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On-Line Book Reviews by David Seamon

The Nature of Order (volumes 2-3), by Christopher Alexander, 2003-05

The Nature of Order (voume 1): The Phenomenon of Life, by Christopher Alexander, 2002

Archetypes of Urbanism: A Method for the Esthetic Design of Cities, by Thomas Thiis-Evensen, 1999

The Wholeness of Nature: Goethe's Way Toward a Science of Conscious Participation in Nature, by Henri Bortoft, 1996

The Poetics of Cities: Designing Neighborhoods that Work, by Mike Greenberg, 1995

Imagining Niagara: The Meaning and Making of Niagara Falls, by Patrick McGreevy, 1994

A Foreshadowing of 21st Century Art: The Color and Geometry of Very Early Turkish Carpets, by Christopher Alexander, 1993

Urban Forms, Suburban Dreams, edited by M. Quantril & B. Webb, 1993

Frank Lloyd Wright, by Meryle Secrest, 1992

Thomas Cole: Sustainability/Feasibility Study, no author [National Parks Service], 1991

The Wright Space:  Patterns and Meaning in Frank Lloyd Wright's Houses, by Grant Hildebrand, 1991

The Aesthetics of Landscape, Stephen C. Bourassa, 1991

The Good House: Contrast as a Design Tool, by Max Jacobson, Murray Silverstein, and Barbara Winslow, 1990

Seeing Nature: Deliberate Encounters with the Visible World, by Paul Krapfel, 1989, 1998

Responsive Environments: A Manual for Designers, by Ian Bentley, Alan Alcock, Paul Murrain, Sue McGlynn, & Graham Smith, 1985

Living Water: Viktor Schauberger and the Secrets of Natural Energy, by Olof Alexandersson, 1990

Art and Human Consciousness, by Gottfried Richter, 1985 [originally 1937] 

The Production of Houses, by Christopher Alexander, 1985

The Active Eye in Architecture:  An Approach to Dynamic and Imaginative Seeing  by Sir George Trevelyan, 1977