University of Manitoba : City Planning
[Updated by Ian Wight, July 31, 2007]

NB If the listing strikes you as too formidable, you might want to start with the ‘fun stuff’ at the end

Books: These listings represent a smorgasbord of texts that may well crop up at several points throughout the MCP program. Sample according to your personal taste.

Canadian Context:

Bunting, Trudi and Filion, Pierre 2006. Canadian Cities in Transition: Local Through Global Perspectives (3nd Edition). Oxford University Press http://www.oup.com/ca/isbn/0-19-542219-8

Canadian Institute of Planners 2002 Professional Practice Manual. CIP Ottawa Order from CIP: http://www.cip-icu.ca/English/institute/pubs.htm (or - with a CIP student membership - access it for a free download from the Members Only area of the CIP website)

Dobson, Charles 2003. The Troublemaker’s Teaparty. New Society Publishers [BTW: NSP is one of our favourite publishing houses; check out their site for many other great titles and resources http://www.newsociety.com ]

Fowler, Edmund and Seigel, David. 2002. Urban Policy Issues: Canadian Perspectives. Second Edition. Oxford University Press http://www.oup.com/ca/isbn/0-19-541593-0

Gerecke, Kent (ed). 1991. The Canadian City. Black Rose Books, Montreal.

Grant, Jill. 1994. The Drama of Democracy: Contention and Dispute in Community Planning. University of Toronto Press, Toronto.

Grant, Jill. 2007 (ed) Reader in Canadian Planning: Linking theory and practice. Scarborough: Thomson Nelson Canada http://hed.nelson.com/products/productPage.aspx?isbn=0176103570

Hodge, Gerald and Gordon, David. 2008. Planning Canadian Communities: An Introduction to the Principles, Practice, and Participants, Fifth Edition. Thomson - Nelson, Toronto. Electronic resources web-site: https://qshare.queensu.ca/Users01/gordond/pcc/index.htm

Hodge, Gerald and Robinson, Ira. 2001. Planning Canadian Regions. UBC Press, Vancouver.

House of Anansi Press/CBC Massey Lectures http://www.anansi.ca/titles.cfm?series_id=4
(See especially the lectures by: Janice Gross Stein; Jean Bethke Elshtain; Charles Taylor; George Steiner, Ursula Franklin; Michael Ignatieff; Thomas King and John Ralston Saul)

Kemble, Roger. 1989. The Canadian City: St. John's to Victoria - A Critical Commentary. Harvest House, Montreal.

Pierce, John T. and Dale, Anne (eds). 1999. Communities, Development and Sustainability across Canada. UBC Press. Vancouver.

Rich, George. 1993. The Professional Practice of Urban and Rural Planning in Canada. Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, N.Y.

Roseland, Mark 2005. Toward Sustainable Communities: Resources for Citizens and Their Governments. (Second Edition) http://newsociety.com/bookid/3887 New Society Publishers. To access related electronic resources visit: http://www.sfu.ca/cscd/publications/tsc/TSC_index.htm

Planning Theory/Practice:

Alexander, Ernest R. 1992. Approaches to Planning: Introducing Current Planning Theories, Concepts and Issues, Second Edition, Gordon and Breach, Philadelphia.

Amin, Ash, Massey, Doreen and Thrift, Nigel 2000. Cities for the Many Not the Few. The Policy Press

Beatley, Timothy 2004, Native to Nowhere: Sustaining Home and Community in a Global Age, Island Press

Eckstein, Barbara and James Throgmorton 2003, Story and Sustainability: Planning, practice and possibility for American cities. The MIT Press

Friedmann, John. 1987. Planning in the Public Domain: From Knowledge to Action. Princeton University Press, Princeton; and 2002. The Prospect of Cities. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis/London.

Forester, John. 1989. Planning in the Face of Power. University of California Press, Berkeley; and 1999. The Deliberative Practitioner: Encouraging Participatory Planning Processes. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Grant, Jill. 2005 Planning the Good Community: New Urbanism in Theory and Practice, Royal Town Planning Institute Library Series, Routledge (Taylor and Francis), London UK

Hayden, D 2004. A Field Guide to Sprawl W W Norton. Sample images available at: http://www.theconnection.org/features/sprawl/

Healey, Patsy. 1997. Collaborative Planning. UBC Press, Vancouver.

Hendler, Sue. 1995. Planning Ethics: A Reader in Planning Theory, Practice and Education. Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers. New Brunswick, N.J.

Kemmis, Daniel 1993. Community and the Politics of Place, University of Oklahoma Press; and 1995 The Good City and the Good Life, Houghton Mifflin

Mandelbaum, Seymour J., Mazza, Luigi and Burchell, Robert W. (eds). 1996. Explorations in Planning Theory. Center for Urban Policy Research, New Brunswick, N.J.

Neuwirth, Robert 2005. Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World. Routledge

Orr, David 1992, Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World, SUNY Press; and 1994, Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment and the Human Prospect, Island Press

Planetizen, 2007 (A, Chavan, C. Peralta and C Steins – Eds) Contemporary Debates in Urban Planning, Island Press.

Riddell, Robert 2004. Sustainable Urban Planning: Tipping the Balance. Blackwell Publishing.

Sandercock, Leonie. 1998. Towards Cosmopolis: Planning for Multicultural Cities. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester; and 2003 Cosmopolis II: Mongrel Cities of the 21st Century, Continuum Press.

Schon, Donald. 1983. The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action. Basic Books, New York.

Schneekloth, Lynda and Shibley, Robert. 1995. Placemaking: The Art and Practice of Building Community. John Wiley and Sons Inc., New York.

Taylor, Nigel. 1998. Urban Planning Theory Since 1945. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks.

Thomashow, Mitchell 1996. Ecological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist, The MIT Press

Wilber, Ken 2000. A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science, and Spirituality. Shambhala, Boston

Planning/Urban History:

Hall, Peter. 1996. Cities of Tomorrow (Updated Edition) Blackwell, Oxford; 1998. Cities in Civilization: Culture, Innovation and Urban Order. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London.

Jacobs, Jane. 1961. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Random House, New York; 1984. Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life Random House; 1992. Systems of Survival. Random House, New York; 2000. The Nature of Economies. Random House, Canada; 2004. Dark Age Ahead, Random House

Mumford, Lewis. 1961. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects. A Harvest/HBJ Book.

Rodwin, Lloyd and Sanyal, Bish (eds). 2000. The Profession of City Planning. Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers. New Brunswick, N.J.

Design Perspectives:

Alexander, Christopher 2004. The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe (Four-Book Set: 1. The Phenomenon of Life; 2. The Process of Creating Life; 3. A Vision of the Living World; 4. The Luminous Ground) The Center for Environmental Structures, Berkeley, California.
http://www.natureoforder.com/overview.htm

Ben-Joseph, Eran 2005. The Code of the City: Standards and the Hidden Language of Placemaking. MIT Press

Buchwald, Emilie (ed) 2003. Toward the Livable City. Milkweed Editions

Calthorpe, Peter and Fulton, William 2001. The Regional City: Planning for the end of Sprawl. Island Press

Duany, Andres, Jeff Speck, Mike Lydon. 2009 The Smart Growth Manual. McGraw-Hill Professional

Duany, Andres, Plater-Zyberk, Elizabeth and Speck, Jeff 2001. Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream North Point Press

English Partnerships, August 2000. Urban Design Compendium. Downloadable from (near the end of): http://www.englishpartnerships.co. uk/page.aspx?pointerID=64241OphaK9K2AAJhl5lwMwRzZ4YhYXY

Friedmann, Avi 2005. Room for Thought: Rethinking home and community design. Penguin Canada

Garvin, Alex 1996. The American City: What Works, What Doesn’t. New York: McGraw-Hill

Gindroz, Ray and Levine, Karen (eds) 2003. The Urban Design Handbook – Techniques and Working Methods. Urban Design Associates/W. W. Norton.

Hawken, Paul, Amory and Hunter Lovins. 1999. Natural Capitalism. http://www.natcap.org/

Hester, Randolph 2006. Design for Ecological Democracy. The MIT Press

Landry, Charles. 2006. The Art of City Making. Earthscan: London and Sterling VA http://www.charleslandry.com/

Lang, Jon 1994. Urban Design: The American Experience. New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold

Larice, Michael and Macdonald, Elizabeth (eds). 2007. The Urban Design Reader. Routledge Urban Reader Series

Leung, Hok-Lin. 1999. Land Use Planning Made Plain. 2nd Edition. Ronald P. Frye and Company, Kanata.

Lynch, Kevin. 1981. Good City Form. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Mau, Bruce and Institute Without Borders Massive Change Phaidon Press, New York and London http://www.massivechange.com/

Morrish, William R. and C.R. Brown, 1994. Planning to Stay. University of Minnesota: The Design Center for American Urban Landscape.

Rybczynski, Witold. 1995. City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World. HarperPerrennial.

Steffen, Alex (ed) 2006 Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century. Harry N Abrahams Inc. http://www.worldchanging.com/book/

Sucher, David. 2003 (Revised Edition). City Comforts: How to Build an Urban Village. Seattle. http://www.citycomforts.com/

Walljasper, Jay. 2007. The Great Neighbourhood Book: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Placemaking. PPS A Project for Public Spaces Book. New Society Publishers. http://www.pps.org/

Walters, David and Brown, Linda Luise 2004. Design First: Design-Based Planning for Communities. Elsevier/Architectural Press.

Wates, Nick. 2000. The Community Planning Handbook. Earthscan, London
http://www.communityplanning.net/

Whyte, William H. 1980 The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Project for Public Spaces

Study/Writing/Research Resources:

Booth, W., Colomb, G.G., and Williams, J. 1995. The Craft of Research. The University of Chicago Press.

Locke, Lawrence F., Spirduso, W.W., and Silverman, S.J. 2000. Proposals That Work: A Guide for Planning Dissertations and Grant Proposals. Fourth Edition. Sage Publications Inc., Thousand Oaks.

Macris, Natalie. 1999. Planning in Plain English: Writing Tips for Urban and Environmental Planners. Planners Press: American Planning Association, Chicago.

Turabian, Kate L. 1996. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. Sixth Edition. The University of Chicago Press.

Career Planning:

Cashman, Kevin 1998. Leadership from the Inside Out: Becoming a Leader for Life. Executive Excellence Publishing

Everett, Melissa. 1999. Making a Living While Making a Difference: The Expanded Guide to Creating Careers with a Conscience. 2nd Edition. New Society Publishers. http://www.newsociety.com/

Zander, Rosamund and Benjamin 2002. The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life. Penguin http://www.benjaminzander.com/book/

Journals: Browsing recent issues of the following periodicals will give an indication of current interests in planning and urban studies. You might also cover periodicals in particular areas of interest; for example, housing studies, environmental management, transportation, and so on.

Alternatives; Canadian Journal of Urban Research; Canadian Journal of Regional Science; Journal of Planning Education and Research; Journal of Planning Literature; Journal of the American Planning Association; Places; Plan Canada/Canadian Policy and Planning; Planning Theory; Planning Theory and Practice (RTPI); Town Planning Review; Urban Studies

Web-Sites: The following web-sites may suit those who prefer to do their reading on-line. They are simply convenient sources of topical relevant content for incipient city planning students - studying in Winnipeg. Other interesting links can be found on the Department of City Planning website: http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/architecture/cp (Select 'Professional and Research Links' within the 'News and Resources' section of the home-page)

Canada25 is a non-partisan organization dedicated to engaging the perspectives of young Canadians living around the world in Canada's public policy debates http://www.Canada25.com The national organization will close down in 2007, but local chapters may continue. A web-presence will remain, including Canada25 publications. See, for example, Building Up/Forum 2002, and the Winnipeg roundtable report at : http://www.canada25.com/policy_work.html#cities

The Canadian Encyclopedia: http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/An on-line version of the otherwise three-volume encyclopedia (Select: 'The Canadian Encyclopedia TCE Subject Index', then 'Urban Affairs', then 'Urban Planning'. The main essay is 'Urban and Regional Planning' by W.T. Perks).

Canadian Urban Institute: http://www.canurb.com/

Canada West Foundation: http://www.cwf.ca/ A Calgary-based think-tank currently undertaking a major 'Western Cities' project (Select ‘Projects', then 'Western Cities'; see also 'What's New' for breaking news and recent media advisories)

CIP2007 Quebec City: Visit http://www.cip-icu.ca/2007conference/english/prog_schedule.html for a copy of the program and downloadable copies of some of the presentations.

Global Planners Network: http://www.globalplannersnetwork.org/ (including links to: The Vancouver Declaration/WPC/WUF 2006; Redefining Planning – A New Governance Paradigm for Managing Huma Settlements; and Making Planning Work ).

Institute of Urban Studies, University of Winnipeg An invaluable resource for City Planning students http://ius.uwinnipeg.ca/

City of Winnipeg: http://www.winnipeg.ca (suggest visiting 'Office of the Mayor'; and his 'State of the City' addresses. See also the 'Plan Winnipeg' section).

Edens Lost and Found: http://www.edenslostandfound.org/ See ‘New Urban Planning’ resource links, by clicking on ‘Learn More’, or try: http://www.edenslostandfound.org/home/preview.php?id=72 The series is about how ordinary citizens are restoring their cities to greatness. Initial programs in the series feature: Chicago, Philadelphia, Seattle and Los Angeles.

E2 Design: http://www.design-e2.com/ A PBS series, narrated by Brad Pitt, on ‘the economies of being environmentally conscious’ If you are wondering where to start, try the ‘Green for All’ episode.

Gaining Ground: http://www.gaininggroundsummit.com/GG1/ Sustainable Urban Development Leadership Summit, Victoria, 2006 – for those committed to regeneration and restoration strategies. For a video taste, visit: http://www.gaininggroundsummit.com/video.html See also GG2 June 2007 on ‘Whole-City Change’

Manitoba Capital Region Web-site: http://www.gov.mb.ca/capitalregion A new web-site, in support of current efforts to develop a policy plan for land use in Manitoba's Capital Region.

Metropolis Project: http://www.canada.metropolis.net Search for a recent publication, Our Diverse Cities, Volume 1 Spring 2004 (Guest Editor: Caroline Andrew, University of Ottawa)

PIBC 2005: The annual PIBC conference in Victoria, April 2005. Several MCP grads now practicing in BC are featured in the illustrations. If you are wondering where to start, try the three plenary addresses by: Larry Beasley, Ken Greenberg and Leonie Sandercock. Go to ‘Program Proceedings’ at the following web-site: http://www.pibc.bc.ca/05conf/index.html

Smart Growth Canada Network http://www.smartgrowth.ca/home_e.html On-line courses available….

Urban Nexus : A former monthly e-bulletin of policy research, news and events on cities and communities launched by Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN) in October 2002, and operating until June 2005. Urban Nexus was for policy-makers, researchers and interested members of the public seeking up-to-date information, from Canadian and non-Canadian sources, about new research on cities. To view archived summaries – now totaling 28 - on the CPRN Web site: http://www.cprn.org/theme.cfm?theme=31&l=en

2010 Global Emergency Teach-In: http://www.architecture2030.org/2010_imperative/webcast.html focusing on specific achievable strategies to transform the built environment. Archived web-cast portal.

Fun Stuff: for those lazy hazy summer daze… maybe this section should be at the top..

Find out your Social Tribe: Environics web-site http://3sc.environics.net/surveys/3sc/main/3sc.asp

Calculate your Ecological Footprint: http://www.earthday.net/footprint/index.asp

Wombat Flash Web-Movie: ‘One’: http://www.globalcommunity.org/flash/wombat.shtml

Planner as Cat Herder Flash Web-Movie: http://www.stupidvideos.com/video/commercials/Cat_Herding/