This page includes links to online resources for design methods, data sources related to San Diego civic issues, and popular books about design, entrepreneurship, and urban design.

Links to online design resources

Design for San Diego (D4SD) Process Guide and Stakeholder Relationship Advice

IDEO Design Toolkit

Stanford d.School Resources for supporting Human-Centered Design

Handbook on Participatory Action Research, Planning, and Evaluation

Participatory Design Research Techniques

Asset Mapping in an Asset-Based Community Development framework

Asset Mapping: A handbook

Atlanta Community Engagement Playbook

Agile Science: Create Phase Worksheets

Service Design Toolkit

Tactical Urbanism Guide; example projects

Five Lessons in Tactical Urbanism

Urban Street Design Guide

The Open Book of Social Innovation

DIY Toolkit

Design with People

Liberating Structures

Remake Learning Playbook

ToolboxToolbox - a curated list of design and organizational toolkits

Pactful social innovation for teens

Data sets

UCSD Transportation Surveys

San Diego City and County Data

• https://data.sandiego.gov/
• https://data.sandiegocounty.gov/
• http://datasurfer.sandag.org/
• https://sdg-tracker.org/
• https://moovitapp.com/insights/en/Moovit_Insights_Public_Transit_Index_United_States_San_Diego_CA-582

California State Data

• https://data.ca.gov/
• https://dot.ca.gov/programs/traffic-operations/census
• http://pems.dot.ca.gov/

National and Global Data Sources

• https://www.census.gov/data.html
• https://www.un.org/en/databases/
• https://ourworldindata.org/

Books

There is no official text book for the course. If you like to buy and read books, we recommend the following about smart and sustainable cities:

• Inventing Future Cities by Michael Batty (2018)
• The Smart Enough City by Ben Green (2018)
• Unlocking Sustainable Cities by Paul Chatterton (2018)
• The Sustainable City by Steven Cohen (2017)
• Can a City be Sustainable? by The Worldwatch Institute (2016)
• Happy City by Charles Montgomery (2013)

Check out these books about design process and creativity:

• Universal Methods of Design by Hanington and Martin (2012)
• Sketching User Experiences by Buxton (2007)
• Universal Principles of Design by Lidwell, Holden, and Butler (2003)
• The Design of Everyday Things by Norman (1988)

Good books on entrepreneurship:

• The Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz (2014)
• Creating Breakthrough Products by Cagan and Vogel (2012)
• Startup Owners' Manual by Blank and Dorf (2012)
• The Lean Startup by Ries (2011)
• Business Model Generation by Osterwalder and Pigneur (2010)
• Founders at Work by Livingston (2009)
• Good to Great by Jim Collins (2001)