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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

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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 

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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 

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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.

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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 Theme Parks: The Architecture of Reassurance
Karal Ann Marling
1997

 

 

park landscapesTheme Park Landscapes: 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 Playful Crowd: Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century
Gary S. Cross and John K. Walton
2005

 

 

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

 

 

 

A crowd divider that turns into a benchTotal Landscape, Theme Parks, 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 aboveTheme Park
Scott A. Lukas
2008

 

 

 

people on a stair or escalatorVariations on a Theme Park: 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

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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

 

 

 

 

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Reading Selections for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

blue lines on a white background with title aboveDesigning Interventions to Address Complex Societal Issues
Sarah Morton, ed.
2022
Available online

 

 

title in pink with pink with a pink field on a diagonal behind subtitle similarly in yellow on red backgroundExtra Bold: A feminist Inclusive Anti-Racist Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers
Ellen Lupton, Farah Kafei, Jennifer Tobias, Josh A. Halstead, Kaleena Sales, Leslie Xia, Valentina Vergara
2021
Available online
Available in paper

 

small orange, pink, blue and green diagrams on a white field Designing a Just City: How Architecture Reshapes Property, Equity, Ecology, and Economy
Janette Kim, ed.
2021
Available in paper

 

greyscale image of figures walking along a boardwalk with a green overlay Landscapes of Exclusion: State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South
William E. O’Brien
2016
Available online
Available in paper

 

photo of seesaws on the border wall Designing Peace: Building a Better Future Now
Cynthia E. Smith
2022
Available in paper

 

 

blue text on a red background with web designIn Search of African American Space: Redressing Racism
Jeffrey Hogrefe, Scott Ruff, with Carrie Eastman, Ashley Simone, eds.
2020
Available in paper

 

 

intersecting multi-colored grids with the title below Information Design for the Common Good: Human-centric Approaches to Contemporary Design Challenges
Courtney Marchese
2021
Available in paper

 

 

red divided city maps on a green background with white linesReconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America  
Sean Anderson and Mabel O. Wilson, eds.
2021
Available in paper

 

black and red title on white background Our Voices II, The De-colonial Project
Rebecca Kiddle, Luugigyoo Patrick Stewart, and Kevin O’Brien
2021
Available in paper

 

road map with trees in plan in monochrome green How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens
Hillary Angelo
2021
Available online

 

 

rectilinear concrete and wood structure in front of a blue sky Many Voices: Architecture for Social Equity
Sara Caples and Everardo Jefferson
2022
Currently being acquired