Urban Studies
There are 1867 books in this aisle.
Browse the aisle by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.
 Sale: $6.98 Trade Paper List Price $15.00 
add to wish list |
|
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...
|
||||||
New: $15.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
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,...
|
||||||
Used: $16.95 Hardcover List Price $26.95
add to wish list |
|
Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
by Richard Florida Publisher Comments It’s a mantra of the age of globalization that where we live doesn’t matter. We can innovate just as easily from a ski chalet in Aspen or a beachhouse in Provence as in the office of a Silicon Valley startup. According to Richard Florida...
|
||||||
Used: $9.00 Trade Paper List Price $16.95
add to wish list |
|
Planet of Slums (06 Edition)
by Mike Davis Publisher Comments Celebrated urban historian's bestselling account of the global explosion of slums, with a major new introduction. According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and...
|
||||||
Used: $9.00 Trade Paper List Price $16.95
add to wish list |
|
Corner : a Year in the Life of an Inner-city Neighborhood (97 Edition)
by David Simon Synopsis From the prize-winning author of "Homicide" and a former police detective comes the searing true story of one of America's most crime-ridden neighborhoods, located in Baltimore, and a family struggling to survive there. of photos....
|
||||||
Used: $1.95 Trade Paper List Price $14.95
add to wish list |
|
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
by Alex Kotlowitz Publisher Comments The New York Times This meticulous portrait of two boys in a Chicago housing project shows how much heroism is required to survive, let alone escape. Kotlowitz's story informs the heart. San Francisco Chronicle Amid the darkness and ever-present despair,...
|
||||||
Used: $7.95 Trade Paper List Price $15.95
add to wish list |
|
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...
|
||||||
New: $19.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
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...
|
||||||
New: $19.95 Trade Paper List Price $24.95
add to wish list |
|
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...
|
||||||
New: $35.00 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
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...
|
||||||
Sale: $12.00 Trade Paper List Price $17.00
add to wish list |
|
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...
|
||||||
Sale: $8.98 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
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...
|
||||||
Used: $7.50 Trade Paper List Price $13.95
add to wish list |
|
Power of Place : How Our Surroundings Shape Our Thoughts, Emotions, and Actions (07 Edition)
by Winifred Gallagher Publisher Comments Are New Yorkers and Californians so different because they live in such different settings? Why do some of us prefer the city to the country? How do urban settings increase crime? Why do we feel better after an experience in nature? In this fascinating...
|
||||||
Used: $19.00 Trade Paper List Price $26.25
add to wish list |
|
Origins of Urban Crisis : Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit ((Rev)05 Edition)
by Thomas J. Sugrue Publisher Comments Once America's arsenal of democracy, Detroit over the last fifty years has become the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of racial and economic inequality in modern America, Thomas Sugrue explains how Detroit and many other once...
|
||||||
New: $26.95 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
740 Park
by Michael Gross Publisher Comments For seventy-five years, it’s been Manhattan’s richest apartment building, and one of the most lusted-after addresses in the world. One apartment had 37 rooms, 14 bathrooms, 43 closets, 11 working fireplaces, a private elevator, and his-and...
|
||||||
New: $35.00 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
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...
|
||||||
New: $27.00 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
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...
|
||||||
Used: $7.50 Trade Paper List Price $14.00
add to wish list |
|
How the Other Half Lives : Studies Among the Tenements of New York (97 Edition)
by Jacob A. Riis Synopsis Published in 1890, Jacob Riis's remarkable study of the horrendous living conditions of the poor in New York City had an immediate and extraordinary impact on society, inspiring reforms that affected the lives of millions of people. Riis's reliance on...
|
||||||
New: $33.75 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Still Stuck in Traffic: Coping with Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion (James A. Johnson Metro)
by Anthony Downs Publisher Comments Most Americans view traffic congestion as the most serious environmental problem facing communities today. While overwhelming public sentiment has forced local governments to employ a variety of anticongestion strategies, it has been difficult to gauge...
|
||||||
Used: $5.95 Trade Paper List Price $12.00
add to wish list |
|
No More Prisons: Urban Life, Homeschooling, Hip-Hop Leadership, the Cool Rich Kids Movement, a Hitchhiker's Guide to Community Organizi
by William Ups Wimsatt Publisher Comments Winner of the 2000 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Best Book, Politics....
|
||||||
