Recent Acquisitions September 2007

Subject	Call No. and Title

Architecture -- Environmental aspects -- United States
	240556 Kunstler, James Howard. The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. In elegant and often hilarious prose, Kunstler depicts our nation's evolution from the Pilgrim settlements to the modern auto suburb in all its ghastliness. The Geography of Nowhere tallies up the huge economic, social, and spiritual costs that America is paying for its car-crazed lifestyle. It is also a wake-up call for citizens to reinvent the places where we live and work, to build communities that are once again worthy of our affection.

Automobiles -- Social aspects -- United States
	152304 Kay, Jane Holtz. Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Asphalt Nation is a powerful examination of how the automobile has ravaged America's cities and landscape over the past 100 years together with a compelling strategy for reversing our automobile dependency. Jane Holtz Kay provides a history of the rapid spread of the automobile and documents the huge subsidies commanded by the highway lobby, to the detriment of once-efficient forms of mass transportation.

Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.)
	240558 McCullough, David. The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. This monumental book brings back for American readers the heroic vision of the America we once had. It is the enthralling story of one of the greatest events in our nation's history during the Age of Optimism -- a period when Americans were convinced in their hearts that all great things were possible.

Cartography -- History
	271385 Ehrenberg, Ralph E. Mapping the World: An Illustrated History of Cartography. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2006. Mapping the World is a one-of-a-kind collection of cartographic treasures that spans thousands of years and many cultures, from an ancient Babylonian map of the world etched on clay to the latest high-tech maps of the earth, seas, and the skies above. With more than one hundred maps and other illustrations and an introduction and running commentary by Ralph E. Ehrenberg, this book tells a fascinating story of geographic discovery, scientific invention, and the art and technique of mapmaking.

City planning
	152301 Marshall, Alex. How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. To build better cities, Alex Marshall asserts in How Cities Work, we must understand and intelligently direct the forces that shape them. Without prescribing any one solution, he defines the key issues facing all concerned citizens who are trying to control urban sprawl and build real communities. His timely book will be important reading for a wide public and professional audience.

	181622 Roseland, Mark. Toward Sustainable Communities: Resources for Citizens and their Governments. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 2005. Local governments are increasingly caught between rising expectations that development initiatives be sustainable and the fact that more and more services are being downloaded to the municipal level. In clear language, with updated tools, initiatives and resources, a new preface and foreword, this sustainable practices resource is for both citizens and governments.

City planning -- United States
	152296 Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: vintage Books, 1992. A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured.

	152300 Kelly, Eric Damian and Barbara Becker. Community Planning: An Introduction to the Comprehensive Plan. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2000. By using the framework of the comprehensive plan and walking the reader through the planning process, the authors clearly demonstrate what planners do, and how citizens can become involved in shaping the future of their community. Community Planning will be an invaluable resource for students and faculty in planning departments across the country.

	152305 Berke, Philip R., David R. Godschalk, and Edward J. Kaiser, with Daniel A. Rodriguez. Urban Land Use Planning. 5th ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. Urban Land Use Planning explores the societal context of land use planning and proposes a model for understanding and reconciling the divergent priorities among competing stakeholders and sets forth a methodology for creating plans that will influence future land use change.

	181618 Stein, Jay M., editor. Classic Readings in Urban Planning. 2nd ed. Chicago: American Planning Association, 2004. Realizing that urban planning involves aspects of social policy, transportation, housing, economic development, and the environment, Jay M. Stein created a text of classic readings that focused on all these areas of urban design. The majority of selected articles were drawn from academic journals, and a brief introduction or overview is provided for each chapter.

	181620 The Practice of Local Government Planning. 3rd ed. Washington, D.C.: International City/County Management Association, 2000. All the “planning essentials” can be found here, such as land use, transportation, housing and development planning. At the same time, The Practice of Local Government Planning reflects the breadth and complexity of planning concerns, including population, the economy, and the environment. A valuable guide for any planning project.

	181628 Hall, Kenneth B. and Gerald A. Porterfield. Community by Design: New Urbanism for Suburbs and Small Communities. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001. Community is not an accumulation of buildings with interstate access, neighborhood not a housing project convenient to shopping. Everyone knows what suburban sprawl looks like and the problems is creates. In the pages of Community by Design, you'll find recommendations for creating true neighborhoods within the context of the existing suburban landscape-in an illustrated, step-by-step, case-study format.

	181629 Zelinka, Al and Susan Jackson Harden. Placemaking on a Budget: Improving Small Towns, Neighborhoods, and Downtowns Without Spending a Lot of Money. Chicago: American Planning Association, 2005. This report offers help for small towns, neighborhoods, and downtowns that need to enhance identity and social connections without spending a lot of money. Find out how citizens can get involved in identifying the history, culture, and resources that make their community unique. Case studies show how communities across the country have successfully used the approaches described in the report.

	201656 Waldon, Roger S. Planners and Politics: Helping Communities Make Decisions. Chicago: Planners Press, 2006. Planners can choose to see politics as an obstacle, or they can use politics as a vehicle for meeting community goals. The eight planners profiled in Planners and Politics have mastered the art of working within the political system to get things done. Their success stories are object lessons in building support for initiatives while maintaining credibility and integrity.

Coastal zone management
	152307 Kay, Robert and Jacqueline Alder. Coastal Planning and Management. 2nd ed. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2005. The second edition of Coastal Planning and Management provides a comprehensive toolkit for both coastal professionals and students of coastal management. The important link between coastal planning and management is presented, with emphasis on tools for the development, evaluation and implementation of all key types of coastal management plans. It gives professional students the opportunity to choose from a variety of established planning and management techniques.

Environmental policy -- United States
	210403 McHarg, Ian L. Design with Nature. New York: J. Wiley, 1994. In the twenty-five years since it first took the academic world by storm, Design with Nature has done much to redefine the fields of landscape architecture, urban and regional planning, and ecological design. Described by one enthusiastic reviewer as a "user's manual for our world," Design with Nature offers a practical blueprint for a new, healthier relationship between the built environment and nature.

Hawaiian crow
	281484 Walters, Mark Jerome. Seeking the Sacred Raven: Politics and Extinction on a Hawaiian Island. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2006. A bird sacred to Hawaiians and a member of the raven family, the ’Alala today survives only in captivity. How the species once flourished, how it has been driven to near-extinction, and how people struggled to save it, is the gripping story of Seeking the Sacred Raven.

Hurricanes -- Texas -- Galveston -- History -- 20th century
	030818 Larson, Erik. Isaac’s Storm. New York: Crown Publishers, 1999. On September 8, 1900, a massive hurricane slammed into Galveston, Texas. Erik Larson blends science and history to tell the story of Galveston and its people, and the hurricane that devastated them.

Land use -- United States -- Planning
	181626 Babbitt, Bruce. Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2005. We’ve all experienced America’s changing natural landscape as the integrity of our forests, seacoasts, and river valleys succumbs to strip malls, new roads, and subdivisions. In Cities in the Wilderness, Bruce Babbitt makes the case for why we need a national vision of land use.

Medhaden -- United States -- History
	281483 Franklin, H. Bruce. The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2007. In this brilliant portrait of the oceans’ unlikely hero, H. Bruce Franklin shows how menhaden have shaped America’s national—and natural—history, and why reckless over-fishing now threatens their place in both.

North America -- Historical geography -- Maps -- Catalogs
	232373 Rumsey, David and Edith M. Punt. Cartographica Extraordinare: The Historical Map Transformed. Redlands, Calif.: ESRI Press, 2004. More than a lavish collection of cartographic masterworks, this book tells two parallel stories. The first story lays out the relevant history, the human players, and the events that place each map in the context of the time in which it was created. The second thread tells the stories of the maps themselves--how they were created and the lessons they can teach modern cartographers and other designers of information and visual communication.

Planets
	130575 Encrenaz, Therese. Searching for Water in the Universe. New York: Springer, 2007. The book explores the presence of water in the various bodies of the Solar System: in the giant planets, with their rings and systems of satellites, in comets, asteroids and in the terrestrial planets. By tracing the history of water in the atmospheres of Mars, Venus and the Earth, the author explains how small differences in temperatures have led to a great divergence in the evolutions of the three planets.

Tornadoes
	030808 Bluestein, Howard B. Tornado Alley: Monster Storms of the Great Plains. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Using his own spectacular photographs, Howard Bluestein documents the exhilaration of encounters with as many as nine tornadoes in one day, as well as the crushing disappointment of failed expeditions and ruined equipment. For scientists, amateur weather enthusiasts, or anyone who's ever been intrigued or terrified by a darkening sky, Tornado Alley provides not only a history of tornado research but a vivid look into the origin and effects of nature's most dramatic phenomena.

	030820 Grazulis, Thomas P. The Tornado: Nature’s Ultimate Windstorm. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. Filled with accounts of tornado touchdowns, this book addresses questions surrounding the phenomenon of the tornado. How often does a tornado hit a particular location? How fast are the winds? How big can tornadoes grow? Recreating the drama so often accompanying interactions between people and tornadoes, The Tornado: Nature's Ultimate Windstorm provides meteorological and statistical information on these marvels of nature.

Other new books
	030800 A Change in Climate: Global Warming and Wisconsin. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2007.

	030801 Climate Change 2007, the Physical Science Basis: Summary for Policymakers: Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change. Geneva: WMO, 2007.

	030817 U.S. Climate Change Science Program. Our Changing Planet for Fiscal Year 2007. Washington, D.C.: Office of Science and Technology Policy, Federal Coordinating Council on Science, Engineering and Technology, Committee on Earth Sciences, 2007.

	051527 Midwest Ground Water Conference. 46th Annual Midwest Ground Water Conference: Program and Abstracts: October 22-24, Inn on the Park Hotel, Madison, Wisconsin. Madison: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, 2001.

	071184 Our Great Lakes: What Is Happening to Them, What It Means and What You Can Do to Help Keep Them Great. Chicago: Great Lakes National Program Office, Environmental Protection Agency, 2005.

	090563 Robertson, Dale M. Present and Reference Concentrations and Yields of Suspended Sediment in Streams in the Great Lakes Region and Adjacent Areas. Reston, Va.: U.S. Geological Survey, 2006.

	181613 A Regional Transportation System Plan for Southeastern Wisconsin: 2035. Waukesha: The Commission, 2006.

SELECTED RECENT ACQUISITIONS - September 2007