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Design — Planning
Hans Ibelings, Ed Melet, Bernard Hulsman & Allard Jolles, Eastern Docklands Amsterdam: Urbanism and Architecture (NAi Publishers 2003), 224 pages.
Mary Fishman & Tom Smith, “Town House Standards”, Zoning Practice, Vol. 27 (2010) No. 2, pp 2-10.
Hideo Shirasishi & Yoshihisa Wakita, “Considerations on Space Organization of Shophouse and Block Formation in Phnom Penh, Cambodia”, Journal of Architecture and Planning, No. 616 (June 2007), pp. 7‐14.
Design — Typology
Doug Kelbaugh, “Typology – An Architecture of Limits”, Architectural Theory Review, Volume 1 (1996), Issue 2, pp. 33–52.
James McCown, “Row House, Town House, Brownstone”, Boston Globe, October 9, 2005.
James Tice, “Theme and Variations: A Typological Approach to Housing Design, Teaching, and Research”, Journal of Architectural Education, Vol. 46 (1993), No. 3 (February), pp. 162-175.
Courtyard Housing, ARCH 5110 Housing and Aggregation Studio, Northeastern University School of Architecture, Fall 2009.*
Design — Typology — Townhouse
Marcus Binney, Town Houses: Evolution and Innovation in 800 Years of Urban Domestic Architecture (Mitchell Beazley 1998), 176 pages.
Marcus Binney, Town Houses: Urban Houses from 1200 to the Present Day (Watson-Guptill 1998), 176 pages.*
Charles Broto, Town Houses (Links 2006), 240 pages.*
Horst Buttner & Gunter Meissner, Town Houses of Europe (St. Martin’s Press 1983), 348 pages.*
Alexander Gorlin, The New American Town House (Rizzoli 2000), 220 pages.*
Alexander Gorlin, Creating the New American Townhouse (Rizzoli 2005), 240 pages.*
Bernard L. Herman, Town House: Architecture and Material Life in the Early American City, 1780-1830 (University of North Carolina Press 2005), 320 pages.
Ann Heuer, Architecture & Design Library: Townhouses (Metrobooks 2000), 96 pages
Sibylle Kramer, Townhouses and More (Verlagshaus Braun 2008), 256 pages*
Charles Lockwood, Bricks and Brownstones: The New York Town House (Rizzoli 2003), 352 pages.
Kevin Murphy, The American Townhouse (Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 2005), 240 pages.
Gunter Pfeifer, Town Houses, (Birkhäuser Architecture 2004), 128 pages.
Anthony Quiney, Town Houses of Medieval Britain (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art 2003), 344 pages.
Rachel Stewart, The Classic English Town House (New Holland Publishers 2007), 160 pages.
James Grayson Trulove, The Modern Townhouse: The Latest in Urban and Suburban Designs (Collins Design 2006), 192 pages.
Design — Typology — Rowhouse
Jonathon Scott Fuqua, American Rowhouse Classic Designs (Stemmer House Publishers 1997), 48 pages.*
Gunter Pfeifer & Per Brauneck, Row Houses (Birkhäuser Architecture 2003), 112 pages.
Patricia Tedesco, “Interplay: Studies in Rowhouse Design“, Masters thesis, Virginia Tech School of Architecture, Fall 2001.
Wolf Von Eckardt, “The Row House is Going to Town — Not to Mention Country,” Washington Post, July 24, 1966.
“Rowhouse Styles”, New York City Landmark Preservation Commission, 2005.
Design — Typology — Shophouse
Howard Davis, Living Over the Store: Architecture and Local Urban Life (Routledge 2012), 296 pages
Julian Davison, Singapore Shophouse (Laurence King 2011), 208 pages
Howard Davis, “Asian Shophouses in a Global Perspective”, paper presented at International Conference on the Evolution and Rehabilitation of the Asian Shophouse, Hong Kong, May 11 (Day 2), 2007.
Patricia Tusa Fels, “Penang’s Shophouse Culture”, Places, Vol. 9 (2004), No. 1, pp. 46‐55.
Soehardi Hartono, “The Pre‐War Shophouses of Medan: Its Development and Prospect of Conservation”, paper presented at the International Conference on the Evolution and Rehabilitation of the Asian Shophouse, Hong Kong, May 11, 2007.
Lee Ho Yin,“The Making of the Singapore Shophouse”, paper presented at the International Conference on the Evolution and Rehabilitation of the Asian Shophouse, Hong Kong, May 11, 2007.
Lee Ho Yin, “Pre-war Tong Lau: A Hong Kong Shophouse Typology”, paper originally part of “Heritage Assessment Report for Conservation Approach to a Shophouse Cluster” (2008) commissioned by Urban Renewal Authority and prepared by AGC Design Ltd., then issued separately by Antiquities and Monuments Office and Commissioner for Heritage’s Office, December 10, 2009, revised April 19, 2010.
Lim Teng Ngiom, “The Melakan townhouse”, The Encyclopaedia Malaysia, Archipelago Press, 1998, pp. 92-93
Anthony Too, “The Chinese shophouse”, The Encyclopaedia Malaysia, Archipelago Press, 1998, pp. 90-91.
Natalie Weinberger, “The Shophouse as a Tool for Equitable Urban Development: The Case of Phnom Penh, Cambodia“, Masters thesis, University if Pennsylvania School of Design, Spring 2010.
Design — Cities — Amsterdam
Henk J. Zantkuijl, Bouwen in Amsterdam, (Architectura & Natura 2007), 758 pages*
Design — Cities — Baltimore
Mary Ellen Hayward & Charles Belfoure, The Baltimore Rowhouse (Princeton Architectural Press 1999), 211 pages*
Design — Cities — Boston
Bainbridge Bunting, Houses of Boston’s Back Bay (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1999), 511 pages
Design — Cities — London
Rachel Stewart, The Town House in Georgian London (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art 2009), 192 pages
Design — Cities — New Orleans
Stephen A. Mouzon & Wanda W. Mouzon, The Bienville Collection
Design — Cities — New York City
Andrew S. Dolkart, The Row House Reborn: Architecture and Neighborhoods in New York City, 1908-1929 (Johns Hopkins University Press 2009), 248 pages
Kevin D. Murphy, The Houses of Greenwich Village (Abrams 2008), 224 pages
Sarah Bradford Landau, “The Row Houses of New York’s West Side”, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 34 (1975), No. 1 (March), pp. 19-36.
Design — Cities — Philadelphia
Elizabeth McCall, Old Philadelphia Houses on Society Hill, 1750-1840 (1966).
Kenneth Ames, “Robert Mills and the Philadelphia Row House”, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 27 (1968), No. 2 (May), pp. 140-146.
Jeffrey Alan Cohen, “The Queen Anne and the Late Victorian townhouse in Philadelphia, 1878-1895“, Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania Department of Art History, Spring 1991.
Randall Cotton & Jeffrey Cohen, “Vernacular houses: The Philadelphia Trinity house”, Old-House Journal, Vol. 20 (1992), no.3 (May-June), p. 4.
William John Murtagh, “The Philadelphia Row House”, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 16 (1957), No. 4 (December), pp. 8-13.
Alice Gray Read, “Making a House a Home in a Philadelphia Neighborhood”, Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Vol. 2 (1986), pp. 192-199.
Virginia Restemeyer & E.I. Weiner, Hip and Hidden Philadelphia: The Unexpected House in a City of Tradition (Probasco Haus Press 2012)
Design — Architects
Mark Alan Hewitt, The Architecture of Mott B. Schmidt (Rizolli 1991), 165 pages*
Design — Small Lot
Atelier Bow-Wow, Pet Architecture Guide Book Vol 2 (World Photo Press Japan 2002), 176 pages*
Avi Friedman, Narrow Houses: New Directions in Efficient Design (Princeton Architectural Press 2010), 256 pages.
Adam Mornement & Annabel Biles, Infill: New Houses for Urban Sites (Laurence King Publishers 2009), 240 pages.
Peter Skinner, “When a Little Is a Lot: An Architect’s View”, Queensland Planner, Vol. 44 (2004), No. 1 (March)
Design — Adaptable Use
Avi Friedman, The Grow Home (McGill-Queen’s University Press 2006), 189 pages.
Stephen Kendall, Homeworks: A New American Townhouse (Trafford Publishing 2006), 54 pages.
Anne Vernez Moudon, Built for Change: Neighborhood Architecture in San Francisco (MIT Press 1989), 308 pages.
Design — Green and Efficient
Helena Aman Hashim & Norafida Ghafar, “Exploring Historical Shop-House and Townhouse Vernacular Architectural Design and Elements as a Solution for Successful Passive low Energy Housing“, paper presented at 22nd International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture, Beirut, Lebanon, November 13-16 2005. (The Challenge of Awareness in Developing Societies, Editors: Dana Raydan & Habib Melki, pp. 197-202)
Pattaranan Takkanon, Design Guidelines for Indoor Comfort in Row Houses in Hot-humid Climates, Dissertation, University of Queensland School of Geography, Planning & Architecture, 2006, paper presented at the 23rd Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture, Geneva, Switzerland, 6-8 September 2006.
Development — General
Diane R. Suchman, Developing Successful Infill Housing (Urban Land Institute 2002), 175 pages
Sam Newberg, “Little Infill”, Urban Land, March/April 2010, p. 102
Development — Redevelopment & Preservation
Ingrid Abramovitch, Restoring a House in the City: A Guide to Renovating Townhouses, Brownstones, and Row Houses With Great Style (Artisan 2009), 288 pages
David Sloan Wilson, The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time (Little, Brown 2011), 448 pages
Patricia Tusa Fels, “Conserving the Shophouse City”, paper presented at The Penang Story – International Conference 2002, Penang, Malaysia, April 18-21, 2002.
Wan Hashimah Ismail & Shuhana Shamsuddin, “The Old Shophouse as Part of the Malaysian Urban Heritage: The Current Dilemma”, paper presented at the 8th International Conference of the Asian Planning Schools Association, [City], [Country], September [Date], 2005.
Hazel Ojany and Melissa Kroskey, “Retrofit methods for exposed sidewalls adjacent to a collapsed row home“, Senior design project, CAE 492 Civil Archietctural Engineering Senior Design Project, Drexel University College of Engineering, March 26, 2007.
Yoshihisa Wakita & Hideo Shiraishi, “Spatial Recomposition of Shophouses in Phnom Penh, Cambodia”, Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, Vol. 9 (2010), No. 1 (May), pp. 207-214.
“The Brownstone Guide: Maintenance & Repair Facts for Historic Property Owners”, New York Landmarks Conservancy, 2003.
“Technical Tips: Composite Patching of Brownstone – A Step-by-Step Overview”, New York Landmarks Conservancy, 2003.
Development — Adaptive Uses and Tenants
Roger J. Callan & Ruth Fearon, “Town House Hotels — An Emerging Sector”, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, Vol. 9 (1997), Issue 4, pp.168 – 175.
Economic Development & Gentrification
Suleiman Osman, The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York (Oxford University Press 2011), 360 pages
Investment
Gary W. Eldred, Make Money with Condominiums and Townhouses (Wiley 2003), 300 pages
Susan Smith Alvis, The Complete Guide to Purchasing a Condo, Townhouse, or Apartment: What Smart Investors Need to Know – Explained Simply (Atlantic Publishing Company 2007), 288 pages
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Donald C. Shoup, The High Cost of Free Parking (American Planning Association 2005), 752 pages*
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