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The publications listed below are available to Washington State city/town/county officials and staff to borrow at no charge through the MRSC Library Loan Request Form. If you are not a Washington city/town/county official or employee, we suggest you contact your local public library or law library for information or research direction.
Featured Library Acquisitions
Titles from our new acquisitions that we feel will be particularly interesting to our site's visitors.
The Third Industrial Revolution : How Lateral Power is Inspiring a Generation and Transforming the World
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). The Industrial Revolution, powered by oil and other fossil fuels, is spiraling into a dangerous endgame. The price of gas and food are climbing, unemployment remains high, the housing market has tanked, consumer and government debt is soaring, and the recovery is slowing. Facing the prospect of a second collapse of the global economy, humanity is desperate for a sustainable economic game plan to take us into the future.
Assessing Sustainability : A Guide for Local Governments
(American Planning Association, 2011). This report details a variety of methods communities and local governments can use to measure and assess sustainability, including indicators, benchmarks, assessments, carbon or ecological footprints, and basic principles used on a daily basis by planners. The report provides a sampling of wide range of model indicators, benchmarks, and metrics. Highlighted model indicators include the UN-Habitat Urban Indicators; the performance and urban indicator program of King County, Washington; and Minneapolis's Sustainability Indicator program.
All New Library Acquisitions
This is a listing of new materials received by the Municipal Research & Services Library.
Also see our bibliographies of selected library holdings. These bibliographies contain current and exemplary materials relating to subjects of municipal interest are also available.
These publications are available to Washington State city/town/county employees and officials to borrow at no charge through the MRSC Library Loan Request Form. If you are not a Washington city/town/county official or employee, we suggest you contact your local public library or law library for information or research direction.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
"Improving downtown's curb appeal." Downtown Research & Development Center, 2011 [ED 5.3400]
ENERGY RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION
Planning for wind energy, Suzanne Rynne, Larry Flowers, Eric Lantz and Erica Heller, editors. Chicago : American Planning Association, 2011 [EC 2.8000 P53 2011]
The third industrial revolution : how lateral power is inspiring a generation and transforming the world, by Jeremy Rifkin. New York City : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
FINANCE
Accounting for capital assets : a guide for state and local governments, by Stephen J. Gauthier. Chicago : Government Finance Officers Association, 2008 [F 2.2100 A33 2008]
The ugly truth about tax abatements - and strategies to benefit from them, by Laura A. Reese, Gary Sands. Washington, D.C. : International City/County Management Association, 2011 [G 0.0000 I5m v.43 no.2]
PERSONNEL
New rules of social engagement : shifting the focus for a goal-oriented workforce, by Lynette Reed. Reed, Lynette. Washington, D.C. : International City/County Management Association, 2011 [G 0.0000 I5m v.43 no.1]
PLANNING
Assessing sustainability : a guide for local governments, by Wayne M. Fedien with Elisabeth Hamin. Chicago : American Planning Association, 2011 [PL 14.1000 A88 2011]
"Building invisible walls: urban growth boundaries," by Beth Humstone. Planning Commissioners Journal, Winter 2011 [PL 8.6210]
Capital project planning and evaluation : expanding the role of the finance officer, edited by Joseph P. Casey, Michael J. Mucha. Chicago, IL : Government Finance Officers Association, 2007 [PL 12.0000 C36 2007]
Developing sustainability guidelines for historic districts, by Noré V. Winter. Washington, DC : National Trust for Historic Preservation, 2011 [PL 8.3130 D48 2011]
Downtown planning for smaller and midsized communities, by Philip L. Walker. 1st ed. Chicago : Planners Book Service, American Planning Association, 2009 [PL 5.2210 D68 2009]
"Eleven principles for creating great community places," by the Staff of the Project for Public Places. Planning Commissioners Journal, Winter 2011 [PL 14.0000]
Local planning : contemporary principles and practice, edited by Gary Hack. Washington, D.C. : International City/County Management Association, 2009 [PL 0.0009 L63 2009]
Neighbors and neighborhoods : elements of successful community design, by Sidney Brower. Chicago : APA Planners Press, 2011 [PL 5.2100 N45 2011]
"The next zoning battleground: trends and challenges in local regulation of medical marijuana," by Deborah M. Rosenthal and Alfred Fraijo Jr. Zoning Practice, July 2011 [LR 55.0000]
Public art by the book, edited by Barbara Goldstein. Seattle : Americans for the Arts in association with University of Washington Press, 2005 [PL 10.1100 P82 2005]
TRANSPORTATION
Parking generation : an informational report of the Institute of Transportation Engineers. 4th ed. Washington, D.C. : Institute of Transportation Engineers, 2010 [PL 8.2500 P34 2010]