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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-made Landscape by James Howard Kunstler Publisher Comments In this "eminently relevant and important book" (Library Journal), the author traces the evolution of America's landscape, where every place looks like no place in particular, and where accommodating the automobile jeopardizes the individual and the... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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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 $24.50 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Next American Metropolis PB by Peter Calthorpe Publisher Comments Regarding issues of urban sprawl Visit Sprawl Net, at Rice University. It's under construction, but it should be an interesting resource. Check out the traffic in the land of commuting. And, finally, enjoy Los Angeles: Revisiting the Four Ecologies.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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At Home 1st Edition by Bill Bryson Staff Pick There is nothing on this planet that Bryson cannot make fascinating. In his hands, exploring the minutiae of his house becomes an adventure. (Granted, his house is a Victorian vicarage in Norfolk, England.) At Home is a joyful, chatty dip into the... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings by Louis H Sullivan Publisher Comments "Form ever follows function," declared one of America's most original and influential architects in this, his most famous book. A reprint of the definitive 1918 edition, this bold, thought-provoking volume features dialogs, or "chats," about architecture,... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals by Spiro Kostof Publisher Comments When the late Spiro Kostof's A History of Architecture appeared in 1985, it was universally hailed as a masterpiece--one of the finest books on architecture ever written. The New York Times Book Review, in a front cover review, called it "a magnificent... (read more) List Price $80.00 Your price: $35.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture : an Anthology of Architectural Theory 1965-1995 (96 Edition) by Kate (ed.) Nesbitt Publisher Comments Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture collects the most significant essays on architectural theory of the last thirty years. Among the paradigms presented are architectural postmodernism, phenomenology, semiotics, poststructuralism, and deconstruction.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $22.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Palladio and Palladianism (World of Art) by Robert Tavernor Publisher Comments Robert Tavernor looks at Palladianism in terms of its meaning, and sees it as part of the history of ideas. Here, architecture is returned to its place as the art that embodies values.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Soft Surfaces: Visual Research for Artists, Architects, and Designers with CDROM by Judy A Juracek Publisher Comments The book is tailored to research needs in scope and focus, offering examples for architects, interior designers, textile professionals, theatrical and film designers, illustrators, and graphic designers. Interviews with professionals describe how they... (read more) List Price $89.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Building Images by Tony Hiss Publisher Comments Nobody can make a building soar like the architectural photographers of Hedrich Blessing. Since 1930, they have been the world's messenger of modern architecture. Based in Chicago, the architectural photography firm has achieved an international... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Notes on the Synthesis of Form (Harvard Paperbacks) by Christopher Alexander Publisher Comments "These notes are about the process of design: the process of inventing things which display new physical order, organization, form, in response to function." This book, opening with these words, presents an entirely new theory of the process of design... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Green Urbanism, P by Timothy Beatley Publisher Comments The world is in the midst of an ecological explosion with devastating implications. Thousands of species of microbes, plants, and animals are being introduced, both deliberately and inadvertently, to new land areas, seas, and freshwaters. In many regions,... (read more) List Price $62.75 Your price: $33.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Touchstone Books) by David McCullough Publisher Comments Published on the fortieth anniversary of its initial publication, this edition of the classic book contains a new Preface by David McCullough, “one of our most gifted living writers” (The Washington Post). Built to join the rapidly... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Delirious New York : a Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (94 Edition) by Rem Koolhaas Publisher Comments Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $18.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Portfolio Design 3RD Edition by Harold Linton Publisher Comments Whether you work in architecture, urban planning, landscape or interior design, a finely tailored portfolio is the most important element to include in your application for graduate school, a design grant or competition, or to bring to a job interview... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Good Life: New Public Spaces for Recreation by Zoe Ryan Publisher Comments A ball and a wall used to be all you needed for hours of entertainment. But these days, when good design is an expected component of almost every experience, much more is necessary if public urban spaces are to meet the requirements of 21st century... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken (Constructs Series) by Alex Marshall Publisher Comments Do cities work anymore? How did they get to be such sprawling conglomerations of lookalike subdivisions, megafreeways, and big box superstores surrounded by acres of parking lots? And why, most of all, don't they feel like real communities? These are the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Frank Lloyd Wright by Bruce B Pfeiffer Publisher Comments This extraordinary book presents thirty-eight of the most renowned and significant buildings of America's premier architect, from his early Prairie work in Oak Park, Illinois, in the 1890s to his daring creations of the 1940s and 1950s. In entirely new... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $44.00 Used - Hardcover
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Treehouses: The Art and Craft of Living Out on a Limb by Peter Nelson Publisher Comments Treehouses lift the spirits. They inspire dreams. They represent freedom: from adults or adulthood, from duties and responsibilities, from an earthbound perspective. If we can't fly with the birds, at least we can nest with them. With lively writing and... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Japanese Detail by Sadao Hibi Publisher Comments Now reissued with a striking new cover, Japanese Detail: Architecture is the classic visual tour of traditional Japanese architecture. In this distinctive collection of images, photographer Sado Hibi captures the richness, harmony, and simplicity of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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