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Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-made Landscape
by James Howard Kunstler  Publisher Comments The Geography of Nowhere traces America's evolution from a nation of Main Streets and coherent communities to a land where every place is like no place in particular, where the cities are dead zones and the countryside is a wasteland of cartoon...
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Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping
by Harvard Design School Graduates In Collaboration With Rem Koolhaas Publisher Comments "Not only is shopping melting into everything, but everything is melting into shopping." Sze Tsung Leong Harvard Design School's Project on the City is a graduate thesis program that examines the effects of modernization on the urban condition. Each...
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The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community
by Peter Katz Publisher Comments The move to liveable communities--ideal ``small towns and neighborhoods where people work, live, play, and walk from place to place--is on. Profit from what a visionary group of architects leading this movement has learned about designing new ``small...
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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."--...
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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...
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Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature
by Douglas Farr Publisher Comments Written by the chair of the LEED-Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) initiative, Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature is both an urgent call to action and a comprehensive introduction to sustainable urbanism--the emerging and growing design...
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A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century
by Witold Rybczynski
Publisher Comments In a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, the bestselling author of Home and City Life illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure and a man at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history. We know Olmsted...
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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...
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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...
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Urban Design Green Dimensions 2ND Edition
by J C Moughtin Publisher Comments In Green Dimensions, Cliff Moughtin relates sustainable development and green design to the realm of urban design and development. Examining regional and local frameworks for design and planning, this book shows how sustainable urban design can be...
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Community Planning, P
by Eric D Kelly Publisher Comments Community Planning is an introductory textbook that provides a thorough examination of the comprehensive planning process as practiced in the United States today. The authors consider all aspects of the comprehensive plan: its elements, adoption, and...
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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...
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America Town: Building the Outposts of Empire
by Mark L Gillem Publisher Comments American servicemen and -women are currently stationed in more than 140 countries from Central America to Western Europe to the Middle East, often living and working on military bases that not only dominate foreign territories but also re-create familiar...
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Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture
by Jane Alison Publisher Comments An indispensable and innovative resource for anyone involved in contemporary architecture and urban development. Cities are the ultimate and most complex manifestations of human civilization. For millennia, architects and builders have attempted to...
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Experience of Place (91 Edition)
by Tony Hiss Synopsis 'The Experience of Place' offers an innovative and delightfully readable proposal for new ways of planning, building, and managing our most immediate and overlooked surroundings....
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Times Square: An Urban Environment
by Gail Deibler Finke Synopsis From new high-tech theme stores and restaurants to entertainment and sports arcades to family-oriented theaters and hotels, this visual record covers all the eye-popping signage, facades, and interiors of New York's great Times Square in all its reborn...
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New York from the Air: An Architectural Heritage
by Yan Arthus Bertrand Publisher Comments The brightly lit spire of the Chrysler Building glows in the night....Wall Street and the World Financial Center fill the southern tip of Manhattan Island with powerful geometric forms....A lone sunbather lies on a rock in the Central Park lake....From...
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Design With Nature 25TH Anniversary Edition
by Ian L Mcharg Publisher Comments With a distinct emphasis on human cooperation and biological partnership in design, the author explores the relationship between the built environment and nature to illustrate how both can be used to their full potential without being detrimental or...
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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...
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The Dimensions of Parking
by Urban Land Institute Publisher Comments Including practical information on parking development and operations—whether free or pay parking—this book reveals the best practices for how to plan, design, finance, build, and operate a parking facility....
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