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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 Image of the City by Kevin Lynch Publisher Comments What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Power Broker : Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (74 Edition) by Robert A. Caro Publisher Comments One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 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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Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York by Luc Sante Publisher Comments From opium dens to the Bowery's suicide saloons, this lively, learned work of outlaw urban history ushers readers through the dark heart of New York City in the years between 1840 and 1919. "A systematic, well-researched historical account of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 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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Road To Wigan Pier (58 Edition) by George Orwell Publisher Comments In the 1930s Orwell was sent by a socialist book club to investigate the appalling mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. He went beyond his assignment to investigate the employed as well-”to see the most typical section of the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Urban Ecological Design: A Process for Regenerative Places by Danilo Palazzo Publisher Comments This trailblazing book outlines an interdisciplinary "process model" for urban design that has been developed and tested over time. Its goal is not to explain how to design a specific city precinct or public space, but to describe useful steps to... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - 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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Great Neighborhood Book: a Do-it-yourself Guide To Placemaking (07 Edition) by Jay Walljasper Publisher Comments Abandoned lots and litter-strewn pathways, or rows of green beans and pockets of wildflowers? Graffiti-marked walls and desolate bus stops, or shady refuges and comfortable seating? What transforms a dingy, inhospitable area into a dynamic gathering... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 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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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says about Us) (Vintage) by Tom Vanderbilt Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year The Washington Post • The Cleveland Plain-Dealer • Rocky Mountain News In this brilliant, lively, and eye-opening investigation, Tom Vanderbilt examines the perceptual limits and... (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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Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global (Studies in Urban and Social Change) by Ananya (edt) Roy Publisher Comments From Dubai to Delhi and from Singapore to Shanghai, cities across Asia are sites of intense experiments with different ways of being global. This book intervenes in urban theory focused on established global cities, and instead argues that the urban... (read more) Your price: $40.95 New - Trade Paper
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