Past Publications

Following find a list of publications which the Small Town Center has been involved in the production of. Some of the most recent publications are available for download as Adobe Acrobat Files (PDF) (Acrobat Reader is required to view and print these files. For free Acrobat download from the Adobe website, click here.)

Limited copies of some publications are available for a fee: others can be photocopied for a fee. Contact the Small Town Center for information. (phone 662 325-2207 or by e-mail at scriss@sarc.msstate.edu.)

Publications

1998
Architectural Design Guidelines for the Historic Downtown Conservation Overlay District in Tupelo, Mississippi, John Poros and Shannon Criss.
(Download the PDF File)

Booneville, Mississippi: A Case Study Assessing the Possibilities, Shannon Criss, et.al.
(Download the 5.4mb PDF File)

Booneville, Mississippi: Nomination for a Historic District, Shannon Criss, James Martin, Jennifer Dobson.
(Download the PDF File)

Okolona, Mississippi: A Case Study Speculating on the Possibilities, David Perkes and Shannon Criss.
(Download the 1mb PDF File)

1997
Code Review of Head Start Facilities for Prairie Opportunity, Inc., John Poros.

1994
Small Town Action Team (STAT) Assessment Visit Ripley, MS March 5-8,1994, The Small Town Center.

1993
Destinations: Opportunity for Economic Development in the American Small Town, George Parsons and Judith Van Cleve.

1989
The Natchez City and Convention Center Study, Martin Schwartz and Dirk Hansen.

The Neshoba County Fair: Place and Paradox in Mississippi, Robert Craycroft.

City of Columbus, MS: Neighborhood Study, Sonhwa Baick.

Retail Revitalization Iuka, MS, Trina Nichols.

Design Charrette for Downtown Around the Square Canton, MS, George W. Parsons.

McComb, MS Charrette, Michael Fazio.

1988
Natchez Research Paper, John G. Hudson.

The Mississippi House, Kathleen Saccopoulos.

Small-Town Planners and Their Plans, The History of Planning Education, Brad Hokanson.

Mississippi Houses: Yesterday Toward Tomorrow, Robert M. Ford.

1987
Civic Architecture in the Small Town and the City, The Small Town Center.

1986
Economic Images: Downtown and Housing, George Parsons and Judith Van Cleve.

Main Street Mississippi, George W. Parsons.

1985
Fairfest '85, Andres Duany and Deborah Burke, et. al.

1984
Downtown Starkville Revitalization Study, The Small Town Center.

Center for Small Town Research and Design Prospectus, James F. Barker.

1983
Change and Tradition in the American Small Town, Robert Craycroft and Michael Fazio.

Madison Growth Strategy, Robert Craycroft.

Order and Image in the American Small Town, Michael J. Buono and Peggy Whitman Prenshaw.

1982
Revitalizing Main Street, Robert Craycroft.

1981
The Small Town Designbook, James F. Barker, Michael J. Buono and Henry P. Hildebrandt.

Order and Image in the American Small Town, Michael J. Buono and Peggy Whitman Prenshaw.

1980
Small Town Action Team: Grenada, Mississippi, Girault W. Jones and Michael J. Buono.

Ackerman, Clark Llewellyn and Bob Craycroft.

1975
The Small Town As An Art Object, James F. Barker, Michael W. Fazio and Hank Hildebrandt.

The Small Town Center is a community design
research unit in the School of Architecture at
Mississippi State University