Books, Zines & Essays
Reading the Landscape, May Theigaard Watts
The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes, Edited by D.W. Meining
Outside Lies Magic, John Stilgoe
Wanderlust, Rebecca Solnit
The Hidden Dimension, Edward T. Hall
Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction and Social Dreaming
States of Transition: Art in the context of Detroit, Hamburg, and Baltimore, Edited By Kerstin Niemann
Belle Isle To Eight Mile: An insiders Guide to Detroit
Unreal Estate: A guide to the emergence of alternative urban cultures in the wake of Detroit’s economic decline
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture, Wendell Berry
Grapefruit, Yoko Ono
Invisible Cities, Calvino
Blogs & other
Marginal Nature & Urban Wastelands
Situationist International Manifesto
There is a lot of good stuff in the reading list for the University of Michigan class “Engaged Urban Design”
Environmental History in Detroit