planning diaries(online)

re:vintage resources

The more I work in planning the more I think about how time is a flat circle and ideas and the things that we consider progressive and exciting ideas have been around for a while. Although, there have been a lot of ideas that have been implemented in the past that get in the way of designing buildings that interface well with the enviroment that is true to the way that we use it /cough cough tower and park/. But anyway, here's my collection of mostly free "vintage" resources, that are oddly applicable to the problems faced in planning in the area I live in.

videos!

Lewis Mumford's video series with the NFB

City Centre and Pedestrians(1974)

reading list

The following reading list occurs in no particular order and largely consists of books and essays.

• The Visual and Spacial Structure of Landscapes by Tadahiko Higuchi
• The Shape of the City by John Sewell
• Environmental Interaction by Peter Canter, Peter Stringer et. al
• The Tenant Class by Ricardo Tranjan
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
• Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs
• The Production of Space by Henri Lefebvre (never found a way to finish this one! but impactful none the less.)
• Deep Ecology for the Twenty-First Century: Readings on the Philosophy and Practice of the New Environmentalism edited by George Sessions
• Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich (an all time personal favourite)

documents/plans/policy sets

• 1957 Ville Marie Montreal Master Plan

tybg!!