Selected Publications
(since 2000)

Books

The Code of the City: Standards and the Hidden Language of Place Making.  MIT Press 2005.

Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America. (edited with Terry Szold) NY: Routledge 2005.

Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities. (With Michael Southworth) Washington DC: Island Press 2003. (First edition NY: McGraw Hill. 1997).

Chinese Edition of Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities. (With Michael Southworth) Beijing: China Architecture and Building Press, 2006. (First edition NY: McGraw Hill. 1997).

Papers, Reports and Chapters in Books

"City Design in the Age of Digital Ubiquity" Urban Design: Roots, Influences, and Trends (The Routledge Companion to Urban Design) Banerjee and Loukaitou-Sideris eds. (Forthcoming)

"Codes and Standards in Urban Planning and Design" in The Handbook of Urban Planning Weber and Crane, Eds. NY: Oxford University Press. (Forthcoming)

"Designing Codes: Trends in Cities, Planning and Development" Journal of Urban Studies. Vol 46. No. 12, 2009.

Ecologic Oriented Development. Tama New Town Japan. (Project report) 2009.

"Everyday life without a car would be impossible: A Comparative Study of Baby Boomers’ Travel Behavior and Residential Preferences in Age-Restricted and Typical Suburban Neighborhoods" TRB 2008. (With Christopher Zegras and Frank Hebbert)

Back Central Neighborhood Plan– Lowell MA (Project report) 2009

Against All Odds: MIT’s Pioneering Women of Landscape Architecture. (With Holly D. Ben-Joseph, Anne C. Dodge) , Blacksburg, VA: IAWA 2007

"Vehicular Circulation" in Landscape Architecture Graphic Standards Len Hopper Ed. NY: Wiley 2007.

A Vision for the Upper Merrimack Neighborhood: A Plan for Preservation and Growth. Lowell, MA: 2007 (Project report)

Mystic River Waterfront: A Plan and Vision for a Civic Realm. Medford, MA 2006 (Project report)

Regulating Subdivisions in Massachusetts Practices and Outlooks  A Survey of Public Officials in Massachusetts. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2005. (With Kath Phelan)

"Indicators for Sustainable urban Development" in From Understanding to Action: Sustainable Urban Development in Africa and Latin America. Marco Keiner, Christopher Zegras, Willy A Schmid, and Diego Salmerón, Eds. NY: Kluwer Academic Publisher: 2004.(with Chris Zegras, Ivan Poduje, and Whitney Foutz).

"Bringing Clay and Sand into Digital Design:  Continuous Tangible User Interfaces" BT Technology Journal  Vol 22. No. 4 October 2004. (With Hiroshi Ishii, Yao wang and Carlo Ratti)

"The Future of Standards and Rules in Shaping Place: Re-engineering the Urban Genetic Code" ASCE Journal of Urban Planning and Development. June 2004.

"Double Standards Single Goal: Private Communities and Design Innovation" Journal of Urban Design. Vol. 9. No. 2, 131–151, June 2004.

"Reconsidering the Cul-de-Sac" (With Michael Southworth) Access Magazine, Spring 2004. (Also in Wharton Real Estate Review December 2005)"Infradependency: Sanitation Standards and the Shaping of Cities" Proceedings of the Resurgent City. London School of Economics 19-21 April 2004.

"Land Use and Design Innovations in Private Communities" Land Lines. November 2004.

Subdivision Regulations: Practices & Attitudes A Survey of Public Officials and Developers in the Nation’s Fastest Growing Single Family Housing Markets.  Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, WP03EB1, 2003.

Sustainability Planning Measures- Santiago Chile.  (Project report) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (2003).

"Smarter Standards and Regulations- Diversifying the Spatial Paradigms of Subdivisions" in Smart Growth Forms and Consequences, Terry Szold and Carbonall ed. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. 2004 .

"Critical Thinking in a Digital World: Using Computers to Ask Questions" Proceedings of the American Society of Landscape Architects Conference, San Jose California, October 18-22, 2002.

Tangible Infoscapes. Landscape Architecture 54. April 2002.

Designing the Llobregat Corridor. Barcelona: UPC/MIT 2002.

"Augmented Urban Planning Workbench: Overlaying Drawings, Physical Models and Digital Simulation" Proceedings of IEEE & ACM ISMAR 2002, September 30 - October 1, 2002,  IEEE. (With Hiroshi Ishii et. al.)

"Urban Simulation and the Luminous Planning Table- Bridging the Gap between the Digital and the Tangible" Journal of Planning Education and Research Vol. 21 2001.

Planning Study for the Cardener River Corridor. Diputacio de Barcelona 2001.

Southwest Washington DC – Urban Design Studio. MIT, Government of the District of Columbia, The Summit Fund. 2000.

"Hexagonal Planning in Theory and Practice" Journal of Urban Design Vol. 5, No.3 2000.