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University of Virginia Student Planning site that includes a reasonably complete bibiliography of Jacob's work and some commentary.
An overview of Rational Comprehensive Planning and Incrementalism. Includes a bibliography and descriptions of how each mode of planning operates.
Positivism and Post-Positivism
A paper presented by Olivia Rusu-Toderean, republished in the Romanian journal: East: Political Science Review, Vol. 6 (Fall 2000). Ruso-Toderean is an assistant professor in the Political Science Department at Babes-Bolyai University.
An overview of positivism and post-positivism by William M.K. Trochim, Cornell University.
An article (pdf format) originally published in Planning Theory, 2002 by Philip Allmendinger. Allmendinger also wrote a Planning in Postmodern Times.
Resource Directory from Cyburbia, includes a broad range of materials covering current urban design movements, as well as the theories behind new urbanism.
An interview with Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, two of the founders of New Urbanism and the authors of Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl, published in Atlantic Unbound (April 26, 2000). Duany and Plater-Zyberk argue that community planning is the best, and perhaps only, antidote to sprawl.
Extensive bibliography of resources related to New Urbanism, compiled by Dhiru A. Thadani, AIA. Unfortunately, the bibliography does not include materials published since 1999.
European Architectural Theory of the 1880s (J. Duncan Berry--extended abstract)
The Architecture of Madness (Philip Nobel, Article from Metropolis)
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