Written and photographed by: Nick Hoff, Inthefray.com Contributor

Illustrated by: Marvin Allegro, Inthefray.com Contributor

Celebrating the Third Place: Inspiring Stories About the "Great Good Places" at the Heart of Our Communities
Edited by Ray Oldenburg | Marlowe & Co | 2002
Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble.com

City of Sunnyvale Downtown Urban Design Plan
http://www.ci.sunnyvale.ca.us/community-dev/planning/urban-design-plan
PDFs of the Urban Design Plan. Chapter two contains a good overall map of the planned downtown, and chapter five details each block

Friends of Sunnyvale
http://www.melinda.org/fos/
A community organization dedicated to "smart growth" in Sunnyvale's downtown

Mozart Development Company's Downtown Office Plaza
http://www.dtofficeplaza.com
Tracks the progress of the Sunnyvale's new six-story office buildings

Sunnyvale Sun
http://www.sunnyvalesun.com
The local weekly newspaper, which frequently runs articles on downtown development

About Peter Bosselman
http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/bosselmann.htm
University of California at Berkeley

Edge cities
http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa020700a.htm
Characteristics of edge cities and the origination of the term