Books:

Arendt, Randall. Conservation Design for Subdivisions. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1994. An argument and manual for using denser design to preserve land.

Benfield, Kaid, et al. Once There Were Greenfields. National Resources Defense Council, 1999. A concise, comprehensive overview of negatives of sprawl.

Calthorpe, Peter. The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community and the American Dream. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1993. A leading New Urbanist outlines how he would fix metropolitan regions.

Downs, Anthony. Stuck in Traffic. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1992. Widely read analysis of why it's impossible to pave a way out of congestion.

Fodor, Eben. Better Not Bigger: How to take control of Urban Growth and improve your community. Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers, 1999. Argues that cities should decide how big they want to be and cap growth.

Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: The Modern Library, 1961. The classic analysis of what makes cities and neighborhoods vital - and what kills them.

Katz, Peter. The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community. New York: McGraw-HIll, 1994. A lavishly illustrated survey of early New Urbanist developments.

Kunstler, James Howard. The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of the American Landscape. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. A masterfully-written rant on the evils of mass-produced suburbs.

Kunstler, James Howard. Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. A valentine to New Urbanism, with forceful arguments for why zoning and tax laws must change.

Moe, Richard and Wilkie, Carter. Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl. New York: Henry Holt, 1997. President of the National Trust for Historic Preservation offers his take on how sprawl harms existing towns and cities.

Orfield, Myron. Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1997. Central city and declining inner suburbs have similar problems, solvable only through regional equity.

Peirce, Neal, et al, Citistates: How Urban America Can Prosper in a Competitive World. Washington, D.C.: Seven Locks Press, 1993. Contends that metropolitan "citistates" are the fundamental units in the global economy, but must contain sprawl.

Rusk, David. Inside Game, Outside Game: Winning Strategies for Saving Urban American. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1999. Argues states must intervene to prevent further suburbanization from killing central cities and inner suburbs.