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Tony Aldous, Urban Villages. A concept for creating mixed-use developments on a sustainable level, United Kingdom, Urban Villages Group, 1992.

Christopher Alexander et al., A New Theory of Urban Design, New York & Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1987.

Klaus Andrae, et al, Marktplaetze. Berlin, Henschelverlag Kunst u. Gesellschaft, 1990.

Donald Appleyard, The Conservation of European Cities. Cambridge, MA, M.I.T. Press, 1979.

Donald Appleyard, The Environment as a Social Symbol in Ekistics. 278 Sept/Oct 1979.

Donald Appleyard, Livable Streets. Berkeley, Cal., University of California Press, 1981.

Hannah Arendt, Men in Dark Times, N.Y. Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1968.

Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1958.

Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind, New York, Ballantine Books, 1972.

Timothy Beatley, Green Urbanism. Learning from European Cities, Washington DC, Island Press, 2000.

Leonardo Benevolo, The History of the City, London, Scholar Press, 1980.

Peter L. Benson, All Kids Are Our Kids. What Communities Must Do to Raise Caring and Responsible Children and Adolescents. San Francisco, John Wiley & Sons, 2006.

Bernard Berenson, Italian Painters of the Renaissance. I Venetian and North Italian Schools. London & New York, Phaidon, 1952. p. xi.

Peter L. Berger, Invitation to Sociology. N.Y., Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1963.

Peter L. Berger, A Rumor of Angels, Garden City, N.Y., Anchor Books, Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1970.

Wendell Berry, What are People For? San Francisco, North Point Press, 1990.

Dieter Boeminghaus, Bonifatius Stirnberg. Sculptures for Towns, Aachen, Sepia Verlag. 1987.

Simon Breines & William J. Dean, The Pedestrian Revolution. N.Y., Vintage Books, 1974.

Marcel Brion, Venice, The Masque of Italy. N.Y., Crown Publ., 1962.

Brent C. Brolin, Architecture in Context. Fitting new buildings with old. N.Y., Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1980.

Martin Buber, Dialogue, in Between Man and Man. MacMillan Publ. Co., 1965.

Martin Buber, Distance and Relation, in Psychiatry, Vol. 20, 1957.

Walter B. Cannon, The Wisdom of the Body, New York, W.W. Norton Co., Inc., 1932.

George Collins and Christiane Collins, Camillo Sitte and the Birth of Modern City Planning. Columbia Studies in Art History and Archeology No. 3. London. Phaidon Press, 1965.

Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard & Henry L. Lennard, Genius of the European Square. How Europe's traditional multi-functional squares support social life and civic engagement. Carmel, CA, Gondolier Press, 2008.

Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Sven von Ungern-Sternberg, & Henry L. Lennard, (Eds.) Making Cities Livable. Wege zur menschlichen Stadt. Carmel, CA, Gondolier Press, 1997.

Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard & Henry L. Lennard, Livable Cities Observed. A Source Book of Images and Ideas for City Officials, Community Leaders, Architects, Planners, and All Others Committed to Making Their Cities Livable. Carmel, CA, Gondolier Press, 1995.

Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard & Henry L. Lennard, Livable Cities, Social and Design Principles for the Future of the City. Southampton, N.Y., Gondolier Press, 1987.

Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard & Henry L. Lennard, Public Life in Urban Places. Southampton, N.Y., Gondolier Press, 1984.

Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard & Henry L. Lennard, Public Life in Urban Places: the Lessons of the Venetian Campo, in Stepping Out in Urban Design, the 6th Boulder Pedestrian Conference Proceedings, City of Boulder, 1985.

Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Explorations in the Meaning of Architecture, Woodstock, N.Y., Gondolier Press, 1979.

Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard & Henry L. Lennard, Urban Space Design and Social Life, in Ben Farmer & Hentie Louw (Editors), Companion to Contemporary Architectural Thought, London & New York, Routledge 1993. pp. 39-43.

Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Architecture as Autobiography, in The Humanist, Sept/Oct. 1983.

Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Toward Criteria for Art in Public Spaces, in Urban Land, March 1987.

Gordon Cullen, The Concise Townscape, N.Y., VanNostrand Reinhold Co., 1961.

Raymond J. Curran, Architecture and the Urban Experience. N.Y., VanNostrand Reinhold Co., 1983.

Luciano De Crescenza, Thus Spake Bellavista, London, Picador Pan Books, 1988.

Rene Dubos, So Human an Animal, N.Y., Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968. p. 194.

Leon Eisenberg, The Human Nature of Human Nature, in Science, April 1972.

Reid Ewing, Developing Successful New Communities, Washington D.C., 1991.

Ben Farmer & Hentie Louw (Editors), Companion to Contemporary Architectural Thought, London & New York, Routledge, 1993.

Andreas Feldtkeller, Die Zweckentfremdete Stadt, Frankfurt-New York, Campus Verlag, 1994.

Ronald Lee Fleming & Renata Von Tscharner, Place Makers. Creating Public Art that Tells You Where You Are. New York. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publ., 1987.

Ronald Lee Fleming & Renata Von Tscharner, Place Makers, in The City as a Stage. Kevin W. Green (Ed.), Washington, D.C., Partners for Livable Places, 1983.

Andre Fraigneau, The Venice I Love. N.Y., Tudor Publ. Co., 1965.

Paul Friedberg & Ellen Perry Berkeley, Play and Interplay. N.Y., MacMillan Co., 1970.

Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, & Richard Jackson, Urban Sprawl and Public Health. Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities. Washington, Island Press, 2004.

Dietrich Garbrecht, Walking: facts, assertions, propositions in Ekistics 273, Nov/Dec. 1978.

Dietrich Garbrecht, Gehen, Plädoyer für das Leben in der Stadt. Basel, Beltz Verlag, 1981.

Dietrich Garbrecht, Walkability: a prerequisite for livable cities, in Ben Farmer & Hentie Louw (Editors) Companion to Contemporary Architectural Thought, London & New York, Routledge. 1993. pp.101-104.

]ean Gath, The Preservation of Social Landmarks, in Making Cities Livable Newsletter; Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 6-7.

Jan Gehl, Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space. N.Y., VanNostrand Reinhold Co., Inc., 1987.

Nathan Glazer, Subverting the Context: Public Space and Public Design in The Public Interest, No. 109, Fall 1992. pp. 3-21.

Nathan Glazer & Mark Lilla (Eds.). The Public Face of Architecture. N.Y., The Free Press, 1987.

Ernst Gombrich, The Beauty of Old Towns in Reflections on the History of Art, Berkeley, California, University of California Press. 1987.

Elizabeth Goodenough, (Ed.). A Place for Play. National Institute for Play, 2008.

Reinhard Grebe, Leben in der Stadt. Mensch, Natur, Gärten, Nürnberg, 1982.

Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D., with Beryl Lieff Benderley, The Growth of the Mind and the Endangered Origins of Intelligence, Cambridge, MA, Perseus Books, 1997.

Victor Gruen, Die lebenswerte Stadt. Munich, List Verlag, 1975.

Victor Gruen, The Heart of Our Cities. N.Y., Simon and Schuster, 1964.

Rod Hackney, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. London, Frederick Muller, 1990.

Lawrence Halprin, Urban Rituals, in Cities. Edited by Lisa Taylor. N.Y., Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 1982.

August Heckscher, Open Spaces - The Life of American Cities. N.Y. Harper & Row, 1977.

E.T.A. Hoffmann, My Cousin's Corner Window, in The Golden Pot and Other Tales, translated and edited by Ritchie Robertson, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992.

Judith Hook, Siena. A City and its History. London, Hamish Hamilton.

W.D. Howells, Venetian Life. Boston, James R. Osgood & Co., 1878.

H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, A Vision of Britain. A Personal View of Architecture, London, Doubleday, 1989.

J. Huizinga, Homo Ludens. A Study of the Play-Element in Culture, New York, Roy Publishers, 1950.

Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. N.Y., Random House, 1961.

Henry James, Italian Hours. N.Y, Horizon Press, 1968.

Walter Jens, Die Götter sind Sterblich. München, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag. München, 1983.

Peter H. Kahn, Jr., Stephen R. Kellert, Children and Nature. Psychological, Sociocultural, and Evolutionary Investigations. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2002.

Stephen R. Kellert, Judith H. Heerwagen, Martin L. Mador, (Eds.) Biophilic Design. The Theory, Science, and Practice of Bringing Buildings to Life. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, 2008.

Stephen R. Kellert, Building for Life. Designing and Understanding the Human-Nature Connection. Washington, Island Press, 2005.

Spiro Kostof, The City Assembled. The Elements of Urban Form.

Lucien Kroll, Architecture in the making - The anatomy of building, in Ben Farmer & Hentie Louw (Editors), Companion to Contemporary Architectural Thought, London & New York, Routledge, 1993. pp. 424-430.

Erich Kühn, Anmerkungen zum Verhalten des Grosst äders in Sozialanthropologie. Hans-Georg Gadamer & Paul Vogler (Eds.). Stuttgart, Georg Thieme Verlag. 1972.

James Howard Kunstler, The Geography of Nowhere. The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape, New York, A Touchstone Book publ. by Simon & Schuster, 1993.

Henry L. Lennard & Arnold Bernstein, Patterns in Human Interaction. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass Publ., 1970.

Henry L. Lennard & Arnold Bernstein, The Anatomy of Psychotherapy, New York, Columbia University Press, 1960.

Henry L. Lennard, et. al., Mystification and Drug Misuse, New York, Perennial Library, Harper & Row Publ., 1972.

Henry L. Lennard & Suzanne Crowhurst Lennard, (Eds.) The Wisdom of Cities. Architecture, Place, Community, Neighborhood, Identity, Planning & Values. Carmel, CA. Gondolier Press. 2005.

Henry L. Lennard & Suzanne Crowhurst Lennard, The Forgotten Child. Cities for the Well-Being of Children. Carmel, CA. Gondolier Press, 2000.

Henry L. Lennard & Suzanne Crowhurst Lennard, Ethics of Public Places in Stepping Out in Urban Design, the 6th Boulder Pedestrian Conference, City of Boulder, 1985.

David Lewis, The Pedestrian in the City. London, Elek Books.

Gianni Longo and Roberto Brambilla, For Pedestrians Only: Planning, Design and Management of Traffic-Free Zones. N.Y, Whitney Library of Design, Watson-Guptill Publs., 1977.

Gianni Longo, Cities of Vision, in Making Cities Livable Newsletter, Vol. 3.

Konrad Lorenz, On Life and Learning, New York, St. Martin's Press, 1990.

Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods, Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. Chapel Hill, Algonquin Books, 2006.

Richard Louv, Childhood's Future. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Co, 1990.

Clare Cooper Marcus & Carolyn Francis, People Places. Design Guidelines for Urban Open Space, New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990.

William M. Milliken, Unfamiliar Venice. Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University Press, 1967.

Alexander Mitscherlich, Die Unwirtlichkeit unserer Städte. Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp Verlag, 1969.

Alexander Mitscherlich, Thesen zur Stadt der Zukunft, Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp Verlag, 1971.

RoIf Monheim, Fussgängerbereich. Cologne, Reihe E DST-Beitr äge zur Stadtentwicklung H. 4, 1975.

Rolf Monheim, Successful Pedestrian Areas in Making Cities Livable Newsletter, February 1987.

Lewis Mumford, In the Name of Sanity. N.Y., Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1954.

Lewis Mumford, The City in History. Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects. N.Y., Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1961.

Lewis Mumford, The Highway and the City. N.Y. Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1963.

Ray Oldenburg, The Great Good Place. New York, Paragon House, 1991.

Alexander Orloff, Carnival - Myth and Cult. Perlinger, 1980.

Cyril B. Paumier et al. Designing the Successful Downtown. The Urban Land Institute, 1988.

Paulhans Peters, Fussgängerstadt. Munich, Callwey, Verlag, 1977.

Paul Pfuetze, Self, Society, Existence. N.Y., Harper, 1961.

Josef Pieper, In Tune With the World: A Theory of Festivity, Richard & Clara Winston, trans., New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1965.

Fulvio Roiter, Venetian Carnival. Milan, Co. Graf SRL Editore. 1985.

Bernard Rudofsky, Streets for People. Garden City. N.Y. Doubleday, 1969.

Wolfgang Schulz, Criteria for Urban Aesthetics, in Making Cities Livable Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 1/2, 1994.

Vincent Scully, Afterword in The New Urbanism, New York & San Francisco, McGraw Hill, Inc., 1994.

Richard Sennett, The Fall of Public Man, New York, Vintage Books, 1978.

Richard Sennett, The Conscience of the Eye: the design and social life of cities, New York, Knopf, 1991.

Georg Simmel, Die Geselligkeit in Grundfragen der Soziologie. Berlin, Sammlung, Goeschen Band 1101, Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1970.

Camillo Sitte, The Art of Building Cities, Translated by Charles T. Stewart. Westport, C.T., Hyperion Press, Inc., 1979.

G.E. Kidder Smith, Italy Builds: Its Modern Architecture and Native Inheritance. N.Y., Reinhold Publishing Co., 1955.

Robert Sommer, Social Design: Creating Buildings with People in Mind. Englewood Cliffs. N.J., Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1983.

Bonifatius Stirnberg, Recent Works. Presentation given at the 1st International Conference on Making Cities Livable, June 6-10, 1985, Venice, Italy.

Henry Tanner, Carnival in Venice Brings Back a Bit of Past, New York Times, Feb. 20, 1980.

Hartmut H. Topp, Philosophy and Mechanisms of Traffic Calming in Making Cities Livable Newsletter, March/December 1991. p. 46.

Hartmut Topp. Transport in Cities, in Ben Farmer & Hentie Louw (Editors), Companion to Contemporary Architectural Thought, London & New York, Routledge, 1993. pp. 95-100.

Klaus Uhlig, Die Fussgängerfreudliche Stadt. Stuttgart, Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1979.

Diego Valeri, A Sentimental Guide to Venice. Translation by Cecil C. Palmer. Milan, Aldo Martello, editore.

Jef Vanreusel (Editor), Antwerp - Reshaping a City. Blond é Artprinting International, 1990.

Johannes Voggenhuber, Berichte an den Souver än. Salzburg: Der B ürger und seine Stadt. Salzburg & Vienna, Residenz Verlag, 1988.

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Barbara Ward, The Home of Man. N.Y., W.W. Norton & Co. Inc., 1976.

Colin Ward, The Child in the City. London, The Architectural Press, Ltd., 1978.

Bernd Jurgen Warnecken, Kommunale Kulturpolitik, Am Beispiel Offenes Stadtfest in Heimat und Identit ät. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neum ünster, 1980.

Nick Wates & Charles Knevitt, Community Architecture. How People are Creating Their Own Environment. London, Penguin Books. 1987.

Michael Webb, The City Square, New York, Whiteney Library of Design, 1990.

Max Weber, The City. Translated and edited by Don Martindale and Gertrud Neuwirth. N.Y., The Free Press, 1958.

William H. Whyte, The Gifted Pedestrian, in Ekistics. 303 May/June 1984.

William H. Whyte, A Guide to Peoplewatching, in Urban Open Spaces. Lisa Taylor (Ed.). N.Y., Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 1979.

William H. Whyte, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Washington, D.C., The Conservation Foundation, 1980.

William H. Whyte, City. Rediscovering the Center, New York, Doubleday, 1988.

Anton Zijderveld, Reality in a Looking-Glass. London, Routledge & Kegen Paul, 1982.