Urban & Land Use Planning
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The Pandemic Effect: Ninety Experts on Immunizing the Built Environment
$30.00 Read moreIn The Pandemic Effect, 90 leading architects, designers, materials scientists, and health officials reflect on the influence of COVID-19 on buildings and cities–and propose solutions to safeguard t… [more below]
- Author: Brownell, Blaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1648961649
- Language: English
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Becoming Philadelphia: How an Old American City Made Itself New Again
$36.95 Read moreOnce dismissed as a rusting industrial has-been–the “Next Detroit”–Philadelphia has enjoyed an astonishing comeback in the 21st century. Over the past two decades, Inga Saffron has served as the pre… [more below]
- Author: Saffron, Inga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 12 2020
- ISBN10: 197881707X
- Language: English
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Living Tradition: The Architecture and Urbanism of Hugh Petter
$65.00 Read more– For the first time, Hugh Petter – one of the most successful traditional architects of his generation – reveals the journey behind the buildings he has designed and collaborated on. This book showca
- Author: Aslet, Clive
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1916355455
- Language: English
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Neighbourhoods for the Future: A Plea for a Social and Ecological Urbanism
$32.50 Read moreA plea for the social efficacy of the neighborhood and its ecology
The pressure is on: people move to cities in ever-growing numbers. So we build new neighborhoods, we transform old industrial areas an
- Author: Hajer, Maarten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 9492095785
- Language: English
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Hybrid Factory, Hybrid City
$39.95 Add to cartNow that urban industry is often clean, green, small, and quiet it can be integrated at the city and building scale with other uses.
Although little explored as of yet, we don’t yet know what this ne- Author: Rappaport, Nina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1638400318
- Language: English
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Sewer
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
What can underground pipes tell us about human eating habits and the spread or containment of- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Hester, Jessica Leigh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 03 2022
- ISBN10: 150137950X
- Language: English
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Sharing Tokyo: Artifice and the Social World
$44.95 Read moreSharing Tokyo is a collection of essays and drawings on the theme of sharing the urban space of Tokyo.
The book questions how “artifice” and the “social world” can be mutually and constructively integ
- Author: Mostafavi, Mohsen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 428
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1638400601
- Language: English
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Grave
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Grave takes a ground-level view of how burial sites have transformed over time and how they c- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Meier, Allison C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1501383655
- Language: English
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Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience, and Co-Create the Citie S We Need
$19.95 Read moreHow the emerging field of speculative futures can help us dream–and build–better, sustainable, and more equitable cities for everyone.
Speculative futures–design approaches that help us visualize n- Author: Hoffman, Johanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1623177367
- Language: English
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The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning
$22.95 Read moreIn this 1929 classic, the great architect Le Corbusier turned from the design of houses to the planning of cities, surveying urban problems and venturing bold new solutions. The book shocked and thril
- Series: Dover Architecture
- Author: Le Corbusier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0486253325
- Language: English
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Lost Burlington, Vermont
$23.99 Read moreSince Burlington was first settled over two centuries ago it has seen the establishment of a rich historic and architectural legacy, much of which has been lost. The Strong and State Theaters, St. Pau… [more below]
- Series: Lost
- Author: Blanchard, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1467152293
- 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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Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small-Scale Community in a Large-Scale World
$34.95 Add to cartA 2012 Nautilus Silver Award Winner
Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small Scale Community in a Large Scale World introduces an antidote to faceless, placeless sprawl — small scale neighborhoods where
- Author: Chapin, Ross
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 29 2011
- ISBN10: 160085107X
- Language: English
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A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places
$30.00 Add to cartA genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto for rewilding the city, the self, and society.
A Natural History of Empty Lots is a genre-defying work of nature writing, literary non- Author: Brown, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1643263366
- 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
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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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Smooth City: Against Urban Perfection, Towards Collective Alternatives
$25.00 Read moreHow urban paradigms of efficiency, sanitization and surveillance transform city life into seamless “experience” and erode the non-normative
In cities across the world, a new urban condition is spreadin
- Author: Boer, Rene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 9493246205
- 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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Sixteenth Street NW: Washington, DC’s Avenue of Ambitions
$34.95 Read moreDeFerrari and Sefton have created a highly illustrated architectural “biography” of one of DC’s most important boulevards. From the front door of the White House, this north-south artery runs through
- Author: Deferrari, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1647121566
- Language: English
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Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City
$24.95 Read moreTokyo is one of the most vibrant and livable cities on the planet, a megacity that somehow remains intimate and adaptive. Com-pared to Western metropolises like New York or Paris, however, few outside… [more below]
- Author: Almazán, Jorge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1951541324
- Language: English
