Urban Planning
Urban Planning
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Public Places-Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design
Public Places - Urban Spaces is a holistic guide to the many complex and interacting dimensions of u...Read more
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Squares: A Public Place Design Guide for Urbanists
Vital public places--squares, post office steps, playgrounds, street corners--are centers of joyful ...Read more
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Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900
In the last third of the 19th century Boston grew from a crowded merchant town, in which nearly ever...Read more
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Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
A manifesto by America's most controversial and celebrated town planners, proposing an alternative m...Read more
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Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville: Real Estate Development in America from George Washington to the Builders of the Twenty-First Century, and Why We Live in Houses Anyway
The bestselling author of Home and A Clearing in the Distance tells the compelling story of the tran...Read more
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance...Read more
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Death and Life of the Great American Cities
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance...Read more
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Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin, With a New Preface
First published in 1999, this celebrated history of San Francisco traces the exploitation of both lo...Read more
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The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community the New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community
The move to liveable communities--ideal small towns'' and neighborhoods where people work, live, pla...Read more
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Edge City: Life on the New Frontier
According to Joel Garreau, we are in the middle of the biggest change in 100 years in how we live, w...Read more
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Selling The Lower East: Culture, Real Estate, and Resistance in New York City
The Lower East Side of Manhattan is rich in stories -- of poor immigrants who flocked there in the l...Read more
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
At the core of A Pattern Language is the philosophy that in designing their environments people alwa...Read more