City Planning & Urban Development
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Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World
$28.99 Add to cartZoning codes dictate how and where we can build housing, factories, restaurants, and parks. They limit how tall buildings can be and where trees can be planted. They have become the most significant r
- Author: Bronin, Sara C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0393881660
- Language: English
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Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation
$25.95 Read moreIn this exciting new graphic novel, economist Bryan Caplan examines how changes to housing regulation can lead us to a vastly better world.
Why are housing prices in America so unbelievably high, espec
- Author: Caplan, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: May 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1952223415
- Language: English
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Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City
$29.95 Add to cartAn unvarnished portrait of gentrification in an underprivileged, majority-minority small city
Newburgh is a small postindustrial city of some twenty-eight thousand people located sixty miles north of- Author: Ocejo, Richard E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0691211329
- Language: English
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Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles
$29.95 Add to cartInventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles traces the improbable rise of Los Angeles through the prism of six visionaries who had outsize influence on the city’s growth
- Author: Haddad, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1595801278
- Language: English
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Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation
$29.95 Read moreHow does Israel extend its control over Palestinian lands? From the tunnels of Gaza to the militarized airspace of the Occupied Territories, Eyal Weizman unravels the mechanisms of control and how the… [more below]
- Author: Weizman, Eyal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1804297100
- Language: English
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City Planning: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Read moreCity 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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In the Loop: A Political and Economic History of San Antonio
$34.95 Add to cartIn the Loop: A Political and Economic History of San Antonio, is the culmination of urban historian David Johnson’s extensive research into the development of Texas’s oldest city. Beginning with San … [more below]
- Author: Johnson, David R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1595349227
- Language: English
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A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America
$29.95 Add to cart“Chakrabarti has written a wonderful book about the potential of America’s cities. He argues convincingly how the country would benefit economically and environmentally if the suburbs started to move
- Author: Chakrabarti, Vishaan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: May 30 2013
- ISBN10: 1935202170
- Language: English
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Ghetto
$24.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book of 2016
On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto–a closed quarter name
Winner of the Z calo Public Square Book Prize- Author: Duneier, Mitchell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0374536775
- Language: English
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The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City
$15.00 Add to cartArguably the most influential document in the history of urban planning, Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago, coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of C
- Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
- Author: Smith, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: August 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0226764729
- Language: English
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The Smart Growth Manual
$33.00 Add to cartPublisher’s Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.
Everyone is … [more below]
- Author: Duany, Andres
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0071376755
- Language: English
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The Creative Community Builder’s Handbook: How to Transform Communities Using Local Assets, Arts, and Culture
$41.99 Add to cartPut the power of arts and culture to work in your community Part 1 of this unique guide distills research and emerging ideas behind culturally driven community development and explains key underlying … [more below]
- Author: Borrup, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0940069474
- Language: English
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Community Building: What Makes It Work: A Review of Factors Influencing Successful Community Building
$33.95 Add to cartThis practical guide shows you what really does (and doesn’t) contribute to community building success. It reveals 28 keys to help you build community more effectively and efficiently. You won’t find … [more below]
- Author: Mattessich, Paul W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0940069121
- Language: English
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Freedomland: Co-Op City and the Story of New York
$32.95 Add to cartIn Freedomland, Annemarie H. Sammartino tells Co-op City’s story from the perspectives of those who built it and of the ordinary people who made their homes in this monument to imperfect liberal ideal
- Author: Sammartino, Annemarie H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1501716433
- Language: English
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The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back
$38.00 Add to cartThe book the American Prospect calls “an essential resource for future reformers on how not to govern,” by America’s leading defender of the public interest and a bestselling historian
“An essential re
- Author: Cohen, Donald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1620976536
- Language: English
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A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City
$20.00 Add to cartA young college grad buys a house in Detroit for $500 and attempts to restore it–and his new neighborhood–to its original glory in this “deeply felt, sharply observed personal quest to create meanin… [more below]
- Author: Philp, Drew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1476797994
- Language: English
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The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy
$37.00 Add to cartFrom one of today’s most inspired architects and urban advocates, a manifesto for architecture as a force for addressing our biggest social challenges
The world is facing unprecedented challenges, fro- Author: Chakrabarti, Vishaan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0691208433
- Language: English
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Lost in Austin: The Evolution of an American City
$30.00 Read more- Author: Hannaford, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 006325302X
- Language: English
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The Loop: The “L” Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago
$26.95 Read moreThe structure that anchors Chicago
Every day Chicagoans rely on the loop of elevated train tracks to get to their jobs, classrooms, or homes in the city’s downtown. But how much do they know about th- Author: Reardon, Patrick T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0809338106
- Language: English
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Why Place Matters: Geography, Identity, and Civic Life in Modern America
$18.99 Add to cartContemporary American society, with its emphasis on mobility and economic progress, all too often loses sight of the importance of a sense of place; and community. Appreciating place is essential for … [more below]
- Author: McClay, Wilfred M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1641771178
- Language: English
