Smarth Growth Publications List
Beamont, Constance E., How Superstore Sprawl Can Harm Communities and What Citizens Can Do About It. Washington, D.C.: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1994. Go to www.preservationbooks.org and click on "Communities and Sprawl."
Beaumont, Constance E., Smart States, Better Communities. Washington, D.C.: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1996. Go to www.preservationbooks.org.
Costello, Dan, and Lisa Schamess, eds. Building on the Past--Traveling to the Future: A Preservationists Guide to the Federal Transportation Enhancement Provision. Washington, D.C.: Federal Highway Administration and National Trust for Historic Preservation, 2000.
Daniels, Thomas L., John W. Keller and Mark B. Lapping, The Small Town Planning Handbook. Chicago: APA Planners Press, 1995.
Duerksen, Christopher J., and R. Matthew Goebel, Aesthetics, Community Character, and the Law. Chicago: APA Planners Press, 1999. Go to www.planning.org.
Gratz, Roberta Brandes, Cities Back from the Edge: New Life for Downtown (Order No. 2C12). Go to www.preservationbooks.org and click on "Preservation Planning."
Gratz, Roberta Brandes, The Living City. New York: Preservation Press/John Wiley & Sons, 1994.
Historic Neighborhood Schools in the Age of Sprawl: Why Johnny Can't Walk to School. Washington, D.C.: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 2000.
Jackson, Richard J., M.D., and Chris Kochitzky, Creating a Healthy Environment: The Impact of the Built Environment on Public Health. Go to www.sprawlwatch.org/health.pdf.
Kunstler, James Howard, The Geography of Nowhere. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
McMahon, Ed, with Sara Hollberg & Shelley Mastran, Better Models for Development in Virginia. Published by The Conservation Fund in Arlington, Virginia. Call 703.525.6300.
Mitchell, Stacey, The Home Town Advantage. Washington, D.C.: Institute for Local Self-Reliance, 2000. Go to www.ilsr.org.
Moe, Richard, and Carter Wilkie, Changing Places: Restoring Community in the Age of Sprawl. New York: Henry Holt, 1997.
Oldenburg, Ray, The Great Good Place. New York: Marlowe & Co., 1999.
Rypkema, Donovan D., The Economics of Historic Preservation. Washington, D.C.: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1995. Go to www.preservationbooks.org
Stillman, Anne, Better Models for Chain Drugstores. Washington, D.C.: National Trust for Historic Preservation. Go to www.preservationbooks.org.
Whyte, William H., The City: Rediscovering the Center (New York: Doubleday, 1988)
Young, Dwight, Alternatives to Sprawl. Cambridge, MA.: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 1995. Go to www.planning.org.
Note: The American Planning Association's bookstore has hundreds of books and reports that relate to planning, many of which address topics of interest to Main Street revitalization advocates. Go to www.planning.org and click on the APA Store. The Urban Land Institute is another good source of publications. Go to and click on "Bookstore." Finally, the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Preservation Books maintains a treasure trove of publications.
