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 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.
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
203 Mumford Hall 1301 West Gregory Street Urbana, IL 61801-3605
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.
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
pcyu@uiuc.edu
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/cpx/
217-333-0424 pcyu@uiuc.edu
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 million-
cities 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 Our sincerest thanks to the following individuals
who donated materials to the City Planning and who donated funds through the Library Friends for
Landscape Architecture Library: the City Planning and Landscape Architecture
Professor Robert Espeseth Library:
Professor Stacy Harwood Professor Luc E. Anselin
Professor Pattsi Petrie Harold Barnhart
Julie ten Have James Differding
Professor Lewis Hopkins Robert Fisher
Richard J. Julin Professor Leonard Heumann & Roberta Heumann
Felix Weickmann Marilou Hinrichs
Nancy Rucks Professor Lewis Hopkins & Susan Hopkins
Danielle Rideout Professor Andrew Isserman
Karen Stonehouse Richard J. Julin
Professor Christopher Silver Professor John Tschangho Kim & Moonja Kim
Barbara Decker Myles Pomeroy & Ellen Pomeroy
Professor Karen Schmidt William Snyder
Professor Rob Olshansky 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
three-
volume 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 & Guttenberg Endowment
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.
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 city-
making, 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
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.
Hat’s Off to Lisa Wright
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.
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!
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.
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.
Pathfinders
The City Planning and Landscape Architecture
Library would be interested in designing web-
based Pathfinders for any interested faculty. Web-
based 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.