City Planning & Urban Development
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Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
$24.95 Read moreShortlisted for the Architectural Book of the Year
How gentrification is killing our cities, and what we can do about it What does gentrification look like? Can we even agree that it is a process that- Author: Kern, Leslie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 1839767545
- Language: English
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The Works: Anatomy of a City
$31.00 Read moreA fascinating guided tour of the ways things work in a modern city
“It’s a rare person who won’t find something of interest in The Works, whether it’s an explanation of how a street-sweeper works or t- Author: Ascher, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0143112708
- Language: English
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Boston in Transit: Mapping the History of Public Transportation in the Hub
$75.00 Read moreA richly illustrated story of public transit in one of America’s most historic cities, from public ferry and horse-drawn carriage to the MBTA.
A lively tour of public transportation in Boston over the- Author: Beaucher, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048078
- Language: English
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Pretreatment Guide for Homeless Outreach & Housing First: Helping Couples, Youth, and Unaccompanied Adults
$21.95 Add to cartThis book provides social workers, outreach clinicians, case managers, and concerned community members with a pretreatment guide for assisting homeless couples, youth, and single adults. The inter-rel… [more below]
- Author: Levy, Jay S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1615992014
- Language: English
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New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
$19.95 Read more- Author: Bridle, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1804290424
- Language: English
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Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City
$30.00 Add to cartIn this exhilarating look at cities, past and future, Ben Wilson proposes that, in our world of rising seas and threatening weather, the natural world may prove the city’s savior
“Illuminating…Wils- Author: Wilson, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 7, 2023
- ISBN10: 0385548117
- Language: English
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Preserving Los Angeles: How Historic Places Can Transform America’s Cities
$50.00 Add to cartKen Bernstein, a Principal City Planner for the City of Los Angeles and a national advocate for historic preservation shares how Los Angeles has led the nation in historic preservation and how other c
- Author: Bernstein, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 162640075X
- Language: English
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San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities
$32.50 Add to cartNational bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America’s faltering cities.
Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime.
- Author: Shellenberger, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 12, 2021
- ISBN10: 0063093626
- Language: English
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Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
$26.00 Add to cartDiscover insider secrets of how America’s transportation system is designed, funded, and built – and how to make it work for your community
In Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for
- Author: Marohn, Charles L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 8, 2021
- ISBN10: 1119699290
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
$30.00 Add to cartAcross America, universities have become big businesses–and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow.
Urban universities play an outsized role in America’- Author: Baldwin, Davarian L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1568588925
- Language: English
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Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One
$21.95 Read moreMajora Carter shows how brain drain cripples low-status communities and maps out a development strategy focused on talent retention to help them break out of economic stagnation.
“My musical, In the H- Author: Carter, Majora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1523000295
- Language: English
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Excluded: How Snob Zoning, Nimbyism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don’t See
$30.00 Add to cartAn indictment of America’s housing policy that reveals the social engineering underlying our segregation by economic class, the social and political fallout that result, and what we can do about it
T- Author: Kahlenberg, Richard D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: 11-Jul-23
- ISBN10: 1541701461
- Language: English
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The Empire of “The City”: The Secret History of British Financial Power
$13.95 Add to cartThe author presents a behind the scenes look at the secretive international policies of the British government and how their successes allowed them to rise to the top of a vast secret order of World F
- Author: Knuth, E. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 07, 2006
- ISBN10: 1585092622
- Language: English
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Walkable City (Tenth Anniversary Edition): How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
$21.00 Add to cartTENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
Updated with 100+ pages of new material and a foreword by Janette Sadik-Khan The bestselling urban planning book of the pa
WINNER OF THE GREEN PRIZE FOR SUSTAINABLE LITERATURE- Author: Speck, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1250857988
- Language: English
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How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everyt
$30.00 Add to cart“Why do big projects go wrong so often, and are there any lessons you can use when renovating your kitchen? Bent Flyvbjerg is the ‘megaproject’ expert and Dan Gardner brings the storytelling skills to
- Author: Flyvbjerg, Bent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593239512
- Language: English
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The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America
$19.95 Add to cartThe best-selling look at how American cities can promote racial equity, end redlining, and reverse the damaging health- and wealth-related effects of segregation.
Winner of the IPPY Book Award Current
- Author: Brown, Lawrence T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1421445441
- Language: English
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities: 50th Anniversary Edition
$30.00 Add to cartPublished to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs’s masterpiece, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, features a new Introduction
- Author: Jacobs, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 13 2011
- ISBN10: 0679644334
- Language: English
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Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
$21.00 Add to cartA globe-trotting, eye-opening exploration of how cities can–and do–make us happier people
Charles Montgomery’s Happy City is revolutionizing the way we think about urban life.
After decades of unche- Author: Montgomery, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 07, 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534888
- Language: English
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Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
$30.00 Read moreWhat 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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Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
$20.00 Add to cart“A comprehensive, entertaining, and compelling argument for how rebuilding social infrastructure can help heal divisions in our society and move us forward.”–Jon Stewart
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS O- Author: Klinenberg, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1524761176
- Language: English
