Urban & Land Use Planning Books


The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Modern Library Series) Best Price: $12.93 In an age when architects and planners were spouting all kinds of brave-new-world nonsense (or...	A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) Best Price: $35.90 I bought this book after reading the glowing reviews on amazon. It was also an inspiration for...	Time-Saver Standards for Interior Design and Space Planning, 2nd Edition Best Price: $101.99 I have been a practicing ID for the last 15 years and can't believe I had not purchased this...	Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream Best Price: $10.52 I really enjoyed the book. I gave it a 4 and I think it is very well deserved. Reading my...	The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream Best Price: $16.09 In _The Option of Urbanism_, Christopher Leinberger documents the history of both urban...



The Image of the City Best Price: $15.74 Given that this book was written in the 1950's, it is still relevent to current urban design...	The Works: Anatomy of a City Best Price: $11.72 excellent book, has lots of really nice graphics showing entire networks of systems in...	Hotel Design, Planning, and Development, New Edition Best Price: $57.43 This book is filled with rules of thumbs,tables,charts, and drawings to help any architect to...	Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan Best Price: $20.81 While "Delirious" has its fair share of archispeak, Mr. Koolhaas pulls off an...	Design of Cities: Revised Edition (Penguin Books) Best Price: $23.50 This book is an excellent introduction to the nature of urban design. It illustrates, in a...



S M L XL: Second Edition Best Price: $53.37 I received a copy of this book as a christmas gift. As an architect, I tell you the guy who gave...	Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With Nature Best Price: $55.58 Every once in awhile you find a book that becomes a new favorite. That happened recently with...	The Endless City Best Price: $44.07 This is an excellent work that alerts and informs. The quality of life on this planet is...	Last Harvest: From Cornfield to New Town: Real Estate Development from George Washington to the Builders of the Twenty-First Century, and Why We Live in Houses Anyway Best Price: $8.82 This is a great book on how suburban development works. It is very well researched and all the...	The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses Best Price: $25.19 The book has excellent intentions and addresses a very important and neglected issue in...

Historic Preservation: An Introduction to Its History, Principles, and Practice Best Price: $16.87 "What thou lovest well remains . . . is thy true heritage . . . shall not be reft from...	Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies Best Price: $12.99 Los Angeles. There were a few years there when Los Angles was the center of the world....	Learning from Las Vegas - Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form Best Price: $14.45 I admire and respect Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown for their great career and...	The Timeless Way of Building Best Price: $34.95 The book was in fantastic condition. I received it very quickly as well. And so far has been a...	The Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World Best Price: $18.82 China is the most rapidly urbanizing nation in the world, with an urban population that may well...

Loblolly House: Elements of a New Architecture + DVD Best Price: $22.41 "If prefabs are assembly-line Fords, Loblolly is a custom hot rod, begging for mass...	Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century Best Price: $33.10 Be the first to review this item	Up River: Man-Made Sites of Interest on the Hudson from the Battery to Troy (The Center for Land Use Interpretation American Regional Landscape Series) Best Price: $12.20 The book was preselected by my son-in-law. In his thank you note, he was quite pleased with it!	The Landscape Urbanism Reader Best Price: $15.00 this book is really good to students who study Landscape Architecture.	The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History Best Price: $14.97 Spiro Kostof's book is a fantastic and intelligent foray into urban form. What I found most...

Sustainable Landscape Construction: A Guide to Green Building Outdoors, Second Edition Best Price: $27.00 This book is very lengthy and full of information, but unlike typical textbooks, it is not...	Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture:: An Anthology of Architectural Theory 1965 - 1995 Best Price: $16.79 An excellent collection of readings covering a wide variety of philosophical architectural...	EcoCities: Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature Best Price: $11.08 The most amazing book I have ever read...life-altering look at evolutionary coexistence. There...	Great Streets Best Price: $25.50 i love the drawing styles and methods presented in this book. i recommend it for anybody who...	Urban Land Use Planning, Fifth Edition Best Price: $61.52 Needed it for Grad Urban Planning class...Got book, difficult at first with terminology, but...

Home Delivery Best Price: $29.70 As the world's population swells and the need for sustainable ways of living grows ever more...	Marmol Radziner + Associates: Between Architecture and Construction Best Price: $22.41 If you design some of the most stylish and beautiful modern houses in the Los Angeles area,...	Robert Venturi: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture Best Price: $11.75 "I like complexity and contradiction in architecture." That's how Robert Venturi...	Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning Best Price: $24.75 Quick read if you want to avoid digging through peer-review journals to learn the same principles.	Planning and Urban Design Standards (Ramsey/Sleeper Architectural Graphic Standards Series) Best Price: $69.93 This book is tremendously broad in its coverage of planning topics, though not in depth. Most...

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...	Design with Nature (Wiley Series in Sustainable Design) Best Price: $32.64 My husband is a landscape designer and architect. So, he loves this stuff! I bought it for him...	Suburban Transformations Best Price: $23.16 A step-by-step procedure, beautifully visualized and mapped, for remaking suburban built...	The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York Best Price: $39.60 Once the world’s tallest skyscraper, the Woolworth Building is noted for its striking...	Large Parks Best Price: $15.00 In Large Parks, editors Julia Czerniak and George Hargreaves present eight essays by leading...

Readings in Planning Theory (Studies in Urban and Social Change) Best Price: $43.41 The autors present a superb choice of classical texts on the field of urban planning. I...	Otto Neurath Best Price: $29.70 Austrian sociologist Otto Neurath was a seminal Modernist figure. Much attention has been given...	The Natural Step for Communities: How Cities and Towns can Change to Sustainable Practices Best Price: $14.06 Currently, my city is undergoing a move from an average municipality to becoming an...	Stone House: A Guide to Self-Building With Slipforms Best Price: $20.60 The illustrations inside the book leaves much to be desired. The book is a "Self...	The City Assembled: The Elements of Urban Form through History Best Price: $20.97 When I ordered this book I'd already knew that it's good, but it surprised me! It is different...

The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community Best Price: $31.76 I grew up in what new urbanists would probably call a paradise. It was a real community in which...	Form Based Codes: A Guide for Planners, Urban Designers, Municipalities, and Developers Best Price: $57.00 A good form-based code depends on sophisticated design insights. But the book's reason for being...	The High Cost of Free Parking Best Price: $45.32 You have to be willing to wade through a few equations to enjoy this book but if you care about...	Inquiry by Design: Environment/Behavior/Neuroscience in Architecture, Interiors, Landscape, and Planning, Updated and Revised Edition Best Price: $20.81 I read the book about a year ago but forgot to review it promptly. For this review I've looked...	Environmental Land Use Planning and Management Best Price: $39.00 this is a useful book for environmental planners and people who are concerned with environmental...

Landscape Architecture: Water Features (Landscape Architecture) Best Price: $25.08 Over the past decade, incorporating water features into the architectural landscape has become a...	The City Reader (Routledge Urban Reader Series,) Best Price: $33.00 This book is a very interesting collection of essays from prominent intellectuals who have shown...	Ideas of Order: A Formal Approach to Architecture Best Price: $67.36 This book is horrible, period. It start to quickly and ends to slowly.	The Phenomenon of Life: Nature of Order, Book 1: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe (The Nature of Order) Best Price: $75.00 Read 'The Fifteen Properties' excerpted in the 'First Nomination for Book of the Century'...	Community Planning: An Introduction To The Comprehensive Plan Best Price: $30.00 A textbook for public planners of various ilks. Provides an overview rather than an in depth...

Site Planning - 3rd Edition Best Price: $54.02 I'm amazed that people didn't like this book more... I am also a Land Arch student who had it as...	London: A Life in Maps Best Price: $14.50 Peter Whitfield's "London, A Life in Maps" is a must-read for anyone with an interest...	Golf Architecture: A Worldwide Perspective (Golf Architecture) Best Price: $24.95 Fifty illustrated essays from top architects and golf writers. Leading golf architects from 15...	Architecture: Form, Space, and Order Best Price: $18.88 This is an invaluable reference for architecture students and professionals alike. Ching's...

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