Urban & Land Use Planning
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Housing the Nation: Social Equity, Architecture, and the Future of Affordable Housing
$35.00 Add to cartScholars, advocates, and architects assess America’s affordable housing crisis and suggest various strategies to rectify it, including numerous images of important, recently built houses and complexes… [more below]
- Author: Gorlin, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0847873986
- Language: English
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Parks of Oklahoma City: A History
$39.99 Read moreFrom the founding of Oklahoma City in 1889 to the present day, this ambitious narrative documents the evolution of the city’s parks, public places, and open spaces, illuminating the history of iconic
- Author: Blackburn, Bob L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 20 2025
- ISBN10: 9798992359398
- Language: English
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The Art of Play: Designing the World’s Greatest Playscapes
$40.00 Read moreThis photographic exploration of the world’s most imaginative and surprising playscapes spans artist-designed play sculptures, picturesque soft play spaces and wildly creative conceptual playgrounds,
- Author: Watts, Emmy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1914314697
- Language: English
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Democracy and Urban Form
$27.95 Read moreIf discourse is the foundation of democracy, how can the design of our cities empower and enable discourse?
“Never have the potential political consequences of architecture been greater, and never has- Series: Sternberg Press / The Incidents
- Author: Sennett, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 191560947X
- Language: English
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Radical Atlas of Ferguson, USA
$34.00 Add to cartFerguson, Missouri, became the epicenter of America’s racial tensions after the 2014 murder of Michael Brown and the protests that followed in its wake.
Though this suburb just outside St. Louis might
- Author: Heyda, Patty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1953368751
- Language: English
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Empire Builders: An Illustrated History of the Rise and Fall of Cleveland’s Van Sweringen Brothers
$45.00 Read moreEmpire Builders tells the story of Oris P. and Mantis J. Sweringen, two brothers from Wooster, Ohio, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Although they were born into abject poverty,
- Author: Pacini, Lauren R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0253069823
- Language: English
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Transit Tourism: The Iconic Art and Design of 22 Subway Systems Around the World
$34.99 Add to cartIn Transit Tourism: The Iconic Art and Design of 22 Subway Systems around the World, readers embark on a visual journey through the world’s bustling subway systems, where each station tells a story of… [more below]
- Author: Seltzer, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 28 2025
- ISBN10: 764369032
- Language: English
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A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
$18.95 Add to cart- Author: Podemski, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0807016152
- Language: English
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Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
$32.00 Add to cartAn extraordinary investigation into shade, bringing together science, history, urban design, and social justice to change the way we think about a critical natural resource that should be available to… [more below]
- Author: Bloch, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0593242769
- Language: English
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Planning Progress: Lessons from Shoghi Effendi
$19.99 Add to cartThis is a practical examination of the idea that planning as a skill is essential to human progress, but that some individual exemplify this skill more than others, and furthermore that such individua
- Author: Manning Thomas, June
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0920904319
- Language: English
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Paris, City of Dreams: Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Creation of Paris
$32.93 Add to cart“Armchair historians in particular will appreciate McAuliffe’s readable yet detailed history supplemented with illustrations and bibliography.” Booklist, Starred Review
Acclaimed historian Mary McAulif
- Author: McAuliffe, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1538181967
- 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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The Well-Designed Accessory Dwelling Unit: Fitting Great Architecture Into Small Spaces
$34.99 Add to cartADUs offer homeowners opportunities to host family and friends, add studio or office space, or generate passive income through a long-term rental on their existing property. Combine these practical be… [more below]
- Author: Lee, Lydia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0764367390
- 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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Autonomous Urbanism: Towards a New Transitopia
$39.95 Add to cartAutomated vehicles (AVs) are beginning to appear on our roads. Their arrival represents the next disruptive technological innovation to our mobility systems.
In a moment in which the contemporary con- Author: Shieh, Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1957183632
- Language: English
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The Urbanist: Dan Doctoroff and the Rise of New York
$65.00 Read moreAn unprecedented look at the central role one man played in the transformation of New York City
Daniel L. Doctoroff served as New York City’s Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding betwee
- Author: Bloomberg, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 490
- Publish Date: April 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1580936326
- Language: English
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Power of Landscape: Novel Narratives to Engage with the Energy Transition
$60.00 Read moreHow renewable energy technologies can transform our landscape for the better
The energy transition is in full swing: across the globe, windmills and solar panels are taking over from fossil fuels. But
- Author: Stremke, Sven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 28 2023
- ISBN10: 9462087164
- Language: English
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How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City
$19.99 Read moreAt the beginning of the seventeenth century, Paris was known for isolated monuments but had not yet put its brand on urban space. Like other European cities, it was still emerging from its medieval pa
- Author: Dejean, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 07 2015
- ISBN10: 162040768X
- Language: English
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African Water Cities
$50.00 Read moreA multipronged study of Africa’s innovative approaches to communal living in the face of climate change and urbanization
This volume presents essays, stories, research and photographs showing how Afric
- Author: Adeyemi, Kunle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 9462087768
- Language: English
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Log Cabins and Outbuildings: A Guide to Building Homes, Barns, Greenhouses, and More
$14.99 Read moreBuilding and constructing barns, outhouses, A-frames, greenhouses, outdoor recreation sites, boat landings, and more.
Homesteading is a lifestyle that people around the world gravitate toward–and fo- Author: The United States Department of Agricult
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1510739815
- Language: English
