Bibliography and Links

Garden Cities 21, Creating a Livable Urban Environment, John Ormsbee Simonds, McGraw Hill, 1994. This book comes pretty close to my world view.

A City is Not a Tree, by Christopher Alexander, Architectural Forum, Vol 122, No 1&2, April 1965.

A Pattern Language, 1977, Christopher Alexander.

The Nature of Order, Christopher Alexander, In progress. This work is going to be multi-volumed. See Nikos Salingaros notes on The Nature of Order.

The NINE NATIONS of NORTH AMERICA, by Joel Garreau, 1981.

A 16 State Nation, Stanley Brunn. http://www.uky.edu/AS/Geography/cv/brunncv.html

New Rules web site -- "Designing Rules as if Community Matters".

Designing APM Circulator Systems for Major Activity Centers. - Automated People Movers for downtown areas, airports, etc. (I'm not sure I am sold on this concept.)

Vancouver, BC's City Plan

TRIMET

TIP for 2002. Go to their site map and find Transportation Improvement Plan.

Federal Transit Administration

FTA National Transit GIS: Data Standards, Guidelines and Recommended Practices.

Curitiba

An article in Scientific American is "Uban Planning in Curitiba", March 1996. It describes a system of parallel road/busways, with a bus system employing four scales of bus technology. Bicycle and Pedestrian paths are also integrated. I don't know if there is a computer model of this.

Neil Pearce article and criticism.

Curitiba, Brasil. Land Use/Transport

Curitiba, Brazil: The Roads Not Taken, by Stephen Leahy, Sustainable Times (a webzine), Canada.

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