Initial Sources on Edge City:Select Bibliography

Initial Sources on Edge City:Select Bibliography

© Compiled by Professor Brian Goodey, Joint Centre for Urban Design, Oxford Brookes University.


NOTE: Like most aspects of Urban Design and landscape planning, two applied subjects, understanding is informed through reference to a very wide range of disciplines and literatures.

The list below lists key sources on the subject . Items are arranged alphabetically, by author.

Brian Goodey Jan. 1996.

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Appleyard, D., Lynch, K., & Myer, J.R., (1966), The View from the Road, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press.

Brotchie, J. et. al. (1991), Cities of the 21st Century: New Technologies of Spatial Systems, Harlow, Longman.

*Built Environment, Vol. 17 Nos. 3-4, (Issue devoted to Edge City).

*Castells, M., (1989), The Informational City, Oxford, Blackwell.

Castells, M., (1992), 'The world has changed: can planning change?,' Landscape and Urban Planning, 22 73-8.

Castells, M., & Hall, P., (1994), Technopoles of the World: The Waking of 21st Century Industrial Complexes, London, Routledge.

Edwards, B., (1992), London Docklands: Urban design in an age of deregulation, Oxford, Butterworth Architecture.


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Garreau, J., (1991), Edge City: Life on the New Frontier, London, Doubleday.

Harvey, D., (1989), The Condition of Post Modernity, Oxford, Blackwell.

Harvey, D., (1992), The Urban Experience, Oxford, Blackwells.

Horowitz, R. P., The Strip: An American Place, Lincoln, Nebraska, U. of Nebraska Press.

Kostof, S., (1992), The City Assembled: The Elements of Urban Form Through History, London, Thames & Hudson


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McGoldrick, P.J., & Thompson, M.G., (1992), Regional Shopping Centres: Out-of-Town Versus In-Town, Aldershot: Avebury.

Massey, D., Quintas, P., & Weild, D., (1992),: High-tech fantasies: science parks in society, science and space, London, Routledge.

Mumford, L., (1961), The City in History, Harcourt Brace.

Relph, E., (1976), Place and Placelessness, London, Pion Ltd.

Relph, E., (1987), The Modern Urban Landscape, London & Sydney, Groom & Helm

Rowe, P G., (1991), Making a Middle Landscape, Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press.


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Shields, R., (1991), Places on the margins: alternative geographies of modernity, London, Routledge.

Shields,R., ed. (1992), Lifestyle shopping: the subject of consumption, Andover: Routledge, Chapman and Hall.

Sorkin, M., ed. (1992), Variations on a Theme Park: The new American city and the end of public space, New York, Hill & Wang.

Venturi, R., Scott Brown, D., & Izenour, S., (1972), Learning from Las Vegas, Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press.


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©Prof. B Goodey, 1997

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