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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
by Jane Jacobs  
Powells.com 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,...
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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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Planetizen's Contemporary Debates in Urban Planning
by Abhijeet Chavan and Christian Peralta and Christopher Steins Publisher Comments Planetizen's Contemporary Debates in Urban Planning is a fascinating review of major topics and issues discussed in the field of urban planning, assembled by editors at Planetizen, the leading source of news and information for the planning and...
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The Great Neighborhood Book: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Placemaking
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...
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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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Building Big
by David Macaulay
Publisher Comments Why this shape and not that? Why steel instead of concrete or stone? Why put it here and not over there? These are the kinds of questions that David Macaulay asks himself when he observes an architectural wonder. These questions take him back to the...
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Layered Urbanisms
by Carole Burns Publisher Comments Critical discussions and illustrations of urban research and design analysis as carried out in advanced studios. Layered Urbanisms presents three innovative young architects—Gregg Pasquarelli of SHoP, Galia Solomonoff, and Mario Gooden of Gooden...
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Sprawl: A Compact History
by Robert Bruegmann Publisher Comments As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to capture the complexity of these vast regions with their...
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The Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What It Means for the World
by Thomas J. Campanella Publisher Comments In the early 1980s, China launched the greatest building boom in human history, beginning a period of wholesale construction and destruction unlike anything the world has ever seen. There were fewer than 200 cities in China in the late 1970s; today there...
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S, M, L, XL: Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large
by Rem Koolhaas
Powells.com Staff Pick There are some books that will make you into a genius as soon as you turn back the title page, and S, M, L, XL by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas is certainly one of them. Once you get the hang of things, the book is a remarkable and inspiring read,...
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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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Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation
by Eyal Weizman Publisher Comments A groundbreaking exposé of Israel's terrifying reconceptualization of geopolitics in the Occupied Territories and beyond. Hollow Land is a groundbreaking exploration of the political space created by Israel's colonial occupation. In this journey...
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Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville: Real Estate Development in America from George Washington to the Builders of the Twenty-first Century, and Why We Live in Houses Anyway
by Witold Rybczynski Publisher Comments In Last Harvest, the award-winning author of Home and A Clearing in the Distance tells the compelling story of New Daleville, a brand-new residential subdivision in rural Pennsylvania. When Witold Rybczynski first heard about New Daleville, it was only a...
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Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities
by Howard Frumkin Publisher Comments In Urban Sprawl and Public Health, Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, and Richard Jackson, three of the nation's leading public health and urban planning experts explore an intriguing question: How does the physical environment in which we live affect our...
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The Charged Void: Urbanism
by Alison Smithson Publisher Comments The Charged Void: Urbanism is the companion volume to The Charged Void: Architecture; the two together comprise the complete works of Alison and Peter Smithson. For the designers, architecture and urbanism were inseparable: buildings encapsualte urban...
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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 put...
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Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization
by Steven High and David W. Lewis Publisher Comments Deindustrialization is not simply an economic process, but a social and cultural one as well. The rusting detritus of our industrial past: the wrecked hulks of factories, abandoned machinery too large to remove, and now-useless infrastructures, has for...
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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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Design Charrettes for Sustainable Communities
by Patrick M Condon Publisher Comments A step-by-step guide to more synthetic, holistic, and integrated urban design strategies, Design Charrettes for Sustainable Communities is a practical manual to accomplish complex community design decisions and create more green, clean, and equitable...
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