looping roller coasters and other ridesLandscape of Recreation II:AmusementParks
Francisco Asensio Cerver and Antonia Dueñas
1994

 

 

 

A crowd divider that turns into a benchTotal Landscape, ThemeParks, Public Space
Miodrag Mitrašinović
2006

 

 

Title on the Las Vegas signDream Worlds: Architecture and Entertainment
Oliver Herwig
2006

 

 

Epcot sphere, castle, and a building with Mickey's hat from FantasiaBuilding a Dream: The Art of Disney Architecture
Beth Dunlop
1996

 

 

A carousel horse below and people in a pool aboveThemePark
Scott A. Lukas
2008

 

 

 

people on a stair or escalatorVariations on aThemePark: The New American City and the End of Public Space 
Michael Sorkin
1992

 

 

 

A streamlined moderne building on a blue fieldForm Follows Fun: Modernism and Modernity in British Pleasure Architecture 1925-1940 
Bruce Peter
2007

 

 

book coverThe Theming of America: Dreams, Media Fantasies, and Themed Environments
Mark Gottdiener
2001

 

 

 

Older Titles for a Deep Dive

The loop of a metal coaster Theme and Amusement Parks
Francisco Asensio Cerver
1997

 

 

People at the seaside with a modernist hotel behindEncyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America 
Gary S. Cross
2004

 

 

Fairground Attractions: A Genealogy of the Pleasure GroundA Farris Wheel
Deborah Philips
2012

 

 

 

Children at the beachWorking at Play a History of Vacations in the United States
Cindy Sondik Aron
1999
Available online or in paper

 

 

Greyscale image of the downslope of a wooden coaster The Incredible Scream Machine: A History of the Roller Coaster
Robert Cartmell
1987

 

 

“Amusement Parks as Landscapes of Popular Culture: An Analysis of Willow Grove Park and the Wildwoods”
JM Doherty
1999

Loose photos of a roller coaster and other ridesThe Global Theme Park Industry
Anton Clavé
2007

 

 

 

Fountains in front of a fantasy building and a roller coasterAmusement Parks of Pennsylvania
Jim Futrell
2002

 

 

 

a carousel Fairground Architecture 
David Braithwaite
1968

 

 

A wide D with Cinderella's Castle insideThe Story of Walt Disney World
Walt Disney Productions
1971

 

 

Title shaped like roller coaster hillsThe American Amusement Park Industry: A History of Technology and Thrills 
Judith Adams-Volpe
1991

 

 

 

Fantasy trees or lights with rectilinear buildingsDes Mondes Inventés: Les Parcs à Thème
Anne-Marie Eyssartel
1992

 

 

 

Ferris Wheel lit up at nightThe Great American Amusement Parks: A Pictorial History
Gary Kyriazi
1976

 

 

Walt Disney’s DisneylandSnow White's Castle in Disneyland
Marty Sklar
1965

 

 

a dirt road with the image tinted blueThe Culture of Nature: North American Landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez 
Alexander Wilson
1991

 

Photo Books

Crowds in front of a roller coaster

Western Pennsylvania’s Lost Amusement Parks
Rachel E. Smith
2020

 

 

 

Luna: Pittsburgh’s Original Lost KennywoodRed and gold entry pavilion with classical details and a moon against a blue background
Brian Butko
2017

 

 

 

Scenes of park buildings in a landscapeIdlewild: History and Memories of Pennsylvania’s Oldest Amusement Park
Jennifer Sopko
2018

 

People watching small race cars Hersheypark
Pamela Cassidy Whitenack
2006

 

 

 

Arc with stairs going up to itKennywood
David P. Hahner
2004

 

 

 

Dutch Wonderlandgrouping of pictures, a castle, a train, a roller coaster
Austen Dennison
2015

 

 

 

Children in a roller coaster carDorney Park
Wally Ely with Bob Ott
2003

 

 

 

Sign made out of clown hitting a drum for Kiddie LandIdlewild
Jeffrey S. Croushore
2004

 

 

 

Looping rollercoaster lightly printed behind the titleHersheypark: The Sweetness of Success  
Charles J. Jacques
1997

Cardboard

book cover, cardboard brown on top yellow on the bottom with a black dot on the rightCard Board Book 
Narelle Yabuka, ed.
2010

 

 

Stacked boxes against a blue background resembling skyscrapersCardboard in Architecture
Mick Eekhout, Fons Verheijen, Ronald Visser, eds.
2008

 

 

White title on brown ground with images of packaging on either sideUnpack Me Again! Packaging Meets Creativity / Le Packaging Créatif Packaging Creativo
Wang Shaoqiang
2017

 

examples of blocks in city planning above and below titlePlay in Creative Problem-solving for Planners and Architect
Ron Kasprisin
2016

 

 

book cover with various examples of sculpture created using cardboardThe Art of Cardboard: Big Ideas for Creativity, Collaboration, Storytelling, and Reuse
Online or in paper
Lori Zimmer
2015

 

title on woodgrainInstallation Art Now
Gingko Press
2013

 

 

tomato boxes deconstructed and arranged in geometric formsRobert Rauschenberg: Cardboards and Related Pieces
essay by Yve-Alain Bois
catalogue by Clare Elliott
introduction by Josef Helfenstein
2007

 

The title of the book looks like an idealized label printed on a cardboard box Box It Up: Graphic Express 
Basher Graphic Books and Working Title & Co.
2014