Shovel Ready: Razing Hopes, History, and a Sense of Place: Bibliography

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[This information is from pp. 155-160 of Shovel Ready: Razing Hopes, History, and a Sense of Place: Rethinking Schenectady's Downtown Strategies, a master's thesis in city planning by Christopher Patrick Spencer (MIT, 2001), and is reproduced with his permission. It is in the Schenectady Collection of the Schenectady County Public Library at Schdy R 711 Spe.]

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Anderson, Martin. The Federal Bulldozer; a Critical Analysis of Urban Renewal, 1949-1962. Cambridge,: M.I.T. Press, 1964.
Baldwin, Michelle. Property Manager, Schaffer Heights. Interview by author, March 27, 2001.
Beauregard, Robert A. Voices of Decline: The Postwar Fate of U.S. Cities. Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Mass.: B. Blackwell, 1993.
Bellush, Jewel, and Murray Hausknecht. Urban Renewal: People, Politics, and Planning. [1st] ed. Garden City, N.Y.,: Anchor Books, 1967.
Black, J. Thomas, Libby Howland, and Stuart L. Rogel. Downtown Retail Development: Conditions for Success and Project Profiles. Washington, D.C.: ULI-the Urban Land Institute, 1983.
Bottles, Scott L. Los Angeles and the Automobile: The Making of the Modern City. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
Bradbury, Katharine L., Anthony Downs, and Kenneth A. Small. Urban Decline and the Future of American Cities. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1982.
Brand, Stewart. How Buildings Learn: What Happens after They're Built. New York, NY: Viking, 1994.
Chudacoff, Howard P. The Evolution of American Urban Society. 2d ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1981.
Brucker, Denise K. President of Schenectady City Council. Interview by author, March 29, 2001.
Clay, Grady. Close-Up: How to Read the American City. New York: Praeger, 1973.
—————. Real Places: An Unconventional Guide to America's Generic Landscape. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Collins, Richard C., Elizabeth B. Waters, Anthony Bruce Dotson, Constance Epton Beaumont, and National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States. America's Downtowns: Growth, Politics, & Preservation. Washington, D.C.: Preservation Press National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1991.
Conroy, James. Deputy Mayor of Troy, New York. Interview by author, March 28, 2001.
Corn, Joseph J., Brian Horrigan, Katherine Chambers, Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service., and National Museum of American History (U.S.). Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future. New York, Washington: Summit Books; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1984.
Cramer, Mark. Funkytowns USA : The Best Alternative, Eclectic, Irreverent,and Visionary Places. Annapolis, Md.: TBS Pub., 1995.
Denney, James. President of Mohawk Asset Management and Former Mayor of Scotia, New York. Interview by author, March 30, 2001.
Derthick, Martha, and Urban Institute. New Towns in-Town; Why a Federal Program Failed. Washington,: Urban Institute, 1972.
Downing, A. J. The Architecture of Country Houses, Da Capo Press Series in Architecture and Decorative Art; V. 11. New York,: Da Capo Press, 1968.
Downs, Anthony. Urban Problems and Prospects. Chicago,: Markham Pub. Co., 1970.
Duci, Frank. Former Mayor of Schenectady. Interview by author, March 26, 2001.
Forester, John. Planning in the Face of Power. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.
Frenchman, Dennis. Professor and Chair of City Design and Development, Department of Urban Planning at MIT. Interview by author, April 3, 2001.
Frieden, Bernard J., and Lynne B. Sagalyn. Downtown, Inc., How America Rebuilds Cities. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1989.
Gilmore, Frank. Principle, Stracher-Roth-Gilmore Architects. Interview by author, March 28, 2001.
Gittell, Ross J. Renewing Cities. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Gratz, Roberta Brandes. The Living City: How America's Cities Are Being Revitalized by Thinking Small in a Big Way. [New ed]. ed. Washington, D.C.: Preservation Press, 1994.
Gratz, Roberta Brandes, and Norman Mintz. Cities Back from the Edge: New Life for Downtown. Washington, D.C., New York: Preservation Press; J. Wiley, 1998.
Haar, Charles Monroe. Between the Idea and the Reality: A Study in the Origin, Fate, and Legacy of the Model Cities Program. Boston: Little, Brown, 1975.
Haefner, Scott. Former City Historian, Schenectady. Interview by author, March 28, 2001.
Hale, Jonathan. The Old Way of Seeing. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.
Hart, Larry. Schenectady, a Pictorial History. Scotia: New York, Old Dorp Books, 1984.
—————., Tales of Old Schenectady, Volume I: The Formative Years. Scotia: New York, Old Dorp Books, 1975.
Houstoun, Lawrence O., Urban Land Institute and International Downtown Association. BIDs: Business Improvement Districts. Washington, D.C.: Urban Land Institute in cooperation with the International Downtown Association, 1997.
Jacobs, Allan B. Great Streets. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993.
Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Vintage Books ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1992 (Originally published 1961).
Johnson, Karen. Former Mayof of Schenectady. Interview by author, March 28, 2001.
Jurczynski, Al. Mayor of Schenectady. Interview by author, April 10, 2001.
Kunstler, James Howard. The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
—————. Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the Twenty-First Century. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.
Lafer, Steven. Urban Redevelopment: An Introductory Guide for Members of Citizen's Groups and Redevelopment Agencies. Berkeley, Calif.: University Extension Publications, 1977.
Langdon, Philip. A Better Place to Live: Reshaping the American Suburb. 1st ed. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994.
Lawrence, Dan. President of Schenectady County Chamber of Commerce. Phone interview by author, April 12, 2001.
Le Corbusier. The City of To-Morrow and Its Planning. New York: Dover, 1987.
Littlejohn, David. The Real Las Vegas: Life Beyond the Strip. Oxford; New York: Oxford Unviersity Press, 1999.
Longstreth, Richard W., and Preservation Press. The Buildings of Main Street: A Guide to American Commercial Architecture, BuildingWatchers Series. Washington, D.C.: Preservation Press, 1987.
Lovelace, Eldridge. Harland Bartholomew: His Contributions to American Urban Planning. Urbana, Ill.: Department of Urban and Regional Planning, 1992.
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—————. A Theory of Good City Form. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1981.
Lynch, Kevin, Tridib Banerjee, and Michael Southworth. City Sense and City Design: Writings and Projects of Kevin Lynch. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990.
Manning, John. Chairman of Schenectady Metroplex Development Authority. Interview by author, March 26, 2001.
Martinson, Tom. American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia. 1st Carroll & Graf ed. New York, NY: Carroll & Graf, 2000.
McCarthy, Gary. City Council Member and Assistant District Attorney for Schenectady County. Interview by author, March 29, 2001.
McCracken, Robert D. Las Vegas: The Great American Playground. Expanded ed. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1997.
Moore, Arthur Cotton. The Powers of Preservation: New Life for Urban Historic Places. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998.
Morris, A. E. J. History of Urban Form: Before the Industrial Revolutions. 2d ed. New York: Wiley, 1979.
Muller, Peter O. Contemporary Suburban America. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1981.
Needham, Barrie. How Cities Work: An Introduction. 1st ed, Pergamon International Library of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Social Studies. Oxford; Elmsford, N.Y.: Pergamon Press, 1977.
Pindell, Terry. A Good Place to Live: America's Last Migration. 1st ed. New York: H. Holt and Co., 1995.
Procter, Mary, and William Matuszeski. Gritty Cities: A Second Look at Allentown, Bethlehem, Bridgeport, Hoboken, Lancaster, Norwich, Paterson, Reading, Trenton, Troy, Waterbury, Wilmington. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1978.
Robertson, George. President of Schenectady Economic Development Corporation. Interview by author, March 27, 2001.
Rubenstein, Harvey M. Central City Malls. New York: Wiley, 1978.
Rusk, David. Inside Game/Outside Game: Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1999.
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Senisi, John. Principle, Synthesis Architects. Interview by author, March 30, 2001.
Stilgoe, John R. Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.
Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour. Learning from Las Vegas. Cambridge, Mass.,: MIT Press, 1972.
Warner, Sam Bass. Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962.
Weicher, John C. Urban Renewal: National Program for Local Problems. Washington: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1972.
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Shovel Ready: Razing Hopes, History, and a Sense of Place:Bibliography

Shovel Ready: Razing Hopes, History, and a Sense of Place:
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