APA Planning Advisory Service

[abrowne]

Wandered into my campus library today intending to pickup the copy of Image of the City I had noticed was in the other day. I walked out with about a dozen volumes (not one of them the volume I had walked in for), a number of them being Reports from the APA PAS. The topics covered appear pretty broad but unfortunately the APA seems to have taken any exciting and interesting elements in the topics and whitewashed them into a standard whitepaper format. "That's right, just bleach the passion right out - perfect!"

In any case, does anyone guiltily read these things?

Some other titles I picked up today, for the curious:

the urban ideal: conversations with paolo soleri
City Levels
A Pattern Image: A typological tool for quality in urban planning
Urban Space: A brief history of the city square
Charter of the New Urbanism
Amadeo Souza Cardoso: At the Edge - A Portugese Futurist (despite being called a Futurist, his work gives off Art Deco vibes, if anything, I think)

The beginning of my week was dominated by studio work. I spent 30 hours in the studio, returned home for 2 hours of sleep, left again for more studio work and classes, returned home after 15 more hours and then slept for 8 hours... and I'm still feeling the lack of sleep. I've discovered a shower in the studio as well as a sleep-worthy lounge, however, so I'll be keeping soap/shampoo/toothbrush/toothpaste/towel in my desk from now on. And a sleeping bag.

But the intensive work has gotten my mind craving food, so I've gone on the hunt for reading material.

[vaughan]

You know, the only ones my university library used to carry were all from the
1980's... I did read a few, but now that I'm out of school, I haven't read any because they're all so expensive... We pay enough for dues.. it would be nice if we could actually afford the literature.

[The One]

The PAS reports are expensive and don't really seem to get used all that much. We have every single one ever issued in the office, most of them appear to have never been cracked open before.... I've got one in my in box right now
"Landslide Hazards and Planning".....where was this when I needed it in Colorado? I scanned it for something on sink holes, and found nothing....we'll just have to write an overlay district for trash mountain or one of the off shore shelfs...

[abrowne]

For some reason the UWaterloo library seems to stock them all. *shrug* I'm not sure how relevant they are to planning practice in Canada...