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Great Leap Forward: Harvard Design School Project on the City by Rem Koolhaas Publisher Comments In 1996-97, Harvard's graduate students studied China's Pearl River Delta (PRD), a cluster of five cities with a population of twelve million that will probably reach thirty-six million by the year 2020. The establishment in the PRD of Special Economic... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $35.00 Used - Flexible 
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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) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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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: $9.95 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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Urbanisms: Working with Doubt by Steven Holl Publisher Comments Contemporary urban development is increasingly characterized by a reliance on diagrams to convey the rational, statistical point of view. In his new book Urbanisms, architect Steven Holl suggests that urban planners need to realize that the experiential... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $44.00 Sale - Hardcover
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Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City by Anthony Flint Publisher Comments To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. The activist, writer, and mother of three grew so fond of her bustling community that it became a touchstone... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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The Works: Anatomy of a City by Kate Ascher Publisher Comments How much do you really know about the systems that keep a city alive? The Works: Anatomy of a City contains everything you ever wanted to know about what makes New York City run. When you flick on your light switch the light goes on — how? When you... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Great Streets by Allan B. Jacobs Publisher Comments This book received Honorable Mention in the category of Architecture and Urban Studies in the 1993 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc.Which are the world's best streets... (read more) Your price: $42.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Portland Edge: Challenges and Successes in Growing Communities by Connie P Ozawa Publisher Comments Portland, Oregon, is often cited as one of the most livable cities in the United States and a model for smart growth. At the same time, critics deride it as a victim of heavy-handed planning and point to its skyrocketing housing costs as a clear sign of... (read more) List Price $39.50 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Cohousing 2ND Edition a Contemporary Approach To by Kathryn Mccamant Synopsis A movement that began in Europe has taken hold in North America because it provides some real answers for the increasing number of people who stop to look at where and how they live and at their impact on the environment. Cohousing is a way for a group... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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New Catalyst Bioregional Series #9: Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth by Mathis Wackernagle Publisher Comments Equipped with useful charts and thought-provoking illustrations, this book introduces a revolutionary new way to determine humanity's impact on the Earth and presents an exciting and powerful tool for measuring and visualizing the resources required to... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World by Alan Weisman Publisher Comments Los Llanos—the rain-leached, eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombia—are among the most brutal environments on Earth and an unlikely setting for one of the most hopeful environmental stories ever told. Here, in the late 1960s, a young... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Cities from the Sky: An Aerial Portait of America by Thomas J Campanella Publisher Comments 125 sumptuous, incredible, detailed, duotone aerial photographs taken by the men of the Fairchild Aerial Survey Company from the 1920s through the 1960s.... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $19.98 Used - Hardcover
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Better, Not Bigger: How to Take Control of Urban Growth and Improve Your Community by Eben V Fodor About the Author Eben Fodor has a background in renewable energy, specializing in high efficiency passive solar heating systems and solar-heated saunas. His professional work is as a community planning consultant based in Eugene... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - 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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cities of Tomorrow : an Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century (3RD 02 Edition) by Peter Geoffrey Hall Publisher Comments Cities of Tomorrowis 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. A critical history of planning in theory and practice in the... (read more) List Price $53.25 Your price: $38.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Drawing for Architecture (Writing Architecture) by Leon Krier Publisher Comments Architect Leon Krier's doodles, drawings, and ideograms make arguments in images, without the circumlocutions of prose. Drawn with wit and grace, these clever sketches do not try to please or flatter the architectural establishment. Rather, they make an... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Above Chicago by Robert Cameron Publisher Comments The newest Above volume tells the story of Chicago from the Loop to the Stockyards, from its incomparable golf courses to the tallest pinnacles in the world. Here is the most exciting architectural display of all time, the famed boulevards, the sports... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Villages of England by Richard Turpin Publisher Comments Across the expanse of England, picturesque, historic villages survive almost untouched by the unrelenting hand of progress. The vibrant photographs in these pages capture the essence of village England, from the somber drama of the Yorkshire Dales to the... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Minimum Dwelling by Karel Teige Publisher Comments Karel Teige (1900-1951), one of the most important figures of avant-garde modernism of the 1920s and 1930s, influenced virtually every area of art, design, and urban thinking in his native Czechoslovakia. His Minimum Dwelling, originally published in... (read more) List Price $69.25 Your price: $26.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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