Urban Planning & Development Books


Los Angeles and the Automobile: The Making of the Modern City Best Price: $6.97 OK, I have to issue a full disclosure here; the author is my brother. But that said Scott has...	The University As Urban Developer: Case Studies And Analysis (Cities and Contemporary Society) Best Price: $30.60	An Introduction to Coastal Zone Management Best Price: $34.97 Now in a second edition with updated statistics, references to legislation, discussions, and new...	Rebuilding America: A Prescription for Creating Strong Families, Building the Wealth of Working People, and Ending Welfare Best Price: $4.00 It's refreshing to read a book by a politician that is based on strong research and historical...	A Right to Housing: Foundation for a New Social Agenda Best Price: $33.00 A comprehensive resource on a what is one of the most important issues of our generation.



City Economics Best Price: $41.99 This is an interesting book that covers all the main topics of an Urban Economics course. The...	Urban American in the Modern Age: 1920 to the Present (American History Series) Best Price: $18.94 The 1920s marked the true beginning of the urban age in American history. The decade brought new...	Coastal Zone Management Handbook Best Price: $116.96 This handbook comprises the first complete manual on coastal resource planning and management...	Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities Best Price: $24.97 This books describes the history and evolution of residential streets in the US and Britain. It...	The Vancouver Achievement: Urban Planning and Design Best Price: $39.00 This book examines the development of Vancouver's unique approach to zoning, planning, and urban...



Housing As If People Mattered: Site Design Guidelines for the Planning of Medium-Density Family Housing (California Series in Urban Development) Best Price: $25.95 It seems that a great number of architecture books of this type exist solely to promote the...	Urban Ecology: An International Perspective on the Interaction Between Humans and Nature Best Price: $55.96 Urban Ecology is a rapidly growing field of academic and practical significance. Urban...	A City Year: On the Streets and in the Neighborhoods with Twelve Young Community Service Volunteers Best Price: $16.00 I read this book about three years ago and I can honestly say that it helped me to realize that...	Financing and Acquiring Park and Recreation Resources Best Price: $45.00 This book is much improved over the old Howard/Crompton or Deppe texts. It is very apparent to...	The Social Logic of Space Best Price: $43.16 This book is a seminal work in the social science study of the use of space and architecture. ...

Tax Increment Financing and Economic Development: Uses, Structures, and Impact (Suny Series in Public Administration) Best Price: $26.94 I found this to be the most comprehensive review of Tax Increment Financing that is currently...	Land-Use and Land-Cover Change: Local Processes and Global Impacts (Global Change - The IGBP Series) Best Price: $77.28 The book presents recent estimates of the rates in changes of major land classes such as forest,...	Five Flights Up and Other New York Apartment Stories Best Price: $8.67 There is nothing like this book: how responsible people with real budgets live in the tiniest...	Urban Design Reader Best Price: $37.17 Essential reading for students and practitioners of urban design, this collection of essays...	Developing Around Transit: Strategies And Solutions That Work Best Price: $56.21 For communities wrestling with growth and sprawl, traffic headaches, and low transit ridership,...

Developing Around Transit: Strategies And Solutions That Work Best Price: $56.21 For communities wrestling with growth and sprawl, traffic headaches, and low transit ridership,...	Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive Best Price: $18.45 Cities function unintelligently when their parts are disconnected. The integral city meshes or...	Privately Owned Public Space : The New York City Experience Best Price: $58.22 This book is divided into two parts. Part One (about 20% of the book) describes the history,...	Community Economic Development Handbook: Strategies and Tools to Revitalize Your Neighborhood Best Price: $23.60 The step-by-step guide to turning any neighborhood around. A weak local economy can be...	Methods for Community Participation: A Complete Guide for Practitioners Best Price: $28.00 This book combines the concept, practice and application of participatory rural appraisal (PRA)...

Space Fighter Best Price: $23.05 An exploration of the Evolutionary City by simulating the challenges of urban growth, decline,...	Making a Place for Community: Local Democracy in a Global Era Best Price: $18.95 This is a wonderful book that traces out the organic, deep connection between local democracy...	OASE No. 71: Urban Formation and Collective Spaces (Oase) Best Price: $15.66 The Spanish architect Manuel de Sola-Morales once suggested in the pages of OASE that the civic...	Wasting Away - An Exploration of Waste: What It Is, How It Happens, Why We Fear It, How To Do It Well	The J. C. Nichols Chronicle: The Authorized Story of the Man and His Company, 1880-1994 Best Price: $25.00 City planner, developer, community builder, and realtor, Kansas Citian Jesse Clyde Nichols...

American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto Best Price: $55.00 Sudhir Venkatesh's 'American Project' has certain strengths. For one thing, it gives an...	Urban Planning for Latin America: The Challenge of Metropolitan Growth (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy) Best Price: $26.25	Beer and Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880-1914 Best Price: $36.58 Understanding an infamous political movement's grounding in festivity and defiance Beer and...	L'Enfant's Legacy: Public Open Spaces in Washington, D.C. (Creating the North American Landscape) Best Price: $40.47 Many American democratic ideals are embodied in the public spaces of its cities, especially in...	War on the Dream: How Anti-Sprawl Policy Threatens the Quality of Life Best Price: $12.64 Cuts through all the BS surrounding new-urbanism and looks at the hard facts concerning...

The Birth of City Planning in the United States, 1840--1917 (Creating the North American Landscape) Best Price: $37.28 This long-awaited book by Jon A. Peterson presents a sweeping narrative history of the origins...	Community Participation Methods in Design and Planning Best Price: $43.89 The only how-to guide to community design written from the design professional's perspective. ...	City Form and Natural Process: Towards a New Urban Vernacular	Globalization & the City Best Price: $48.90 I came into contact with this book in a graduate level class "Globalization of World...	Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary Best Price: $16.12 Excellent exploration of the impact of the ideas of a remarkable woman on city planning. A very...

How Green Is Your City? The SustainLane U.S. City Rankings Best Price: $11.99 Numerous efforts have been made over the years to measure a city's performance in achieving...	Manufacturing Plant Layout: Fundamentals and Fine Points of Optimum Facility Design Best Price: $69.00 A step-by-step guide to planning new factories and plant rearrangements, this book describes...	America's New Downtowns: Revitalization or Reinvention? (Creating the North American Landscape) Best Price: $29.65 What makes a good downtown, and why? Are today's downtowns, with their waterfront parks,...	Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival Best Price: $6.80 Paul Grogan and Tony Proscio may be on to something - a completely new urban dynamic that has...	The Going to Green Curriculum: A Standards-Based, Environmental Education Component to the PBS Documentary Series, Edens Lost & Found, for Grades 9 - Best Price: $1.00

Architecture, Power and National Identity Best Price: $44.95 The first editionof Architecture, Power, and National Identity , published in 1992, has become...	Planning to Stay: Learning to See the Physical Features of Your Neighborhood Best Price: $11.91 Planning to Stay offers a practical guide for members of a community to assess the place they...	Capital Losses: A Cultural History of Washington's Destroyed Buildings Best Price: $16.99 I was given a copy of this book for my birthday several years ago and spent hours pouring over...	Preserving And Enhancing Communities: A Guide for Citizens, Planners, And Policymakers Best Price: $29.95 This book starts from the premise that each community chooses its future every day, through the...	Forever Open, Clear, and Free: The Struggle for Chicago's Lakefront Best Price: $16.12 Here is the story the subtitle suggests: Chicagoans gradually realized that the lands fronting...

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...	Urban Rail Transit: Its Economics and Technology	Planning the Good Community: New Urbanisms in Theory and Practice (The Rtpi Library Series) Best Price: $27.23 People either love new urbanism or hate it. Some find compact new neighborhoods of brownstone...	Positive Impact Forestry: A Sustainable Approach To Managing Woodlands Best Price: $24.50 McEvoy (Sen. Jeffords only wrote the foreward) presents an excellent introduction to the topic...	The City Builders: Property Development in New York and London, 1980-2000 (Studies in Government and Public Policy) Best Price: $15.75 In the last twenty years, urban centers worldwide have experienced enormous booms and busts as...

Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York City's World Trade Center Best Price: $0.01 The publication arrived in the within a week. It was well wrapped and the book was new as...	Environmental Impact Assessment: A Practical Guide Best Price: $48.00 While not a cookbook, this is definitely a "how-to" book by a woman who's forgotten...	Structures of Memory: Understanding Urban Change in Berlin and Beyond (Cultural Memory in the Present) Best Price: $20.51 Structures Of Memory: Understanding Urban Change In Berlin And Beyond by Jennifer A. Jordan...	The Levittowners Best Price: $32.00	Convivial Urban Spaces: Creating Successful Public Space in the Urban Environment Best Price: $64.60 Despite developments in urban design during the last few decades, architects, urban planners and...

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