Put That In My Backyard - Author, Roger vanFrank

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Cradle to Cradle
A dissertation on the strange fact that humans, of all nature's biota, creates waste not nourishment, and how this might be corrected.

Design Outlaws
Discussions, some quite original, by various designers about their Buckminster Fuller experiences.

Broadacre City
Broadacre City stands as Frank Lloyd Wright's answer to urbanization. Wright's city, he has said, would be "everywhere and nowhere. ...
Wonderfully blind to population growth and space availability for future generations by this greatest of Architects.

Lewis Mumford, The City in History :
Its Origins, Its Transformations and Its Prospects, ...
An academic look at where we are, from whence we came, again missing the facts and figures future generations would cope with

New Urbanism
Peter Calthorpe - A journey to yesteryear.

Thinking Regionally
A conversation with Peter Calthorpe, Architect and urban planner who goes where few of his profession seek their living.

1908: The Year That Changed Everything
Smithsonian Magazine Jan. 2008 issue. A report on the circumstances and events of a century ago including Teddy Roosevelt's take on the future which unfortunately omitted the Grand Design needed to move men's minds.

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