Urban Planning & Development Books


Metropolis: Center and Symbol of Our Times (Main Trends of the Modern World) Best Price: $22.50 The modern city is the nexus of culture, politics, and art. Despite the manifold problems...	Laws of the Landscape: How Policies Shape Cities in Europe and America (Brookings Metro Series) Best Price: $12.00 Urban Husbandry BY DENNIS MCCARTHY One of the defining trends of the last half of the 20th...	The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream Best Price: $17.50 The one point in favor of this book is that it promotes a much-needed land use concept: Plan and...	Robert A. M. Stern: Buildings and Towns Best Price: $53.05 Central to the work of Robert A. M. Stern is a commitment to architecture that reinterprets the...	Mosaics - West 8 Best Price: $59.41 Rotterdam’s West 8 is not only one of the largest, but also one of the best-known and...



Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems: Principles and Practices Best Price: $31.47 Modern city dwellers are largely detached from the environmental effects of their daily lives....	GIS for the Urban Environment Best Price: $48.10 The book is chocked full of great reference material a text book that will make the transition...	Toward Sustainable Communities: Resources for Citizens and Their Governments Best Price: $12.94 I used this book as a tool for a graduate-level course. It is outstanding in its ability to...	Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development Best Price: $14.89 The book may seem different from your perspective. However, it might be good to know what...	Mvrdv: Km3: Excursions on Capacity Best Price: $52.64 "Three-dimensionality can be seen as architecture's fundamental existence, the profession's...



Design for Sustainability: A Sourcebook of Integrated, Eco-logical Solutions Best Price: $44.63 This type of book is well overdue. It covers both the theoretical and practical side of...	The Regional City Best Price: $35.60 This is yet another book on a New Urbanist idea. This one describes the idea of transit...	House by House, Block by Block: The Rebirth of America's Urban Neighborhoods Best Price: $6.97 House by House, Block by Block tells the stories of how urban neighborhood revitalization...	Creating Great Town Centers and Urban Villages Best Price: $62.97 Packed with color photographs, site plans, and case studies of both new projects and classics...	Hypothetical City Workbook III: Exercises and GIS Data to Accompany Urban Land Use Planning, Fifth Edition Best Price: $29.99

The New Urban Renewal: The Economic Transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville Best Price: $15.30 Two of the most celebrated black neighborhoods in the United States—Harlem in New York...	Urban Design: A typology of Procedures and Products. Illustrated with over 50 Case Studies Best Price: $37.21 This is not a comprehensive book on the field of Urban Design. Although this is obvious from the...	Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival Best Price: $6.72 Paul Grogan and Tony Proscio may be on to something - a completely new urban dynamic that has...	Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston Best Price: $38.62 If one lives and Boston and was curious about what the city looked like 100, 200, 300, or 400...	Invented Cities: The Creation of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century New York and Boston Best Price: $17.09 Why do cities look the way they do? In this fascinating exploration of the strikingly different...

Invented Cities: The Creation of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century New York and Boston Best Price: $17.09 Why do cities look the way they do? In this fascinating exploration of the strikingly different...	Planning and Urban Design Standards (Wiley Graphic Standards) Best Price: $154.98 This book is tremendously broad in its coverage of planning topics, though not in depth. Most...	A Right to Housing: Foundation for a New Social Agenda Best Price: $36.97 A comprehensive resource on a what is one of the most important issues of our generation.	Collage City Best Price: $19.30 I am a second-generation Rowe disciple, I guess. I studied with a Rowe acolyte in graduate...	Community Organizing in a Diverse Society (3rd Edition) Best Price: $69.23 The Council for Social Work Education (CSWE) new Curriculum Policy Standards are thoroughly...

Urban Spaces: Squares & Plazas Best Price: $32.34 A stone-garden fountain where children are invited to play...a striking landscape created by the...	The Politics of Historic Districts: A Primer for Grassroots Preservation Best Price: $19.99 Many colleagues had recommended this book to me as a classic in preservation literature. I just...	Beyond Charity: The Call to Christian Community Development Best Price: $4.51 This book is great read it. Most charities are perfect and do their job. A few years ago I was...	The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster Best Price: $16.35 I used this book as a text book in college and found it pretty interesting. I had no idea about...	GIS for Environmental Management Best Price: $15.15 Geographic information systems are being increasingly used in environmental studies to map...

Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity (Urban and Industrial Environments) Best Price: $14.93 The smart growth movement aims to combat urban and suburban sprawl by promoting livable...	The Unheavenly City Revisited Best Price: $21.44 This book is a must read for anyone dealing with individuals in the lower classes of American...	Green Urbanism: Learning From European Cities Best Price: $36.00 Timothy Beateley did an excellent job describing European cities and their sustainability...	The Art of City Making Best Price: $25.13 If you are looking for a check list or the do's and don'ts on how to become a better city, this...	Globalization & the City Best Price: $61.39 I came into contact with this book in a graduate level class "Globalization of World...

Cities and Complexity: Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Models, and Fractals Best Price: $25.51 Prior to buying this book there were no reviews which mentioned that this was more a textbook...	The Empire of "The City": The Secret History of British Financial Power Best Price: $7.98 I highly recommend this book. There is so much that we are not taught in government-run schools.	Reasonable Use: The People, the Environment, and the State, New England 1790-1930 Best Price: $38.95 We've all heard the old saw that those who ignore the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat...	History of Architectural Theory Best Price: $23.51 Though outdated in significant ways -- with the entire second half essentially eclipsed by Harry...	Toward a New Regionalism: Environmental Architecture in the Pacific Northwest Best Price: $21.94 This just was not what I expected to get from the attached description. The book is not bad just...

Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York Best Price: $33.50 Unfortunately, the essays are a bit of a drudge, but the book itself is definitive, and as a...	Worlds Away Best Price: $15.99 The suburbs have always been a fertile space for imagining both the best and the worst of modern...	The New City Home: Smart Design for Metro Living Best Price: $6.94 Need some ideas for your loft apartment? This book is full of great decorating plans you can...	Collaborative Public Management: New Strategies for Local Governments (American Governance and Public Policy) Best Price: $24.25	Lost Chicago Best Price: $11.99 This superb collection shows now-gone buildings and architectural treasures of our beloved...

What Is a City?: Rethinking the Urban after Hurricane Katrina Best Price: $16.95 The devastation brought upon New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent levee system...	Camden After the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City (Politics and Culture in Modern America) Best Price: $18.95 What prevents cities whose economies have been devastated by the flight of human and monetary...	With People in Mind: Design And Management Of Everyday Nature Best Price: $27.20 Some parks, preserves, and other natural areas serve people well; others are disappointing....	Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence Best Price: $38.25 This book presents a right track of understanding and solving the problems of today cities.	Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960 (Historical Studies of Urban America) Best Price: $17.07 Excellent review of how the Chicago Housing Authority, despite good intentions, ended up not...

A Field Guide to Sprawl Best Price: $11.82 The numerous color aerial photos in this book do a wonderful job of putting US development...	Classic Readings In Urban Planning Best Price: $43.69 This text contains many important writings on planning theory. However, the book contains so...	Community By Design: New Urbanism for Suburbs and Small Communities Best Price: $27.00 I like this book because it suggests ways to make our communities better. I really like books...	Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition Best Price: $16.95 Poorly written "shot" at large projects based on weak analysis and "leaps in...	Health and Community Design: The Impact Of The Built Environment On Physical Activity Best Price: $27.00 This is a very well written and presented book about the physical elements of our community...

Big Ideas in Collaborative Public Management Best Price: $64.76	A Better Way to Zone: Ten Principles to Create More Livable Cities Best Price: $26.52 Nearly all large American cities rely on zoning to regulate land use. According to Donald L....	A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds Best Price: $8.94 I bought this book, along with the poetry collection, No Nature, to gain an insight into the...	The Geography Of Opportunity: Race And Housing Choice In Metropolitan America (James A. Johnson Metro Series) Best Price: $19.84 Many Americans think of their country as a welcoming ?nation of immigrants,? yet our communities...	New York 2000: Architecture and Urbanism from the Bicentennial to the Millennium (New York) Best Price: $62.97 NewYork as I know and love it.This is an exceptional book,it explains why the city is like it...

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