Urban Planning & Development Books


GIS for Housing and Urban Development Best Price: $30.75 The report describes potential applications of geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial...	Planning World Cities: Globalization, Urban Governance and Policy Dilemmas (Planning, Environment, Cities) Best Price: $50.81 This internationally comparative text on urban planning covers both the global and regional...	Key Issues in Housing: Politics and Markets in 21st Century Britain Best Price: $51.95 Written by a well-known group of researchers in a lively and accessible style, this timely new...	An Introduction to Social Housing Wide ranging in scope, this book is a comprehensive introduction to fundamental issues in...	The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals And Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World Best Price: $11.01 This is one of the most interesting and important contributions of 2008 to the vital area of...



Sustaining the World's Wetlands: Setting Policy and Resolving Conflicts (Springer Series on Environmental Management) Best Price: $52.99 Written both as a textbook and as a professional reference book, Sustaining the World's...	Transportation Systems Analysis: Models and Applications (Springer Optimization and Its Applications) Best Price: $134.29 "This book provides a rigorous and comprehensive coverage of transportation models and...	Cities and Natural Process In the modern city shaped by economic and technological interests, the environment is ordered...	Planning and Housing in the Rapidly Urbanising World (Housing, Planning and Design Series) Best Price: $129.71 Written specifically as a teaching text and authored by a team of leading academics in the...	World Cities and Urban Form: Fragmented, Polycentric, Sustainable? Best Price: $165.00 This book presents new research and theory at the regional scale showing the forms metropolitan...



The Provisional City: Los Angeles Stories of Architecture and Urbanism Best Price: $1.52 The provisional city is one of constant erasure and eruption. Through what Dana...	The Estuary's Gift: An Atlantic Coast Cultural Biography (Rural Studies Series) Best Price: $82.95 A coastal region's oldest inhabitants, particularly families of watermen and commercial...	Environmental City: People, Place, Politics, and the Meaning of Modern Austin Best Price: $17.63 As Austin grew from a college and government town of the 1950s into the sprawling city of 2010,...	The Territorial Experience: Human Ecology As Symbolic Interaction During the 1920s, the Chicago school of sociology developed an ecological orientation toward the...	Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples: Readings in Environmental History (Columbia Northwest Classics) Best Price: $28.00 This book is an interesting collection of papers on what the book title calls...

Contesting Development: Participatory Projects and Local Conflict Dynamics in Indonesia (Yale Agrarian Studies Series) Best Price: $44.57 This pathbreaking book analyzes a highly successful participatory development program in...	Can Regulation Work?: The Implementation of the 1972 California Coastal Initiative (Environment, development, and public policy) (NATO Advanced Study Institute Series) Best Price: $156.00	Systems Analysis in Urban Policy-Making and Planning (Nato Conference Series. II, Systems Science, V. 12) Best Price: $205.00	Barrier Technologies for Environmental Management To control the migration of radioactive and hazardous wastes currently contained underground,...	The Community Development Quota Program in Alaska Best Price: $49.00 This book reviews the performance and effectiveness of the Community Development Quotas (CDQ)...

Urban Problems and Community Development Best Price: $23.00 In recent years, concerned governments, businesses and civic groups have launched ambitious...	Stuck inTraffic Best Price: $3.99 This book rebuts both environmentalists and road lobbyists, by explaining why neither expanded...	Stuck in Traffic: Coping with Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion Best Price: $16.68 Peak-hour traffic congestion has become a major problem in most US cities. In fact, a majority...	Regaining the Dream: How to Renew the Promise of Homeownership for America's Working Families Best Price: $11.98 Millions of Americans have lost their homes since the start of the recession initiated by the...	Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability (Revised Edition) Best Price: $43.25 "No study provides greater insights on the causes and consequences of metropolitan...

Justice and the American Metropolis (Globalization and Community) Best Price: $24.49 Today?s American cities and suburbs are the sites of ?thick injustice??unjust power relations...	Communication Efficiency and Rural Development in Africa Best Price: $52.97 Developing countries, especially African countries, face a myriad of problems as they try to...	City Images And Urban Regeneration (The European City in Transition, Bd. 3) Best Price: $50.95	The Impact of Environmental Assessment: A Review of World Bank Experience (World Bank Technical Paper) Best Price: $18.95	Municipal Solid Waste Incineration: Requirements for a Successful Project (World Bank Technical Papers) Best Price: $17.43 As urban populations continue to grow, solid waste management becomes critical. Searching for...

Connecting Cities with Macro-economic Concerns: The Missing Link Best Price: $21.52 'Connecting Cities with Macro-economic Concerns' examines the influence of local public...	Focus on the Fringe: Sustainable Development in East Asian Cities (Directions in Development) This study focuses on the recent transformation of the urban fringe in East Asia, drawing on...	Unlocking Land Values for Urban Infrastructure Finance (Trends and Policy Options (Ppiaf)) Best Price: $21.95 This a much needed book for people interested in finding new ways to finance urban...	Catastrophic Coastal Storms: Hazard Mitigation and Development Management (Duke Press Policy Studies) Best Price: $76.05 As people cluster on the coast in increasing numbers, coastal populations become more vulnerable...	Cities of Aristocrats and Bureaucrats: The Development of Medieval Chinese Citiescapes Best Price: $34.99 During the Tang Dynasty, Chang'an (present day Xi'an, home of the terracotta warriors)...

The Arc: A Formal Structure for a Palestinian State Best Price: $8.39 An examination of options for strengthening the housing and transportation infrastructure of a...	The Beginner's Guide to Nation-Building Best Price: $27.04 This guidebook is designed as a contribution to future nation-building efforts. It is organized...	Planning Recreational Places Best Price: $65.00	Politics of Rapid Urbanization: Government and Growth in Modern Turkey Best Price: $39.95	Municipal Solid Waste Incineration: Requirements for a Successful Project (World Bank Technical Papers) Best Price: $17.43 As urban populations continue to grow, solid waste management becomes critical. Searching for...

Connecting Cities with Macro-economic Concerns: The Missing Link Best Price: $21.52 'Connecting Cities with Macro-economic Concerns' examines the influence of local public...	Focus on the Fringe: Sustainable Development in East Asian Cities (Directions in Development) This study focuses on the recent transformation of the urban fringe in East Asia, drawing on...	Unlocking Land Values for Urban Infrastructure Finance (Trends and Policy Options (Ppiaf)) Best Price: $21.95 This a much needed book for people interested in finding new ways to finance urban...	Catastrophic Coastal Storms: Hazard Mitigation and Development Management (Duke Press Policy Studies) Best Price: $76.05 As people cluster on the coast in increasing numbers, coastal populations become more vulnerable...	Cities of Aristocrats and Bureaucrats: The Development of Medieval Chinese Citiescapes Best Price: $34.99 During the Tang Dynasty, Chang'an (present day Xi'an, home of the terracotta warriors)...

The Arc: A Formal Structure for a Palestinian State Best Price: $8.39 An examination of options for strengthening the housing and transportation infrastructure of a...	The Beginner's Guide to Nation-Building Best Price: $27.04 This guidebook is designed as a contribution to future nation-building efforts. It is organized...	Planning Recreational Places Best Price: $65.00	Politics of Rapid Urbanization: Government and Growth in Modern Turkey Best Price: $39.95	Towns in Decline, Ad 100-1600 Best Price: $106.21 Many European towns have experienced loss of population, degradation of physical structure and...

Modernization And the Crisis of Development in Africa: The Nigerian Experience (Interdisciplinary Research Series in Ethnic, Gender and Class Relations) ... in Ethnic, Gender and Class Relations) Best Price: $129.70 The transaction was exciting.I got the book as contained in the shipment information I got when...	The Transformation of Rural China (Asia and the Pacific) Best Price: $56.14	Narratives of Nation Building in Korea: A Genealogy of Patriotism Best Price: $81.95 This book will appeal to anyone who is interested in cutting edge scholarship on the history of...	Local Economic Development in the 21st Century: Quality of Life and Sustainability Best Price: $23.90 This book provides a comprehensive look at local economic development and public policy with...	Big Ideas in Collaborative Public Management Best Price: $65.00 Very timely and product was in great shape when received. Great service when purchasing text...

Canadian Urban Growth Trends: Implications for a National Settlement Policy (Human Settlement Issues Series 5) Best Price: $21.99 Canadian Urban Growth Trends is a penetrating analysis of the conditions and the sometimes...	The Vancouver Achievement: Urban Planning and Design Best Price: $29.95 This book examines the development of Vancouver?s unique approach to zoning, planning, and urban...	Metropolis to Metroplex: The Social and Spatial Planning of Cities Brilliant analyses of a complex issue by an accomplished social scientist. Bravo.	America's New Downtowns: Revitalization or Reinvention? (Creating the North American Landscape) Best Price: $27.00 What makes a good downtown, and why? Are today's downtowns, with their waterfront parks,...	Green Building Handbook Volumes 1 and 2: A Guide to Building Products and their Impact on the Environment Environmentally responsible building involves resolving many conflicting issues and...

Construction Contracts: Law and Management Best Price: $200.00 Although the legal principles involved in construction contracts and their management and...	Regional Development and Contemporary Industrial Response: Extending Flexible Specialization Commences with original contributions from a panel of experts regarding the economic, structural...	Becoming an Urban Planner: A Guide to Careers in Planning and Urban Design Best Price: $21.69 This compilation of interviews, resources, and plain language explanation of what planners do...	The Power of Collaborative Solutions: Six Principles and Effective Tools for Building Healthy Communities Best Price: $29.93 Book Review: The Power of Collaborative Solutions by Tom Wolff The book The Power of...	Landscape Planning: Environmental Applications Best Price: $48.00 With its wide variety of topics and up-to-date coverage, the fifth edition is an excellent...

Cop Speak: The Lingo of Law Enforcement and Crime Best Price: $4.05 This book gave me the case of the giggles. Only cops could think of words to describe what could...	Environmental Regulation and Impact Assessment Best Price: $165.39 Dry to the point of death by boredom, but it does present the material quickly, and with...	Landscape Planning: Environmental Applications Best Price: $27.03 I'd recommend this book especially to any Earth/Environmental Science Majors. I actually...	Urban Environmental Management: Environmental Change and Urban Design Best Price: $2.00 A provocative account regarding the disturbing dynamics of environmental change, demonstrating...	British Planning Best Price: $92.10 Post-war planning acts heralded a new planning era in which land use became subject to...

Great Planning Disasters (California Series in Urban Development ; 1) Best Price: $30.00 In this "pathology of planning," Peter Hall briskly recounts the histories of five...	Urban Design Downtown: Poetics and Politics of Form Best Price: $22.50 The corporate downtown, with its multitude of social dilemmas and contradictions, is the focus...	Urban Transportation: The New Town Solution	Advertising in Developing and Emerging Countries Best Price: $71.24 This indispensable study offers an in-depth analysis of advertising in developing and emerging...	Disarming the Culture War: How the Silent Majority Can Break the Stalemate Best Price: $14.38 Mr. Wilson starts by saying that the Democrats have gotten so far left wing and the Republicans...

The Informational City: Economic Restructuring and Urban Development Best Price: $26.96 [[ASIN:0631179372 The Informational City: Economic Restructuring and Urban Development. It is a...	The New Urban Park: Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Civic Environmentalism Best Price: $16.24 Completing a full-length history of Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) might seem odd...	The Future of Rural Development: Between the Adjustment of the Project Approach and Sectoral Programme Desig (Gdi Book Series: No. 2) Best Price: $51.19 This book gives a practitioner's account of international experiences with rural development...	Building the New Berlin Appraising the redevelopment of Berlin since the late nineteenth century, Elizabeth A. Strom...	Governance and Planning of Mega-City Regions: An International Comparative Perspective (Routledge Studies in Human Geography) Best Price: $110.00 Neoliberalism?s market revolution has had a tremendous effect on contemporary mega-city regions....

Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century Best Price: $25.49 An insightful work. Neon Metropolis is an essential antidote to the many critics who fly to Las...	Landscapes of Privilege: The Politics of the Aesthetic in an American Suburb Best Price: $134.53 In this book, Nancy and James Duncan probe deeply into the landscape of the affluent town of...	The Politics of Public Space Best Price: $105.16 Why is public space disappearing? Why is this disappearance important to democratic politics and...	Getting Rid of Graffiti: A practical guide to graffiti removal and anti-graffiti protection Best Price: $183.45 If you have an interest in removing graffiti or protecting buildings from graffiti then this...	Construction Conflict Management and Resolution Best Price: $350.00 This book brings together over 40 papers presented at the 1992 International Construction...

Builders' Detail Sheets (Builders' Bookshelf) Best Price: $69.19 This book contains a unique set of information sheets, covering all aspects of building from sit...	Fire Engineering and Emergency Planning: Research and applications Best Price: $324.44 This is very interesting book.And i have never interested before.	Organization and Management of Construction Best Price: $301.08 This E. & F. N. Spon title is now distributed by Routledge in the US and Canada This title...	Profitable Partnering in Construction Procurement (Cib Proceedings) Best Price: $195.60 Profitable Partnering in Construction Procurement is a compilation of papers presented at the...	Worthy of the Nation: Washington, DC, from L'Enfant to the National Capital Planning Commission Best Price: $36.25 This is a revised and updated reissue of the book that first appeared three decades ago. I have...

The Globalizers: Development Workers in Action (Johns Hopkins Studies in Globalization) Best Price: $30.14 Using Honduras as a case study, Jeffrey T. Jackson illuminates the processes by which wealthy...	A Law Unto Itself: How the Ontario Municipal Board Has Developed and Applied Land-Use Planning Policy (IPAC Series in Public Management and Governance) Best Price: $72.00 A Law Unto Itself provides a detailed examination of the development and application of land...	Tahoe: From Timber Barons to Ecologists Best Price: $1.30 Douglas Strong does an excellent job of explaining the environmental history of Lake Tahoe in a...	The Delivery of Urban Services: Outcomes of Change (Urban Affairs Annual Reviews)	Society, Culture and Urbanization Best Price: $143.52 Eisenstadt and Shachar provide new insights into the development of urban civilization. They use...

Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice (Sage Library of Social Research) Best Price: $7.52 The book was an optional purchase for my Urban Redevelopment class. Most of us purchased and...	Community Organizing: Building Social Capital as a Development Strategy Best Price: $82.49 This book provides new insights into an important national community development challenge: how...	An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature Best Price: $27.00 Colten wrote this book in 2004. Or perhaps even earlier. Now, in October 2005, going through its...	Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs 2009 Best Price: $4.90 Designed to reach a wide audience of scholars and policymakers, the Brookings-Wharton Papers on...

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