Urban Planning & Development Books


Independent Cities: Rethinking U.S. Urban Policy Best Price: $34.95 Every fifteen minutes a child in an American city suffers a gunshot wound. Thirty million urban...	One Planet Many People: Atlas of our Changing Environment Best Price: $129.99 This book deserves to be in many libraries. It gives a very visual and understandable commentary...	Geographical Data Acquisition Best Price: $159.34 This book is dedicated to the theory and methodology of geographical data acquisition, providing...	Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability Best Price: $13.50 October 2000 "METROPOLITICS: A regional agenda for community and stability" (1997) by...	Le Corbusier Talks with Students Best Price: $8.67 First published in France in 1943 and translated for English-speaking readers in 1961, Le...



Village Homes: A Community By Design (Landscape Architecture Foundation Land and Community Design Case Study Series) Best Price: $24.97 The Village Homes neighborhood in Davis, California is one of the few long-standing examples of...	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...	Repairing the American Metropolis: Common Place Revisited (Samuel and Althea Stroum Books) (Samuel and Althea Stroum Books) Best Price: $22.70 Review by Tigran Hasic (Reproduced by permission from the Nordic Journal of Architectural...	Narratives of Nation Building in Korea: A Genealogy of Patriotism Best Price: $29.95 This book will appeal to anyone who is interested in cutting edge scholarship on the history of...	Great Planning Disasters (California Series in Urban Development ; 1) Best Price: $6.50 It is a great book. It tells the stories of several planning projects that turn out to be...



Sustainable Brownfield Regeneration: Liveable Places from Problem Spaces Best Price: $77.27 Sustainable Brownfield Regeneration presents a comprehensive account of UK policies, processes...	Design for Human Ecosystems: Landscape, Land Use, and Natural Resources Best Price: $36.13 John Lyle continues his seminal work presented in "Regenerative Design for Sustainable...	Front to Back: A design agenda for urban housing Best Price: $37.17 FRONT TO BACK sees urban housing as places to live rather than individual buildings. Using a...	Local and Regional Development Best Price: $43.78 Local and regional development is an increasingly global issue. For localities and regions, the...	Making the Invisible Visible: A Multicultural Planning History (California Studies in Critical Human Geography , No 2) Best Price: $14.99 The history of planning is much more, according to these authors, than the recorded progress of...

The Tourist City Best Price: $12.98	Holding Our Ground: Protecting America's Farms And Farmland Best Price: $34.97 Tom Daniels provides this concise yet detailed description of several land use based agriculture...	Community at Work: Creating and Celebrating Community in Organizational Life (The Hampton Press Communication Series) Best Price: $32.45	Six Bridges : The Legacy of Othmar H. Ammann Best Price: $33.63 During the first half of this century, American bridges became the largest and most beautiful...	Privileged Places: Race, Residence, And the Structure of Opportunity Best Price: $20.95

Community at Work: Creating and Celebrating Community in Organizational Life (The Hampton Press Communication Series) Best Price: $32.45	Six Bridges : The Legacy of Othmar H. Ammann Best Price: $33.63 During the first half of this century, American bridges became the largest and most beautiful...	Privileged Places: Race, Residence, And the Structure of Opportunity Best Price: $20.95	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...	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,...

Planning the Good Community: New Urbanisms in Theory and Practice (The Rtpi Library Series) Best Price: $37.23 People either love new urbanism or hate it. Some find compact new neighborhoods of brownstone...	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...	Telling Stories to Change the World (Teaching/Learning Social Justice) Best Price: $30.71 Telling Stories to Change the World is a powerful collection of essays about community-based and...	Cities and Natural Process: A Basis for Sustainability Best Price: $44.31 Cities and Natural Process is a discussion of the fundamental conflict in the perception of...	Developing Sustainable Planned Communities Best Price: $75.00 Get practical how-to information on designing and developing attractive, profitable, and...

Urban Planning and the African-American Community: In the Shadows Best Price: $58.55 This book shows how injustice has affected the black community. Each essay underscores the...	Invented Edens: Techno-Cities of the Twentieth Century (Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation) Best Price: $16.47 Industrialization created cities of Dickensian squalor that were crowded, smoky, dirty, and...	Chasing the American Dream: New Perspectives on Affordable Homeownership Best Price: $19.95 Providing decent, safe, and affordable housing to low- and moderate-income families has been an...	The Buildings of Charleston: A Guide to the City's Architecture Best Price: $25.33 Mr. Poston has done an excellent and exhaustive job with this book. To my knowledge it is the...	Urban Policy Reconsidered: Dialogues on the Problems and Prospects of American Cities Best Price: $39.93 In the past decade, America has experienced an urban renaissance. Cities as varied as New York,...

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,...	Celebration Best Price: $24.95 This is a great book full of beautiful photos of Celebration. Makes me want to pack up and move...	A Concise Guide to Community Planning Best Price: $29.89 Once an ad hoc, informal process, community planning has now become a demanding discipline that...	The New Urban Sociology Best Price: $88.00 This is the old (now very old) edition of the textbook. There is a new Third Edition published...	Concise Townscape Best Price: $27.56 Too concise. Had to get copies of pictures left out from previous copy. Dorothy Ramsay

Atlanta: Race, Class And Urban Expansion (Comparitive American Cities) Best Price: $20.38 Atlanta is a fantastic case study, its pro business stance, it's racial past and present, it...	Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, Volume Two: The Post-Steel Era (Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh) Best Price: $16.35 This volume traces the major decisions, events, programs, and personalities that transformed the...	The Public City: The Political Construction of Urban Life in San Francisco, 1850-1900 Best Price: $6.98 Philip J. Ethington challenges the assumptions of several decades of urban history that treat...	Sprawl and Suburbia: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader (Harvard Design Magazine) Best Price: $15.31 Sprawl is the single most significant and urgent issue in American land use at the turn of the...	Traffic Flow Fundamentals Best Price: $104.98 The title is no exaggeration: This book is the THE fundamental source of traffic flow theory. ...

Conservation Finance Handbook Best Price: $8.66 Between 1996 and 2002, the Trust for Public Land helped communities design and pass ballot...	Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism Best Price: $10.50 alas, this is not an outdated book. sf has only become more homogenized since its publication (a...	Managing Growth in America's Communities: Second Edition Best Price: $25.85 In this thoroughly revised edition of Managing Growth in America's Communities , readers will...	Community Planning: How to Solve Urban and Environmental Problems Best Price: $10.76 Community Planning is an introductory, interdisciplinary, planning textbook. This working text...	Habitus: A Sense of Place Best Price: $49.94

Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary Best Price: $16.06 Excellent exploration of the impact of the ideas of a remarkable woman on city planning. A very...	Research Methods in Urban and Regional Planning (Tsinghua University Texts) (Tsinghua University Texts) Best Price: $156.02 This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the fundamental methods related to planning and...	Urban Theory: A Critical Assessment Best Price: $23.71 This major new text provides a state of the art synthesis of the main strands of contemporary...	The New Exploration: A Philosophy of Regional Planning Best Price: $7.95 Reprint of a 1928 work by the originator of the Appalachian Trail and later a cofounder of The...	Josep Lluis Sert: The Architect of Urban Design, 1953-1969 (Harvard University Graduate School of Design) Best Price: $36.00 This book examines the emergence and evolution of the discipline of urban design as articulated...

Urban Regions: Ecology and Planning Beyond the City (Cambridge Studies in Landscape Ecology) Best Price: $47.75 With land planning, socioeconomics and natural systems as foundations, this book combines urban...	Global Decisions, Local Collisions: Urban Life in the New World Order Best Price: $19.90	Sustainability Impact Assessment of Land Use Changes Best Price: $179.07 The principle of multi-functionality simultaneously considers a variety of social, economic and...	Selling the Lower East Side: Culture, Real Estate, and Resistance in New York City Best Price: $20.25 I reccomend this book for anyone; New Yorker or not, who is interested in the current trends in...

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