Urban Planning & Development Books


A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) Best Price: $34.90 I bought this book after reading the glowing reviews on amazon. It was also an inspiration for...	The Late Great U.S.A.: The Coming Merger With Mexico and Canada Best Price: $16.25 This is a definite must read for every single American looking to make sense of very hush things...	Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With Nature Best Price: $56.34 Thank god for the current trend toward the generalization of textbooks. I don't mean...	Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream Best Price: $10.54 This book was recommended by a friend, and since Mr. Duany has been to Sarasota (where I now...	The Image of the City Best Price: $15.02 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: $10.46 The work that goes into designing, developing, and maintaining an infrastructure for a city like...	Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community's Assets Best Price: $15.82 Building Communities from the Inside Out guides readers to a new, asset-based approach to...	True Green at Work: 100 Ways You Can Make the Environment Your Business Best Price: $7.82 Now, from the authors of the quintessential how-to-go-green guide for individuals and...	Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit Best Price: $1.50 Having seen the film "An Inconvenient Truth", I assumed this would make for...	Professional Real Estate Development 2nd Edition Best Price: $59.99 This is written by THE authority on real estate finance, Rick Peiser, and is published by...



The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream Best Price: $16.23 People outside the planning profession would find this book helpful in understanding new...	Form Based Codes: A Guide for Planners, Urban Designers, Municipalities, and Developers Best Price: $56.34 A comprehensive, illustrative guide to Form-Based Codes "This volume describes in...	Times Square Spectacular: Lighting Up Broadway Best Price: $19.99 This book contains a trove of compelling imagery covering the century since Times Square got its...	Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century Best Price: $3.99 You drive past an ugly strip-mall and think, "Man, another one of these things?" ...	The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton Studies in American Politics) Best Price: $21.68 Thomas Sugrue, in his classic work The Origins of the Urban Crisis, has given us a case study of...

Suburban Transformations Best Price: $22.09 A step-by-step procedure, beautifully visualized and mapped, for remaking suburban built...	The Great Neighborhood Book: A Do-it-Yourself Guide to Placemaking Best Price: $11.79 Written by Jay Walljasper, a Senior Fellow of the Project for Public Spaces, The Great...	Planning and Urban Design Standards (Ramsey/Sleeper Architectural Graphic Standards Series) Best Price: $67.85 An excellent resource for anyone involved in public sector land-use planning. Contains great...	Design with Nature (Wiley Series in Sustainable Design) Best Price: $32.52 As a former colleague of McHarg's at the University of Pennsylvania during the 1960's, and...	Going Public: An Organizer's Guide to Citizen Action Best Price: $6.85 Despite America's revolutionary beginnings, we tend to marginalize the radical. From the...

Great Streets Best Price: $26.22 i love the drawing styles and methods presented in this book. i recommend it for anybody who...	Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York Best Price: $31.50 Unfortunately, the essays are a bit of a drudge, but the book itself is definitive, and as a...	Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh Best Price: $10.13 After reading this book, I suddenly realized the root problem of Western Civilization: We have...	Paradise by Design: Tropical Resorts and Residences by Bensley Design Studios Best Price: $32.97 Eclectic, baroque and sophisticated such are the characteristics of the lifestyle resorts and...	EcoCities: Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature Best Price: $14.00 Anyone involved in city planning or anyone that lives in a city should read this. Power of...

Introduction to Emergency Management, Third Edition (Homeland Security Series) Best Price: $45.00 Introduction to Emergency Management, Third Edition provides a comprehensive update of this...	Beyond Charity: The Call to Christian Community Development Best Price: $6.05 This book is great read it. Most charities are perfect and do their job. A few years ago I was...	Contemporary Urban Planning (7th Edition) Best Price: $49.99 This book gives a broad spectrum of what to expect in the planning field, but there are a few...	Creating Central Park (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Best Price: $12.52 The year 2008 marks the 150th anniversary of the design of Central Park, the first and arguably...	Scenario Planning Handbook: Developing Strategies in Uncertain Times Best Price: $21.90 It's practical. It's easy-to-use. It works. SCENARIO PLANNING HANDBOOK: DEVELOPING STRATEGIES IN...

Pedal Power: The Quiet Rise of the Bicycle in American Public Life Best Price: $12.42 Pedal Power just took me on a fascinating and uplifting journey into the future. J. Harry Wray...	The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community Best Price: $25.98 I grew up in what new urbanists would probably call a paradise. It was a real community in which...	The Urban Design Handbook: Techniques and Working Methods Best Price: $30.78 this a firm way of working just one way of doing things	The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators Best Price: $29.80 Cities have always been the crucible of culture and civilization--and the hubs of wealth...	Roots for Radicals: Organizing for Power, Action, and Justice Best Price: $13.31 The item was excellent. The transaction was also good. i love the item. Thanks very much.

Toward Sustainable Communities: Resources for Citizens and Their Governments Best Price: $13.00 I used this book as a tool for a graduate-level course. It is outstanding in its ability to...	The Creative Community Builder's Handbook: How to Transform Communities Using Local Assets, Arts, and Culture Best Price: $28.60 I work at the publisher for this book. We have been trying to get Amazon to correct the...	The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles Best Price: $13.99 Fulton is an expert on the history and political processes underlying the growth of Southern...	Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation Best Price: $21.67 Weizman's analysis of the articulation (division, consolidation, dimensionality, etc.) of space...	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: $5.74 This is not a very good book. 50% of the book is devoted to Mr. Crampton's less than...

Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems: Principles and Practices Best Price: $35.00 Modern city dwellers are largely detached from the environmental effects of their daily lives....	Central Park, An American Masterpiece: A Comprehensive History of the Nation's First Urban Park Best Price: $15.75 Did you know that the elm lined mall leading to the Bethesda fountain and the view of the ramble...	The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930 (Classics in Urban History, Vol 3) Best Price: $20.00 This book is really quite dull and outdated. It's a must-read only for die-hard enthusiasts of...	Community Organizing and Development (4th Edition) Best Price: $60.00	The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City (Chicago Visions and Revisions) Best Price: $6.79 I liked the book. As someone who recently moved to Chicago, I have a lot to learn about the...

Design for Ecological Democracy Best Price: $25.19 Winner, 2007 Davidoff Award presented by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning...	State of the World 2007: Our Urban Future (State of the World) Best Price: $8.75 The book was received in flawless condition, and service was prompt. I wish everything I'd...	New York 2000: Architecture and Urbanism from the Bicentennial to the Millennium (New York) Best Price: $59.85 NewYork as I know and love it.This is an exceptional book,it explains why the city is like it...	Transforming the City: Community Organizing the the Challenge of Political Change (Studies in Government and Public Policy) Best Price: $14.00 As an avenue for progressive politics in a nation still skeptical of change, community...	Collage City Best Price: $19.97 I am a second-generation Rowe disciple, I guess. I studied with a Rowe acolyte in graduate...

Twentieth-Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping of the American Landscape Best Price: $0.71 After reading this book, you will know why we should change the way we are building our cities,...	American Public Policy: Promise and Performance Best Price: $47.50 Guy Peter's "American Public Policy: Promise and Performance" provides an informed and...	Good City Form Best Price: $30.50 As one who straddles the two worlds of practice and scholarship with great ease and comfort, I...	'scape: The International Magazine of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism (Scape) Best Price: $12.12 This is a great journal for professionals, or the aspiring urban planners and landscape...

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