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Part 1 - Processes, Practices, Theories, and Traditions
1Boston: Transforming and Constructing NatureRequired

Amazon logo Williams, Raymond. "Ideas of Nature." In Problems in Materialism and Culture. New York, NY: Verso, 1980, pp. 67-85. ISBN: 0860917290.

Amazon logo Spirn. "Reclaiming Common Ground: Water, Neighborhoods, and Public Spaces." In The American Planning Tradition. Edited by Robert Fishman. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Press, and Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. ISBN: 094387596X.

Further Reading

Amazon logo Williams, Raymond. The Country and the City. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1973. ISBN: 0195197364.

Thomas, W. L., ed. Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth. Chicago, IL: Published for the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the National Science Foundation by the University of Chicago Press, 1956.

Amazon logo Melosi, Martin. The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0801861527.

Tarr, Joel. Infrastructure and Urban Growth in the Nineteenth Century. Essays in Public Works History No. 14. Kansas City, MO: Public Works Historical Society, 1985.

Amazon logo Whitehill, Walter Muir. Boston: A Topographical History. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1968. ISBN: 0674079515.

Amazon logo Kennedy, Lawrence. Planning the City Upon a Hill: Boston Since 1630. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts, 1992. ISBN: 0870237802.

Amazon logo Krieger, Alex, et al. Mapping Boston. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. ISBN: 0262112442.

Baxter, Sylvester. "Report of the Secretary." and Charles Eliot, "Report of the Landscape Architect." In Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners . Boston, MA: Wright and Potter Print. Co., 1893.

Amazon logo Zaitzevsky, Cynthia. Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Park System. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1983. ISBN: 0674318315.

Emmet, Alan. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Changing of a Landscape. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1978.

Skehan, James. Puddingstone, Drumlins, and Ancient Volcanoes: A Geological Field Guide to Boston. Dedham, MA: WesStone Press, 1979.

Amazon logo Cronon, William. Nature's Metropolis. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1991. ISBN: 0393308731.

Amazon logo Hurley, Andrew, ed. Common Fields: An Environmental History of St. Louis. St. Louis, MO: Missouri Historical Society, 1997. ISBN: 1883982162.

Amazon logo Davis, Mike. Ecology of Fear. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books, 1998. ISBN: 0805051066.

Amazon logo Cosgrove, Dennis. Palladian Landscape. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1993. ISBN: 027100942X.

Amazon logo Nishimura, Kimiko. Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995. ISBN: 0520071352.
2Urban Nature and City Design: Practice, Theory, and Tradition IRequired

Amazon logo Spirn. The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1984. ISBN: 0465026990.

Further Reading

Amazon logo Creese, Walter. Search for Environment. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1966. ISBN: 0801843634.

Amazon logo Spirn. "Urban Nature and Human Design: Renewing the Great Tradition." In Classic Readings in Urban Planning. Edited by Jay Stein. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1995. ISBN: 0070611386.

Amazon logo Marsh, George Perkins. Man and Nature. New York, NY: C. Scribner, 1864. ISBN: 0295983167.

Amazon logo Sutton, S. B., ed. Civilizing American Cities: A Selection of Frederick Law Olmsted's Writings on City Landscapes. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1971. ISBN: 0262650126.

Amazon logo Spirn. "Constructing Nature: The Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted." In Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature. Edited by William Cronon. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1995. ISBN: 0393038726.

Geddes, Patrick. Cities in Evolution. London, UK: Williams and Norgate, 1915.

Amazon logo Mumford, Lewis. Urban Prospect. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968. ISBN: 0844661147.

Amazon logo McHarg, Ian. Design with Nature. Garden City, NY: Natural History Press, 1969. ISBN: 0385055099.

Wallace McHarg Rpberts and Todd, Comprehensive Plan for Sanibel, Florida (1974).

Juneja, Narendra, and Spirn. Environmental Resources of the Toronto Central Waterfront. Philadelphia, PA: Wallace McHarg Roberts and Todd, 1976.

Amazon logo Lynch, Kevin. Good City Form. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1981. ISBN: 0262620464.

Amazon logo Spirn. "The Authority of Nature." In Nature and Ideology. Edited by Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1997. ISBN: 0884022463.

Amazon logo Hough, Michael. Cities and Natural Process. New York, NY: Routledge, 1995. ISBN: 0415121981.
3Urban Nature and City Design: Practice, Theory, and Tradition IIRequired

Amazon logo Hise, Greg, and William Deverell, eds. Eden By Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000. ISBN: 0520224159.
See Original Illustrations.

Further Reading

Amazon logo Schön, Donald. The Reflective Practitioner. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1983. ISBN: 046506874X.

Amazon logo Lynch, Kevin. "Urban Design," and "City Design: What It Is and How It Might Be Taught." In City Sense and City Design. Edited by Banerjee and Southworth. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990. ISBN: 0262121433.

Amazon logo Fogelson, Robert. The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967. ISBN: 0520082303.

Amazon logo Davis, Mike. Ecology of Fear. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books, 1998. ISBN: 0805051066.

Amazon logo Hayden, Dolores. The Power of Place: Urban Landscape as Public History. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995. ISBN: 0262581523

Copeland, Robert Morris. The Most Beautiful City in America: Essay and Plan for the Improvement of the City of Boston. Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard, 1872.

Amazon logo Fein, Albert. Landscape into Cityscape: Frederick Law Olmsted's Plans for a Greater New York City. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1968. ISBN: 0442225393.

Baxter, Sylvester. "Report of the Secretary." and Charles Eliot, "Report of the Landscape Architect." In Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners . Boston, MA: Wright and Potter Print. Co., 1893.

Nolen, John. City Planning. New York, NY: D. Appleton and Co., 1916.

Hubbard, Theodora Kimball, and Henry Vincent Hubbard. Our Cities To-Day and To-Morrow. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1929.

Amazon logo McHarg, Ian. Design with Nature. Garden City, NY: Natural History Press, 1969. ISBN: 0385055099.
4West Philadelphia's Mill Creek: Rebuilding Urban Communities and Restoring Natural EnvironmentsRequired

Spirn. The West Philadelphia Landscape Plan: A Framework for Action. University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts, 1991.
West Philadelphia Landscape Project.

Further Reading

Amazon logo Spirn. Language of Landscape. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. ISBN: 0300082940.

McHarg, Ian. "An Ecological Method for Landscape Architecture." Landscape Architecture 57 (January 1967): 105-7.

Amazon logo Lynch, Kevin. "Environmental Adaptability (1958)." In City Sense and City Design. Edited by Banerjee and Southworth. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990. ISBN: 0262121433.

Amazon logo ———. Good City Form. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1981. ISBN: 0262620464.

Amazon logo Jakle, John, and David Wilson. Derelict Landscapes: The Wasting of America's Built Environment. Savage, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1992. ISBN: 0847677362.

Amazon logo Bryant, Bunyan, ed. Environmental Justice. Washington, DC: Island, 1995. ISBN: 1559634170.

Amazon logo Warner, Sam Bass. To Dwell Is to Garden. Boston, MA: Northeastern, 1987. ISBN: 1555530079.

Amazon logo Cobb, Edith. Ecology of Imagination in Childhood. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1977. ISBN: 0231038704.
Tree People of Los Angeles.
5Earth and WaterRequired

Select one of the two sets of readings below.

Earth

Robinson, G. D., and A. M. Spieker. "Nature to be Commanded: Earth Science Maps Applied to Land and Water Management." Geological Survey Professional Paper 950. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1978.

Amazon logo McPhee, John. "Los Angeles against the Mountains," In The Control of Nature. New York, NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989. ISBN: 0374128901.

Or

Amazon logo Dunne, Thomas, and Luna Leopold. Water in Environmental Planning. San Francisco, CA: W.H. Freeman and Co., 1978. ISBN: 0716700794.
Tree People, Trans-Agency Resources for Environmental and Economic Sustainability, Los Angeles.

Further Reading

Amazon logo Leveson, David. Geology and the Urban Environment. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1980. ISBN: 0195025784.

Amazon logo Leggett, R. F. Cities and Geology. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1973. ISBN: 0070370621.

Amazon logo Craul, Philip. Urban Soils. New York, NY: Wiley, 1999. ISBN: 0471189030.

Amazon logo Davis, Mike. Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books, 1998. ISBN: 0805051066.

Amazon logo Weiskel, Peter, et al. Water Resources and the Urban Environment, Lower Charles River Watershed, Massachusetts, 1630-2005. Reston, VA: USGS, 2005. ISBN: 0607968745. (USGS Circular 1280.)

Amazon logo Hedeen, Stanley. The Mill Creek: An Unnatural History of an Urban Stream. Accord, NY: Blue Heron Press, 1994. ISBN: 0964343606.

Amazon logo Marchione, William. The Charles: A River Transformed. Dover, NH: Arcadia, 1998. ISBN: 0752408275.

Amazon logo Crouch, Dora. Water Management in Ancient Greek Cities. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN: 0195072804.

Blake, Nelson. Water for the Cities: A History of the Urban Water Supply Problem in the US. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1956.

Juneja, Narendra, and Spirn. Environmental Resources of the Toronto Central Waterfront. Philadelphia, PA: Wallace, McHarg, Roberts, and Todd, 1976.

Spirn. Woodlands New Community: Guidelines for Site Planning. Philadelphia, PA: Wallace, McHarg, Roberts, and Todd, 1973.
6Air and the Urban BiomeRequired

Select one of the two sets of readings below.

Arnfield, A. John. "Two Decades of Urban Climate Research." International Journal of Climatology 23 (2003): 1-26.

Amazon logo Spirn. "Better Air Quality at Street Level: Strategies for Urban Design." Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2003. ISBN: 007068507X.
Battle McCarthy.

Or

Amazon logo Olmsted, Frederick Law, and J. B. Harrison. "Observations on the Treatment of Public Plantations, More Especially Related to the Uses of the Axe." In Forty Years of Landscape Architecture: Central Park. Edited by F. L. Olmsted, Jr. and Theodora Kimball. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1973. ISBN: 0262150093.

Amazon logo Page, Max. "Uses of the Axe." In The Creative Destruction of Manhattan. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1999, pp. 177-215. ISBN: 0226644685.

Amazon logo Hough, Michael. "Plants." In Cities and Natural Processes. New York, NY: Routledge, 1995. ISBN: 0415298555.
Casey Trees.

Further Reading

Amazon logo Landsberg, Helmut. The Urban Climate. New York, NY: Academic Press, 1981. ISBN: 0124359604.

Amazon logo Givoni, B. Man, Climate, and Architecture. London, UK: Applied Science, 1976. ISBN: 085334678X.

Amazon logo Spirn. "Better Air Quality at Street-Level: Strategies for Urban Design." In Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2003. ISBN: 007068507X.

Amazon logo Trefil, James. A Scientist in the City. New York, NY: Doubleday, 1994. ISBN: 0385247974.

Amazon logo Anderson, Edgar. Landscape Papers. Berkeley, CA: Turtle Island Foundation, 1976. ISBN: 0913666114.

Boston Redevelopment Authority. Boston Urban Wilds. Boston, MA: The Boston Redevelopment Authority, 1976.

Amazon logo Davis, Mike. Ecology of Fear. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books, 1998. ISBN: 0805051066.

Amazon logo Platt, R. H., R. A. Rowntree, and P. C. Muick. The Ecological City: Preserving and Restoring Urban Biodiversity. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994. ISBN: 0870238841.

Amazon logo Lynch, Kevin. Wasting Away. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1990. ISBN: 0871566753.

Amazon logo Nicholson-Lord, David. The Greening of the Cities. New York, NY: Routledge, 1987. ISBN: 0710203284.

Amazon logo Lyle, John. Regenerative Design for Sustainable Development. New York, NY: John Wiley, 1994. ISBN: 0471555827.

Amazon logo Hough, Michael. Cities and Natural Process. New York, NY: Routledge, 1995. ISBN: 0415121981.

Amazon logo Todd, Nancy Jack, and John Todd. From Eco-Cities to Living Machines. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic, 1994. ISBN: 1556431503.

Amazon logo Roseland, Mark, ed. Eco-City Dimensions. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society, 1997. ISBN: 0865713537.
Tree People of Los Angeles.
7Dilemmas and Decisions: New OrleansRequired

Select one book.

Amazon logo Colten, Craig E. An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0807129771.

Amazon logo Lewis, Peirce. New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1976. ISBN: 0884104338.

Amazon logo Kelman, Ari. A River and Its City the Nature of Landscape in New Orleans. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003. ISBN: 0520234324.

Amazon logo Mathur, Anuradha. Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001. ISBN: 0300084307.
Part 2 - Presentation and Discussion of Student Papers
8-12Presentation and DiscussionRequired and recommended readings will be selected in consultations between student authors and the instructor, and placed on reserve prior to each week's presentations.

 








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