Urban & Land Use Planning
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Increments of Neighborhood: A Compendium of Built Types for Walkable and Vibrant Communities
$80.00 Read moreIntended as a comprehensive resource, Increments of Neighborhood is a compendium of recent built work for urban neighborhoods, encompassing the spectrum of building types financed/built by today’s Ame… [more below]
- Author: O’Looney, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1940743869
- Language: English
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Foundations of Urban Design
$39.95 Read moreThe book is structured into twenty-nine essays, each dedicated to a pair of urbanistic concepts.
Discussing historical and contemporary, interpretive and designerly approaches to urbanity, the notions- Author: Smets, Marcel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1638400334
- Language: English
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A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences
$19.95 Add to cartA bold reassessment of “smart cities” that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computers
Computational models of urbanism–smart cities that use data-driven planning and algor- Series: Places Books #2
- Author: Mattern, Shannon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0691208050
- Language: English
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S, M, L, XL: Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large
$90.00 Add to cartS, M, L, XL presents a selection of the remarkable visionary design work produced by the Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) and its acclaimed founder, Rem Koolhaas, in its first
- Author: Koolhaas, Rem
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1376
- Publish Date: October 01 1997
- ISBN10: 1885254865
- Language: English
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The Embrace of Buildings: A Second Look at Walkable City Neighborhoods
$16.99 Add to cartThe Embrace of Buildings provides an overview of the key factors, topics, and issues in Anglo-American urbanism: the origins and development of the suburban ideal, the role of federal policies and spe
- Author: Hardy, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: September 15 2017
- ISBN10: 1937555259
- Language: English
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The City as a Technical Being: On the Mode of Existence of Architecture
$35.00 Read moreThe city is the largest human artifact. It is made by us, yet simultaneously it makes us, as well as all other nonhuman entities.
The particular discourse to which this book on the city contributes i- Author: Trummer, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 307
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1957183551
- Language: English
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Land Development
$55.00 Add to cartLand developers know that success hinges on knowledge, planning, and experience. Whether you are new to the field or are looking to brush up your knowledge, Land Development is your comprehensive reso… [more below]
- Author: Kone, Daisy Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0867186097
- Language: English
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A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
$29.95 Add to cartFrom the Haitian-style “shotgun” houses of the 19th century to the lavish high-rises of the 21st century, a walk through the streets of America’s neighborhoods that reveals the rich history–and futur… [more below]
- Author: Podemski, Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0807007781
- Language: English
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The Living City: Why Cities Don’t Need to Be Green to Be Great
$30.00 Add to cartA sociologist explores why “green cities” won’t fix everything–and urges us to celebrate urban life as it is
Everywhere you look, cities are getting greener. The general assumption is clear: if som- Author: Fitzgerald, Des
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1541674502
- Language: English
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
$20.00 Add to cartCompassionate, bracingly indignant, and keenly detailed, a monumental work that provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities.
“The most refreshing, provacative, stimulating- Author: Jacobs, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 01 1992
- ISBN10: 067974195X
- Language: English
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
$76.00 Add to cartYou can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a worksh… [more below]
- Series: Center for Environmental Structure
- Author: Alexander, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1216
- Publish Date: August 25 1977
- ISBN10: 0195019199
- Language: English
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Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
$30.00 Add to cartWhat if scrapping one flawed policy could bring US cities closer to addressing debilitating housing shortages, stunted growth and innovation, persistent racial and economic segregation, and car-depend… [more below]
- Author: Gray, M. Nolan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1642832545
- Language: English
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Mini-Forest Revolution: Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World
$24.95 Read more*2023 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Green, Restorative Practices /Sustainability
“Hannah Lewis describes a gift to a despairing world. . . . There may be no single climate solution that has a
- Author: Lewis, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1645021270
- Language: English
