Urban Planning & Development Books


Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges Best Price: $13.57 This book not only talks about the Yanze river and three gorges dam but it also gives a very...	Office Development Handbook (Development Handbook series) Best Price: $102.72 With practical information on how to plan, develop, and manage office buildings, this classic...	Ecovillage Living: Restoring the Earth and Her People Best Price: $18.21 Great introduction to eco-villages and what they are all about. Love the pictures.	Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America Best Price: $12.01 Bruce Babbitt continues to labor under the self deception that he know best in determining the...	Managing Geographic Information System Projects (Spatial Information Systems) Best Price: $30.00 Written by folks that know how to do it, this ranges from organizational issues to technical design



Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects Best Price: $21.95 The goal of this book, the first in a series, is to bring policymakers, practitioners, and...	Twentieth Century Pittsburgh Volume 1: Government, Business, and Environmental Change (Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh) Best Price: $25.11 Roy Lubove's Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh is a pioneering analysis of elite driven, post-World...	City Making: Building Communities without Building Walls Best Price: $23.90 American metropolitan areas today are divided into neighborhoods of privilege and poverty, often...	The Levittowners Best Price: $32.00	The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century Best Price: $24.50 Although I don't like living in big cities I am fascinated with them. The City: Los Angeles and...



The Architecture of Paris Best Price: $23.22 This is above and beyond any guide book i have seen. The Michelin Green Guide, Paris, has good...	Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America Best Price: $15.26 It's a daunting, harrowing, yet strangely compelling photographic helicopter ride through the...	Sense of the City: An Alternate Approach to Urbanism Best Price: $37.80 Challenging the dominance of the visual in the urban environment, the exhibition catalogue ...	The Landscape of Modernity: New York City, 1900-1940 Best Price: $13.60 New York City stands as the first expression of the modern city, a mosaic of disparate...	Ethnic Peace in the American City : Building Community in Los Angeles and Beyond Best Price: $10.40 The book is of interest to those who study racial and ethnic conflict in society. Its strength...

The Politics of Place: A History of Zoning in Chicago (Illinois) (Illinois) Best Price: $12.94 Reviewed by Kathleen Dowdell for Reader Views (6/06) For people who love the city of Chicago...	Organizing for Social Change: A Dialectic Journey of Theory and Praxis Best Price: $26.36 Conventionally, analysts of social change perceive organizational initiatives in binary terms:...	Planning for Diversity: Redistribution, Recognition and Encounter (Planning, Environment, Cities) Best Price: $33.62 Planning theory and practice has engaged increasingly in recognising the diverse needs of social...	Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision Best Price: $20.65 If you've come to suspect that most of the world's problems--pollution, warfare, crime,...	The Urban Pattern, 6th Edition Best Price: $65.98 I read this book during my urban planning project in school, and it's very useful for urban...

Cooperation Works!: How People Are Using Cooperative Action to Rebuild Communities and Revitalize the Economy Best Price: $14.49 Fifty case studies of new types of cooperatives, from healthcare, camping gear, trailer courts,...	Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back Best Price: $10.00 Let me first say that I completely agree with Kay's main point: Our car culture has huge costs,...	Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization Best Price: $16.90 Deindustrialization is not simply an economic process, but a social and cultural one as well....	Growth Management: Principles and Practices	Community Power Structure: A Study of Decision Makers Best Price: $13.22 In this study of busy, complex Regional Cityand it is a real citythe author...

Reinventing Order in the Congo: How People Respond to State Failure in Kinshasa Best Price: $29.39 This is a sociological study of the people living in Kinshasa, Zaire. You will enter another...	Richmond's Monument Avenue Best Price: $32.27 lots of old pictures of Monument Ave. If you have ever visiting this area, you need this book.	Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order (Studies in Urban and Social Change) Best Price: $33.79 This exciting collection of original essays provides students and professionals with an...	Creating Sustainable Cities (Schumacher Briefing, No. 2.) Best Price: $7.74	Temporary Urban Spaces: Concepts for the Use of City Spaces Best Price: $11.93 For some time now, a new approach has been emerging to questions of town planning and the use of...

Chicago Metropolis 2020: The Chicago Plan for the Twenty-First Century Best Price: $26.78 In the late nineteenth century, Chicago was a commercial colossus, a city growing more quickly...	Yard, Street, Park: The Design of Suburban Open Space (Wiley Professional) Best Price: $61.83 An insightful analysis of the history of suburban development . . .and an exciting new approach...	Community Organizing: Building Social Capital as a Development Strategy Best Price: $52.18 Community Organizing provides new insight into an important national challenge how to stimulate...	Responsive Environments Best Price: $44.44 Clearly demonstrates the specific characteristics that make for comprehensible, friendly and...	Cities Without Cities: Between Place and World, Space and Time, Town and Country Best Price: $43.89 This book investigates the characteristics of today's built environment: no longer simply a city...

An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature Best Price: $11.65 Colten wrote this book in 2004. Or perhaps even earlier. Now, in October 2005, going through its...	Rethinking Urban Parks: Public Space and Cultural Diversity Best Price: $20.64 Urban parks provide important public spaces which invite different groups to meet and relax,...	People And the Competitive Advantage of Place: Building a Workplace for the 21st Century (Cities and Contemporary Society) Best Price: $31.41	Municipal Benchmarks: Assessing Local Performance and Establishing Community Service Standards Best Price: $96.97 The new edition of this practical reference book gives municipal officials and citizens the...	Cities Ranked and Rated: More than 400 Metropolitan Areas Evaluated in the U.S. and Canada, 1st Edition Best Price: $0.49 I've been looking for a place to settle down for a few years now and it's much easier to read a...

A Better Place to Live: New Designs for Tomorrow's Communities	Eco-Urbanism: Sustainable Human Settlements, 60 Case Studies (Arquitectura Y Diseno + Ecologia) Best Price: $87.75 Ecourbanism. Sustainable Human Settlements: 60 case studies Miguel Ruano 192 pp 30 x 23...	Hand in hand: Community and economic development in Tupelo : a case study Best Price: $15.00 It would be easy, contemplating the riveting story of Tupelo's growth since 1940, to imagine...	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,...	Affordable Housing: Designing an American Asset Best Price: $18.16 Now you can make the case for affordable housing and demonstrate that low-cost housing need not...

Vernacular Architecture in the 21st Century: Theory, Education and Practice Best Price: $46.24 The issues surrounding the function and meaning of vernacular architecture in the 21st century...	Up Against the Sprawl: Public Policy and the Making of Southern California Best Price: $25.00 The title says it all. Southern CA can't even plan for the EXISTING population and predicted...	The Art of Rebellion 2: World of Urban Art Activism Best Price: $25.96 it is a great book to check what is going on in the street	Empowerment: The Politics of Alternative Development Best Price: $29.07 This book provides an astute account of alternative approaches to city politics other than the...	Empowerment: The Politics of Alternative Development Best Price: $29.07 This book provides an astute account of alternative approaches to city politics other than the...

The Architecture of Entertainment: LA in the Twenties Best Price: $5.91 The difference about Los Angeles in the 1920's was money. New money for people who previously...	From Tenements to the Taylor Homes: In Search of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth-Century America Best Price: $19.23	The Mom Factor: What Really Drives Where We Shop, Eat, and Play Best Price: $7.45 When I first looked at the cover of this book, my first reaction was to think, "I bet...	The North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950 (Studies of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University) Best Price: $15.45 When the history of North Korea is discussed, the focus is usually on the division of the...	Demographic Methods and Concepts Best Price: $39.16 Demographic Methods and Concepts presents the methods most commonly needed to work with...

Taming the Disorderly City: The Spatial Landscape of Johannesburg After Apartheid Best Price: $19.95 In postapartheid Johannesburg, tensions of race and class manifest themselves starkly in...	Modern Arcadia: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and the Plan for Forest Hills Gardens Best Price: $24.95 I happend to bump into the book by accident. I was doing research into Edward Bouton, creator...	Better Places, Better Lives: A Biography of James Rouse Best Price: $21.85 A visionary developer and master planner, James Rouse was a key figure in the story of how and...	Urban Design: Street and Square, Third Edition Best Price: $40.92 This book is basically a huge summary of all the Urban Design books writen in the past 100...

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