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Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era (Historical Studies of Urban America) by Gail Radford Publisher Comments In an era when many decry the failures of federal housing programs, this book introduces us to appealing but largely forgotten alternatives that existed when federal policies were first defined in the New Deal. Led by Catherine Bauer, supporters of the... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States by Kenneth Jackson Publisher Comments This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how "the good life" in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier (11 Edition) by Edward L. Glaeser Publisher Comments A pioneering urban economist offers fascinating, even inspiring proof that the city is humanity's greatest invention and our best hope for the future. America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the 3 percent of land that contains our... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs Staff Pick Ever wonder why we have suburbs? Or why we wanted them in the first place? What about the lovely ideal of the Parisian street lined with cafes and shops? Why don't we have more of those? Or would we want them at all? Then read this! If you live in, near,... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Great Streets (93 Edition) by Allan B. Jacobs Publisher Comments Which are the world's best streets, and what are the physical, designable characteristics that make them great? To answer these questions, Allan Jacobs has surveyed street users and design professionals and has studied a wide array of street types and... (read more) List Price $46.95 Your price: $22.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Rethinking a Lot: The Design and Culture of Parking by Eran Ben-joseph Publisher Comments There are an estimated 600,000,000 passenger cars in the world, and that number is increasing every day. So too is Earth's supply of parking spaces. In some cities, parking lots cover more than one-third of the metropolitan footprint. It's official: we... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Sustainable Urbanism and Beyond: Rethinking Cities for the Future by Tigran Haas Publisher Comments The city in the twenty-first century faces major challenges, including social and economic stratification, wasteful consumption of resources, transportation congestion, and environmental degradation. More than half of the world’s population lives... (read more) Your price: $75.00 New - Hardcover
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Manhattan Unfurled by Matteo Pericoli and Paul Goldberger Publisher Comments Matteo Pericoli trained as an architect in Milan and then came to work in New York in 1995. His arrival preceded by just a few days the arrival of the biggest snowstorm of the decade, and the sense of the city in its wake–especially its silence... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Planning for Tall Buildings by Michael Short Publisher Comments In a time of recession, the challenge of building and planning for tall buildings has become even more complex; the economics of development, legislative and planning frameworks, and the local politics of development must be navigated by those wishing to... (read more) Your price: $53.95 New - Trade Paper
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Old Brooklyn in Early Photographs, 1865" 1929 by William L Younger Publisher Comments 157 photographs, many never before reprinted, show the vitality and variety of old Brooklyn, Manhattan's first suburb: waterfront, Brooklyn Bridge, Fulton Street, Brooklyn Heights, Ebbets Field, Luna Park, Gravesend Race Track, Sheepshead Bay, Manhattan... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History by Spiro Kostof Publisher Comments Spanning the ages and the globe, Spiro Kostof explores the city as a "repository of cultural meaning" and an embodiment of the community it shelters. Widely used by both architects and students of architecture, The City Shaped won the AIA's prestigious... (read more) Your price: $40.00 New - Trade Paper
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Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States by Kenneth T. Jackson Publisher Comments Traces the development of American suburbs, suggests reasons for their growth, compares American residential patterns with those of Europe and Japan, and looks at future... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $16.60 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in The... by Peter Hall Publisher Comments Cities of Tomorrow is a critical history of planning in theory and practice in the twentieth century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Trenchant, perceptive, global in coverage, this book is an... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Global City Blues by Daniel Solomon Publisher Comments In Global City Blues, renowned architect Daniel Solomon presents a perceptive overview and insightful assessment of how the power and seductiveness of modernist ideals led us astray. As an alternative, Solomon discusses how architecture and cities can... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Design of Cities: Revised Edition (Penguin Books) by Edmund N Bacon Publisher Comments "The major contemporary work on urban design . . . Splendidly presented, filled with thoughtful and brilliant intuitive insights." —The New Republic In a brilliant synthesis of words and pictures, Edmund N. Bacon relates historical examples to... (read more) List Price $48.00 Your price: $22.00 Used - Trade Paper
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San Francisco Then and Now (Then & Now) by Bill Yenne Publisher Comments The natives call it simply "the City." This is the story of the changing faceof San Francisco, and how it has become one of the most picturesque cities inthe world. Seventy modern color photographs are compared side-by-side with 70archival photographs... (read more) List Price $17.98 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis Publisher Comments To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To its detractors, it is "The Big Nowhere." No one has better captured L.A.'s bizarre role as both utopia and dystopia than Davis, the author of this mordantly elegant and wide-ranging work... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Smart Growth Manual by Andres Duany Publisher Comments Everyone is calling for smart growth...but what exactly is it? In The Smart Growth Manual, two leading city planners provide a thorough answer. From the expanse of the metropolis to the detail of the window box, they address the pressing challenges of... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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City Life by Witold Rybczynski Publisher Comments In this sweeping cultural history, the author of Home and The Most Beautiful House in the World traces the development of American cities and city life from the early colonial settlements to the new downtowns of skyscrapers and high-rise apartment... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Vertical Village: Individual, Informal, Intense by Jennifer Sigler Publisher Comments Addressing East Asia's rapid urban transformation, The Vertical Village looks at radical alternatives to the familiar standardized block architecture that has eradicated low-rise, lighter varieties of architecture, such as the Hutong in Beijing, Tokyo's... (read more) Your price: $45.00 New - Trade Paper
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