Summer Newsletter

City Planning and Landscape Architecture Library University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Library Notes Summer 2006

Welcome to another challenging new year. Notwithstanding the economic stresses caused by the increasing costs of resources and budgets that have not kept pace with the inflated prices of books and electronic resources, the City Planning and Landscape Architecture Library (CPLA) has managed to sustain and maintain the high quality of the collection.

to enhance our eminent library. Without their support My sincere thanks go to Professor Chris Silver, Head of the Urban and Regional Planning Department, and Professor Jim Wescoat, Head of the Landscape Architecture Department, for their continual support and encouragement during these challenging times.

To keep us moving in the right direction, CPLA has resorted to other means to acquire additional costly materials such as joining with other libraries to compete for retrospective sources, electronic journals, and videos. Our goal is always to improve access to users. CPLA was awarded partial funding to purchase costly items vital to teaching and research, including cutting edge databases that facilitate access and retrieval of full text articles.

Lastly, my heartfelt gratitude to Emily Jedlick, Library Technical Specialist, who has loyally delivered basic public services and supervised student workers, among her other duties to CPLA for many years. Priscilla C. Yu, Head Librarian [email protected]

Many thanks to the generosity of donors this past year who have contributed funds and resources CPLA would not be the comprehensive library it is today.

City Planning and Landscape Architecture Library http://www.library.uiuc.edu/cpx/ 203 Mumford Hall 1301 West Gregory Street Urbana, IL 61801-3605 217-333-0424 [email protected]

City Planning and Landscape Architecture Library Homepage This year the City Planning and Landscape Architecture Library unveiled its new homepage at http://www.library.uiuc.edu/cpx. The site was designed by our graduate assistant, Lisa Wright. The purpose of the redesign was to make the most used resources quickly available to our patrons. For instance, from the homepage you are one click away from the most used Databases, Electronic Journals, and Special Collections. The left side of the homepage links directly to the student research guides for City Planning, Landscape Architecture, and General Research. The section “What’s New” is updated frequently and always includes the most recent New Books Lists. The latest addition to the homepage is the “Ask a Librarian” page which allows patrons to get in touch with a librarian via instant messaging, chat, email, phone, or visiting.

New Book Highlights … Contemporary Landscapes of Contemplation Rebecca Krinke Contemplative landscape and contemplative space are familiar terms in the areas of design, landscape architecture and architecture. Krinke and her highly regarded contributors set out to explore definitions, theories, and case studies of contemplative landscapes and to secure the subject as a scholarly interest. The contributors, Marc Treib, John Beardsley, Michael Singer, Lance Neckar, Heinrich Hermann and Rebecca Krinke have spent their careers researching, critiquing, and making landscapes.

Managing Urban Futures: Sustainability and Urban Growth in Developing Countries Marco Keiner, Martina Koll-Schretzenmayr and Willy A. Schmid This volume brings together leading experts including Alan Gilbert, John Friedmann, Saskia Sassen and Janice Perlman to explore the conflicting challenges of rapid urbanization in developing countries. By comparing the challenges of urbanization in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific, this book puts forward a new way of thinking about mega- and millioncities in developing countries – one that promotes their vital function in society as engines of ideas, technologies, societal change, democratic transformation and loci of political will to build a new regime of global sustainability.

Water Effects in the Garden: Simple Ways to Achieve Beautiful Water Features Gilly Love Water Effects in the Garden is a lavishly illustrated book which celebrates water in all its breathtaking forms, from formal pools and rills to cascading streams and waterfalls, and from wet gardens to swimming pools and hot elements into the garden. This book will provide a wealth of inspirational design ideas for using water with style and flair. A range of examples is presented on how water can be used in the garden, emphasizing that the key to a feature’s success is incorporating it sympathetically into an existing design.

Planning and Urban Design Standards Planning and Urban Design Standards is a comprehensive sourcebook on everything from regional plans to streetscapes. With extensive illustrations and concise explanations, the book is a quick reference focused on practical applications. It is the latest addition to the respected Graphic Standards Series published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Planning and Urban Design Standards was edited by the American Planning Association and written by more than 200 top planners and designers.

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Shifting Landscapes: the making and remaking of village commons in India Rita Brara This book is a high quality ethnographic study in the classical sense. The fundamental question that Brara asks in her book is whether there are other ways of thinking about the village than in terms of its distinctions of caste, vertical ties created by patron-client relations of congregation of private propertied peasantry. She offers the idea that villagers can and do represent and act on matters of common concern but that this does not commit us to thinking of village communities as harmonious wholes. Brara explores the institutional arrangements (commons) as a concept to analyze ideas of common good, the emergence of public action and property rights in Indian villages.

New Orleans: Strategies for a City in Soft Land Joan Busquets This book focuses on the evolution of New Orleans' natural and built environments since the earliest days of human (Indian) settlement. And its principal mode of investigation is through cartography and mapping, delineating the topographic character and numerous layers of development at each stage in the city's history.

20th Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping of the American Landscape Owen Gutfreund A fascinating look at how highways have dramatically transformed American communities nationwide, aiding growth and development in unsettled areas and undermining existing urban centers. Gutfreund uses a "follow the money" approach, showing how government policies subsidized suburban development, and fueled a chronic nationwide dependence on cars and roadbuilding, with little regard for expense, efficiency, ecological damage, or social equity. The consequence was a combination of unstoppable suburban sprawl, along with ballooning municipal debt burdens, deteriorating center cities, and profound changes in American society and culture

Our sincerest thanks to the following individuals who donated materials to the City Planning and Landscape Architecture Library: Professor Robert Espeseth Professor Stacy Harwood Professor Pattsi Petrie Julie ten Have Professor Lewis Hopkins Richard J. Julin Felix Weickmann Nancy Rucks Danielle Rideout Karen Stonehouse Professor Christopher Silver Barbara Decker Professor Karen Schmidt Professor Rob Olshansky

Our sincerest thanks to the following individuals who donated funds through the Library Friends for the City Planning and Landscape Architecture Library: Professor Luc E. Anselin Harold Barnhart James Differding Robert Fisher Professor Leonard Heumann & Roberta Heumann Marilou Hinrichs Professor Lewis Hopkins & Susan Hopkins Professor Andrew Isserman Richard J. Julin Professor John Tschangho Kim & Moonja Kim Myles Pomeroy & Ellen Pomeroy William Snyder Professor Emily Talen Professor George Yu & Professor Priscilla Yu

New Films 2006-2007 Each fall and spring CPLA has the opportunity to compete for funds to purchase new films to enhance our collection. Through competitions of the Non-Print Subcommittee of the University Library’s Collection Development Committee, departmental libraries can add diversity to the materials available for classroom use. Films in DVD and VHS format are housed in the Undergraduate Library Media Collection. This year CPLA has successfully competed for films that will be of interest to courses in the Departments of Urban and Regional Planning and Landscape Architecture. Films acquired through the Non-Print Competitions in the past year include: History

of

Europe.

(2004,

DVD) Discovery Enterprises. 54 min. each. This threevolume set explores European history and tradition, city life, and catastrophes that changed lives across Europe and in the world beyond. It explores such topics as the Titanic, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the building of Paris, life in modern Russia, the Roman Empire, and the Vatican. Viewers explore the great urban centers of Europe and meet their diverse citizens. Individual titles are Turmoil in 20th-Century Europe, City Life in Europe, and European Tour: History and Tradition. Call Number: DVD UP:494Z MRC1. Isamu Noguchi: The Sculpture of Spaces. (2004, DVD) Dir. Kenui Hayashi and Charlotte Zwerin. Films for the Humanities and Sciences. 53 min. "One day I had a vision: I saw the Earth as sculpture." In this program, Isamu Noguchi speaks through archival film and audio recordings about sculpting space by using sculpture to redefine its own setting and by reshaping the landscape itself into a vast work of art. Noguchi biographer Dore Ashton and others who knew Noguchi provide insights into his life and personality. Landmarks such as the UNESCO gardens, Bayfront Park, the Expo '70 fountains, Black Slide Mantra, the Billy Rose Sculpture Garden, Moere Numa Park, and the artist's home in Mure, Japan, are featured, as are Water Stone, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the stage sets he designed for Martha Graham. Call Number: DVD 730.92 Is18

NorthEast Passage: The Inner City and the American Dream. (2002, DVD) Dir. Spencer Wolf and Cornelius Swart. SydHonda Cinema Productions. 55 min. Neighborhoods besieged by discrimination, neglect and crime frequently welcome any change that seems to be for the better. But gentrification can come at a high price. In Portland, Oregon, one woman struggling to provide a decent life for her 10-year-old daughter takes on public officials and a developer intent on creating low-income housing in her neighborhood. While public officials emphasize the need to create affordable housing in order to revitalize the community, opponents fear that the new property will attract renters who won’t take pride in their neighborhood in the way that homeowners do. But when homeowners replace renters in gentrifying neighborhoods, long-term residents are often priced out and a new class prejudice can arise. NorthEast Passage is a unique portrait of a neighborhood in the midst of dramatic change. It chronicles the clashes between those who advocate making rental properties available to low-income individuals and families, and those who promote home ownership. Proponents of both sides get equal say as the debate escalates. As seen through the eyes of one woman, this film examines an issue that challenges nearly every inner city in the country. Being cataloged: call number available soon. We Built This City: London. (2004, DVD) Discovery Communications. 44 min. London is a city steeped in history – from a Roman settlement and a medieval pleasure ground to the center of the British empire. Through revolution, world war and other calamities, London has continued to thrive. How did London become the world power it is today? How did this small island give birth to one of the most famous cities in the world? Journey from the first walls of Tiberinius' Londinium to Tony Blair's Millennium Bridge and discover how London became the world power it is today. Call Number: DVD 914.21 W369

Electronic Journals Awarded The University of Illinois Library held an Interdisciplinary Journal Competition which awarded monies for interdisciplinary titles in all formats. The requests were required to cross three or more disciplines. This year, the City Planning and Landscape Architecture Library was awarded funds to purchase two electronic journals: Garden Literature (also called Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index) and Journal of Community Practice. Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index, accessible via the Online Research Resources (ORR), is the premier resource for access to articles about gardens and plants. Topics include horticulture, botany, garden and landscape design & history, ecology, plant and garden conservation, garden management, and horticultural therapy. A highlight of the database is its focus on environmentally sustainable horticultural and design practices. This index and abstract product is designed for gardening enthusiasts, professionals, and students of horticulture and of garden and landscape design & history. Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index covers a wide range of serial titles including general gardening titles of national, international, and regional interest, and titles devoted to specialty gardens and plant groups. Indexed and abstracted are more than 300 core titles, the majority of which are published in English. Coverage for many titles, including titles of major learned societies, extends back further than a decade. Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index is a unique resource that brings together articles about plants and gardens into a single source, and it includes titles that are not available in any other index. The Journal of Community Practice is an interdisciplinary journal designed to provide a forum for community practice, including community organizing, planning, social administration, organizational development, community development, and social change. The journal contributes to the advancement of knowledge related to numerous disciplines, including social work and the social sciences, urban planning, social and economic development, community organizing, policy analysis, urban and rural sociology, public administration, and nonprofit management. The Journal of Community Practice articulates contemporary issues, providing

direction on how to think about social problems, developing approaches to dealing with them, and outlining ways to implement these concepts in classrooms and practice settings. Academics and practitioners engaged in community practice contribute articles that will enhance your abilities to design new programs and policy for your area. As the only journal focusing on community practice, it covers research, theory, practice, and curriculum strategies for the full range of work with communities and organizations.

Guttenberg Endowment A noteworthy gift received this year at the City Planning and Landscape Architecture Library was the receipt of its first Collection Endowment from Professor Emeritus Albert and Mariella Guttenberg of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning – this deferred gift is to provide permanent funds for the acquisition of important materials in the planning field. A reception in honor of Professor Guttenberg was held at the CPLA library in December of 2005. Among the guests who made remarks were Lew Hopkins (Associate Dean, College of Fine and Applied Arts), Paula Kaufman (University Librarian), and Chris Silver (Head, Department of Urban and Regional Planning).

From left to right, Priscilla Yu, Mariella Guttenberg, and Professor Emeritus Albert Guttenberg.

Retrospective Fund Competition Yields Built Environment Back Runs The City Planning and Landscape Architecture Library was awarded $2,030 from the Retrospective Fund Competition held by the University of Illinois Library. The Retrospective Fund Competition supports the acquisition of retrospective materials in any field, in any format, and for any part of the collection. Items purchased with this fund are chosen because of their particular relevance to research collections and programs. The City Planning and Landscape Architecture Library will use the award to

complete the back runs of the planning journal Built Environment.

Highlights from the Faculty… Landscapes in India: Forms and Meaning Amita Sinha In Landscapes in India, landscape architecture professor Amita Sinha shows that landscapes can be read like languages, as arrangements of symbols that reveal cultural values. South Asian landscapes—-rich with formalized symbols, from the Cosmic Tree in Buddhist landscapes to cities patterned on mandalas—-offer a training ground for reading landscapes everywhere. Sinha introduces readers to significant sacred and secular landscapes in South Asia, identifying archetypal forms that have evolved over millennia in both the built environment and in open spaces. Exploring the interface between nature, culture, and built landscape, she traces the meaning of these forms as manifested in Indic mythology and literature. According to Sinha, landscape symbols express all that a culture holds dear and externalize deeply felt emotions—of security, kinship, and relationship with the divine.

New Urbanism and American Planning: A Conflict of Cultures Emily Talen Showing how New Urbanism is simply American urbanism as it has been evolving since the nineteenth century, this is a history not of what has been achieved but rather of what planners have sought to achieve--a history of the quest for good cities. In her survey of the last hundred or so years of urbanist ideals, the author identifies four approaches to citymaking, which she terms "cultures": incrementalism, plan-making, planned communities, and regionalism. She shows how these cultures connect, overlap, and conflict one with another and how most of the ideas about building better settlements are so recurrent. She concludes with an assessment of the successes and failures of the four cultures and the need to integrate these ideas as a means to promoting good urbanism in America.

Maybeck’s Landscapes: Drawing in Nature Dianne Harris While Maybeck's architectural career has been firmly established, little writing has discussed and analyzed his ideas about landscape. Harris argues that Maybeck’s buildings and landscapes must be examined together. That is “his work remains noteworthy for its consistent engagement with landscape and for the clever and thoughtful means by which he integrated buildings and gardens, site and structure.” (page 14) Several of his garden designs-by which he integrated house and land-as well as his grand landscape schemes for sites such as Twin Peaks in San Francisco are included, some in color.

City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America Laura J. Lawson Since the 1890s, providing places for people to garden has been an inventive strategy to improve American urban conditions. There have been vacant-lot gardens, school gardens, Depression-era relief gardens, victory gardens, and community gardens--each representing a consistent impulse to return to gardening during times of social and economic change. In this critical history of community gardening in America, the most comprehensive review of the greening of urban communities to date, Laura J. Lawson documents the evolution of urban garden programs in the United States.

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Priscilla Yu to Present at the International Federation of Library Associations

New and Returning Faces at the CPLA Library For the 2006-2007 academic year, CPLA welcomes new graduate assistant Joshua Becker, an M.S. student in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Be sure to meet Joshua, who will be responsible for CPLA’s Website, new projects, and other duties when you come to the Library this fall!

Priscilla Yu (Head, City Planning and Landscape Architecture) has been invited to present her paper “History of Modern Librarianship in East Asia” at the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) World Library and Information Congress annual conference at Seoul, Korea in August 2006. The International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the library and information profession.

Have you ever wondered who keeps CPLA decorated and green with plants? Library Technical Specialist Emily Jedlick helps CPLA stay in touch with the seasons while she also supervises undergraduate student workers and maintains the basic public services in the CPLA library, among her other duties.

Hat’s Off to Lisa Wright

New to the CPLA Library is student worker Willy Halim from Indonesia and a junior in Business and Finance. Returning undergraduate student workers include Dani Sullivan, senior in English; Meera Patel, junior in Psychology; and Wayne Williams, senior in Accountancy. The most recent addition to our student worker staff includes Monique King, sophomore in Special Education.

Kudos to Lisa Wright, current Graduate Assistant to the CPLA Library. Lisa has completed the master’s program at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Her goal is to become a school librarian. If you’re wondering who designed and created the outstanding CPLA Website, http://www.library.uiuc.edu/cpx, it was Lisa. She has done wonders to CPLA’s home page, transforming it into a site that patrons find accessible to their information needs. Lisa has identified innovative services to further promote information delivery to users, including producing this newsletter with all the interesting graphics. Thank you so much for your dedication and hard work. We will miss you and wish you well in your new career.

Pathfinders The City Planning and Landscape Architecture Library would be interested in designing webbased Pathfinders for any interested faculty. Webbased Pathfinders can include links to electronic materials, websites, and a list of required or suggested readings linked to the University of Illinois library catalog. These Pathfinders will be tailored to meet the needs of your course. Please contact Priscilla Yu for more information or to request a pathfinder.

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