sqwook | cleaning up the bookshelves: mostly land-use

I feel the need to get rid of stuff lately. --Perhaps I should just actually *clean*, but that's not as satisfying. :)

So I'm clearing out some books, mostly related to land-use. Because I'm unlikely to re-read them- but they were part of what got me where I am, as far as philosophy of lifestyle. It makes me try to think of how various interests have led to today. Potential timeline (backwards):
Protecting nature -> land use planning / zoning / urban revitalization / strong distaste for sprawl & its environmental & social implications -> historic preservation -> medieval castles etc in europe -> arts & crafts movement of Wm Morris' day -> art nouveau -> ???

And voila why I live downtown in an old house.

It's actually hard to do this, to think of the things I used to really love; it all becomes distorted by what I feel is important now.

Anyway, the books:
Better Not Bigger; How to take control of urban growth and improve your community (Fodor)
The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition (Kunstler)
Home from Nowhere (Kunstler)
Edge City: Life on the New Frontier (Garreau)
Changing Places: Rebuilding community in the age of sprawl (Moe/Wilkie)
Historic Preservation (Barthel)
How Cities Work: Suburbs, sprawl, and the roads not taken (Marshall)

The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History (Kostof)