Reading Index

This is a working list of literature that has shaped my thinking about design, research, and life. I hope the ideas they offer and the stories they tell inspire you as they have me. I would also love to hear your recommendations!

“One learns a landscape finally not by knowing the name or identity of everything in it, but by perceiving the relationships in it…”

– Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams

Blair, G., Coppock, A. & Humphreys, M. (2023). Research Design in the Social Sciences: Declaration, Diagnosis, and Redesign. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 

Carr, D., Boyle, E. H., Cornwell, B., Correll, S., Crosnoe, R., Freese, J., & Waters, M. C. (2017). The art and science of social research. W. W. Norton.

Cozby, Paul C. (2012). Methods in behavioral research. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.

Creswell, J. W., & Plano Clark, V. L. (2017). Designing and conducting mixed methods research (3rd ed.). SAGE.

Criado-Perez, C. (2019). Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men. Abrams Press.

Fainstein, S. S., & DeFilippis, J. (2016). Readings in Planning Theory (4th ed.). Wiley Blackwell.

LeGates, R.T., Stout, F., & Caves, R.W. (Eds.). (2020). The City Reader (7th ed.). Routledge.

Riche, N.H., Hurter, C., Diakopoulos, N., & Carpendale, S. (2018). Data-Driven Storytelling. Taylor & Francis/CRC Press.

Sanyal, B., Vale, L. J., & Rosan, C. D. (2012). Planning ideas that matter: livability, territoriality, governance, and reflective practice. MIT Press.

Sezer, C., & van Melik, R. (Eds.). (2022). Marketplaces: Movements, Representations and Practices (1st ed.). Routledge.

Small, M. L., & Calarco, J. (2022). Qualitative literacy: a guide to evaluating ethnographic and interview research. University of California Press.

Ai, W., & Pins, A. (2014). Spatial Matters: Art Architecture and Activism. The MIT Press.

Almazán, J. & Studiolab (April 2022). Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City. Oro Editions.

Bachelard, G. (2014). The Poetics of Space. Penguin Classics.

Bernstein, P. (2022). Machine Learning: Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. RIBA Publishing.

De Botton, A. (2006). The Architecture of Happiness. McClelland & Stewart.

Frumkin, P. & Kolendo, A. (2014). Building for the Arts. University of Chicago Press Economics Books.

Galilee, B. (2021). Radical Architecture of the Future. Phaidon Press.

Gordon, E. (2010). The Urban Spectator: American Concept-Cities from Kodak to Google. Dartmouth College Press.

Heller, S., & Vienne, V. (Eds.). (2018). Citizen designer: Perspectives on design responsibility (2nd ed.). Allworth Press.

Meyer, E. (2014). The Culture Map: Breaking through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business. (1st ed.). PublicAffairs.

Palladio, A. 1508-1580. (1965). The Four Books of Architecture. Dover Publications.

Redeker, C. & Juttner, M. (Eds.). (2022). Landscaping Egypt: From the Aesthetic to the Productive. JOVIS.

Vitruvius. (2009). On Architecture (R. Schofield, Trans.; R. Tavernor, Intro.). Penguin Classics. 

Algotsson, S., Davis, D., Lamb, Y. R., Ross, G., & Silverman, H. (1996). The Spirit of African Design (1st ed.). Clarkson Potter.

André N., Covington-Ward, Y. & Hungbo, J. (2021). African Performance Arts and Political Acts. University of Michigan Press.

Bannerman, I., Jimenez, S., & Jones, S. (Eds.). (2019). World War 3 Illustrated. #50, Shameless feminists. AK Press.

Gharib, M. (2019). I Was Their American Dream: A Memoir. Clarkson Potter.

Gharib, M. (2022). It Won’t Always Be Like This. Ten Speed Press.

Kasfir, S. L. (1999). Contemporary African Art. Thames & Hudson.

Khan, S. (2022). What Is Home, Mum? Street Noise Books.

Penyas, A. (2018). We’re All Just Fine. Fantagrahics Books.

Radtke, K. (2021). Seek You: A Journey through American Loneliness. Pantheon Books.

Russo, M. (2021). Why is Everybody Yelling?: Growing Up in My Immigrant Family (1st ed.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Satrapi, M. (2007). The complete Persepolis. Pantheon Books

Wertz, J. (2017). Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City (1st ed.). Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers.

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