Coaffee, Jon. Terrorism, Risk and the City: The Making of a Contemporary Urban Landscape. Aldershot, Hants.: Ashgate, 2003.

Dealing with issues of risk, security and the spatial restructuring of contemporary western cities, this book examines how the perceived risk of terrorist attack led to changes in the physical form and institutional infrastructure of the city of London during the 1990s when the city was a prime terrorist target. This book will be a source of inspiration for any city redesigning itself to respond to terrorism fears.

Hutt, Sherry, et al. Cultural Property Law: a Practitioner's Guide to the Management, Protection, and Preservation of Heritage Resources. Chicago: American Bar Association, 2004.

Cultural property can be defined as the tangible and intangible effects of an individual or group of people that defines their existence. Cultural property not only fills art museums, but is also in private homes, places of worship, and within the natural landscape of public lands. Cultural property law has evolved from the common law of property to encompass a broad array of statutes and codes that direct the management, protection, and preservation of cultural resources in their many public and private manifestations.

Friedman, Avi. Homes within Reach: A Guide to the Planning, Design, and Construction of Affordable Homes and Communities. New York: Wiley, 2005.

Provides the first systematic guide for planning, designing, and constructing modest, yet high-quality, homes. From siting and foundations to systems, layouts, and interior and exterior finishes, it covers dozens of design and construction techniques that promote housing quality with sensitivity to lowering costs.

Ginn, William J. Investing in Nature: Case Studies of Land Conservation in Collaboration with Business. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2005.

A group of dedicated business-people-turned-environmental-entrepreneurs is pioneering a new set of tools for land conservation deals and other market-based strategies. Drawing on his experience in both business and land conservation at The Nature Conservancy (TNC), William Ginn offers a practical guide to these innovative methods and a road map to the most effective way to implement them. From conservation investment banking, to emerging markets for nature's goods and services, to new tax incentives that encourage companies to do the "right" thing, Ginn goes beyond the theories to present real-world applications and strategies. And, just as importantly, he looks at the lessons learned from what has not worked, including his own failed efforts in Papua New Guinea and TNC's controversial compatible development approach in Virginia.

Hornstein, Jeffrey M. A Nation of Realtors: A Cultural History of the Twentieth-Century American Middle Class. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005.

At the dawn of the 20th century, a group of prominent real estate brokers attempted to transform their occupation into a profession. Drawing on traditional notions of the learned professions, they developed a new identity — the professional entrepreneur — and a brand name, "Realtor." The Realtors worked doggedly to make home ownership a central element of what became known as the "American dream." A Nation of Realtors® illuminates class, gender, and business through a look at the development of a profession and its enormously successful effort to make the owner-occupied, single-family home a key element of 20th-century American identity.

Forsyth, Ann, and Laura R. Musacchio. Designing Small Parks: A Manual for Addressing Social and Ecological Concerns. New York: Wiley, 2005.

Provides guidelines for building better parks by integrating design criteria with current social and natural science research. Small parks are too often relegated to being the step-child of municipal and metropolitan open space systems because of assumptions that their small size and isolation limits their recreational capacity and makes them ecologically less valuable than large city and county parks. This manual is arranged around 12 topics that represent key questions, contradictions, or tensions in the design of small parks. Topics cover fundamental issues for urban parks, natural systems, and human aspects.

Berke, Philip R., et al. Urban Land Use Planning. 5th ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006.

This edition of Urban Land Use Planning deftly balances an authoritative, up-to-date discussion of current practices with a vision of what land use planning should become. It explores the societal context of land use planning and proposes a model for understanding and reconciling the divergent priorities among competing stakeholders; it explains how to build planning support systems to assess future conditions, evaluate policy choices, create visions, and compare scenarios; and it sets forth a methodology for creating plans that will influence future land use change.

Gray, Aelred J., and David A. Johnson. The TVA Regional Planning and Development Program: The Transformation of an Institution and its Mission. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2005.

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a world-renowned model for regional planning and development. Based along the Tennessee River and its series of hydro-electric power stations, dams and reservoirs, the TVA development program envisioned a broad regional planning program. The program focused on development opportunities and problems around the array of TVA dams and their reservoirs. It also created new "model" towns and pioneered land-use planning bringing together federal, state, and local agencies, farmers, foresters and industrial firms to further the economic, social, and physical conditions of what had been one of the most seriously lagging regions of the U.S. This book is based on the memoirs and experiences of Aelred J. Gray, former planner with the TVA.

State of the World's Cities Report 2006/2007: The Millennium Development Goals and Urban Sustainability:30 Years of Shaping the Habitat Agenda. London: Earthscan for UNCHS (Habitat), 2006.

The year 2007 will mark a turning point in human history: the world's urban population will for the first time exceed the world's rural population. But with the concomitant strain this will place upon current urban infrastructures, what does this mean for the state of our cities — especially those experiencing the highest rates of "in-migration" in the developing world? Guided in focus by the UN Millennium Development Goals, this new State of the World's Cities volume considers the wide range of issues that affect the lives of (mainly poor) urban dwellers: water and sanitation, shelter, overcrowding, malnutrition, HIV/AIDS, education, employment, and more. Research from UN-HABITAT is discussed and clearly presented in full color, easy-to-read graphs, boxes, tables and photos, and illustrated with case studies from around the globe.