Bibliography
The Intelligent Republic
Architecture, Urban Design, and the American Experiment
by James Easton, AIA, NCARB
Reference Architecture
A — Foundational Theory, Philosophy, and Systems
• Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958.
• Bertalanffy, Ludwig von. General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications. New York: George Braziller, 1968.
• Forrester, Jay W. World Dynamics. Cambridge, MA: Wright-Allen Press, 1971.
• Graeber, David. Debt: The First 5,000 Years. Brooklyn: Melville House, 2011.
• Jefferson, Thomas. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson. Edited by Andrew A. Lipscomb and Albert E. Bergh. Washington, D.C.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1905.
• Meadows, Donella H. Thinking in Systems: A Primer. White River Junction: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008.
• Mumford, Lewis. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961.
• Nichols, J. C. Planning for Permanent Value. Kansas City: Country Club District Association, 1939.
• Piketty, Thomas. Capital and Ideology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020.
• Polanyi, Karl. The Great Transformation. Boston: Beacon Press, 1944.
• Sennett, Richard. The Craftsman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
• Simmel, Georg. The Metropolis and Mental Life. London: Routledge, 1950.
• Smith, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776.
• Snyder, Timothy. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2017.
• de Tocqueville, Alexis. Democracy in America. Translated by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
• Virilio, Paul. Speed and Politics. New York: Semiotext(e), 1986.
• Vitruvius Pollio. The Ten Books on Architecture. Translated by Morris Hicky Morgan. New York: Dover Publications, 1960.
• Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. New York: Scribner, 1958.
B — Urbanism, Architecture, and Spatial Development
• Adams, Paul, and Marty Arbunich. Eichler: Modernism Rebuilds the American Dream. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2005.
• Banham, Reyner. Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.
• Corbusier, Le. Towards a New Architecture. Translated by Frederick Etchells. London: Architectural Press, 1946.
• Duany, Andrés, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck. Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream. New York: North Point Press, 2000.
• Fishman, Robert. Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia. New York: Basic Books, 1987.
• Gans, Herbert J. The Levittowners: Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community. New York: Vintage, 1967.
• Hall, Peter. Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century. 4th ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2014.
• Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Random House, 1961.
• Katz, Peter. The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994.
• Kelly, Barbara M. Expanding the American Dream: Building and Rebuilding Levittown. Albany: SUNY Press, 1993.
• Kowinski, William Severini. The Malling of America. New York: William Morrow, 1985.
• Kunstler, James Howard. The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
• Lang, Robert E., and Alan Berube. Megapolitan America: A New Vision for Understanding America’s Metropolitan Geography. Chicago: APA Press, 2010.
• McAlister, Edward. Key West Architecture: The Historic District. Key West: Historic Preservation Board, 1986.
• Plater-Zyberk, Elizabeth, and Andrés Duany. “The Seaside Code.” Places Journal 4, no. 2 (1987): 18–27.
• Reps, John W. Washington on View: The Nation’s Capital Since 1790. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
• Rowe, Colin, and Fred Koetter. Collage City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1978.
• Rowe, Peter G. Making a Middle Landscape: The Between City of Contemporary America. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991.
• Wright, Frank Lloyd. An Autobiography. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943.
• Wright, Frank Lloyd. The Natural House. New York: Horizon Press, 1954.
C — Economics, Governance, and Health Systems
• Anderson, Gerard F., et al. “It’s Still the Prices, Stupid: Why the U.S. Spends So Much on Health Care.” Health Affairs 38, no. 1 (2019): 87–95.
• Arrow, Kenneth J. “Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care.” American Economic Review 53, no. 5 (1963): 941–973.
• Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The Budgetary Effects of the Affordable Care Act: 2025 Update. Washington, D.C., 2025.
• Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). Health System Tracker. San Francisco, ongoing dataset.
• Porter, Michael E., and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg. Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2006.
• Reinhardt, Uwe E., Peter S. Hussey, and Gerard F. Anderson. “U.S. Health Care Spending in an International Context.” Health Affairs 23, no. 3 (2004): 10–25.
• Rosenthal, Elisabeth. An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back. New York: Penguin Press, 2017.
• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Consumer Expenditures Annual Report, 2024. Washington, D.C., 2024.
• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Medical Care Consumer Price Index, 2000–2025. Washington, D.C., 2025.
• U.S. Census Bureau. Income and Poverty in the United States: 2023. Washington, D.C., 2024.
D — Digital Infrastructure, AI, and Information Society
• Batty, Michael. The New Science of Cities. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013.
• Bostrom, Nick. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
• Crawford, Kate. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021.
• Graham, Stephen, and Simon Marvin. Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition. London: Routledge, 2001.
• Greenfield, Adam. Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life. London: Verso, 2017.
• Han, Byung-Chul. Infocracy: Digitalization and the Crisis of Democracy. Cambridge, MA: Polity Press, 2022.
• Morozov, Evgeny. To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism. New York: PublicAffairs, 2013.
• Townsend, Anthony. Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia. New York: W. W. Norton, 2013.
• Wachter, Robert M. The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age. New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2015.
• Zuboff, Shoshana. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. New York: PublicAffairs, 2019.
E — Environmental, Technical, and Policy Frameworks
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Advancing Sustainable Materials Management: Facts and Figures 2022. Washington, D.C., 2022.
• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book. Washington, D.C., 2023.
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Sixth Assessment Report: Mitigation of Climate Change. Geneva, 2021.
• National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Health, United States, 2023. Hyattsville, MD: CDC, 2024.
• U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Buildings Energy Data Book. Washington, D.C., 2023.
• U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). LEED v4 Reference Guide for Building Design and Construction. Washington, D.C., 2021.
• World Bank. Sustainable Infrastructure in the 21st Century. Washington, D.C., 2020.
F — Practice-Based Primary Sources and Applied Project References
• Alliance Residential. Canal District Redevelopment Project Archives. Phoenix, 2014.
• AT&T Stadium (HKS Architects). Project Overview. Dallas, 2009.
• City of Fort Collins Planning Department. Old Town Historic District Design Standards. Fort Collins, 2019.
• City of Steamboat Springs / Routt County. Community Housing Needs Assessment. 2022.
• Colorado Department of Transportation. Highway 40 Safety Report. Denver, 2021.
• Crawford, Margaret. “The World in a Shopping Mall.” In Variations on a Theme Park, edited by Michael Sorkin. New York: Hill and Wang, 1992.
• McDonough, William. Make It Right: Architecture and Environmental Justice in New Orleans. New Orleans, 2010.
• ORB Architecture. Scottsdale Waterfront Redevelopment Portfolio. Scottsdale, AZ, 2015.
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