Recommended Reading

The following list represents a few of the ideas and influences that shape Novawest’s attitude toward development.

  • A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander
  • American Mania by Peter Whybrow
  • The Car and the City by Alan Thein Durning
  • The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler
  • The Option of Urbanism by Christopher Leinberger
  • The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
  • Time and the Art of Living by Robert Grudin
  • Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us by Bill Joy (Essay in April 2000 issue of Wired Magazine)