Brent's Recommended List
BUSINESS & MANAGMENT
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Harnish, V., (2002), Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What you must do to increase the value
of your growing firm. Ashburn, Virginia: Gazelles, Inc.
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Harnish, V., (2014), Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make it … and Why the Rest Don’t
Ashburn, Virginia: Gazelles, Inc.
SOCIAL INSTITUTIONAL ENGAGEMENT
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Van Agtmael, A. & Bakker, F., (2016), The Smartest Places on Earth: Why Rustbelts Are the
Emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation, New York: Public Affairs
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Kitchens, R. (with Gross, D. & Smith, H.), (2008), Community Capitalism: Lessons from
Kalamazoo and Beyond, Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse
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Brown, P. H., (2015), How Real Estate developers Think: Design, Profits, and Community,
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
SMART CITIES & TECHNOLOGY
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Townsend, A. M., (2013), Smart Cities: big data, civic hackers, and the quest for a new utopia,
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
HISTORICAL CITY PLANNING
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Jacobs, J. (1992), The Death and Life of Great American Cities, New York: Random House
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Geddes, P., (2017), Cities in Evolution: An Introduction to the Town Planning Movement and the
Study of Civics, London: Forgotten Books
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Welter, V. M., (2002), Biolopolis: Patrick Geddes and the City of Life, Cambridge,
Massachusetts: The MIT Press
CONTRARIAN VIEW
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Griffin, G. E., (2010), The Creature from Jekyll Island: A second look at the Federal Reserve,
(5th edition),
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Plummer, J. & Griffin, G. E.< (2014), Tragedy and Hope 101: The Illusion of Justice, Freedom,
and Democracy,
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Taleb, N. N., (2010), The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, New York: Random
House Trade Paperbacks
FOCUSED PLANNING MINDSET
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Collins, J. & Hansen, M. T., (2011), Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why
some thrive despite them all, New York: HarperCollins Publishers
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Buckingham, M., (2005), The One Thing You Need to Know … About Great Managing, Great
Leading, and Sustained Individual Success, New York: Free Press
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Connors, R., Smith, T., & Hickman, C., (2004), The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through
Individual and Organizational Accountability, New York: Penguin Group
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PLACEMAKING WORKS
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Reichheld, F., (with Markey, R.), (2011), The Ultimate Question 2.0: How Net Promoter
Companies Thrive in a Customer-Drive World, Boston: Harvard Business Review Press
LOCAL PLANS – TRI-COUNTY REGION
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Civilis Consultants, (2015), Revitalization Toolkit presented to the Tri-County Regional Planning
Commission
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National Charrette Institute, (2014), The Capitol Corridor: A regional vision for Michigan
Avenue/Grand River Avenue, Lansing, Michigan: Tri-County Regional Planning
Commission
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Bandes, S. J., (2016), Mid-Michigan Modern: From Frank Lloyd Wright to Google, East Lansing,
Michigan: Michigan State University Press
VIDEO RESOURCES
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Brent Forsberg's YouTube playlist about Walkable featuring lectures, presentations, interviews from world leaders in Urban Design and Scale
IDEOLOGIES
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Fuller, R. Buckminster., (2015) Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, Edited by Jaime Snyder,
Zurich, Switzerland: Lars Muller Publishers
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Flint, A., (2009), Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs took on New York’s master builder
and transformed the American City, New York: The Random House Publishing Group
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Jacobs, J., (2017) Vital Little Plans: the short works of Jane Jacobs, (Edited by Zipp, S. & Storring, N.),
London: Short Books Ltd.
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Keats, J., (2016), You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future, New York:
Oxford University Press
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Mumford, L., (2010), Technics and Civilization, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
SMART GROWTH
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Speck, J., (2012), Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time, New
York: North Point Press
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Schwartz, S. I., (with Rosen, W.), (2015), Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars,
New York: Public Affairs
CITIES HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
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Mumford, L., (1989), The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects, New
York: Harcourt Publishing Company
SMART GROWTH PLANNING
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Duany, A., Speck, J., (with Lydon, M.), (2010), The Smart Growth Manual, New York: McGraw
Hill
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Sorlien, S. (Adapter), (2010), Neighborhood Conservation Code: A Transect-Based Infill Code
for Planning and Zoning, Smart Code: Version 9.2, The Town Paper Publisher
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Tachieva, G., (2010), Sprawl Repair Manual, Washington: Island Press
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Duany, A., Plater-Zyberk, E., & Alminana, R., (2003), The New Civic Art: Elements of Town
Planning, New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.
SOCIAL INEQUALITY
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Shapiro, T. M., (2017), Toxic Inequality: How America’s Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens
the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future, New York: Basic Books
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Lowery, W., (2016), They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s
Racial Justice Movement, New York: Little, Brown and Company
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Rothstein, R., The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated
America, New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation
BASIC ARCHITECTURE 101
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Lewis, P., Tsurumaki, M., & Lewis, D. J., (2016), Manual of Section, New York, Princeton
Architectural Press.
PLACEMAKING
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Layton, C., Pearson, T., & Donovan, L. (2014), The Economics of Place: The Art of Building
Great Communities, Ann Arbor, Michigan: The Michigan Municipal League
EXAMPLES
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Arnaud, M., (2017), Detroit: The Dream is Now: The Design, Art, and Resurgence of an
American City, New York, Abrams
JAN GEHL'S CITIES FOR PEOPLE RESOURCES
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Birgitte Svarre, Senses Scale and 12 Quality Criteria
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Jan Gehl, Cities for People
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Henriette Cramer, Understanding 'there' on a Human Scale
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Jan Gehl, Public Life & Urban Justice in NYC's Plazas