Urban Planning & Development Books


Ecosystem Planning in FloridaEcosystem Planning in Florida
Best Price: $92.28
Architecture: Choice or Fate: Travel Size SeriesArchitecture: Choice or Fate: Travel Size Series
Best Price: $15.75
Leon Krier is one the two or three greatest architects and urbanists of our time. In this book,...
Ghetto Schooling: A Political Economy of Urban Educational ReformGhetto Schooling: A Political Economy of Urban Educational Reform
Best Price: $4.50
Ghetto schooling touches on the failure of inner city schools but especially the failure of the...
Land Development Calculations: Interactive Tools and Techniques for Site Planning, Analysis and DesignLand Development Calculations: Interactive Tools and Techniques for Site Planning, Analysis and Design
Best Price: $89.60
A bit dissapointed that there was very little targeted toward Retail, specifically lacking in...
Introduction to Planning History in the United StatesIntroduction to Planning History in the United States
Best Price: $17.95


Civilizing American Cities: Writings On City LandscapesCivilizing American Cities: Writings On City Landscapes
Best Price: $10.40
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903) designed New York City's Central Park, Brooklyn's...
L A Lost & Found: An Architectural History of Los Angeles (California Architecture and Architects)L A Lost & Found: An Architectural History of Los Angeles (California Architecture and Architects)
Best Price: $26.59
L A Lost & Found was a very good resource for the "history" of how the City of...
The Contested CityThe Contested City
Best Price: $11.59
Promoting Community Change: Making It Happen In the Real WorldPromoting Community Change: Making It Happen In the Real World
Best Price: $88.54
Mark Homan is my teacher so I'm a little biased. His book is very straight-forward, easy to...
Rapid Descent: Deregulation and the Shakeout in the AirlinesRapid Descent: Deregulation and the Shakeout in the Airlines
Best Price: $23.98
This is a nice view of what happened when Kennedy, Kahn, and Carter deregulated the airline...


Texas Politics: Individuals Making a DifferenceTexas Politics: Individuals Making a Difference
Best Price: $2.99
This text presents a thematic approach with abundant pedagogy to help students learn the...
Smart Land-Use Analysis: The LUCIS ModelSmart Land-Use Analysis: The LUCIS Model
Best Price: $30.80
An indespensable guide for land-use planners, analysts, and students, this new book provides the...
Waiting for Gautreaux: A Story of Segregation, Housing, and the Black GhettoWaiting for Gautreaux: A Story of Segregation, Housing, and the Black Ghetto
Best Price: $14.79
This book is excellent portrayal of the events around the saga that was the Gautreaux case. Not...
Design First: Design-based Planning for CommunitiesDesign First: Design-based Planning for Communities
Best Price: $48.47
I really hard to read this book, and also it very hard to get some technique to design a real...
New Orleans: The Making of an Urban LandscapeNew Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape
Best Price: $19.50
New Orleans is an "inevitable city on an impossible site" is what Pierce Lewis said...

The Beginner's Guide to Nation-BuildingThe Beginner's Guide to Nation-Building
Best Price: $19.24
This guidebook is designed as a contribution to future nation-building efforts. It is organized...
Ethical Land Use: Principles of Policy and PlanningEthical Land Use: Principles of Policy and Planning
Best Price: $25.00
Community Participation Methods in Design and PlanningCommunity 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. ...
Capital Losses: A Cultural History of Washington's Destroyed BuildingsCapital Losses: A Cultural History of Washington's Destroyed Buildings
Best Price: $24.99
I was given a copy of this book for my birthday several years ago and spent hours pouring over...
Rules of the Game: Lessons from the Field of Community ChangeRules of the Game: Lessons from the Field of Community Change
Best Price: $23.97
Concise, empowering, and inspirational, this guidebook offers practical wisdom and 135...

Good City FormGood City Form
Best Price: $31.92
As one who straddles the two worlds of practice and scholarship with great ease and comfort, I...
Building the Workingmans Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns (A Haymarket Title)Building the Workingmans Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns (A Haymarket Title)
Best Price: $19.80
It Was An easy to read book
What Planners Do: Power, Politics and PersuasionWhat Planners Do: Power, Politics and Persuasion
Best Price: $184.34
A Guide to Careers in Community DevelopmentA Guide to Careers in Community Development
Best Price: $8.54
book came in a quick time and in good condition thanks and i would deal with them again
Zaha HadidZaha Hadid
Best Price: $26.95
A Good compilation of past, present and future projects, sketches and models. an eye candy of...

Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice: Institutions, Resources, and MobilizationWomen and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice: Institutions, Resources, and Mobilization
Best Price: $19.50
Seeking to catalyze innovative thinking and practice within the field of women and gender in...
A Guide for New PlannersA Guide for New PlannersBuilding A New Boston: Politics and Urban Renewal, 1950-1970Building A New Boston: Politics and Urban Renewal, 1950-1970
Best Price: $25.00
The current dean of Boston historians, Thomas O'Connor writes with a definite passion for his...
Urban Development: The Logic Of Making PlansUrban Development: The Logic Of Making Plans
Best Price: $22.75
With increased awareness of the role of plans in shaping urban and suburban landscapes has come...
In the MetroIn the Metro
Best Price: $11.25
Tourists climb the Eiffel Tower to see Paris. Parisians know that to really see the city you...

New Geographies of the American West: Land Use and the Changing Patterns of Place (Orton Family Foundation Innovation in Place Series)New Geographies of the American West: Land Use and the Changing Patterns of Place (Orton Family Foundation Innovation in Place Series)
Best Price: $22.82
In 1971 Oregon's likable curmudgeon Governor, Tom McCall, gained national notoriety when he...
Think Globally, Act Regionally: GIS and Data Visualization for Social Science and Public Policy ResearchThink Globally, Act Regionally: GIS and Data Visualization for Social Science and Public Policy Research
Best Price: $40.40
A book that exposes users to the more advanced raster GIS as well as provides practical know how...
An Introduction to Political Geography: Space, Place and PoliticsAn Introduction to Political Geography: Space, Place and Politics
Best Price: $44.50
This book outlines the full breadth of contemporary political geography, covering a rich and...
Constructing ChicagoConstructing Chicago
Best Price: $25.55
Few scholars can write with ease; and even fewer write without verbosity and pomposity. ...
Up from Zero: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New YorkUp from Zero: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York
Best Price: $7.99
Up From Zero should appeal to anyone interested in architecture, urban planning, real estate,...

New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of StatehoodNew State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood
Best Price: $28.58
It is hard to believe this book is the author's first. This book has the rigor and sweep of a...
It's a Sprawl World After All: The Human Cost of Unplanned Growth -- and Visions of a Better FutureIt's a Sprawl World After All: The Human Cost of Unplanned Growth -- and Visions of a Better Future
Best Price: $8.99
I own this book in the electronic format (Adobe Reader and DRM-locked) and finish my reading a...
Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape (Critical Perspectives on the Past)Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape (Critical Perspectives on the Past)
Best Price: $27.95
For generations, New Yorkers have joked about "The City's" interminable tearing down...
The Complete Guide to ZoningThe 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 Politics of Public SpaceThe Politics of Public Space
Best Price: $28.65
Public spaces are no longer democratic places where all people are embraced and tolerated, but...

Land-Use and Land-Cover Change: Local Processes and Global Impacts (Global Change - The IGBP Series)Land-Use and Land-Cover Change: Local Processes and Global Impacts (Global Change - The IGBP Series)
Best Price: $96.72
The book presents recent estimates of the rates in changes of major land classes such as forest,...
American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern GhettoAmerican Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto
Best Price: $39.95
Sudhir Venkatesh's 'American Project' has certain strengths. For one thing, it gives an...
Mussolini's Rome: Rebuilding the Eternal City (Italian & Italian American Studies)Mussolini's Rome: Rebuilding the Eternal City (Italian & Italian American Studies)
Best Price: $23.91
Rome. The Eternal City. Was there something in its water that Mussolini drank? Painter tells of...
Reasons for Hope: Instructive Experiences in Rural Development (Kumarian Press Books on International Development)Reasons for Hope: Instructive Experiences in Rural Development (Kumarian Press Books on International Development)
Best Price: $17.71
*Eighteen inspirational rural development success stories *Covers Africa, Asia, and Latin...
Grand Avenues: The Story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D.C. (Vintage)Grand Avenues: The Story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D.C. (Vintage)
Best Price: $5.89
i loved this book--i had the good fortune to find it in the national gallery bookstore while in...

Cosmopolis IICosmopolis II
Best Price: $49.94
Leonie Sandercock has produced a magnificently readable and cool 'sequel' to her 1990s offering...
Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We AreLawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are
Best Price: $19.98
For some people, their lawn is a source of pride, and for others, caring for their lawn is a...
Carfree CitiesCarfree Cities
Best Price: $16.15
There is no better time to consider the building of a car free city than now, and this is one of...
'scape: The International Magazine of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism (Scape)'scape: The International Magazine of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism (Scape)
Best Price: $12.07
This is a great journal for professionals, or the aspiring urban planners and landscape...
The New York Waterfront: Evolution and Building Culture of the Port and HarborThe New York Waterfront: Evolution and Building Culture of the Port and Harbor
Best Price: $7.90
I wandered around the Hudson River docks as a kid marveling at the liners and freighters that...

A Tax Guide to Conservation EasementsA Tax Guide to Conservation Easements
Best Price: $25.55
Voluntary land conservation, resulting from increasingly alluring tax benefits, has signifi...
From Welfare State to Real Estate: Regime Change in New York City, 1974 to the PresentFrom Welfare State to Real Estate: Regime Change in New York City, 1974 to the Present
Best Price: $16.49
City of Quartz meets Gotham —the dark side of the glittering metropolis. New York...
Democracy in Action: Community Organizing and Urban ChangeDemocracy in Action: Community Organizing and Urban Change
Best Price: $28.00
In cities across the United States, grassroots organizations are working to revitalize popular...
Regional Economic Development: Analysis and Planning StrategyRegional Economic Development: Analysis and Planning Strategy
Best Price: $61.60
The second edition of this book is completely reedited making the book even more valuable for...
Multifamily Housing Development Handbook (Development Handbook series)Multifamily Housing Development Handbook (Development Handbook series)
Best Price: $81.00
Illustrated in full color, this authoritative resource explains best practices, techniques, and...

On Risk and Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane KatrinaOn Risk and Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
Best Price: $23.50
Hurricane Katrina not only devastated a large area of the nation's Gulf coast, it also raised...
Finding Lost Space: Theories of Urban DesignFinding Lost Space: Theories of Urban Design
I like this book which I though is the best one to describe the urban situation.
Streets and the Shaping of Towns and CitiesStreets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities
Best Price: $22.50
This books describes the history and evolution of residential streets in the US and Britain. It...
  
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