Citistates Library

Citistates Associates' pick of the lead books and multimedia presentations on citistates and regionalism in America and beyond.

Regionalism Today: Risks, Rewards and Unresolved Questions -- The Citistates Group was asked by the MacArthur Foundation to take a look at basic issues -- challenges, potentials, "how to" questions -- facing American regionalism today. The report, prepared by Curtis Johnson and Neal Peirce in autumn 2003, was released in January 2004. Click here to see the text.

Regional Bibliography -- And if you'd like a broad and illuminating bibliography of literature on regional planning, check this article by Ethan Seltzer of Portland State University, one of the country's most distinguished regional experts.

Citistates Library/Bookstore catalog

Adams, Bruce
Boundary Crossers: Case Studies of How Ten of America's Metropolitan Regions Work
Barnes, William
The New Regional Economies: The U.S. Common Market and the Global Economy
Calthorpe, Peter
The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl
The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community and the American Dream
Campolo, Tony
Revolution and Renewal: How Churches are Saving America's Cities
Carbonell, Amando
Smart Growth: Form and Consequences
Dodge, William
Regional Excellence: Governing Together to Compete Globally and Flourish Locally
Downs, Anthony
New Visions for Metropolitan America
Dreier, Peter
Up Against the Sprawl: Public Policy and the Making of Southern California
Florida, Richard
The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life
Fulton, William
The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl
Gardner, John W.
Boundary Crossers: Community Leadership for a Global Economy
Greenstein, Rosalind
Urban, Suburban Interdependencies
Grigsby III, Eugene
Regions That Work: How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together
Grogan, Paul S.
Comeback Cities: Four Trends That Are Reviving Urban Neighborhoods
Hall, John Stuart
Citistates: How Urban America Can Prosper in a Competitive World
Harnik, Peter
Inside City Parks
Henton, Douglas
Civic Revolutionaries: Igniting the Passion for Change in American's Communities
Grassroots Leaders for a New Economy: How Civic Entrepreneurs Are Building Prosperous Communities
Hudnut III, William H.
Halfway to Everywhere: A Portrait of America's First-Tier Suburbs
Cities on the Rebound: A Vision for Urban America
Johnson, Curtis
Citistates: How Urban America Can Prosper in a Competitive World
Boundary Crossers: Community Leadership for a Global Economy
Jones, E. Terrence
The Metropolitan Chase: Politics and Policies in Urban America
Katz, Bruce
Reflections on Regionalism
Katz, Peter
New Tools for Community Design and Decision Making: An Overview of An Online Multimedia Presentation
New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community
Kemmis, Daniel
The Good City and the Good Life: Renewing the American Community
Lang, Robert
Edgeless Cities
Ledebur, Larry C.
The New Regional Economies: The U.S. Common Market and the Global Economy
Lopez-Garza, Marta
Regions That Work: How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together
Main, Bruce
Revolution and Renewal: How Churches are Saving America's Cities
Melville, John
Civic Revolutionaries: Igniting the Passion for Change in American's Communities
Grassroots Leaders for a New Economy: How Civic Entrepreneurs Are Building Prosperous Communities
Mitchell, William J.
e-topia: Urban Life, Jim – But not as We Know It
Ohmae, Kenichi
The End of the Nation States: The Rise of Regional Economies
Orfield, Myron
Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability
Parr, John
Boundary Crossers: Case Studies of How Ten of America's Metropolitan Regions Work
Partners for Livable Communities
The Livable City: Revitalizing Urban Communities
Pastor, Manuel
Community Building, Community Bridging: Linking Neighborhood Improvement Initiatives
Regions That Work: How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together
Up Against the Sprawl: Public Policy and the Making of Southern California
Peirce, Neal R.
Citistates: How Urban America Can Prosper in a Competitive World
Boundary Crossers: Community Leadership for a Global Economy
Phares, Donald
Metropolitan Governance without Metropolitan Governance?
Porter, Douglas
Exploring Ad Hoc Regionalism
Proscio, Tony
Comeback Cities: Four Trends That Are Reviving Urban Neighborhoods
Rusk, David
Inside Game/Outside Game: Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America
Cities Without Suburbs
Szold, Terry S.
Smart Growth: Form and Consequences
Walesh, Kimberly
Civic Revolutionaries: Igniting the Passion for Change in American's Communities
Grassroots Leaders for a New Economy: How Civic Entrepreneurs Are Building Prosperous Communities
Wallis, Allan D.
Exploring Ad Hoc Regionalism
Wiewel, Wim
Urban, Suburban Interdependencies
Wolch, Jennifer
Up Against the Sprawl: Public Policy and the Making of Southern California

Up Against the Sprawl: Public Policy and the Making of Southern California
By Jennifer Wolch, Manuel Pastor Jr., and Peter Dreier

What are major attributes leading to the amazing urban growth and change in the sprawling Los Angeles region? How does one explain the nation’s first truly 21 st-century metropolis’ infamous problems – traffic gridlock, stifling pollution, mounting inequality? Up Against the Sprawl’s co-editors Jennifer Wolch, Citistates Associate Manual Pastor Jr., and Peter Dreier point to a wide range of public policies and programs as major influences for Southern California’s explosion in governmental infrastructure, transportation, housing, immigration, fiscal policy, and environment. By exploring how progressive activists are using innovative policies, the researchers – academics from USC, UC Santa Cruz and Occidental College, respectively – make the case that government policies and public agencies can forge a brighter future that includes greater social, economic and environmental justice for the region.

Available through www.amazon.com

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Community Building , Community Bridging: Linking Neighborhood Improvement Initiatives and the New Regionalism in the San Francisco Bay Area
By Manuel Pastor Jr., Chris Benner, Rachel Rosner, Martha Matsuoka, and Julia Jacobs

The 20-page summary report by the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community at the University of California, Santa Cruz, examines the center’s interaction with three Bay Area neighborhoods. In partnership, the alliance of researchers and neighborhood leaders explored linkages between a regional outlook and community-development strategies to realize local goals. To what extent does looking through a prism of community-based regionalism enhance and/or hinder neighborhood development? Center directorPastor and colleagues developed case studies from their fieldwork involving neighborhood initiatives to improve the quality of life in low-income areas through enhanced opportunities for employment, education and housing. Their report details lessons learned applicable to the Bay Area and beyond.

Available for downloading as a 466 KB-PDF file

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Edgeless Cities: Exploring the Elusive Metropolis
By Robert Lang
           

What are we to make of the unkempt edges of our metro regions – vast swaths of isolated buildings that may have been simple to site and permit but carry lots of “nots” – not pedestrian friendly, not accessible without a motor vehicle and clearly not transit-friendly, not connected to any urban fabric, the very antithesis of mixed use?  Robert Lang takes on these ungainly phenomena of the modern American metropolis, differentiating this helter-skelter form from what have been calling  “edge cities,” and examining its impact on our metropolitan areas and urban form.

Available through www.amazon.com

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Three recent books from Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Smart Growth: Form and Consequences
Edited by Terry S. Szold and Amando Carbonell

What smart growth is and how it should direct our future planning and development remain confusing to many observers. Whether one sees smart growth as a slogan, a catch phrase, a call to the barricades or perhaps even the battle flag waved by the enemy, it raises many questions that we need to answer. The eclectic and wide-ranging essays in this book take the reader through the historical and present-day contexts in which the debate has been shaped and influenced. (2002. $25.00, 210 pages, paperback. ISBN 1-55844-151-4)

Available through Lincoln Institute.

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Urban, Suburban Interdependencies
Edited by Rosalind Greenstein and Wim Wiewel

By looking at issues such as economic interdependencies, global competitiveness and intergovernmental relationships, this book demonstrates how cities and their suburbs are dependent on each other and addresses possible avenues for the construction of effective regional policies. This volume captures work by policy analysts and researchers in urban and regional planning, political science, economics, and related fields. (2000. $18.00, 204 pages, paperback. ISBN 1-55844-139-5)

Available through Lincoln Institute.

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Exploring Ad Hoc Regionalism
By Douglas Porter and Allan D. Wallis

A growing number of urban challenges call for action at a regional scale, but regions in the United States largely lack governance capacity to formulate and execute plans to respond to these challenges. Some recent experiments have aimed at developing governance capacity by augmenting existing government institutions. But more often they involve interest groups from multiple sectors--public, private and nonprofit--operating in loose-knit, collaborative relations. (2002. $14.00, 36 pages, paperback. ISBN 1-55844-154-9)

Available through Lincoln Institute.

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Civic Revolutionaries:
Igniting the Passion for Change in America's Communities (2003)
By Douglas Henton, John Melville and Kimberly Walesh

Civic Revolutionaries is a more than its cover – a top-notch collection of real-life examples of quite extraordinary civic leadership in communities across the United States, elaborating how they reflect in many forms the founding principles of the American Republic.  It also provides the intellectual ferment and operational framework for what should be truly exciting advances by the nation's citistate regions through the first decades of the 21st st century.  Doug Henton (a Citistates Associate) and his associates John Melville and Kim Walesh have been intellectual leaders for a new American civics ever since their earlier book, Grassroots Leaders for a New EconomyHow Civic Entrepreneurs Are Building Prosperous Communities (1997–see review below).

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The Metropolitan Chase:
Politics and Policies in Urban America (2003)
By E. Terrence Jones

Economic development, education, government services, arts and tourism, law enforcement, health and the environment, housing, transportation - it's hard to name an issue that doesn't play out, in real life, on a metropolitan scale. But up to now, that's not where the government textbooks have looked. They've focused on federal policies, sometimes states, occasionally municipal government. So it's welcome news to see Jones' book, the first textbook focused first and steadfastly on the metro scene. From the theory of metropolitanism to specifics in every critical policy fight, this book should fill a real gap for students and practitioners alike. Jones is not just a highly qualified academic (University of Missouri, Saint Louis) but experienced civic activist who served earlier as president of Confluence Saint Louis.

Available through www.amazon.com

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Halfway to Everywhere:
A Portrait of America’s First-Tier Suburbs (2003)
By William H. Hudnut III

Halfway to Everywhere, a lively first-hand report on how America’s first-tier suburbs are doing, and the role they're playing within our citistate regions. Many of the suburbs Hudnut identifies do, at first glance, suggest a train wreck of the American Dream. Yet even in those most afflicted spots, Hudnut turns up a surprising tapestry of determined civic leaders, faith-based organizations, non-profit housing groups, all resolutely determined to beat the odds. The same can-do and must-do spirit, Hudnut reports, is surfacing in post-World War II suburbs going through difficult transitions. He delivers a list of “urban acupuncture” tips in which some suburbs already excel-- and many more could. Halfway to Everywhere is published by the Urban Land Institute in Washington, where Hudnut is a senior fellow.

Available through www.amazon.com

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The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life (2003)
By Richard Florida

High counts of gays and counter-culture "Bohemians"? Lots of immigrants? Downtowns with a lively music and arts scenes, even tolerance for tattoo parlors? Is it conceivable these seemingly offbeat qualities could be the hallmarks of the most successful 21st century cities and regions? That areas that place a premium on cultural, ethnic, artistic diversity will more likely burst with entrepreneurial fervor -- even while strait and staid cities atrophy

Richard Florida of Carnegie Mellon University makes a fascinating case for those propositions in this new book. It was featured in a Peirce column in June '02. It also received a thoughtful review by Collaborative Economics chief and Citistates Associate Doug Henton in the newsletter of the Alliance for Regional Stewardship.

Available through www.amazon.com

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The Livable City: Revitalizing Urban Communities
Compiled by Partners for Livable Communities

Citistates Group Senior Research Associate Robert Guskind welcomes The Livable City for its just-in-time collection of best practices and detailed accounts of civic entrepreneurs working with elected and appointed officials to make their communities meet the needs of their residents. The book’s compilation of essays echoes what is becoming a 21st century mantra: “We must think regionally and act locally to achieve quality cities.”

For the full Guskind review, click here.

Available through www.amazon.com

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Revolution and Renewal:
How Churches are Saving America’s Cities
By Tony Campolo (with Bruce Main)

Westminster John Knox Press, 2000

Urban ministry expert Tony Campolo has shifted priorities from saving souls to saving people, says former Indianapolis mayor William Hudnut III in his book review. Campolo, along with Bruce Mann, director of Urban Promise Ministry in Camden, N.J., call for churches to assist the public and private sectors in helping restore America’s cities — especially U.S. inner-cities and their schools. Hudnut, now with the Urban Land Institute in D.C., says Campolo makes a compelling case.

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Reflections on Regionalism
Edited by Bruce Katz

Editor Bruce Katz has compiled an excellent group of essays by prominent advocates on regionalism in this book recently published by Brookings Institution. Together, the essays provide a glimpse of the U.S. regional landscape and highlight features leading to the current horizon. Citistates Associates Doug Henton says it is highly recommended reading, but be aware. The essayists all seem to assume that comprehensive regional planning by government is good and that government can fix the obvious problems. Not so, says Henton.

For the full Henton review, click here.

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What is the role of parks in the 21st century’s so-called City Revival movement reverberating throughout the United States? Citistates CEO Neal Peirce asks the question in an end-of-summer column, “Age of the ‘Smart Park.’” Peirce’s question emerged from reading Peter Harnik’s book, “Inside City Parks,” published jointly by the Urban Land Institute and the Trust for Public Land. Researcher Harnik compares and contrasts green space in 25 U.S. cities. Each snapshot offers a glimpse of “city parks that are right around the corner and down the street, as comfortable as well-worn shoes but also as special, at times, as a top hat and tails,” Harnik writes in the book’s introduction. Together, the snapshots proffer a park system mosaic of civic enterprise at its best. For what all the city parks have in common are strong civic advocates.

For Peirce’s column, click here.

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New Tools for Community Design and Decision Making: An Overview (2000)
An Online Multimedia Presentation
By Peter Katz

With support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Katz surveys planning tools for the 21st century. The e-toolkit was presented to the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and EPA’s Transportation Air Quality Center. Some of the tools are still in development, while others have been implemented in everyday use. These planning tools, he argues, help bolster arguments embraced by advocates of redevelopment and new growth areas. An old newspaper saw to reporters and editors comes to mind: “Don’t just tell your readers; show them.” Katz makes a compelling argument for that sententious saying by demonstrating in compelling text and vivid graphics the concepts imbued in New Urbanism and Smart Growth. To access the online presentation, click here.

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Citistates: How Urban America Can Prosper in a Competitive World (1993)
By Neal Peirce, with Curtis Johnson and John Stuart Hall

The book that gave birth to the Citistates term. Peirce, Johnson and Hall see a rising age of the citistate — “not just the center city, but the entire metropolitan region — the ‘real city’ made up of center city, inner and outer suburbs, and rural hinterland so clearly and intimately interconnected in geography, environment, work force, and surely a shared economic and social future.”

For full review, click here.

Available through www.amazon.com.

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e-topia: Urban Life, Jim — But not as We Know It (1999)
By William J. Mitchell  

Available through www.amazon.com.

New electronic world examined

MIT architecture professor William J. Mitchell delivers his cautionary edict for Digital Age survival in urban spaces in his new book, “e-topia.” Despite the physical dispersion the cyberage is introducing, Mitchell provides hopeful and nuanced reasoning about life in the so-called Digital Age. With better urban design, the new world, influenced heavily by the global digital network, can become “e-topia — lean, green cities that work smarter, not harder.” Neal Peirce looks at Mitchell’s thesis with an eye toward implications for U.S. neighborhoods and regions in a recent column.

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The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl (2001)
By William Fulton and Peter Calthorpe

Available through www.amazon.com.

Two of the U.S.A.'s most innovative thinkers in the field of urban planning and urban design offer their vision for how metropolitan areas in the United States can grow wisely and overcome sprawl and inequity - by using physical design scenarios as well as regional social and economic policies. They examine the nexis of physical design and and economic and social policies that successful regions are employing to brighten their future prospects. The book also features full-scale case studies of Portland's LUTRAQ process and Envision Utah, along with full-color graphics.

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Comeback Cities
Four Trends That Are Reviving Urban Neighborhoods (2001)
By Paul S. Grogan and Tony Proscio

Available through www.amazon.com.

How – and why – are cities coming back in our time? For a realistic and expert view, check the Grogan-Proscio book. It’s strong on the community redevelopment issues Grogan learned so well in his years as president of LISC, but on other fronts too. For a Peirce column on the book, click here; for a column on the CEOs for Cities initiative Grogan has launched, click here.

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Regions That Work: How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together
   by Manuel Pastor Jr., Peter Dreier, Eugene Grigsby III, Marta Lopez-Garza, J. Eugene Grigsby

Available through www.amazon.com.

What’s the essential connection between regions and their low-income communities? Free of ideology but focused on the imperative of regions that work for all peoples and classes, these top-drawer academics are pioneers defining the ties and paths to greater equity. For a Peirce column focused on this research (before the book’s publication), click here.

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Inside Game/Outside Game: Winning Strategies
for Saving Urban America (1999)
By David Rusk

Available through www.amazon.com.

Inside Game/Outside Game draws on Citistates Associate David Rusk’s research and experiences in more than 90 communities over the past six years since writing Cities Without Suburbs. (See book note below.) For most cities Rusk has visited, he reports, annexation is no longer an option. Faced with sprawling suburban growth, rising concentrations of poverty within city neighborhoods, and growing fiscal strain, what can “inelastic” cities do? Rusk concludes that it is not enough to play the “inside game.” Few neighborhood redevelopment programs, for example, have succeeded in turning around the middle-class exodus to new suburbs. It’s not that community development corporations (CDCs) have failed, he argues. Rather, the efforts of CDCs must be combined with a strong “outside game.” Key elements of which include regional growth management, regional fair share affordable housing, as well as regional tax base sharing. His analysis cites national models of each, and shows how different forces — such as new city-suburban alliances, emerging faith-based coalitions, regional business groups — are organizing to secure sweeping regional reforms from state legislatures.

In a column “CDC Regatta: Landfall Ahead?” published April 11, 1999, Citistates CEO Neal Peirce discusses Rusk’s new book and places it in perspective with recent surveys of CDC results.

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Regional Excellence: Governing Together to
Compete Globally and Flourish Locally (1996)
By William R. Dodge

Available through www.amazon.com.
 

“Regional Excellence not only places the 1990s push for regionally in America in global and local context, but also provides a cornucopia of information on the whats, the hows, the frustrations and achievements of America’s modern-day efforts to achieve regional coherence,” Neal Peirce writes on the book’s jacket. “This book will be indispensable for anyone — government official, civic leader, academic, journalist — working in the field.” National Civic League chairman John W. Gardner concurs. “William Dodge has done us all a service,” says Gardner, author of On Leadership. “If we are to govern this land more effectively there are few matters more important than regionalism. No one has worked harder than William Dodge to illuminate that important subject.”

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Cities on the Rebound: A Vision for Urban America (1998)
By William H. Hudnut III

Available from the Urban Land Institute by calling 800-321-5011. Also available for order through Amazon.com. Click here for details. www.amazon.com

Is there a dramatic new era of possibility opening for the cities of America? How does a regional strategy fit in? Bill Hudnut, former Indianapolis mayor, Urban Land Institute Fellow and Citistates Group Associate, mixes vision, political realism and dashes of eloquence in grappling with those questions. The chapter, “Finding New Neighbors,” provides an illuminating overview of how the global-regional-neighborhood pieces fit together — cities’ and regions’ global ties, tough political barriers, examples of breakthrough regional experiments, the role of regional civic organizations, and more.

For review by John Stuart Hall and special commentary by Theodore Hershberg, click here.

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Boundary Crossers: Community Leadership for a Global Age (1997)
By Neal Peirce and Curtis Johnson, with foreword by John W. Gardner,

Ten aphorisms — pithy civic lessons — in the search for a new civic DNA.

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Boundary Crossers: Case Studies of How
Ten of America’s Metropolitan Regions Work
By Bruce Adams and John Parr, Project Directors

These publications are not yet available through Amazon.com.  Individual copies may be ordered from the Academy of Leadership Press, University of Maryland, College Park, Md. 20742, or call Duke Ducharme at 301-405-5751. Price: $7.50 each for the Peirce-Johnson booklet, $15 for the case studies book edited by Adams and Parr.
 

For full reviews of both publications, click here.

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Grassroots Leaders for a New Economy: How Civic Entrepreneurs Are Building Prosperous Communities (1997)
By Douglas Henton, John Melville and Kimberly Walesh  

Available for order through Amazon.com. Click here for details. www.amazon.com

Grassroots Leaders for a New Economy— The “new economy” has brought new forces (globalization, information technologies, demographic shifts, devolution) that demand new leadership. In their new book, Grassroots Leaders for a New Economy, Citistates Group Associate Doug Henton and co-authors John Melville and Kimberly Walesh contend that the much-needed leadership is emerging in a group they call “civic entrepreneurs.” These community leaders come from all levels of public, private, social and civic organizations. The authors show how these new leaders forge partnerships with business, education, government and community groups to create “collaborative advantages” that make sure economic communities can compete on the global stage. The book also highlights strategies for building successful economic communities.

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The End of the Nation State: The Rise of Regional Economies (1995)
By Kenichi Ohmae

Available for order through www.amazon.com.

A provocative view of a world in which nation-states almost disappear as power flows to strong regional entities, all driven by new-age free market forces.

 

 

 

 

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New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community (1993)
By Peter Katz

Available for order through www.amazon.com.

What’s the “New Urbanism” all about? Peter Katz was founding executive secretary of the Congress for New Urbanism. In this book, enlisting Vincent Scully and other luminaries, he examined the core questions — and illuminated the larger issues — of this most important architectural movement of the ’90s. The book (richly illustrated with the movement’s early lead projects) presages the growth of New Urbanism into a major focus of debates on the form of cities in our time.

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New Visions for Metropolitan America(1995)
By Anthony Downs

Available for order through www.amazon.com.

Tony Downs provides us with a hard-headed analysis of why American metropolitan regions pull apart socially and economically, together with his exposition of why growth management practices — however hard to achieve — would improve prospects for our society so radically.

For full review by Citistates Associate John Start Hall, click here.

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The New Regional Economies:
The U.S. Common Market and the Global Economy (1998)
By William R. Barnes and Larry C. Ledebur

Available for order through www.amazon.com.

It’s high time, write Bill Barnes and Larry Ledebur, to break America’s “mesmerizing” fixation on the single, homogenous “national economy” and focus instead on the performance of metropolitan-oriented “local economic regions” — namely, citistates. Each regional economy, they note, is different from the others, and to some extent has its own business cycles. Barnes and Ledebur focus on regional “common markets,” which they note coincide with neither local nor state boundary lines yet still need the active collaboration of public officials, civic and business leaders to function smoothly.

For review by Citistates Associate John Stuart Hall, click here.

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The Good City and the Good Life: Renewing the American Community (1995)
By Daniel Kemmis

Available through www.amazon.com.

Dan Kemmis was still Mayor of Missoula when he wrote this remarkable little treatise on citizenship. It ranges from the glories of intimate urban markets to the civic value of global people-to-people contacts. 

For a Peirce column reviewing Kemmis’ book, Column dated 1/21/96, click here.

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Cities Without Suburbs (1995)
By David Rusk

Available for order through www.amazon.com.

David Rusk’s classic exposition of his “elastic cities” theory — that cities with expandable borders fare so much better than those hemmed into smaller areas, unable to annex and grow.

For review of books by Downs, Rusk, Orfield and other New Regionalists, click here for review by Allan D. Wallis, director of research for the National Civic League, published in the spring 1998 issue of the National Civic Review.

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Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability (1997)
By Myron W. Orfield

Available through www.amazon.com.

The big breakthrough in the research of Minnesota State Rep. Orfield has been to show, through detailed mapping, how the story of our metro areas is no longer a simple one of poor cities vs. affluent suburbs. The real division, he shows, is a far more complex mix of areas doing poorly (generally inner cities and older blue-collar suburbs) as opposed to prosperous growth areas benefitting inordinately from government grants. This book tells that story and espouses the Orfield view that a new political alliance can be built among the losers.

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The Next American Metropolis:
Ecology, Community and the American Dream (1993)
By Peter Calthorpe

Available through www.amazon.com.

One of the most eloquent and quotable expositions ever made for more compact, coherent, mixed-use communities in place of the faceless sprawl that now blights so much of America. Calthorpe is a successful California-based architect and planner and one of the founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism.

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Last updated January 23, 2005

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