Urban Planning & Development Books


An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature Best Price: $13.91 Colten wrote this book in 2004. Or perhaps even earlier. Now, in October 2005, going through its...	The Transit Metropolis: A Global Inquiry Best Price: $49.50 This book is insightful in detailing the relationship between land use and transit services --...	The Community Economic Development Movement: Law, Business, and the New Social Policy Best Price: $19.77 I purchased this book because I am new to the field. I wanted an academic explanation. ...	Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis Best Price: $44.49 From the variety of other authors who cite this work, I expected something quite different, more...	The Restless Urban Landscape Best Price: $40.59 This advanced reference deals with the radical changes that have occurred within cities since...



Local Code:: The Constitution of a City at 42 degrees North Latitude Best Price: $5.98	New Geographies of the American West: Land Use and the Changing Patterns of Place (Orton Family Foundation Innovation in Place Series) Best Price: $19.72 In 1971 Oregon's likable curmudgeon Governor, Tom McCall, gained national notoriety when he...	Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination Best Price: $16.99 I absolutely enjoyed going through this book, I was so encaptured by Berelowitz's understanding...	Pamphlet Architecture 12: Building; Machines (Pamphlet Architecture) Best Price: $8.15 Wow! A professor brought this book to class and I had to have it! Featured are early works by...	The Setting of the Pearl: Vienna under Hitler Best Price: $3.32 The author uses a lot of words to describe something that could be said in much fewer words. He...



Park Guell: Gaudi's Utopia Best Price: $13.56 This work discloses the mysteries of the park and shows us Gaud? and G?ell -- daring, eclectic,...	Urban Issues Best Price: $22.95 Are rescue personnel prepared to respond to the next natural disaster? Can managed growth...	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...	The Metropolitan Chase: Politics and Policies in Urban America Best Price: $84.97 Unique in perspective, this handbook focuses on the core aspects of metropolitanism--giving...	Cities And the Health of the Public Best Price: $34.95 "Cities and the Health of the Public" provides an excellent overview of urban health...

House by House, Block by Block: The Rebirth of America's Urban Neighborhoods Best Price: $6.98 House by House, Block by Block tells the stories of how urban neighborhood revitalization...	Fundamentals of Economic Development Finance Best Price: $61.00 Public sector orientations to planning, community and social development, or local economic...	Topophilia and Topophobia: Reflections on 20th Century Human Habitat Best Price: $48.03	Temporary Urban Spaces: Concepts for the Use of City Spaces Best Price: $4.74 For some time now, a new approach has been emerging to questions of town planning and the use of...	History of Architectural Theory Best Price: $17.99 Though outdated in significant ways -- with the entire second half essentially eclipsed by Harry...

Applied Anthropology: An Introduction Third Edition Best Price: $35.00 Applied Anthropology: An Introduction (3rd edition) is a text focused on the use of the methods...	Networked Cultures Best Price: $31.39 Based at Goldsmiths, University of London, Networked Cultures is a collaborative venture between...	Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America Best Price: $10.00 Bruce Babbitt continues to labor under the self deception that he know best in determining the...	Josep Lluis Sert: The Architect of Urban Design, 1953-1969 (Harvard University Graduate School of Design) Best Price: $29.40 This book examines the emergence and evolution of the discipline of urban design as articulated...	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...

Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World Best Price: $17.00	People Places: Design Guidlines for Urban Open Space, 2nd Edition Best Price: $64.99 The book is excellent, but the extra $15 I paid to view the book online before it arrived was...	L A Lost & Found: An Architectural History of Los Angeles (California Architecture and Architects) Best Price: $16.58 L A Lost & Found was a very good resource for the "history" of how the City of...	Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision Best Price: $22.95 If you've come to suspect that most of the world's problems--pollution, warfare, crime,...	Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for Social and Policy St) Best Price: $80.00 Scott's work is a meticulously-detailed analysis of the blinding effects of big-picture...

The University As Urban Developer: Case Studies And Analysis (Cities and Contemporary Society) Best Price: $30.60	Landscape Design: Promenades Best Price: $28.96 In ancient times, every town had a promenade, an open public space for people to see and be...	Baumschlager & Eberle: Hous-ing Best Price: $25.43 Baumschlager & Eberle gelten als "shooting stars" der Vorarlberger...	Designing Healthy Cities: Prescriptions, Principles, and Practice Best Price: $29.05 Designing Healthy Cities is a welcome addition to the literature on how good planning can...	Putting Faith in Neighborhoods: Making Cities Work through Grassroots Citizenship Best Price: $19.95 An excellent book for those interested in helping their communities. I would suggest that every...

Rapid 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...	Urban Spaces, Vol. 3 Best Price: $14.47 I'm an Architect. This whole series of books have been great. Very good reference material for...	GANGS IN THE GLOBAL CITY: Alternatives to Traditional Criminology Best Price: $19.47 Although they were originally considered an American phenomenon, gangs today have grown and...	The Code of the City: Standards and the Hidden Language of Place Making (Urban and Industrial Environments) Best Price: $17.83 Standards and codes dictate virtually all aspects of urban development. The same standards for...	Desert America: Territory of Paradox Best Price: $15.97 Most residents of the southwest are well-aware that the desert is hardly 'deserted'. It is, in...

Community Development in Perspective	Pamphlet Architecture 26: Thirteen Projects for the Sheridan Expressway Best Price: $8.13 Conceived as a set of "Flexible Standards," this new addition to the Pamphlet...	The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of America's Big Cities Best Price: $6.98 There is really not a lot that is contentious about the central argument in THE FUTURE ONCE...	Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity (Urban and Industrial Environments) Best Price: $15.65 The smart growth movement aims to combat urban and suburban sprawl by promoting livable...	Urban Design Reader Best Price: $37.17 Essential reading for students and practitioners of urban design, this collection of essays...

Responsive Environments Best Price: $44.44 Clearly demonstrates the specific characteristics that make for comprehensible, friendly and...	Married to the Mouse: Walt Disney World and Orlando Best Price: $13.14 I bought this book a number of months ago and really enjoyed reading it. Although the person...	In the Metro Best Price: $11.76 Tourists climb the Eiffel Tower to see Paris. Parisians know that to really see the city you...	Pullman: An Experiment in Industrial Order and Community Planning, 1880-1930 (The Urban Life in America) Best Price: $15.49 This brilliantly researched and presented study by Buder objectively analyzes the impact that...	Growing Industrial Clusters in Asia: Serendipity and Science (Directions in Development) (Directions in Development) Best Price: $23.95 Industrial clusters in Silicon Valley, Hsinchu Park, and northern Italy, and in the vicinity of...

Street Smart: Competition, Entrepreneurship, and the Future of Roads Best Price: $13.99 This book contains some essays that are very helpful for privatization advocates. In particular,...	How Maps Work: Representation, Visualization, and Design Best Price: $37.80 A book of such depth and with so much information packed into such little space deserves no less...	Downtown, Inc.: How America Rebuilds Cities Best Price: $22.87 Here we have a very interesting investigation about the stories of the american cities and...	Cities Without Cities: Between Place and World, Space and Time, Town and Country Best Price: $44.07 This book investigates the characteristics of today's built environment: no longer simply a city...	Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier Best Price: $22.50 Although an interesting subject matter, the author does an amazing job using the narrative of...

What Planners Do: Power, Politics and Persuasion Best Price: $32.00	People First: A Guide to Self-Reliant Participatory Rural Development Best Price: $26.95 Conscious of the frequent co-option of the idea of participation by official development...	Negotiate My Boundary! Best Price: $28.00 Changing social structures and systems call for new forms of architecture. This book by the...

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