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86 | Denise Scott Brown and in “Between Three Stools: A Personal View of Urban Design Practice and Pedagogy,” in Education for Urban Design, ed. Ann Ferebee (Purchase, N.Y.: Institute for Urban Design, 1982), 132–72, reprinted in Urban Con- cepts. The larger span of urban design writing by and about us is in a bibli- ography on our fi rm’s Web site: www.vsba.com. 15. “Urban Design,” 100–101. 16. Denise Scott Brown, “The Public Realm, the Public Sector and the Public Interest in Urban Design,” a paper for a symposium, “The Public Realm: Architecture and Society,” 1985, at the College of Architecture of the University of Kentucky. This paper was expanded and published in Urban Concepts. 17. Peter Shedd Reed, “Toward Form: Louis I. Kahn’s Urban Designs for Philadelphia, 1939–1962,” unpublished Ph.D. diss. (Philadelphia: Fisher Fine Arts Library, University of Pennsylvania, April 1989), passim. 18. Walter Isard, Location and Space Economy: A General Theory Re- lating to Industrial Location, Market Areas, Land- Use, Trade, and Urban Structure (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1956). 19. Jaqueline Tyrwhitt, ed., Patrick Geddes in India (extracts from offi - cial reports on Indian cities, 1915–19) (London: Lund, Humphris, 1947). 20. Denise Scott Brown, “The Meaningful City,” Journal of the American Institute of Architects, January 1965, 27–32, reprinted in Harvard’s Connec- tion, Spring 1967. 21. Kevin Lynch, “Environmental Adaptability,” AIP Journal 1 (1958). 22. David A. Crane, “The City Symbolic,” Journal of the American Insti- tute of Planners, May 1960, 32–39; Crane, “Chandigarh Reconsidered: The Dynamic City,” Journal of the American Institute of Planners, November 1960, 280–92. 23. Denise Scott Brown, “Learning from Brutalism,” in The Independent Group: Postwar Britain and the Aesthetics of Plenty, ed. David Robbins (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990), 203–6. 24. Scott Brown, “Between Three Stools”; and Scott Brown, “Team 10, Perspecta 10, and the Present State of Architectural Theory,” Journal of the American Institute of Planners 33 (January 1967): 42–50. 25. Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (New York: Museum of Modern Art and Graham Foundation, 1966). 26. Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour, Learning from Las Vegas (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1972; rev. ed., 1977). 27. Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture; Venturi, Scott Brown, and Izenour, Learning from Las Vegas; Denise Scott Brown, “On Architectural Formalism and Social Concern: A Discourse for Social Plan- ners and Radical Chic Architects,” Oppositions 5 (Summer 1976): 99–112; Denise Scott Brown, “On Pop Art, Permissiveness and Planning,” Journal of the American Institute of Planners 35 (May 1969): 184–86..

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