Book Shelves

Interviews and Reviews

For an interview with Ted about why he wrote both the Old Man in the Bag, and Power, Chaos or Consensus: click here

For a Review of “The Old Man in the Bag” by David Levine: click here

For a Review of “The Old Man in the Bag” by Andrew Tadross: click here

For a Review of “The Old Man in the Bag” by Michael O’Brien: click here

Partial list of Website Addresses Accessed

Partial List of Documentaries Viewed

  • Achbar, Mark, Peter Wintonick, Manufacturing Consent, Noam Chomsky and the Media, 1992
  • Bakan, Joel, Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott. Directors, The Corporation, 2003
  • Fothergill, Alastar, Director, Jonnie Hughes, Et al. Sir David Attenborough, A Life on our Planet, Silverback Films, 2020
  • Gibney, Alex. Director et al, Enron, The Smartest Guys in the Room, 2005
  • Jarecki, Eugene, Director, Why We fight, Sony Picture Classics, 2005
  • Orlowsky, Jeff, Director, The Social Dilemma, Netflix Film, 2020
  • Paine, Chris, Director, Who Killed the Electric Car? Sony Picture Classics, 2006
  • Winterbottom, Michael, Director, The Emperor’s New Clothes, IFC Films, 2015

Partial bibliography

  • Alexander, Christopher, A Timeless Way of Building, Oxford University Press, USA, 1979.
  • Alexander, Christopher, Hajo Neis, Artemis Anninou, A New Theory of Urban Design, Oxford University Press, USA, 1987.
  • Alexander, Christopher, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel, A Pattern Language, Towns-Buildings-Construction, Oxford University Press, USA, 1977.
  • Allott, Stephen, Friends in Oxford, The history of a Quaker Meeting, Grants Hill Press, Somerset,1952.
  • Anon (Baha’i World Center), The Promise of World Peace, National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’i, Auckland, 1985.
  • Avery, Michael, Building United Judgment: A Handbook for Consensus Decision Making, Create Space,1999
  • Berk, Emanuel, Downtown Improvement Manual, ASPO Press, Chicago, 1976.
  • Breines, Simon, William j. Dean, The Pedestrian Revolution Streets Without Cars, Vintage Books Random House, New York, 1974.
  • Bregman, Rutger, Utopia for Realists, and How We Get There, Bloomsbury Publishing, London,
    2018
  • Bryson, Bill, A Short History of Nearly Everything, Black Swan Transworld, London, 2004.
  • Buck, John, Sharon Villines, We The People, Consenting to a Deeper Democracy, Sociocracy.info, Lightning Source, UK Itd, 2007
  • Chermayeff, Serge, Christopher Alexander, Community and Privacy, Toward a New Architecture of Humanism, Anchor Books Doubleday and Co, New York, 1965.
  • Chomsky, Noam, Hegemony or Survival, America’s Quest for Global Dominance, Metropolitan Owl Book Henry Holt and Co, New York, 2004.
  • Chomsky, Noam, Hopes and Prospects, Penguin Group NZ a Pearson Group, Rosedale North Shore, 2010.
  • Chomsky, Noam, Who Rules the World, Hamish Hamilton Penguin, 2016.
  • Chomsky, Noam and C.J.Polychroniou, Optimism over Despair, Penguin Randomhouse UK, 2017.

  • Choudhury, Golam W. The Prophet Muhammad, His life and Eternal Message, Scorpion Publishing Ltd, Essex, England, 1993.

  • Cookson, J. W. (Minister), Hazardous Waste Management and Disposal, Government of Alberta, Edmonton, 1979.

  • Cornford, Francis MacDonald, The Republic of Plato, Oxford University Press, New York, 1966.

  • Crowther, Sir Geoffrey, Traffic in Towns The Specially Shortened Edition of the Buchanan Report, Penguin Books, Baltimore, 1964.

  • DeChiara, Joseph, Lee Koppelman, Urban Planning and Design Criteria, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, 1975.

  • Deloria Jr, Vine, Clifford M Lytle, The Nations Within, Pantheon Books, New York, 1984.

  • McNichols, W.M. Jr (Mayor), Automobile Diversion A Strategy for Reducing Excessive Traffic in Sensitive Areas, Denver Planning Office, Denver, 1978.

  • Elder, Neil, Thomas, Alastair H and Arter, David, The Consensual Democracies? Martin Robertson and Co, Oxford, 1982.

  • Engwicht, David, Towards an Eco-City. Calming the Traffic, Envirobook, Sydney, 1992.

  • Epstein, David F. The Political Theory of The Federalist, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1984.

  • Fein, Albert, Frederick Law Olmsted and the American Environmental Tradition, George Braziller Inc, New York, 1973.

  • Fletcher, Banister, A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1963.

  • Fraser, Douglas, Village Planning in the Primitive World, Studio Vista, London, c.1970.

  • Fullard, H, H.C. Darby, The University Atlas 22nd Edition, George Philip & Son, Ltd, London, 1983

  • Giedion, Sigfried, Space Time and Architecture The growth of a New tradition, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1959,

  • Gist, Noel P. Sylvia Fleis Fava, Urban Society, Thomas Crowell Company, New York, 1964.

  • Goodman, Robert, After the Planners, Penguin Books Compton Printing, Aylesbury, 1972.

  • Graeber, David and Rutger Bregman, TheThe Dawn of Everything. A New History of Humanity, Allen Lane/ Penguin. 2021

  • Harger, Nicky, Bob Burton, Secrets and lies, Craig Potton Publishing, Nelson, NZ. 1999

  • Hardoy, Jorge, Urban Planning in Pre-Columbian America, Studio Vista, London, c.1970.

  • Heilbroner, Robert L. The Worldly Philosophers The Lives, Times and Ideas of Great Economic Thinkers, Touchstone Simon and Schuster, New York, 1992.

  • Herman, Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent, Vintage UK, Random House. London, 1994,

  • Jacobs, Jane, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Vintage Books Random House, New York, 1963.

  • James, Preston E. A Geography of Man, Gin and Company, New York, 1959.

  • Kaplan, Robert D. The Coming Anarchy, Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War, Random House, New York, 2000.

  • Karsten, Frank, Karel Beckman, Beyond Democracy, ICG Testing.Com. 2012

  • Kitchen, Paddy, A Most Unsettling Person, The life and Ideas of Patrick Geddes, Saturday review Press E.P. Dutton, USA, 1975.

  • Kraus, Chris, Sylvere Kitrubger Hatred of Capitalism, Semiotext(e) MIT Press, Los Angeles, 2001.

  • Kraybill, Donald B., The Riddle of the Amish Culture, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1991.

  • Last, Geoffrey, Richard Pankhurst, Eric Robeson, A History of Ethiopia in Pictures, Oxford University Press, Addis Ababa, 1969.

  • Landers, Howard M. Miniparks, Denver Planning Office, Denver, 1968.

  • Laszlo, Ervin, The Intelligence of the Cosmo, Inner Traditions, One Park Stree, Rochester, Vermont, 2017

  • Lipton, Bruce, SteveBhaerman, Spontaneoud Evolution; Our Positive Future and a way to get there from Here, Hay House, USA 2009

  • Lynch, Kevin, The Image of the City, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1966.V

  • Mair, Lucy, Primitive Government, A Study of Traditional Political Systems in Eastern Africa, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1977.

  • Meadows, Donella H, Dennis L Meadows, Joergen Randers, William W. Dehrens Ill, Limits to Growth, Signet Classics New American Library, New York, 1975.

  • McLean, Mary, Local Planning Administration, The International City Managers Association, Chicago, 1959.

  • Miliband, Ed, “GO BIG, How to Fix the World” Vintage, 2021.

  • Moorehead, Alan, The Blue Nile, First Four Square Edition, London, 1969.

  • Moore, Michael, Stupid White Men, Harper Collins, New York, 2001.

  • Morford, Mark, The Daring Spectacle, Adventures in deviant Journalism, Rapture Machine Inc,
    San Francisco, 2010.

  • Morrison, Roy, We Build the Road as we Travel, New Society Publishers, Philadelphia, 1991.

  • Mumford, Lewis, City Development, Studies in Disintegration and Renewal, Secker and Warburg London, 1946.

  • Mumford, Lewis, Sticks and Stones, A Study of American Architecture and Civilization, 2nd edition, Dover Publications, New York, 1955.

  • Muschanp, David, Political Thinkers, St Martin’s Press, New York, 1986.

  • Nearing, Scott, The Conscience of a Radical, Social Science Institute, Harborside, Maine, 1967.

  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Pioneers of Modern Design from William Morris to Walter Gropius, Penguin Books, Norwich, 1966.

  • Poole A.L. Land Use Capability Survey Handbook, Ministry of Works, Wellington, N.Z. 1974

  • Poteete, Janssen, Ostrom, Working Together, Collective Action, the Commons and Multiple Methods in Practice, Princeton  University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 2010

  • Purdy, Barry |, Shopping Areas: Planning and Capital Investment in Retailing, NZ Retailers’ Federation Inc, 1981.

  • Rackham, H. Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2003.

  • Rau, Ted J. Who Decides Who Decides: Sociocracyforall.org, 120 Pulpit Road, Amherst, MA, 01002.

  • Rau, Ted J. and Jerry Koch-Gonzales, Many Voices One Song — Shared Power with Sociocracy, Sociocracyforall.org, Lightning Source UK Ltd

  • Schumacher, E.F., Small is Beautiful, Economics as if People Mattered, Harper and Row, New York, 1973.

  • Soleri, Paolo, Arcosanti an Urban Laboratory? VT| Press, Santa Monica, 1987.

  • Thoreau, Henry David, Walden, or Life in the Woods and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Signet Classic Penguin Books, USA, 1960.

  • Turnbull, Collin M. The Mountain People, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1972.

  • Wiebenson, Dora, Tony Garnier: The Cite Industrielle, Studio Vista, London, c.1970.

  • Wells, Carolyn, Mary Ann Suppes, The Social Work Experience 7th Edition, Pearson Education Ltd. 2018

  • Wells, Helen Ann McLaren, Rough Draft, The Story of Your Mother’s Life, Self published, Apia, Samoa, 2006

  • Wells, lan Cressy, The Orientation and Cognition of Objects, Doctorate Thesis, Univeristy of Auckland, NZ, 2010

  • Wells, Rosemary, Thomas Wells, The House in the Mail, Viking, 2002

  • Wells, Tao, Easier on, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, NZ, 2018

  • Wells, Ted, Identification of Possible Future Lifestyle Areas, New Plymouth District Council, 2010

  • Wells, Ted, Lamunin Local Area Plan, Kerajaan Negara Brunei Darussalam, Jurutara Damit Beca Consultants, Brunei, 1996

  • Wells, Ted, The Old Man in the Bag and Other True Stories of Good Intentions, CreateSpace, NC, USA,2012

  • Wells, Ted, Porgera Master Plan, Porgera Development Authority, Beca Gure Consultants, Porgera, Papua New Guinea, 1998

  • Wells, Ted, Power, Chaos & Consensus, Consocratic Theory, CreateSpace, NC, USA, 2012

  • Wells, Ted. Stage // Site Study, Ministry of Works and Development, New Plymouth, NZ, June 1984

  • Wells, Ted. Sussex County Long-Range Transportation Plan Update, Delaware Department of Transportation, Kise, Straw and Kolodner Consultants, Dover, Delaware, 2001

  • Wells, Ted, Taranaki Rural Land Resource Priorities Study, Ministry of Works and Development, New Plymouth, NZ, 1987.

  • Wells, Ted. Vaitele Urban Governance Pilot Project, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Samoa, 2010

  • Wills, Gary, The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison, Bantam Doubleday Dell, New York, 1982.