Regional Planning Books


Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for Social and Policy St) Best Price: $14.14 Scott's work is a meticulously-detailed analysis of the blinding effects of big-picture...	All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life Best Price: $8.44 ALL OUR RELATIONS by Indigenous Activist Winona LaDuke is a must read for everyone who cares...	Cities and Urban Life (4th Edition) Best Price: $78.96 Half of the book is citations from other authors. The other half is rambling. If I did not find...	The American City : What Works, What Doesn't Best Price: $21.99 The writing is clear and concise and Garvin does a great job of making the material interesting...	Africa Unchained: The Blueprint for Africa's Future Best Price: $14.56 "Africa Unchained" is a very interesting book. It proposes "the blueprint for...



Introduction to Homeland Security, Second Edition (Butterworth-Heinemann Homeland Security) Best Price: $50.00 This is one of the first generation texts on homeland security. As such, it has a somewhat ad...	The Urban Revolution Best Price: $17.96 Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre's first sustained...	How Cities Work : Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken Best Price: $11.00 I bought this book because I wanted an introduction to urban studies without having to slog...	Native to Nowhere: Sustaining Home And Community In A Global Age Best Price: $27.00 I am currently using this as a textbook for one of my classes, and a general consensus among the...	The Practice of Local Government Planning (Municipal Management Series) Best Price: $57.00



Community Planning: An Introduction To The Comprehensive Plan Best Price: $37.73 A textbook for public planners of various ilks. Provides an overview rather than an in depth...	City on the Edge: Buffalo, New York, 1900 - present Best Price: $10.87 Mark Goldman's "City on the Edge" is a history of the past and a look at the possible...	The Complete Guide to Zoning Best Price: $8.75 What makes this fabulous book unique is that rather than focusing just on the law of zoning or...	The Ecology of Place: Planning for Environment, Economy, and Community Best Price: $29.65 The scholarly work in this area has evolved a lot during the ten years since this book was...	The Beginner's Guide to Nation-Building Best Price: $21.90 This guidebook is designed as a contribution to future nation-building efforts. It is organized...

The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism (Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) Best Price: $17.42 The Anthropology of Development and Globalization is a collection of readings that provides an...	Contemporary Urban Planning (7th Edition) Best Price: $29.05 I was thinking of enrolling in a masters program for Urban Planning, and wanted to get a better...	Land Development, 10th Edition Best Price: $27.72 Land developers know that success hinges on knowledge, planning, and experience. Whether you are...	The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles Best Price: $13.00 Fulton is an expert on the history and political processes underlying the growth of Southern...	Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition Best Price: $22.45 Poorly written "shot" at large projects based on weak analysis and "leaps in...

The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators Best Price: $29.50 Cities have always been the crucible of culture and civilization--and the hubs of wealth...	Beyond Chinatown: The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, and the Environment in Southern California Best Price: $16.93 It's about time that someone got beyond the misleading notion that water is simply a morality...	The New Transit Town: Best Practices In Transit-Oriented Development Best Price: $29.40 Transit-oriented development (TOD) seeks to maximize access to mass transit and nonmotorized...	GIS for Environmental Management Best Price: $15.04 Geographic information systems are being increasingly used in environmental studies to map...	Designing Sustainable Communities: Learning From Village Homes Best Price: $24.94 Judy and Michael Corbett have written a brief and thoughtful, not to mention well-informed book...

Regions and Powers: The Structure of International Security (Cambridge Studies in International Relations) Best Price: $33.81 Regions and Powers: The Structure of International Security complements a project that has begun...	The Regional City Best Price: $36.87 This is yet another book on a New Urbanist idea. This one describes the idea of transit...	An Introduction to Political Geography: Space, Place and Politics Best Price: $46.31 This book outlines the full breadth of contemporary political geography, covering a rich and...	Smart Land-Use Analysis: The LUCIS Model Best Price: $30.23 An indespensable guide for land-use planners, analysts, and students, this new book provides the...	Whose Reality Counts?: Putting the First Last Best Price: $17.00 In this sequel to "Rural Development: Putting the last first" Robert Chambers argues...

Program Planning and Evaluation for the Public Manager, Third Edition Best Price: $27.95 I consider this book to be very informative to program planning and evaluation. The authors...	Urban America: Processes and Problems Best Price: $31.00 Refreshingly unbiased, this comprehensive, multi-perspective study on urban America provides an...	Cultural Politics and Education (The John Dewey Lecture) Best Price: $12.95 Apple presents a short and interesting discussion of the problems in our educational system in...	Mussolini's Rome: Rebuilding the Eternal City (Italian & Italian American Studies) Best Price: $22.75 Rome. The Eternal City. Was there something in its water that Mussolini drank? Painter tells of...	Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously: Economic Development, the Environment, and Quality of Life in American Cities (American and Comparative Environmental Policy) Best Price: $20.01 Great book. Lots of important data and ideas backed by solid research.

In the Metro Best Price: $11.62 Tourists climb the Eiffel Tower to see Paris. Parisians know that to really see the city you...	Pullman: An Experiment in Industrial Order and Community Planning, 1880-1930 (The Urban Life in America) Best Price: $15.49 This brilliantly researched and presented study by Buder objectively analyzes the impact that...	Outlines & Highlights for Contemporary Urban Planning by Levy, ISBN: 0130985988 (Cram 101 Series) Best Price: $10.95 Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and...	The Urban Experience Best Price: $25.00	The Deliberative Practitioner: Encouraging Participatory Planning Processes Best Price: $21.00 Once I started reading this book I could not put it aside for long. Perhaps this is because so...

Public Power, Private Dams: The Hells Canyon High Dam Controversy (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) Best Price: $23.05 In the years following World War II, the world's biggest dam was almost built in Hells Canyon on...	Civilizing American Cities: Writings On City Landscapes Best Price: $10.88 Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903) designed New York City's Central Park, Brooklyn's...	Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam Best Price: $19.95 Kepel's book is a brilliant analysis of events in the Islamic World from the second half of the...	Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age Best Price: $17.50 Michael Shuman has written a superb book on how we can begin to realize a sustainable, stable...	Green Urbanism: Learning From European Cities Best Price: $20.00 Timothy Beateley did an excellent job describing European cities and their sustainability...

Conservation Design for Subdivisions: A Practical Guide To Creating Open Space Networks Best Price: $49.44 Check out some of the final subdivision design parameters on page 87. While other reviewers...	Modeling the Environment: An Introduction To System Dynamics Modeling Of Environmental Systems Best Price: $30.00 This is a great book for anyone who wants to gain a thorough understanding of Stella software....	Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision Best Price: $22.95 If you've come to suspect that most of the world's problems--pollution, warfare, crime,...	Planning for Diversity: Redistribution, Recognition and Encounter (Planning, Environment, Cities) Best Price: $33.73 Planning theory and practice has engaged increasingly in recognising the diverse needs of social...	Communitas: Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life (Morningside Book Series) Best Price: $8.50 For some reason, this visionary book has kept its relevance for over fifty years (revised early...

Making Your Move to One of America's Best Small Towns: How to Find a Great Little Place as Your Next Home Base Best Price: $4.98 This is not a very good book. 50% of the book is devoted to Mr. Crampton's less than...	Community Participation Methods in Design and Planning Best Price: $60.80 The only how-to guide to community design written from the design professional's perspective. ...	A Field Guide to Sprawl Best Price: $4.99 The numerous color aerial photos in this book do a wonderful job of putting US development...	Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability Best Price: $13.50 October 2000 "METROPOLITICS: A regional agenda for community and stability" (1997) by...	City Futures: Confronting the Crisis of Urban Development (Global Issues) Best Price: $21.74 This book is a powerful indictment of the current consensus on how to cope with the hundreds of...

Renewing Hope Within Neighborhoods of Despair: The Community-Based Development Model (Suny Series on Urban Public Policy.) Best Price: $28.13 Renewing Hope within Neighborhoods of Despair builds upon narratives provided by leaders of...	Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta Best Price: $19.95 Bullard states that "in a sense, every state institution is a racial institution"...	Urban Regions: Ecology and Planning Beyond the City (Cambridge Studies in Landscape Ecology) Best Price: $47.79 With land planning, socioeconomics and natural systems as foundations, this book combines urban...

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