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Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution by David Harvey Publisher Comments Long before the Occupy movement, modern cities had already become the central sites of revolutionary politics, where the deeper currents of social and political change rise to the surface. Consequently, cities have been the subject of much utopian... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover 
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The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream by Christop Leinberger Publisher Comments Americans are voting with their feet to abandon strip malls and suburban sprawl, embracing instead a new type of community where they can live, work, shop, and play within easy walking distance. In The Option of Urbanism visionary developer and... (read more) List Price $30.75 Your price: $25.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life by Richard Florida Publisher Comments The Rise of the Creative Class gives a provocative new way to think about why people live as they do today — and where they might be headed. Weaving storytelling with masses of new and updated research, Florida traces the growing role of creativity... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest (Metropolitan Portraits) by Carl Abbott Synopsis Carl Abbott reports how Portland became a model of American urban planning. "A panoramic portrait."--Carl Abbott reports how Portland became a model of American urban planning. "A panoramic portrait."--... (read more) List Price $31.75 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Community and the Politics of Place by Daniel Kemmis Publisher Comments Thomas Jefferson envisioned a nation of citizens deeply involved in public life. Today Americans are lamenting the erosion of his ideal. What happened in the intervening centuries? Daniel Kemmis argues that our loss of capacity for public life (which... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 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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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier by Edward Glaeser Publisher Comments A pioneering urban economist presents a myth-shattering look at the majesty and greatness of cities. America is an urban nation, yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, environmentally unfriendly . . . or are they? In this revelatory... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City by Alan Ehrenhalt Publisher Comments In The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City we travel the nation with Alan Ehrenhalt, one of our leading urbanists, as he explains how America’s cities are changing, what makes them succeed or fail, and what this means for our future.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City by Jennifer Toth Publisher Comments Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City and this book is about them, the so-called mole people. They live alone and in communities, in subway tunnels and below subway platforms and this... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities by Jeff Mapes Staff Pick Mapes's fantastic and inspiring Pedaling Revolution deserves to be read by everyone, from the cycle-curious to the cycle-phobic. Love it or hate it, the pedaling revolution is upon us — read all about it!... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sidewalk by Mitchell Duneier Publisher Comments An exceptional ethnography marked by clarity and candor, Sidewalk takes us into the socio-cultural environment of those who, though often seen as threatening or unseemly, work day after day on “the blocks” of one of New Yorks most diverse... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Assessing the Benefits of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Regulatory Actions to Reduce Terrorism Risks by Victoria A. Greenfield Publisher Comments Summarizes the proceedings of a workshop in which experts on regulatory analysis and terrorism risk examined alternative approaches for estimating the benefits of regulations designed to reduce the risks of terrorist attacks in the United States.... (read more) Your price: $55.00 New - Trade Paper
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Making the San Fernando Valley: Rural Landscapes, Urban Development, and White Privilege (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation) by Laura R Barraclough Publisher Comments In the first book-length scholarly study of the San Fernando Valley—home to one-third of the population of Los Angeles—Laura R. Barraclough combines ambitious historical sweep with an on-theground investigation of contemporary life in... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sustainability and Cities, P by Peter Newman Publisher Comments Sustainability and Cities examines the urban aspect of sustainability issues, arguing that cities are a necessary focus for that global agenda. The authors make the case that the essential character of a city's land use results from how it manages its... (read more) Your price: $70.75 New - Trade Paper
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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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Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century by James H Kunstler Publisher Comments In his landmark book The Geography of Nowhere James Howard Kunstler visited the "tragic sprawlscape of cartoon architecture, junked cities, and ravaged countryside" America had become and declared that the deteriorating environment was not merely a... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Delta Urbanism: New Orleans by Richard Campanella Synopsis This volume of APA's Delta Urbanism series traces the development of New Orleans from precolonial times to post-Katrina realities, in the context of the deltaic plain on which it lies. The book describes the underlying physical terrain and covers the... (read more) Your price: $44.95 New - Trade Paper
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Civitas by Design: Building Better Communities, from the Garden City to the New Urbanism by Howard Gillette, Jr. Publisher Comments Since the end of the nineteenth century, city planners have aspired not only to improve the physical living conditions of urban residents but to strengthen civic ties through better design of built environments. From Ebenezer Howard and his vision for... (read more) Your price: $40.25 New - Hardcover
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Guerrilla Gardening: A Manualfesto by David Tracey Publisher Comments The term "guerrilla"may bring to mind a small band of armedsoldiers, moving in the dead of night on a stealth mission. In the caseof guerrilla gardening, the soldiers are planters, the weapons areshovels, and the mission is to transform an abandoned lot... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Health and Community Design: The Impact of the Built Environment on Physical Activity by Lawrence D Frank Publisher Comments Health and Community Design is a comprehensive examination of how the built environment encourages or discourages physical activity, drawing together insights from a range of research on the relationships between urban form and public health. It provides... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $19.50 Used - Trade Paper
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