By Jeremy Senko
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Book Review: The Hidden Potential of Sustainable Neighborhoods: Lessons from Low-Carbon Communities
Author: Harrison Fraker (Island Press, 2013) The Hidden Potential of Sustainable Neighborhoods: Lessons from Low-Carbon Communities is a handbook of sorts...
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Book Review – The Nature of Urban Design: a New York Perspective on Resilience
Author: Alexandros Washburn (Island Press) On the whole, recent books about urban design tend to reinforce many of the same sentiments and perspectives...
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Book Review: How Architecture Works: A Humanist’s Toolkit
Author: Witold Rybczynski (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013) “Exactly what makes a building memorable is hard to pin down. It’s certainly not merely...
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Book Review – Prospect Park: Olsted & Vaux’s Brooklyn Masterpiece
Author: David P. Colley, photographs by Elizabeth Keegin Colley (Princeton Architectural Press, 2013) We are spoiled in Metro Vancouver. With so many...
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Book Review – Art Parks: A Tour of America’s Sculpture Parks and Gardens
Author: Francesca Cigola (Princeton Architectural Press, 2013) In my short time studying the world of design, I have tried to fully embrace as many facets...
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Book Review – The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As it Is, As It Could Be
Author: J.B. Mackinnon (Random House, 2013) I was instantaneously drawn to this book for no other reason than the title. I had not read the 100 Mile Diet...
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Book Review – Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency
Authors: Andrea Oppenheimer Dean, Timothy Hursley (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002) In his 1952 novel East of Eden, John Steinbeck took on an argument...
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Book Review – Design for an Empathic World: Reconnecting to People, Nature, and Self
Author: Sim Van Der Ryn (Island Press, 2013) I consider myself an empathic person; someone who spends his time worrying about the welfare of others, those...
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Book Review – Vital Signs, Volume 20
Author: The Worldwatch Institute’s (Island Press, 2013) The threat of terror is around every corner in 21st century life, or so it would so frequently...
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Book Review – Visualizing Climate Change: A Guide to Visual Communication of Climate Change and Developing Local Solutions
Author: Stephen R. J. Sheppard (Routledge, 2012) Just recently I began talking more frequently to friends and peers about climate change after reading a...
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How Designers Think: The Design Process Demystified
Author: Bryan Lawson (Routledge, 4th ed., 2005) Designers of any discipline consistently struggle to define their “process”: a way to break down the...
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Book Review – Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis: Intensities
Authors: Paul Lewis , Marc Tsurumaki, David J. Lewis (Princeton Architectural Press, 2013) LTL are back with a new collection of their architectural...