Recommended Reading

Most of the books on the recommended reading list are available at the Main Branch of the Cabell County Public Library and are for sale at Empire Books at Pullman Square.

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"Community Planning: An Introduction to the Comprehensive Plan" Eric Damian Kelly and Barbara Becker
"The World is Flat" Thomas L. Friedman
"Good to Great" Jim Collins
"Cities Back From the Edge: New Life for Downtown" and
"The Living City: How America’s Cities Are Being Revitalized by Thinking Small in a Big Way" Roberta Brandes Gratz
"The Rise of the Creative Class" Richard Florida
"Leadership is an Art" Max Du Pree
"The Cultural Creatives: How 50,000 People Are Changing the World" Paul Ray
"Bowling Alone" Robert Putnam
"Land-Use Planning for Sustainable Development" Jane Silberstien and Chris Maser
"Cradle to Cradle / Remaking the Way We Make Things" William McDonough & Michael Braungart
"Tupelo: The Evolution of a Community" and "Hand in Hand" Vaughan Grisham
"The Tipping Point" Malcolm Gladwell
"The Life and Death of Great American Cities" Jane Jacobs
"Creative Community Builder’s Handbook: How to Transform Communities Using Local Assets, Arts, and Culture" Tom Borrup
"A Whole New Mind" and "Free Agent Nation" Daniel H. Pink
"Promoting Well-Being" Isaac Prilelltensky
"SafeScape: Creating Safer, More Livable Communities through Planning and Design" Dean Brennan, Al Zelinka
"Managing in the Next Society" Peter F. Drucker
"The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community through Public Art and Urban Design" Ronald Lee Fleming
"Public Art by the Book" Barbara Goldstein
"Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream" Andres Duany , Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk , Jeff Speck