Lists of Bests: Imagine Ottawa: Books of Interest http://www.listsofbests.com/list/60071 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:48:21 GMT en-us 0 50 52 50 0 The Geography of nowhere http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5344704 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Home from Nowhere http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5344705 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20952 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20952"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743227239.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Howard Kunstler</div> The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/963717 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/963717"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802142494.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Modern Library Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/68278 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/68278"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679600477.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122553653_.jpg" /></a></div> The Economy of Cities http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11159 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11159"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/039470584X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Jacobs</div> Cities and the Wealth of Nations http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/80564 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/80564"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394729110.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Jacobs</div> Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18911 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18911"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679748164.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Jacobs</div> The Nature of Economies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3854024 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3854024"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61KCPCPR8VL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Jacobs</div> Dark Age Ahead http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/566003 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Jacobs</div> City: Rediscovering the Center http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10010 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10010"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385262094.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William H. Whyte</div> The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28623 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28623"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/097063241X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William H. Whyte</div> Ideas that Matter: The World of Jane Jacobs http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5344706 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> City Life (1970) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4568566 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Looking at Cities http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5344707 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Public Spaces, Public Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5344709 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jan Gehl</div> Street Reclaiming http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5344711 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5344711"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/610MJMBSKML._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Engwicht</div> How to turn a place around: A handbook for creating successful public spaces http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5344712 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> People Places: Design Guidelines for Urban Open Space http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5344713 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Livable Streets http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5344714 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5344714"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EDGFKJ6AL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Donald Appleyard</div> The Boulevard Book: History, Evolution, Design of Multiway Boulevards http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1149126 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1149126"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0262600587.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056427607_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Allan B. Jacobs</div> Great Streets http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81817 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81817"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0262600234.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056427604_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Allan B. Jacobs</div> Making City Planning Work http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3537334 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Allan B. Jacobs</div> Cities Back from the Edge: New Life for Downtown http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3385274 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3385274"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01D6P7GZNJL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roberta Brandes Gratz</div> The Living City : How America's Cities Are Being Revitalized by Thinking Small in a Big Way http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/951412 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/951412"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0471144258.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roberta Brandes Gratz</div> The Experience of Place http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5344715 <div id="position">26</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Community Centers, Beauty Parlors, General Stores, Bars, Hangouts and How They Get You Through the Day http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/623775 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/623775"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1569247781.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ray Oldenburg</div> Celebrating the Third Place: Inspiring Stories about the "Great Good Places" at the Heart of Our Communities http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5344716 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Parallel Utopias: The Quest for Community http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5344717 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Real World of Technology http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5344718 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/337926 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/337926"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014303653X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Neil Postman</div> Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5344719 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20786 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20786"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743203046.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert D. Putnam</div> Better Together: Restoring the American Community http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/823002 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/823002"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743235479.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert D. Putnam</div> Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community's Assets http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/146298 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/146298"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/087946108X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John P. Kretzmann</div> The Careless Society: Community and its Counterfeits http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5344721 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The End of Oil http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5344722 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Weather Makers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2908926 <div id="position">38</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tim Flannery</div> We Are the Weather Makers: The Story of Global Warming http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4183893 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4183893"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517DcUu9NgL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tim Flannery</div> Fieldnotes from a Catastrophe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5344724 <div id="position">40</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Drowning in Stuff: CBC audio tape http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5344725 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The World We Want - Virtue, Vice, and the Good Citizen http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3328804 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3328804"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11DXE865YPL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Kingwell</div> The Collapse of Globalism: And the Reinvention of the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43908 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43908"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1585676292.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Ralston Saul</div> A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4363 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4363"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195019199.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher Alexander</div> A New Theory of Urban Design (Center for Environmental Structure Series, Vol 6) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4373 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4373"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195037537.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher Alexander</div> Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31498 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31498"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1577180011.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward W. Soja</div> The Great Transformation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24846 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24846"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/080705643X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karl Polanyi</div> A Guide to Transforming School Grounds http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5344729 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The City Repair Project's Placemaking Guidebook http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5344730 <div id="position">49</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Dig Your Hands in the Dirt: A Manual For Making Art Out of Earth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133596 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133596"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0967984661.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kiko Denzer</div>