Urban & Land Use Planning
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A Natural History of North American Trees
$22.95 Add to cart“A volume for a lifetime” is how The New Yorker described the first of Donald Culross Peatie’s two books about American trees published in the 1950s. In this one-volume edition, modern readers are int… [more below]
- Series: Donald Culross Peattie Library
- Author: Peattie, Donald Culross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 10 2013
- ISBN10: 1595341668
- Language: English
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Lost Towns of the Swift River Valley: Drowned by the Quabbin
$23.99 Read moreIn April 1938, Swift River Valley residents held a farewell ball to mark the demise of the quintessential New England town of Enfield and its three smaller neighbors, Greenwich, Dana, and Prescott.
Th
- Series: Lost
- Author: Palladino, Elena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1467147974
- Language: English
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Smart Cities
$19.95 Read moreKey concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts for understanding smart cities, along with discussions of both drawbacks and benefits of this approach to urban problems.
Over the past ten
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Halegoua, Germaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0262538059
- Language: English
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Land Development
$55.00 Add to cartLand developers know that success hinges on knowledge, planning, and experience. Whether you are new to the field or are looking to brush up your knowledge, Land Development is your comprehensive reso… [more below]
- Author: Kone, Daisy Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0867186097
- Language: English
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South Bronx Rising: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City
$34.95 Read moreThirty-five years after this landmark of urban history first captured the rise, fall, and rebirth of a once-thriving New York City borough–ravaged in the 1970s and ’80s by disinvestment and fires, th… [more below]
- Author: Jonnes, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1531501214
- Language: English
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The Highest and Best Use Playbook: Finding the Unfair Advantage Over your Real Estate Competition
$23.99 Add to cartI can’t find any deals.
This market is too competitive.
The prices are too high.
Construction costs are too expensive.
I have no time.
Does this sound like someone you know? It is perspectives like th
- Author: Carr, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: January 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1738721507
- Language: English
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A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
$29.95 Add to cartFrom the Haitian-style “shotgun” houses of the 19th century to the lavish high-rises of the 21st century, a walk through the streets of America’s neighborhoods that reveals the rich history–and futur… [more below]
- Author: Podemski, Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0807007781
- Language: English
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9 Ways to Make Housing for People
$60.00 Read moreCombining how-to with why-to, 9 Ways to Make Housing for People lays out the core principles that David Baker Architects uses to help communities develop great urban housing.
Written for architects a- Author: Architects, David Baker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: December 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1935935402
- Language: English
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The Living City: Why Cities Don’t Need to Be Green to Be Great
$30.00 Add to cartA sociologist explores why “green cities” won’t fix everything–and urges us to celebrate urban life as it is
Everywhere you look, cities are getting greener. The general assumption is clear: if som- Author: Fitzgerald, Des
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1541674502
- Language: English
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A Burglar’s Guide to the City
$19.00 Add to cartEncompassing nearly 2,000 years of heists and tunnel jobs, break-ins and escapes, A Burglar’s Guide to the City offers an unexpected blueprint to the criminal possibilities in the world all around us.
- Author: Manaugh, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0374117268
- Language: English
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Too High and Too Steep: Reshaping Seattle’s Topography
$19.95 Add to cartResidents and visitors in today’s Seattle would barely recognize the landscape that its founding settlers first encountered. As the city grew, its leaders and inhabitants dramatically altered its topo
- Author: Williams, David B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0295999403
- Language: English
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A History of Boston
$55.00 Read moreBoston is today one of the world’s greatest cities, first in higher education, hospitals, life science companies, and sports teams. It was the home of the Great Puritan Migration, the American Revolut
- Author: Dain, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1942155611
- Language: English
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The Birth of a Building: From Conception to Delivery
$19.95 Add to cartSummary
We spend most of our lives in buildings and see new ones being created around us all the time. But the number of people and disciplines involved in a building’s creation make it hard to underst
- Author: Stevens, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: October 09, 2019
- ISBN10: 0578553651
- 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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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
$20.00 Add to cartCompassionate, bracingly indignant, and keenly detailed, a monumental work that provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities.
“The most refreshing, provacative, stimulating- Author: Jacobs, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 01 1992
- ISBN10: 067974195X
- Language: English
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How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
$29.00 Add to cartNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdom and humanity, How Infrastructure Works is a masterpiece.” –Ed Yong, author of An Immense World A- Author: Chachra, Deb
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593086597
- Language: English
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
$75.00 Add to cartYou can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a worksh… [more below]
- Series: Center for Environmental Structure
- Author: Alexander, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1216
- Publish Date: August 25 1977
- ISBN10: 0195019199
- 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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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
