City Planning & Urban Development
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Planet of Slums
$19.95 Read moreThe “profound . . . brilliant” account of the rise of the world’s slums and the failures of modern urbanization–by the world’s leading urbanist (Arundhati Roy, activist and Booker Prize-winning autho… [more below]
- Series: Essential Mike Davis
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1784786616
- Language: English
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Phytopolis: The Living City
$24.99 Add to cartA renowned plant expert explains how we can make urgent, positive changes to our cities that protect against and reduce global warming.
The conquest of new lands has been the greatest occupation of ou- Author: Mancuso, Stefano
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1635425247
- Language: English
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Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
$21.00 Read moreLike a modern-day Jane Jacobs, Janette Sadik-Khan transformed New York City’s streets to make room for pedestrians, cyclists, buses, and green spaces. Describing the battles she fought to enact change… [more below]
- Author: Sadik-Khan, Janette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0143128973
- Language: English
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Saving Stuyvesant Town: How One Community Defeated the Worst Real Estate Deal in History
$34.95 Add to cartFrom city streets to City Hall and to Midtown corporate offices, Saving Stuyvesant Town is the incredible true story of how one middle class community defeated the largest residential real estate dea
- Author: Garodnick, Daniel R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1501754378
- Language: English
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Madam Mayor: Love and Loss in an American City
$32.99 Add to cartFormer Syracuse mayor Stephanie Miner offers a candid insider look at her trailblazing time in elected office, the pressures and pitfalls of city and state politics, and the true potential of local go
- Author: Miner, Stephanie A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0700638288
- Language: English
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Feeling at Home: Transforming the Politics of Housing
$24.95 Add to cartOur feelings about housing are political, and a grasp of them is essential to solving the housing crisis – from the author of They Call It Love
Housing is more than bricks and mortar. The home is wher- Author: Gotby, Alva
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 180429621X
- Language: English
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City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America’s Highways
$30.00 Add to cartAn eye-opening investigation into how our ever-expanding urban highways accelerated inequality and fractured communities–and a call for a more just, sustainable path forward
“Megan Kimble manages to … [more below]- Author: Kimble, Megan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0593443780
- Language: English
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In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis
$24.95 Add to cart- Author: Marcuse, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1804294942
- Language: English
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Turf War: How a Band of Activists Saved New York from Donald Trump’s “Masterpiece”
$33.32 Add to cartIn the late 1980s, a band of New York civic groups set out to stop Donald Trump from building his “masterpiece,” a half-mile of gargantuan buildings overlooking the Hudson River on Manhattan’s West Si… [more below]
- Author: Robinson, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: September 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1665763531
- Language: English
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Katrina: A History, 1915-2015
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the Bancroft Prize
“The main thrust of Horowitz’s account is to make us understand Katrina–the civ
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Book of the Year- Author: Horowitz, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0674271076
- Language: English
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City Planning: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartCity planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and–sometimes utopian–aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of cities as physical spaces and social environments calls… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Abbott, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 22 2020
- ISBN10: 019094434X
- Language: English
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Virginia-Highland
$24.99 Add to cartMany of the dynamics associated with the United States in the mid-20th century had not yet touched the tranquil northeast Atlanta community of Virginia-Highland in 1950. The next quarter-century would… [more below]
- Series: Images of Modern America
- Author: Carlisle, Lola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1467128554
- Language: English
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Atlas of the Senseable City
$35.00 Read moreA fascinating exploration of how the growth of digital mapping, spurred by sensing technologies, is affecting cities and daily lives
What have smart technologies taught us about cities? What lessons- Author: Picon, Antoine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0300247516
- Language: English
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Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife
$29.95 Read moreSanitation is fundamental to urban public life and health. We need Sanitation for All.
In an age of pandemics the relationship between the health of the city and good sanitation has never been more im- Author: McFarlane, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1839760540
- Language: English
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Sky-High: A Critique of Nyc’s Supertall Towers from Top to Bottom
$40.00 Read morePart architectural guidebook and part critique, Sky-High documents the pencil-thin, supertall towers that are transforming New York City’s skyline as well as its streets.
New York City’s penchant for- Author: Nash, Eric P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1797222546
- Language: English
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Cómo Hacer Grandes Cosas / How Big Things Get Done
$23.95 Read moreLos secretos para planificar y llevar a cabo con ?xito proyectos de cualquier envergadura, por el mayor experto munidal en megaproyectos.
Nada es m?s inspirador que una ambiciosa visi?n que se convier… [more below]- Author: Flyvbjerg, Bent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 8466674241
- Language: Spanish
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Sideways: The City Google Couldn’t Buy
$28.95 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER
FINALIST FOR THE WRITERS’ TRUST SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING From the Globe and Mail tech reporter who revealed countless controversies while following the Sidewal- Author: O’Kane, Josh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1039000789
- Language: English
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Renewing the Dream: The Mobility Revolution and the Future of Los Angeles
$80.00 Read moreCalifornia, once the epitome of car culture, is now leading the green movement, transitioning away from the internal combustion engine and to some extent the car–and having to rethink how we live, as… [more below]
- Author: Sanders, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0847873293
- Language: English
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Architect, Verb.: The New Language of Building
$26.95 Read moreThe Hidden Rules of Architecture: how to build world-class, award winning, creative, innovative, sustainable, liveable and beautiful spaces that foster a sense of place and well being
Leading architec- Author: De Graaf, Reinier
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1839761911
- Language: English
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Shrink the City: The 15-Minute Urban Experiment and the Cities of the Future
$16.95 Add to cartCities define the lives of all those who call them home: where we go, how we get there, how we spend our time. But what if we rethink the ways we plan, live in, and move around our cities? What if we
- Author: Whittle, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1891011898
- Language: English
