Secondly, and to the point of practice, are writings about policy improvements and
design changes for the urban condition. None has ‘the answer’ of course. The following,
again in alphabetical order, are a stimulus to students of policy and design. There is the
innovative Australian Government AMCORD Urbanoutput (1992), Arendt’s Rural by
Design(1994), the Bentley and others’ design-questing Responsive Environments(1985),
Blower’s Limits of Power(1980), Calthorpe’s ‘Pedestrian Pocket’ (1992), Charles Prince of
Wales’s conservative-conservationist Vision of Britain (1989), Cullen’s inspirational
and ever-fresh Concise Townscape(1961), DeGrove’s urgent Balanced Growth(1995), the
British DOE’s Vital and Viable Town Centres(1994), Engwicht’s energetic Towards an
Eco-City(1992), Fader’s Density by Design(2000), Johnson’s evocative and pragmatic Green
City(1979), Kendig and other’s realism-made-plain as Performance Zoning(1980), Krier’s
‘Tradition-Modernity-Modernism’ (1987) together with his Urban Space(1979), Levy’s
pragmatic lucid Economic Development Programs for Cities, Counties and Towns(1990),
Lynch’s classic Good City Form (1981), McCamant and Durrett, Co-housing (1994),
McHarg’s durable Design with Nature(1971), Meier’s stimulating Ecological Planning and
Design(1993), Newman and Kenworthy’s Winning Back the Cities(1992), Owen’s analytical
Energy Planning and Urban Form (1986), Rydin’s ‘Environmental Dimensions of
Residential Development’ (1992), Stretton’s Ideas for Australian Cities(1973), Tibbalds
Making People-Friendly Towns(1992), and Walter and others, Sustainable Cities(1992).
The novel as metaphor for New World utopia pervades. Joseph Conrad’s (born 1857: New
World)Nostromo; Samuel Butler’s (1872: New Zealand) Erehwon; Robertson Davies’s (born
1913: Canadian) Cornish Trilogy; Patrick White’s (born 1912) Australian output; and from
the United States John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath(1902–68), and Lewis Sinclaire’s Main
Street(1922).
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