Loeb Authors
Assorted Articles written by Loeb Alumni
Environmental Justice IS...Manufacturing Cities: Competitive Advantage and Urban Industrial Community
Ellen Perry Berkeley, LF 1973, Writer
At Grandmother’s Table: Women Write About Food, Life, and the Enduring Bond Between Grandmothers and Granddaughters (Fairview Press, paperback, 2001). I had this idea 35 years ago, but didn't have time for it while I was a Senior Editor at the Architectural Forum and at Architecture Plus. I asked 68 women to write about their grandmothers and to include an "heirloom recipe" from the grandmother. Names you will recognize among the contributors are Jane Jacobs and Adele Chatfield-Taylor. The Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times each called this book one of the best cookbooks of the year, and it reached the top 100 in sales on amazon.com. But I don't think of it as a cookbook. To me it is a book of history -- women's history, American history, culinary history. The publisher intended it as a gift book, and did a beautiful job on its design.
Maverick Cats: Encounters with Feral Cats (New England Press, "expanded and updated edition," 2001). This received the book-of-the-day review in the New York Times in 1982. Now considered "a classic," it is still the only comprehensive volume on the domestic cat gone wild. The encounters of the subtitle are partly mine, partly those of scientists and observers around the world. The new final chapter updates the 1982 book on various matters: the latest research on feral cat behavior, the latest information on controlling feral cat numbers, and the latest on the formerly feral cats in our household. (We have a total of three.)
Keith’s People (Elderberry Press, 2003). This is another book that had been on my mind for some time. It is my first thriller. (There will be more!) The book is factually based on the Vietnam war and what followed it, with the facts woven into a fictional murder mystery. Praise has been exceptional: "A remarkable literary feat," "original and inventive," "riveting and gripping," "a great read." Don't worry -- my villain is not one you're likely to meet in your parking garage. I don't do scary stuff.
TNR: Past, Present, and Future: A History of the Trap-Neuter-Return Movement (Alley Cat Allies, 2004). Controversy has been raging for years about the TNR method of controlling feral cat numbers. Mine is a comprehensive work (270 endnotes) but written in a non-academic and accessible style. The intended readership includes public officials, shelter managers -- and, of course, cat lovers! The publisher is the national resource for feral cats. I've been on the ACA Board of Advisors since the organization was founded in 1990.
All four books are readily available through your local bookstore or online (amazon.com and others)...........For the best price, though -- and for an autograph to boot -- write a check to Ellen Perry Berkeley and send it to her at Box 311, Shaftsbury, VT 05262.......... Be sure to ask for a personalized inscription, for yourself or for the intended recipient.
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J. Blaine Bonham, Jr., LF 1991, Executive Vice President, The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
Old Cities/Green Cities: Communities Transform Unmanaged Land
Written by J. Blaine Bonham, Jr. and Gerri Spilka
Published by American Planning Association, 2002 (PAS Report 506/506)
ISBN 1-884829-75-9
Vacant land is a common sight in virtually every American city. Scattered among houses in residential areas, especially in distressed neighborhoods, small and large vacant, trash-filled lots contribute to an appearance of blight. Abandoned factories and warehouses-some of which are "brownfields" with hazardous wastes in their soil-mar waterfronts and old industrial corridors. Large metropolitan communities have been especially affected by the dilemma of abandoned land.
Coming to terms with the issues and problems surrounding vacant land is a difficult challenge. Little, if any, precedent exists. In most cities, planners and developers typically view vacant land as "the space that is left over" after housing, commercial, and institutional development schemes have been built. So the potential uses of vacant land become isolated from other aspects of neighborhood planning and development. Nonprofit organizations, city officials, and observers across the country indicate that the growing scale of vacancy requires new perspectives on urban land use and management. And that existing assumptions and practices need a comprehensive reevaluation since current methods clearly are not working.
Old Cities/Green Cities was developed out of a series of documents on urban vacant land by one of the leading groups in the country dealing with this issue, including the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS), which also supported the color printing in this report.
Part 1 of the report addresses the challenges to urban vitality presented by vacant land; vacant land as a neighborhood resource; large-scale greening systems; and the link between urban renewal and sprawl.
Part 2 provides an in-depth look at some PHS programs, including Philadelphia Green, the rebirth of the New Kensington Philadelphia neighborhood and the Green City Strategy employed by the City of Philadelphia.
An appendix provides a list of contacts to the many Community Development Corporations active in the area of urban greening.
Work in Progress:
Beneath the Metropolis: The Natural and Man-made Underground of the World's Cities
(Publisher: Carol & Graf, fall 2006)
Hillary Brown, LF 1999, AIA, Principal, New Civic Works, Design Trust
High Performance Infrastructure Guidelines: Best Practices for the Public Right-of-Way
Primary Authors: Hillary Brown, AIA, Principal, New Civic Works, Design Trust Fellow; Steven A. Caputo Jr., Associate, New Civic Works, Design Trust Fellow; Kerry Carnahan, NYC Dept. of Design & Construction; Signe Nielsen, Signe Nielsen Landscape Architects
Published by Design Trust for Public Space with the New York City Department of Design & Construction, October 2005. 220 pp.
ISBN 978-0-9716942-7-9
Ordering Information at http://www.designtrust.org/pubs/05_HPIG.pdf
Description:
The High Performance Infrastructure Guidelines reconsider the typical cross section of a public roadway: the street, utilities, sidewalk, tree planting and other related landscaping. It envisions the right-of-way as an integrated or whole system, by assembling a range of progressive "best practices" (BMPs) in landscape architecture and civil engineering to improve the environmental quality of urban life, yield municipal savings, and stimulate markets for sustainable technologies.
Published by State University of New York, University at Buffalo, NYSERDA, Dormitory Authority of New York, November 2004. 144 pp.
Primary Author: Hillary Brown, AIA, Principal, New Civic Works
For free copies contact UB Green Office at 716 829-3335 http://wings.buffalo.edu/ubgreen/guidelines.html
Description
This manual helps move the environmental agenda into university campus capital construction. The UB High Performance Building Guidelines set steps for compliance with NYS Executive Order 111, combining requirements with the US Green Building Council's LEED® green building design and other rating systems.
The Design Trust for Public Space is a private non-profit organization dedicated to improving New York City's public realm. Since its founding in 1995, their goal has been to provide project-specific, state-of-the-art design expertise to NYC, as it is their conviction that the city's cultural and democratic life depends on viable space.
In 1999, the Office of Sustainable Design, part of New York City Department of Design & Construction (DDC) partnered with The Design Trust, affirming a commitment to green building practices. Their publication of High Performance Infrastructure Guidelines: Best Practices for the Public Right-of-Way outlines the range of possibilities of green infrastructure.
Design Trust for Public Space
http://www.designtrust.org
New York City Department of Design & Construction (DDC)
http://www.nyc.gov/html/ddc/
Rolf Diamant, LF 1986, Superintendent, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park
Rolf is a contributing author to the upcoming book The Conservation of Cultural Landscapes Published by CAB International, 2006
Rolf is a contributing author to Reconstructing Conservation: Finding Common Ground
Chapter 19, "Reinventing Conservation: A Practitioner's View" written by Rolf Diamant, J. Glenn Eugster and Nora J. Mitchell
Edited by Ben A. Minteer and Robert E. Manning
Published by Island Press, 1718 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Suite 300, Washington, D.C. 20009 in 2003
ISBN 1-55963-355-7
He is a contributing author to Wilderness Comes Home: Rewilding the Northeast
Chapter 9, "Stewardship and Sustainability: Lessons from the 'Middle Landscape' of Vermont", written by Nora Mitchell and Rolf Diamant
Edited by Christopher McGrory Klyza
Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755 in 2001
ISBN 1-58465-102-4
Rolf is currently developing for the US National Park Service an Atlas of Places, People & Hand-Made Products, illustrating stories about national parks and heritage areas working in partnership with local communities to cooperatively promote and market products that strengthen conservation of landscapes and heritage.
Anthony Flint, LF 2001, Director of Public Affairs at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
Hard copy available: July 28, 2009
This Land: The Battle Over Sprawl and the Future of America
Hard copy available: April 21, 2006
anthony.flint@lincolninst.edu
David Goldberg, LF 2003, Communications Director, Smart Growth America/Washington DC
Choosing Our Community's Future: A Citizen's Guide to Getting the Most Out of New Development
Author: David Goldberg, Communications Director, Smart Growth America
Published by Smart Growth America, 2005, 90 pp.
Ordering Information: http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/guidebook.html
Choosing Our Community's Future is the rare resource designed specifically for regular citizens who want to make a positive contribution to shaping the growth and development of their neighborhoods, towns and regions. The guidebook will help readers make rational, compelling arguments against poorly conceived plans, but more importantly, it will help them paint a vision of what they do want.
The guidebook also is intended as a helpful companion to participants in design charettes, community planning processes, symposia and seminars on planning issues, education programs for newly-elected officials and civic leaders, or for anyone who wants to get a leg up on development.
Written in everyday language by a veteran journalist and citizen advocate in conjunction with experts in various arenas, the book is easy on the eye, with an appealing format, abundant photographs and illustrative examples.
The guidebook will help you learn how to:- Tame "big box" retail centers
- Make sure that "infill" development works in your neighborhood
- Evaluate mixed use projects
- Argue for redevelopment that brings benefits to all
- Reduce the impact on farms and natural areas
- Get the most from community planning
- A Citizen's Introduction to Planning, Zoning and Development, with tips on how and where to the information you need
- Key Principles for Managing Change, a detailed description of the characteristics of good and not-so-good development, with a score card for evaluating projects
- Evaluating Potential Impacts of Development, from density to traffic to property values
- True Stories, profiles of the people and places who have been through the development mill, and the lessons they have to offer
- Plus, links to further help in your area, copious references to other resources and a comprehensive glossary.
Ben Hamilton-Baillie, LF 2001, Director, Hamilton-Baillie Associates
"Streets for All" are part of a set of nine for London and each of the eight English regions.
They represent part of a resurgence of interest in good street design in Britain and the rest of Europe, and are meant to serve as a primer and reference book for city officials, politicians and consultants as well as the general public.
Author & Photographer: Ben Hamilton-Baillie
Published by English Heritage, 23 Savile Row, London W1S 2ET, U.K., 2005
http://www.hamilton-baillie.co.uk/index.php?do=contact
'Shared Space' is a European co-operation project that aims
to develop a new policy for designing public spaces at regional, national and
eventually at an European level. There are seven partners, each of whom undertake
a pilot project.
Published by Fryslan Province, P.O. Box 20120, 8900 HM Leeuwarden,
The Netherlands, 2005, www.shared-space.org
Photographer: Ben Hamilton-Baillie
Mike Houck, LF 2004, Director, Urban Greenspaces Institute, Audubon Society of Portland
Wild in the City, A Guide to Portland's Natural Areas, published by the Oregon Historical Society Press, and Audubon Society of Portland, is a comprehensive guide to the Greenspaces of the Portland Vancouver metropolitan region. Organized by watersheds, it emphasizes the important ecological linkages among natural areas and offer site guides with detailed maps, to natural spaces, trails, waterways, parks, golf courses, and even cemeteries, where significant habitat or other natural history features can be viewed. The book is interspersed with engaging, lively natural history essays and colorful "tidbits" of information written by experts in their fields and those who have an intimate knowledge of the sites and natural history.
Editors: Mike Houck, Director, Urban Greenspaces Institute, Audubon Society of Portland,
and M.J. Cody
Wild in the City gives the reader an uncommon look at local geology, flora, fauna and seasonal changes. It also will include a calendar which will provide the reader with "must see" natural history events throughout the year such as the return of Bald Eagles to their winter roost, the gathering of Vaux's Swifts in the fall, and spring wildflowers. It will provide the reader with a unique perspective on how the region's geography, plants, animals, and ecosystems contribute to our quality of life.
Wild in the City is a compilation from a variety of dedicated volunteer naturalists throughout the metropolitan region who have contributed to the Audubon Society's quarterly publication, The Urban Naturalist, since 1982 when the Audubon Society of Portland began its nationally recognized Urban Naturalist program. There are guides to 100 Greenspace sites throughout the metropolitan region.
No comprehensive guidebook of this nature exists for the Portland-Vancouver metropolitan region. Guidebooks to hiking and biking do exist, but because of Wild in the City's extensive coverage and the variety and expertise of its contributors, there is nothing comparable on the market. Wild in the City will be the "must have" reference book and field guide for birdwatchers, hikers and nature enthusiasts who want to know where the best natural areas, trails and wildlife viewing opportunities are throughout the Portland-Vancouver metropolitan region.
Wild In The City,A Guide to Portland's Natural Areas is available at the Audubon Society of Portland Nature Store (www.audubonportland.org) and bookstores throughout the Portland metropolitan region.
"Wild on the Willamette, Exploring the Lower Willamette River"Map and guide to walking, bicycling and paddling the Lower Willamette River
Authors: text, Mike Houck; history, Sam McKinney
Illustrations: Marla Baggetta
Photographs: Mike Houck, Michael Durham & Bill Hall
Wild on the Willamette, Exploring the Lower Willamette River is a map, a natural history guide and history of the lower Willamette River. The color-illustrated map covers the lower thirty-five river miles between Molalla River State Park near the Canby Ferry to the Willamette's confluence with the Columbia River at Kelley Point Park. Designed to be used in the field, the map and field guide is printed on waterproof, rip-resistant paper so that it can be used, rain or shine, to explore the Willamette River and its tributaries.
It also shows, in color-coded detail, pedestrian trails, bicycle routes, and canoe/kayak launch sites. Wild on the Willamette contains information about the plants and animals of the lower Willamette and detailed site descriptions to 35 natural areas, including the scenic Willamette Narrows, Camassia Nature Conservancy Preserve, George Rogers Park, Cedar Island, Elk Rock Island, Willamette Park, Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge, Willamette Butterfly Park, and the working Portland harbor. Wild on the Willamette is designed to be used in conjunction with Portland Audubon Society's Wild in the City, A Guide to Portland's Natural Areas and Metro's BikeThere!, a regional bicycle route map.
Carla Brooks Johnston, LF 1974, Mayor, Sanibel, Florida
Screened Out: How the Media Control Us and What We Can Do About It
Published by ME Sharpe in 2000
Three articles: "Media Convergence," "Cross-Cultural Communication," and "Government Role in Media" published in the Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications, Academic Press, 2003
Editor: Donald H. Johnston.
Charlotte Kahn, LF 1984, Director, Boston Indicators Project
The Wisdom of Our Choices: Boston's Indicators of Progress,
Change and Sustainability 2000
A Project of the Civic Community of Boston, made possible through support
and funding from The Boston Foundation and The City of Boston, and other Boston-based
foundations and universities.
Copyright by The Boston Foundation, 2000
Principal Authors: Charlotte Kahn and Geeta Pradhan
Data Conversion, Charts & Graphs: Geoffrey Lewis, Boston Redevelopment Authority
Photographer: Richard Howard
The Wisdom of Our Choices: Boston's Indicators of Progress, Change and Sustainability 2000 is available at http://www.tbf.org/indicatorsProject/ or Jennifer.Owens@tbf.org
Bill Klein, LF 1991, Director of Research, American Planning Association
Planning and Urban Design Standards
Published by John Wiley & Sons, January 2006
Edited by APA's Research Department. Bill Klein, Executive Editor http://myapa.planning.org/puds/
Available through APA's Book Service at http://myapa.planning.org/APAStore/Search/Default.aspx?p=3088
This 736-page book took 3-1/2 years and over $800,000 to put together. It involved many in APA's research unit, prime among them, Megan Lewis, AICP, who served as Managing Editor. Over 200 contributors wrote various sections. Several Loeb Fellows were involved.
The project had a 9-member Advisory Board, which included Jerold Kayden of the GSD. Jerold brought the idea for doing such a book to Wiley.
Kathryn Lindsay, LF 1999, Manager, National Indicators Reporting Office/Bureau national des indicateurs environmentaux
"Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators"
Published by Government of Canada, 2005
Gatineau, QU K1A 0H3
Editors: Kathryn E. Lindsay and Peter Morrison
"2005 Environment Canada, Statistics Canada and Health Canada"
Published by Government of Canada, 2005
Gatineau, QU K1A 0H3
Editors: Kathryn E. Lindsay and Peter Morrison
"State of Freshwater Ecosystems in Selected Watersheds in Canada"
Published by Environment Canada, 2006
Gaitineau, QU K1A 0H3
Editors: Kathryn E. Lindsay et al.
Alex Marshall, LF 2000, Independent Journalist and Senior Fellow, Regional Plan Association
How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl and the Roads Not Taken
Published by University of Texas Press, 2001
ISBN 0-292-75240-7
Review on How Cities Work from Governing's May 2001 issue, by Alan Ehrenhalt
It is a silly question to ask who will be the Jane Jacobs of the 21st century. No one will be; she is as original and irreproducible as anyone who has ever written about cities and community. But it may be reasonable to observe that, when and if someone makes literate and persuasive sense out of the next round of urban problems and challenges, it won't be someone with a long series of titles and degrees surrounding his name. It will be someone with the virtues of an intelligent and curious amateur.
In the decade or so since New Urbanism exploded onto the local policy and planning scene, it has generated millions of words of analysis and prescription detailing how intelligent design can restore the sense of community and rootedness that city life has lost in the past half century. Some of this literature is readable and useful; some of it is not.
But none of it has seemed more sensible and appealing to me than How Cities Work, Alex Marshall's new book of urban reporting and commentary. Marshall shares with Jane Jacobs one characteristic: He is an amateur - a longtime Virginia newspaper reporter whose methods consist largely of watching, reading, traveling and thinking.
Marshall is both sympathetic to New Urbanism and critical of it. His criticisms are simple and cogent ones. Essentially they boil down to this: Transportation is destiny. Communities are creatures of the transportation systems that grow up around them. American downtowns and Main Streets of the early 20th century were compact and vibrant because people walked there or came in on trains and moved in and out of stations twice a day. It's fine to be nostalgic for the physical intimacy of the old-time small town or gritty city, but it's impossible to have it in a society dependent for its mobility on the automobile.
Therefore, Marshall argues, there is something inescapably false about New Urbanist efforts to re-create a small-town America of picket fences, front porches and sidewalk gossip in developments constructed as enclaves along freeways and virtually inaccessible except by car. "Bringing back the street," he concludes, "is not possible unless we bring back the forms of transportation that made it essential."
Marshall would actually like to see those old urban forms return to life. He likes the idea of compact downtowns friendly to pedestrians and fed by fast and efficient public transportation. He is merely making the point that if we are to create such a societal change in the coming century, we will need to think through all the trade-offs and sacrifices it will entail. We will have to return to old ways of getting around. We will not be able to revive the neighborhoods of the past simply by redesigning streets and houses.
Reading Alex Marshall and rereading Jane Jacobs in quick succession leaves a similarly bracing feeling: Their books amount to a cold bath of common sense whose implications an urban cheerleader might just as soon avoid, but whose logic is ultimately difficult to escape.
This is not to say that Alex Marshall is the next Jane Jacobs. That would be unfair to both of them. It's merely a reminder of something we might all stop and ponder. In urban policy, as in most other fields, smart amateurs are worth paying attention to. They have a way of keeping us all in touch with reality. Jack Pardue illustration.
Alan Ehrenhalt's Assessments columns from Governing have been collected in a book entitled
Democracy in the Mirror: Politics, Reform, and Reality in Grassroots America.
For more information on the book and how to order a copy, go to www.alexmarshall.org
Ruben Martinez, LF 2002, Chair, Literature Department at Loyola Marymount, Los Angeles, Emmy-award winning journalist, Performer
The New AmericansPublished by New Press, New York & London, 2004
Distributed by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., NY
This is a companion volume to the PBS Series with the same name.*
"Emmy award-winning writer Ruben Martinez here recounts the dramatic journeys of seven new immigrant families, from their home countries to their arrival and settling in the United States. The stories of their voyages are lovingly pieced together to form a kaleidoscope of the immigrant experience, and provide a startling new take on the continuing regeneration of a multicultural America.
In these pages we follow a South Asian couple from the computer industry of Bangalore, India, to a small software start-up in Silicon Valley; a Mexican family who travels to work in the meatpacking plants of Garden City, Kansas, before relocating again to a trailer park in the California badlands; two families of Nigerian refugees, including the sister of slain Ogani activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, who moves from running a cooking school in Africa to holding down three simultaneous jobs chopping vegetables in Chicago restaurants; two L.A. Dodgers prospects who journey from the team's overseas training facility at Campo Las Palmas in the Dominican Republic to a minor league team in Great Falls, Montana; and a Palestinian American who travels to the Middle East and brings a new wife back to Chicago.
Alongside these elegiac stories are vignettes of artists who themselves work in the interstices of exile and relocation; forays, for instance, into the poetry of Palestinian Mahmoud Darwish, the films of the Indian American director Mira Nair, and the contemporary corridos of Mexican border musicians Los Tigres del Norte. Throughout, Martinez combines his own immigrant family's moving story with keen analyses of American policies and attitudes toward newcomers, past and present. His text is accompanied by powerful images from renowned photojournalist Joseph Rodriguez.
The New Americans is at once a personal and accessible introduction to the experience of a new generation of immigrants, and a beautifully written meditation on the ways they are transforming today's America." (book jacket)
*About The New Americans PBS documentary:
From the producers and director of Hoop Dreams, The New Americans captures the lives of contemporary immigrants in all their complexities. The series portrays ordinary people, engaged in the day-to-day struggles of earning a living, raising a family, and leading productive lives, while struggling with differences of race, language, and culture. The New Americans puts a human face on the breadth and scope of immigrants' and refugees' experience in America with the goal of fostering the understanding that immigration is not a fundamentally good or bad thing for America-it is a fundamentally American thing. The series features immigrants from Nigeria, India, the Dominican Republic, the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and Mexico, all wrestling with the profound question of whether or not to become "new Americans".
Item # WG3267
UPC # 037429185230
Other books by Ruben Martinez:
Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail
The Other Side: Notes from the New L.A., Mexico City, and Beyond
Work in Progress:
Ruben Martinez is currently at work on a new book for Metropolitan/Holt about
the American West: a series of critical essays about the economic, demographic,
and social transformation of the most mythologized of American landscapes.
Margaret McCurry, LF 1987, Partner, Tigerman McCurry Architects
Constructing Twenty-Five Short Stories
Published by The Monacelli Press, Inc., 10 East 92nd Street, New York, NY, 10128 in 2000.
ISBN 1-58093-046-8
Chicago architect Margaret McCurry is known for her inventive synthesis of modern classicism and the American vernacular. The principles of order and symmetry, a relationship with nature, and a knowledge of both modern and traditional design and building techniques characterize her work. Equal parts autobiography and architectural monograph, Margaret McCurry: Constructing Twenty-five Short Stories chronicles the development of her aesthetic sensibility for childhood - she is the daughter of an architect father and an artist mother - through her eleven-year apprenticeship at the famed Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. In 1977 McCurry opened her own office and began to incorporate elements of historic American architecture into her designs; in 1982 she embarked on a professional relationship with her husband, Stanley Tigerman, an internationally known architect and educator.
The twenty-five "short stories" in this volume are twenty-five built and unbuilt projects spanning twenty years of practice. The first is Boardwalk, the weekend retreat Tigerman and McCurry built for themselves in the Harbor Country area of Michigan; the last is the Harris House, a corrugated-metal-clad residence in the same area. In between are design showrooms, private clubs, and houses both modest and grand. McCurry discusses every factor in her designs, detailing the excitement of the design scheme, the sometimes frustrating building process, and above all, her extended family: the clients who have sought her out, her coworkers and collaborators, even the original inhabitants of the sites. Illustrated throughout with striking color and black-and-white photographs, as well as myriad plans and drawings, Margaret McCurry: Constructing Twenty-Five Short Stories is an absorbing record of the architect's lifelong quest to create what she calls "an architecture of substance."
Otile McManus, LF 1989, Director
of Special Projects, Corcoran Jennison Companies, Boston
A Decent Place to Live, From Columbia Point to Harbor Point: A Community History
Author: Jane Roessner
Conceived, Developed, Produced and Packaged by Otile McManus
Publisher: Northeastern University Press, Boston
Copyright 2000 by Jane Roessner and The American City CoalitionISBN 1-55553-437-6
Julio César Pérez Hernández, LF 2002, Architect and Planner
Inside Cuba
Fiesta Cuba: living in the Pearl of the Antilles
Taschen, Dr. Angelika (ED)
Pérez Hernández, Julio César / Gianni Basso/ Vega MG
Hardcover, 416 pp.
Publishing Date: March 2006
Described by Christopher Columbus as "the loveliest land ever beheld by human eyes," Cuba's sumptuous landscapes are marked by sun-drenched tobacco and sugar cane fields and its cities ripe with music, dancing, and jubilation. Celebrating the relics of Cuba's revolutionary glory days, this book explores everything from the kinds of interiors seen in Buena Vista Social Club to top-notch luxury hotels and cultural heritage sites. Via a diverse selection of Cuban homes, hotels, gathering places, and more, Inside Cuba takes you on a colorful tour of Cuba's most archetypal interiors. Just mix up a Mojito, pop in a Compay Segundo CD, and fire up a cigar-you'll be in the perfect mood to savor these luscious Cuban gems.
Highlights include:- traditional time-worn homes bearing the patina of generations of habitation
- Modernist houses-including one by Richard Neutra-and artists' homes
- Cuba's best eclectic 20th century mansions
- a sugar baron's grandiose palacio
- Partagás cigar factory, one of Havana's oldest and finest
- the baroque building Palacio de los Capitanes Generales
- the spectacular and futuristic Mario Girona-designed ice cream haven that is Havana's most popular hangout
- a home with a Lalique-designed interior
- the bars Ernest Hemingway frequented, the hotel where he stayed between 1932 and 1939, and the estate near Havana he purchased in 1940, where he wrote The Old Man and the Sea
- Mafia casino hotels
- Don Diego Velázquez's Moorish-influenced home where gold was once processed before being shipped to Spain
The photographer: Gianni Basso is specialized in travel photography, architecture, and interiors. In 1989, he founded the photography agency Vega MG. His work has been widely published in books and magazines. He lives in Milan.
The author: Julio César Pérez Hernández, Loeb Fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Design 2001-2002 and adjunct professor at the School of Architecture in Havana, has lectured widely in the US and Europe about Cuban architecture. He is a member of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba and the recipient of several international and national awards. His writings have been published in the New York Times, Arquitectura Cuba and Arquitectura y Urbanismo.
The editor: Angelika Taschen studied art history and German literature in Heidelberg, gaining her doctorate in 1986. Working for TASCHEN since 1987, she has published numerous titles on the themes of architecture, photography, design, and contemporary art.
Editions:
English/French/German: 3-8228-4597-3 (March 2006)
Italian/Spanish/Portuguese: 3-8228-4598-1 (March 2006)
John Peterson, LF 2006, Principal, Peterson Architects / Founder and Chair, Public Architecture
The Lowly and the Difficult
(Part of the CCA Architecture Studio Series)
A Suburban Garage renovation and a tract planning project embedded in the most formulaic, money-driven, and design-regressive development environment possible.
Faculty: John Peterson, Founder & Chair of Public Architecture and Tim
Culvahouse, Senior Advisor of Public Architecture with students from California
College of Arts.
Design: Sputnik CCA
Published by California College of the Arts, IIII Eighth Street, San Francisco,
CA 94107 and the authors, 2005. ISBN 0-9753507-2-2Z
John Peterson
5239 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94118
Ph: 415-431-6600
john@petersonarch.com
Carla Picardi, LF 93, Dharma Developments, Asolo (TV), Italy
30 St Mary Axe: A Tower for London
Author: Kenneth Powell
Photographer: Grant Smith
Project Developer: Carla Picardi
Publisher: Merrell Publishers Limited, London & New York, 2006
ISBN 1-85894-322-1
Susan Schwartzenberg, LF 1999, Senior Artist, Exploratorium (San Francisco)
Becoming Citizens: Family Life and the Politics of Disability
Published in 2005 by University of Washington Press, P.O. Box 50096, Seattle,
WA 98145
Funded by Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, City of Seattle
ISBN 0-295-9851-4
http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/SCHBEC.html
Following the Second World War, a generation of Seattle parents went against
conventional medical wisdom and chose to bring up their children with developmental
disabilities in the community. This book presents a stunning visual narrative
of thirteen of these remarkable families. With a rich array of interviews, photographs,
newspaper clippings, official documents, and personal mementos, photographer
Susan Schwartzenberg captures moving recollections of the struggle and perseverance
of these parents. Becoming Citizens traces their dogged determination to make
meaningful lives for their children in the face of an often hostile system.
Breaking the silence that characterizes the history of disability in the United
States, Becoming Citizens is a substantive contribution to social and regional
history. It demonstrates the ways in which personal experiences can galvanize
communities for political action. The centerpiece of the book is the story of
four mothers-turned-activists who coauthored Education for All, a crucial piece
of Washington State legislation that was a precursor to the national law securing
educational rights for every person with a disability in America.
Becoming Citizens is a deeply compassionate testament to the experience of family
life and disability, as it is to the ways in which ordinary citizens become activists.
It will be important to anyone interested in disability studies, including teachers,
friends, and families of those with disabilities.
Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American
Urbanism
Text: Rebecca Solnit, Text: Susan Schwartzenberg
Published in 2000 by Verso (New Left Books), 180 Varick St., New York, NY 10014-4606
ISBN 1-85984-794-3
http://www.versobooks.com/books/nopqrs/s-titles/solnit_hollow_city.shtml
Reporting from the front line of gentrification in San Francisco, Rebecca Solnit
examines the consequences when artists’ love for space and authenticity in working-class
areas, and rich peoples’ love for the fashionable bohemia of artists’ neighbourhoods,
are combined. The Mission, for instance, with its easier access to Silicon Valley,
has become a standoff between hi gh tech’s nouveaux riches and existing residents
under threat from spiralling rents, including supporters of the Yuppie Eradication
Project who advocate vandalizing expensive cars and restaurants in retaliation.
Solnit is rueful about the decision by cities like San Francisco to increase
their admission charges so that poor people, artists, and writers like herself
can no longer afford to live in the inner city. Drawing on architectural history,
contemporary urban studies, and vivid first-hand description, and enriched by
the telling images of Susan Schwartzenberg, a photographer who weaves together
her own work with older pictures to create complex portraits of place. Hollow
City projects the end of city life for bohemians and its baleful consequences
for American culture.
Cento, A Market Street Journal
A project by Susan Schwartzenberg with Ali Sant and Amy Snyder
Commissioned by the San Francisco Art Commission
Copyright 1996, Susan Schwarzenberg & The San Francisco Art Commission
25 Van Ness Avenue, #240, San Francisco, CA 94102
A “cognitive” guidebook, personal journal and map. Composed of contemporary and
historical sources this “multiple voiced, interactive guide” presents the thoughts
and experiences of people who have lived and worked along the Market Street Corridor.
(Photographs, interviews, literary quotations, artifacts) 120 page offset book,
5.5x7” published June 1996 and distributed via artist organized tours through
spring 1997.
“To Quiet a Foreign Pain (Jimmy, a real American)”
Copyright 1990, Susan Schwartzenberg, ISBN 0-89822-064-5
Produced by S.S. and Stewart Cauley during a residency at the Visual Studies
Workshop, 31 Prince St, Rochester, NY 14607
http://www.vsw.org/press/index.html
To Quiet a Foreign Pain is an excerpt from My Name Is Hunter’s
Point, a project of photographs, poetry, text and interviews. This
interpretive social document recounts, through images and his son's text, the
life story of Jimmy Maher, a cowboy, self-taught artist, slaughterhouse worker,
husband, father, and alcoholic. Project is an intimate look at the impact of
urban change through the experiences of one family.
Jennifer Siegal, LF 2003, Founder and Principal, Office of Mobile Design Corp.
Mobile: The Art of Portable Architecture
Published by Princeton Architectural Press, 2002
ISBN 1568983344, 126 pp.
Ordering information at http://www.designmobile.com
The allure of mobile, portable architecture is worldwide and centuries old, from the desert tents of the bedouin to the silvery capsules of the Airstream trailer. Mobile explores the ever-growing range of possibilities of portable, demountable, and mobile structures. Jennifer Siegal brings together the work of the most interesting contemporary designers of dynamic, active structures, whose work ranges from the microenvironment of a house that literally attaches to your body to the city-scaled macroenvironment of London's Millennium Dome, from the interior of a Boeing jet to an entire mobile community whose living units plug into a framework of flexible communal space, and from the practical design of transportable office space to the whimsical design of Pink Floyd's The Wall stage set. All of the designs celebrate the lightness, transience, and practicality that mobile architecture makes possible. Mobile includes work by Office of Mobile Design, LOT/EK, Vito Acconci, Doug Jackson/LARGE, Mark Fisher, Michael Fox, FTL Happold, Festo, and Lawrence Scarpa. In beautiful color images, detailed drawings, and thoughtful text, the contributors reveal their working methods.
More Mobile: Portable Architecture for Today
Published by Princeton Architectural Press, 2008
ISBN 978-1-56898-758-3
In her new book, Jennifer Siegal explores the ever-growing range of possibilities of portable, demountable structures. From serious Refuge Wear to the playful Furnicycle and the practical Kunsthallen, More Mobile explores the methods and finished work of the most exciting contemporary designers working in this field and presents today's most dynamic, active mobile structures with beautiful color images, detailed drawings and insightful texts.
Shane Smith, LF 1990, Director, Cheyenne Botanical Gardens
Greenhouse: Gardener's Companion (Revised and Updated)
Growing Food & Flowers in Your Greenhouse or Sunspace
Illustrations by Marjorie C. Leggitt
Fulcrum Publishing, 16100 Table Mountain Parkway, Suite 300, Golden, CO 80403
Copyright 1992, 2000
http://www.fulcrum-books.com
ISBN 1-55591-450-0
Shane Smith draws on more than 20 years' gardening experience to offer commonsense advice for creating a charming and productive greenhouse. This revised and expanded version features:
- Important things you should know before you buy or build a greenhouse
- More detailed information on greenhouse construction, heating options, interior design, and adding solar heat to any greenhouse
- Expanded section on natural pest and disease control, with updated information on integrated pest management (IPM) for those who prefer to control "bad bugs" with "good bugs" rather than toxic pesticides
- The latest greenhouse gadgets, from glazing to venting, misting, and watering devices
- A special section profiling more than 300 plants, plus scheduling tips for producing year-round blooms and food-crop harvests
- New section on orchids introduces the basic orchid families and provides practical advice for growing species successfully
- More than 250 new illustrations, plus copious instructive photos and charts
- Detailed appendices listing garden associations and suppliers (with web site addresses), climate information, helpful references, and more
Rick St. John, LF 2002, Executive Director, Conversations for the Commonwealth
The Pure Inconstancy of Grace
Published by Truman State University Press, 2006
ISBN 1-93111-2495, 88 pp.
Ordering information at http://tsup.truman.edu
Richard St. John eloquently illuminates the human condition in surprising and profound ways in this collection of poems. He finds genuine grace in the midst of suffering and despair as well as in mundane moments of daily life. These are powerful poems with clear-eyed empathy and uncanny insight.
Beautiful voice and measured use of cultural allusions give this book dignity and maturity.....A very melodious and inspirational writer. -Diane Wakoski, 2004 T. S. Eliot judge
What remarkable, original, and intelligent poems these are-without an echo of imitation or lingering indebtednesses. Above all, these are poems of felt intelligence-a quality one associates with Richard Wilbur or John Donne and too few others. Richard St. John is among the select few. All you have to do is read "J. Paul Getty at Forest Lawn," "Circling Walden Pond," "Walking with the Lady with Three Dogs," "This Light" and the poignant "The Chokeberry and the Mower: A Valediction" to be convinced. This book ranks among the best recent books of poems I have ever read, and I mean every word of that. -Samuel Hazo, International Poetry Forum
The Pure Inconstancy of Grace is a terrific book. Each poem compels our attention. Richard St. John's work is characterized by precision of language, compassion, and a sense of the sacred writ both large and small. These narratives and homilies will stay with you long after the book is closed. You'll go back and read them again. -Michael Wurster
Whether revisiting the legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller or speaking (aptly enough) as John the Baptist's head upon a plate, these poems exhibit a masterful use of tone and formal elegance (see, for example, the delightful twist on rime royal in "J. Paul Getty at Forest Lawn"). But for all their structural intricacies, these are poems whose true grace lies in their ability to see inside the world, to get at "the black and lapidary heart of things." St. John's voice makes a most welcome debut in this moving collection of poems, a gift to the art of poetry. -D. A. Powell, University of San Francisco
James Trulove, LF 1994, Publisher / Editor in Chief, Grayson Publishing
The New Wood House
The New Glass House
Published by Bulfinch Press
25 Houses Under 3000 Square Feet
Cottages: The New Style
Great Houses On A Budget
Living Big In Small Apartments
Published by Harper Collins
Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture II
The Crazannes Quarries by Bernard Lassus
Reimagining West Coconut Grove
Published by Spacemaker Press
Sustainable Homes
Modern Town Houses
25 Apartments Under 2500 Square Feet
Publisher: Harper Collins
The Architecture and Landscape Architecture of Jones & Jones
Publisher: Spacemaker Press
Peter Vanderwarker, LF1997, Photographer
Beacon Hill:
A Living Portrait
Authors:
Barbara W. Moore and Gail Weesner
Photographer:
Peter Vanderwarker
Introduction by Robert Campbell,
the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic of The Boston Globe
Publisher: Centry Hill Press
Like
an earlier book (1992) of the same title, this volume gives a tour along
the streets and inside some of the houses in the Beacon Hill Historic District. Following
a short illustrated history, it is divided into two sections: First, there
is an architectural survey of the development of the Beacon Hill neighborhood
beginning around the 1800. Several pages are devoted to the surviving works
of Charles Bulfinch, followed by the successive architectural periods that can
be seen on the streets of the Hill today: later Federal houses, followed
by the styles known as Greek Revival, Victorian, and Arts and Crafts/Colonial
Revival.
The second
section of the book is devoted to photographs inside some forty of these
historic buildings — large and small, grand and modest — most of them private
residences. Again,
the book focuses on the successive periods of architecture on the Hill while
illustrating the enormous range of taste and styles among today's residents.
This
new edition contains some 275 photographs by Peter Vanderwarker, a Boston-based
architectural photographer who has been published internationally in books
and magazines. This is his fifth book project. Barbara W. Moore
and Gail Weesner, both longtime Beacon Hill residents, have worked together
on several other titles, including Back Bay: A Living Portrait, Hidden Gardens of Beacon
Hill, and The Public Garden, Boston. For more information
see our website: http://centryhillpress.com.
Centry Hill Press, Box 306, Charles Street Station, Boston, MA 02114
617-227-4329; fax: 617-227-9618
centryhillpress@aol.com
Gail Vittori , LF1999, Co-Director, Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems
Sustainable Healthcare Architecture
[coauthored
with Robin Guenther]
Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, & Canada, 2008
ISBN 978-0-471-78404-3
The Green Building Movement is guided by a simple, yet revolutionary, idea: that the buildings in which we live our lives can nurture instead of harm, can restore instead of consume, and can inspire instead of constrain. The business case for green building is highly compelling, and it is a large part of the reason that we have made such great strides in the last 10 years. But it is important for us to remember that at its core, green building is about making the world a better place for people to live. As Robin Guenther and Gail Vittori show us in this important new book, nowhere is that fact more apparent than in the healthcare industry, where the sterile, imposing facilities of the past are being replaced by buildings that are filled with daylight, connected to nature, and above all, designed to promote health and well-being.
John Zeisel, LF 1971, President and co-founder of Hearthstone Alzheimer
Care, Ltd
I’M STILL HERE: A Breakthrough Approach to Understanding Someone
Living with Alzheimer’s
Publisher:
Avery Press
Release Date:
January 22, 2009 ($24.95)
ISB #
978-1-5833333-335-8
Contact: Anne Kosmoski, ph: 212.366.2110, email: Anne.Kosmoski@us.penguingroup.com
A glass-half-full look at Alzheimer’s that reveals how to connect
with someone through the fog of the disease.
As many as five million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s. The popular
perception of the disease is that people who receive an Alzheimer’s diagnosis
are lost to themselves and to those who love them—and that they have no future.
But as John Zeisel, an innovator in nonpharmacological approaches to treating
Alzheimer’s, makes clear in this book, this view is wrong. The disease often
lasts ten to fifteen years—a time span that definitely constitutes a future.
In I’m Still
Here, Zeisel shows that during the course of Alzheimer’s, caregivers can
have a vibrant and meaningful relationship with people who have the disease.
I’m Still Here focuses on connecting with individuals with Alzheimer’s
through their abilities that don’t diminish with time, such as understanding
music, art, facial expressions, and touch. Zeisel demonstrates that people
who have the disease are highly creative and emotionally intelligent. By harnessing
these capacities, and by using other approaches to treatment—such as building
memory cues into their living environment, which encourages independent movement
and helps eliminate sources of frustration—it’s possible to offer them a
quality life with connection to others and to the world.
John is the author of Independence through Interdependence: Congregate Housing
for Older People as well as two volumes of design guidelines, Lowrise
Housing for Older People and Midrise Elevator Housing for Older People.
Numerous articles on and by Dr. Zeisel have appeared in US and European publications.
In 1990 the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), an organization
of over 40 million members, published his consumer guide - Selecting Retirement
Housing.
Environmental Justice IS...
Copies of the proceedings of the March 1997 forum Environmental Justice IS... are available from the Loeb Fellowship office. Glenn L. Smith, a 1996-97 Loeb Fellow, coordinated this forum with the intention of exploring new boundaries of environmental justice in relation to the design professions. The following questions, among others, are ones that Smith hoped the forum would answer: How do designers begin to assist in the equitable mediation between the natural systems and human systems at a project and planning level? Can designers make a difference in insuring racial and economic justice while also advocating design service equity? How can designers begin to incorporate the issues of justice and equity into the process of design? The proceedings include three case studies in New York, one in Boston, and one in Chicago. The transcripts from two panel discussions, and short bios of the participants are also included. In addition to Smith, participants included: James S. Hoyte, Elizabeth Kennedy, Ghislaine Hermanuz, Miriam Gusevich, Raymond Gastil, Klare X. Allen, Lisa Purdy, Claire Weisz, Michelle Alvarez, M. David Lee, and Charlotte Kahn.
Manufacturing Cities: Competitive Advantage and Urban Industrial Community
Also available is a collection of selected papers presented at the Manufacturing Cities: Competitive Advantage and the Urban Industrial Community symposium held in March 1996. Case studies based in New York City; Delhi, India; Modena, Italy; and Paris are featured. Papers focussing on Urban Manufacturing and Urban Policy complete the collection. These participants include: William Doebele, Frank Backus, John Loomis, José Antonio Gomez-Ibañez, Bennett Harrison, Lisa Peattie, Martha O'Mara, Saskia Sassen, Edward Robbins, Peter Kwass, Richard Krauss, James Kostaras, Bruce Herman, Linda Cox, Sarah Garretson, David Sweeny, Julia Trilling, Mauro Ronchetti, Andrea Tosi, Laurance Seban, Jean-Claude Garciás, and Jerold Kayden. Some of these participants' addresses and phone numbers are also provided to allow readers to reach them for further information.