In order of publication date
$16.95 Hardcover
40 pages • 6.9 x 8.1 inches
Color illustrated throughout
Date: 04/09/2024
ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-61332-228-4
A Parable of Hope and Peace for All Ages
With beautifully crafted words and exuberant watercolor illustrations, offers a poetic and empowering message for world peace. Recognizing “we are right on the edge of destroying ourselves,” this modern allegory inspires taking joyful steps to end violence. It expands upon the idea that “we are all in the circle together,” and presents a timeless parable for readers of all ages. In the playful style of 12th century Japanese picture scrolls, Mayumi Oda’s art depicts humans as animals who lose their way when their leaders become confused and drawn to violence. The message of this book is the sweet realization that each person can become an agent of goodness and beauty.
Portraits of Earth Justice: Americans Who Tell the Truth
By Robert Shetterly
$34.95 Hardcover
128 pages • 8.5 x 11 inches
51 color images
Date: 09/20/2022
ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-61332-187-4
This second volume in the Americans Who Tell the Truth series, is a collection of environmental and climate activists whose stunning color portraits Robert Shetterly painted with the intention of honoring their work and bringing them to a wider audience. The crisis of climate change and environmental degradation is the greatest crisis humanity has ever confronted, and it is made many times harder because so many powerful institutions, governments, and corporations are invested in an economy of exploitation. The people in this book diagnose the truth of the problem and point a way forward. Besides fifty inspiring portraits and profiles, the book features original essays by Bill McKibben, Leah Penniman, Diane Wilson, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Bill Bigelow.
$22.95 Paperback
240 pages • 6 x 9 inches
10 black and white images
Date: 09/06/2022
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-61332-170-6
Also available as hardcover or eBook
Inherited Silence tells the story of beloved land in California’s Napa Valley. Author Louise Dunlap’s ancestors were among the first Europeans to claim ownership of traditional lands of the Wappo people during a period of genocide. They lived the dream of Manifest Destiny; their consciousness changing only gradually over the generations. Dunlap looks back into California’s and America’s history for the key to their silences and a way to heal the wounds of the land, its original people, and the harmful mind of the colonizer. Inherited Silence offers a way for every reader to evaluate their own current life actions and the lasting impact they can have on society and our planet.
We Built a Village: Cambridge Cohousing and the Commons
By Diane Rothbard Margolis
Foreword by David Bollier
$20.00 Paperback
224 pages • 5.5 x 8.5 inches
12 black and white images
Date: 08/23/2022
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-61332-178-2
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We Built a Village is both a memoir and a sociological analysis that describes the process of planning and building an early cohousing community in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the late 1990s. The group set in motion a counterpoint between the physical spaces and the social configurations that would guide their lives together, even up to creative responses to the recent pandemic.
$30.00 Paperback
352 pages • 6 x 9 inches
59 black and white images
Date: 06/28/2022
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-61332-166-9
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Divining Chaos provides a personal memoir of eco-artist Aviva Ramani. The story gives insight into her Trigger-Point theory thesis and unparalleled exclusivity to the moments in her life that shaped her as an artist and activist. Detailing the history that led Rahmani to two seminal projects: Ghost Nets, restoring a coastal town dump to flourishing wetlands, and The Blued Trees Symphony, which applied the premises to challenge natural gas pipelines with a novel legal theory about land use, Ramani shares intimate decisions that shaped her life’s work.
$39.95 Paperback
384 pages • 8.5 x 8.5 inches
45 black and white images
Date: 02/01/2022
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-61332-146-1
Also available as hardcover or eBook
Compiled from 67 members of the Ecoart Network, a group of more than 200 internationally established practitioners, EcoArt in Action stands as a field guide that offers practical solutions to critical environmental challenges. Organized into three sections—Activities, Case Studies, and Provocations—each contribution provides models for ecoart practice that are adaptable for use within a variety of classrooms, communities, and contexts.
$30.00 Paperback
320 pages • 6 x 9 inches
Date: 10/12/2021
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-61332-142-3
Also available as hardcover or eBook
How Spaces Become Places feature stories of community members acting together to transform edgy, empty, contested, or unsafe spaces into functional, safe, convivial places. A diverse set of place makers, from activists to architects, moderators to planners, spanning four countries and ten U.S. locales tell their stories in their own words. Pragmatic, real life accounts offer edifying and instructive examples of the kinds of work a variety of readers can do within their own communities.
$39.95 Hardcover
Date: 05/04/2021
ISBN: 978-1-61332-139-3
A brilliant work of scholarship that convincingly shows how Jane Jacobs’s canonical work on urbanism and the life of great cities, her work on city and national economies, and her underlying social and ethical foundations developed in the historic, mid-sized city of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
$21.95 Paper
Date: 09/08/2020
ISBN: 978-1-61332-126-3
How do Main Streets contribute to our mental health? This intriguing question took social psychiatrist Mindy Thompson Fullilove on an 11-year search through 178 cities in 14 countries. From these visits Fullilove has discerned the larger architecture of Main Streets: the ways that Main Streets are shaped for a vast array of social gatherings and processes, how they are a marker for the integrity of civilization—and the marks aren’t always good.
$40 Paper
400 pages, 328 bw Illustrations
Date: 09/18/2018
ISBN: 9781613321003
An illustrated, essential guide to engaging children and youth in the process of urban design.
Works of Heart: Building Village Through the Arts
REVISED EDITION
By Lynne Elizabeth, Suzanne Young
$28 Paper
144 pages, 98 color illustrations
Date: 09/04/2018
ISBN: 9781613320853
Citizen artists revitalize place, celebrate culture, and inspire social change in this beautiful introduction to community-engaged arts.
$21.95 Paper
Date: 10/10/2017
ISBN: 9781613320211
Carl Anthony interweaves urban history, racial justice, and cosmology with personal experiences as an architect/planner, environmentalist, and Black American. By connecting the struggles for social and racial justice to the universe story, it creates new story for our time. Now available as an audiobook.
$21.95 Paper
Date:09/27/2017
ISBN: 9781613320174
A testament to the influential nature of educational and community gardening programs for teens.
Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts, 2nd Edition
By Mat Schwarzman
Illustrated by Keith Knight
$23.95 Paper
Date: 09/12/2017
ISBN: 9781613320242
Ten transformative local arts projects come alive in this illustrated training manual for youth leaders and teachers. This energetic guidebook demonstrates the enormous power of art in grassroots social change.
Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty
By Anne Herbert, Margaret Paloma Pavel
Illustrated by Mayumi Oda
Foreword by Desmond Tutu
$12.95 Paper
Date: 01/03/2017
ISBN: 9781613320235
A Haiku-like text with the message that each person can become an agent of goodness and beauty.
Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It
By Mindy Thompson Fullilove
Foreword by Carlos F. Peterson and Mary Travis Bassett
$22.95 Paper
Date: 11/01/2016
ISBN: 9781613320198
Root Shock examines three different US cities to unmask the crippling results of decades-old disinvestment in communities of color and the urban renewal practices that ultimately destroyed these neighborhoods for the advantage of developers and the elite.
$19.95 Paper
Date: 10/07/2014
ISBN: 9781613320167
Case studies of neighborhood developments from North and South America, Europe, and Africa that span more than forty years. This book offers a seminal treatise on the community based design practices of participatory planning an advocacy architecture.
$22.95 Paper
Date: 06/04/2013
ISBN: 9781613320105
An identification of the problems of socially, economically, and racially divided neighborhoods and nine tools that can mend them.
$19.95 Paper
256 pages, 58 bw photographs
Date: 10/02/2012
ISBN: 9781613320099
In the wake of the Occupy Wall Street movement, leading planners and social scientists examine public space today and freedom of assembly.
$19.95 Paper
Date: 12/10/2011
ISBN: 9781613320013
Urban planning and architecture educators challenge traditional community-university relationships by modeling meaningful and reciprocal partnerships for community-engaged learning.
$39.95 Paper
Date: 11/01/2010
ISBN: 9780976605485
Case Studies from North America, Scandinavia, Japan, and Great Britain demonstrate natural outdoor teaching environment that support hand-on learning in science, math, language, and art in ways that nurture healthy imagination and socialization.
$34.95 Cloth
Date: 06/01/2011
ISBN: 9780981559377
International artist Lily Yeh guides a participatory process of artistic expression that uplifts a distressed community. Her open, joyful approach to art-making is a model for building healthy cultural esteem.
$26.95 Cloth
Date: 05/01/2010
ISBN: 9780981559315
A timely revisitation of renowned urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs’ lifework, What We See invites thirty pundits and practitioners across fields to refresh Jacobs’ economic, social and urban planning theories for the present day. Combining personal and professional observations with meditations on Jacobs’ insights, essayists bring their diverse experience to bear to sketch the blueprints for the living city.
$29.95 Cloth
Date: 02/01/2007
ISBN: 9780976605478
Building Commons and Community documents 45 years of the late Karl Linn’s legacy creating neighborhood spaces for communities and by communities. In this richly-illustrated landscape-format hardcover book, Linn presents his philosophies and practical wisdom.
$24.95 Cloth
Date: 08/06/2006
ISBN: 9780976605423
Inspiring firsthand account of how in-prison vocational training programs at Riker’s Island Jail lead to meaningful post-release employment and reduce recidivism – the Green House and GreenTeam run by James Jiler for the Horticultural Society of New York.