Demographic Orientation/Urban
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Twenty Minutes in Manhattan
$19.00 Add to cartEvery morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through Washington Square to his Tribeca office. Sorkin isn’t in a hurry, and he never ignore… [more below]
- Author: Sorkin, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0865477574
- Language: English
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Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles
$21.18 Add to cartIn Sidewalking, David L. Ulin offers a compelling inquiry into the evolving landscape of Los Angeles. Part personal narrative, part investigation of the city as both idea and environment, Sidewalking … [more below]
- Author: Ulin, David L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 520273729
- Language: English
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Boston’s Franklin Park: Olmsted, Recreation, and the Modern City
$45.00 Read moreEthan Carr’s forthcoming book, Boston’s Franklin Park: Olmsted, Recreation, and the Modern City, documents the design and history of Frederick Law Olmsted’s most mature expression of urban park design
- Author: Carr, Ethan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1952620384
- Language: English
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Sapiens/Homo Deus Box Set
$75.00 Add to cartDiscover humanity’s past and its future in this in this special box set featuring the bestselling Sapiens–a reading pick of President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg–and its acclaimed
- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: February 28 2018
- ISBN10: 0062834312
- Language: English
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The Unkillables: 40 Resilient House Plants for New Plant Parents
$16.95 Add to cartHouseplants not only make your space look stylish, they are good for both your physical and mental health. That is… until you kill one (or three). There is nothing more heartbreaking and soul-destro
- Author: Lambell, Jo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1914317238
- 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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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
$22.00 Add to cartA passionate and dramatic account of a year in the life of a city, when baseball and crime reigned supreme, and when several remarkable figures emerged to steer New York clear of one of its most harro
- Author: Mahler, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0312424302
- Language: English
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We Speak for Ourselves: How Woke Culture Prohibits Progress
$16.99 Add to cartFrom the row houses of Baltimore to the stoops of Brooklyn, the New York Times bestselling author of The Cook Up lays bare the voices of the most vulnerable and allows their stories to uncover the sys… [more below]
- Author: Watkins, D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 150118783X
- Language: English
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Since Yesterday: The 1930’s in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939
$19.99 Add to cart“Vividly and with great skills he marshals the men, the mountebanks, the measures, and the events of ten years of American life and causes them to march before us in orderly panathenaic procession.”–… [more below]
- Author: Allen, Frederick L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 16 1986
- ISBN10: 0060913223
- Language: English
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Re-Visioning Psychology
$18.99 Add to cartThis groundbreaking classic explores the necessity of making connections between our life and soul and developing the main lines of the soul-making process. Hillman: – argues that modern science wrong
- Author: Hillman, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0060905638
- Language: English
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Mission High: One School, How Experts Tried to Fail It, and the Students and Teachers Who Made It Triumph
$16.99 Add to cart“This book is a godsend a moving portrait for anyone wanting to go beyond the simplified labels and metrics and really understand an urban high school, and its highly individual, resilient, eager and … [more below]
- Author: Rizga, Kristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 09 2016
- ISBN10: 1568585675
- Language: English
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The Manhattan Nobody Knows: An Urban Walking Guide
$27.95 Read moreA one-of-a-kind walking guide to Manhattan, from the man who walked every block in New York City
Bill Helmreich walked every block of New York City–six-thousand miles in all–to write the award-winni- Author: Helmreich, William B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: December 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0691166994
- Language: English
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Survival of the City: The Future of Urban Life in an Age of Isolation
$18.00 Add to cartOne of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existential threats the pandemic has only accelerated
Cities can- Author: Glaeser, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0593297709
- 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 Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
$17.99 Add to cart*Now a major motion picture–Rob Peace–starring Jay Will, Mary J. Blige, and Chiwetel Ejiofor*
*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, and more* The- Author: Hobbs, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 28 2015
- ISBN10: 1476731918
- Language: English
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The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities
$24.95 Add to cartOne of Smithsonian Magazine‘s Favorite Books of 2022
With wildlife thriving in cities, we have the opportunity to create vibrant urban ecosystems that serve both people and animals. The Accidental Eco- Author: Alagona, Peter S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0520397886
- Language: English
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Simplify Vegetable Gardening: All the Botanical Know-How You Need to Grow More Food and Healthier Edible Plants – Veggie Gardening with a Side of Sc
$28.99 Read moreGain the scientific knowledge you need to achieve excellence in home food production with this unique and in-depth guide by Tony O’Neill of YouTube’s Simplify Gardening.
If you are an intermediate or- Author: O’Neill, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0760384975
- Language: English
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What I Found in a Thousand Towns: A Traveling Musician’s Guide to Rebuilding America’s Communities-One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, and Open-Mike Night at a
$29.00 Add to cartA beloved folk singer presents an impassioned account of the fall and rise of the small American towns she cherishes.
Dubbed by the New Yorker as “one of America’s very best singer-songwriters,” Dar- Author: Williams, Dar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0465098967
- Language: English
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Spin Cycles
$10.00 Add to cartBrilliant, homeless and nearly invisible, a young man wanders through Boston, looking for meaning and hope. Extreme mood swings and an unusual outlook on life make it impossible for him to thrive in m
- Series: Gemma Open Door
- Author: Coe, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: October 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1936846470
- Language: English
