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BOOKS AND ARTICLES BY KNIGHT PROGRAM FELLOWS AND FACULTY

Books

Charles Bohl (Knight Program Director), The Social, Civic and Symbolic Functions of the Public Realm: A Comparative Analysis of New Urbanist Town Centers and Conventional Shopping Centers (Ph.D. dissertation) click here for link)

Charles Bohl (Knight Program Director), Placemaking: Developing Town Centers, Main Streets and Urban Villages (ULI, 2002)

Tom Borrup (2002 Knight Fellow), The Creative Community Builders Handbook: How to Transform Communities Using Local Assets, Arts, and Culture (Fieldstone Alliance, 2006)

Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk (Dean of UM School of Architecture) and Jeff Speck, Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (North Point Press, 2001)

C.C. Holloman (2001 Knight Fellow), Mending the Broken Pieces "Written to inspire people to hear and understand the fear, the pain and the anquish of troubled people..."

Philip Langdon (2001 Knight Fellow), A Better Place to Live: Reshaping the American Suburb (University of Massachusetts Press, 1997)

Philip Langdon and Dennis Wedlick, The Good Home: Interiors and Exteriors (Hearst Book Intl, 2001)

Daniel Parolek, Karen Parolek, Paul Crawford, Form-Based Codes: A Guide for Planners, Urban Designers, Municipalities, and Developers (Wiley, 2008)

Lee S. Sobel (2001 Knight Fellow), Greyfields into Goldfields: Dead Malls Become Living Neighborhoods (Congress for the New Urbanism, 2002)

Journals

Charles Bohl (Knight Program Director), Matthew Hardy, and Emily Talen, editors, Journal of Urbanism (published by Routledge, vol. 1, no. 1 in March 2008)

Articles

Jose Szapocznik, Joanna Lombard, Frank Martinez, Craig A. Mason, Deborah Gorman-Smith, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Scott C. Brown, Arnold Spokane (2002 Knight Fellow), "The Impact of the Built Environment on Children's School Conduct Grades: The Role of Diversity of Use in a Hispanic Neighborhood," American Journal of Community Psychology (December 2006)

Tom Borrup (2002 Knight Fellow), "Aesthetics are Crucial to a Walkable City," Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (June 20, 2003)

Ken Hughes (2001 Knight Fellow), "Flows: Blueprints for Santa Fe," Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter (November 2005), report that analyzes how Santa Fe can recognize, confront, and reduce the threats posed by global warming, 1.8 MB PDF

"The Future of Civic Life: New Rules Concerning Urban Design Could Make Sprawl a Thing of the Past," Charleston City Paper (June 18, 2003); article about Tim Keane's (2001 Knight Fellow) work as Charleston's City Planning Director

Kevin Klinkenberg (2003 Knight Fellow), "Does Kansas City Really Want to Be a City?" The Kansas City Star (March 23, 2003)

Philip Langdon (2001 Knight Fellow), "The Right Targets Smart Growth for Smearing," The Hartford Courant (March 2, 2003)

Philip Langdon, "What's In Store for Hartford? When 'We Sell For Less' Sells Out The Public Good," The Hartford Courant (December 22, 2002)

Jennifer Hurley (2001 Knight Fellow), "New Urban Planning for Neighborhood Revitalization," Planners Network (Spring 2002)

Philip Langdon, "Avant Garde Against Humanity: The Rise and Fall of Anti-Social Architecture," The American Enterprise (January/Feburary 2002)

Joyce Marin (2001 Knight Fellow), "Celebrating our Neighborhood Schools," The Town Paper (April/May 2001)

Joyce Marin, "Why Should I Get Involved?" Beall's Hill Pre-Charrette Paper (November 2001)

Lee Sobel (2001 Knight Fellow), "New Urban Traveler," The Town Paper (Feb/March 2001)

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