Urban & Regional
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Houston 2020: America’s Boom Town – An Extreme Close Up
$29.99 Add to cartIn Houston 2020: America’s Boom Town – An Extreme Close Up, Ralph Bivins examines the entrepreneurial mecca that became one of nation’s fastest-growing cities. With deft forensics and informed observa
- Author: Bivins, Ralph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: March 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1943307067
- Language: English
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The Austin-San Antonio Megaregion: Opportunity and Challenge in the Lone Star State
$28.00 Add to cartA cascade of recent reports has described unprecedented growth in every category measured–population, employment, new business starts, manufacturing indices, traffic counts, in-migration, school att
- Series: Texas Experience, Books Made Possible by Sarah ’84 and Mark
- Author: Cisneros, Henry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1648433383
- Language: English
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Start in Your Own Backyard: Transforming Where We Live with Radical Common Sense
$30.00 Add to cartIf it’s not working change it . . . one backyard at a time.
Visionary placemaker Steve Nygren chronicles the rise of Serenbe, a pioneering model in biophilic living outside Atlanta, and charts a path- Author: Nygren, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1637747438
- Language: English
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Cities in the Sky: The Quest to Build the World’s Tallest Skyscrapers
$32.50 Add to cartFrom one of the world’s top experts on the economics of skyscrapers–a “fascinating” (Daily Mail, London) and “informative” (Publishers Weekly) account of the ever-growing quest for super tall buildin… [more below]
- Author: Barr, Jason M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1982174218
- Language: English
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The 15-Minute City: A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet
$28.00 Add to cartA fresh and innovative perspective on urban issues and creating sustainable cities
In The 15-Minute City: A Solution for Saving Our Time and Our Planet, human city pioneer and international scientifi
- Author: Moreno, Carlos
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1394228147
- Language: English
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The Art of Community, Second Edition: 7 Principles for Belonging
$25.95 Add to cartSecond edition of this bestselling book on creating robust, thriving, positive communities using seven ancient principles any organization can follow.
Now with 25% new content, including a chapter on- Author: Vogl, Charles H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9798890570192
- Language: English
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Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence
$27.50 Add to cartWhat if everything we understood about gun violence was wrong?
In 2007, economist Jens Ludwig moved to the South Side of Chicago to research two big questions: Why does gun violence happen, and is t- Author: Ludwig, Jens
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0226828131
- Language: English
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Seattle in the Great Depression: A History of Business, Labor, and Politics Drawn from Local Chronicles
$24.95 Read moreCaptured from Great Depression-era Seattle newspapers, this narrative history of the city’s business, labor, and political life traces a turbulent decade that scarred a generation and defined years of
- Author: Ramsey, Bruce A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: January 31 2025
- ISBN10: 0874224322
- Language: English
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Harvard Square: A Love Story
$27.95 Add to cart“Harvard Square isn’t what it used to be.” Spend any time there, and you’re bound to hear that lament. Yet people have been saying the very same thing for well over a century. So what does it really m
- Author: Turco, Catherine J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0231209282
- 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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Club Foot: The Quest for a Better Life for Millions of Children
$19.99 Read moreClubfoot: The Quest for a Better Life for Millions of Children tells the little-known story of the world’s most common skeletal birth defect and development of a revolutionary method for eliminating l… [more below]
- Author: Cook, Thomas M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: December 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1948509091
- Language: English
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Sideways: The City Google Couldn’t Buy
$28.95 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER
FINALIST FOR THE WRITERS’ TRUST SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING From the Globe and Mail tech reporter who revealed countless controversies while following the Sidewal- Author: O’Kane, Josh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1039000789
- 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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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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Glass, Paper, Beans: Revolutions on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things
$19.00 Add to cartOnce upon a time we knew the origins of things: what piece of earth the potato on our dinner plate came from, which well our water was dipped from, who cobbled our shoes, and whose cow provided the le… [more below]
- Author: Cohen, Leah Hager
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 17 1998
- ISBN10: 038549257X
- Language: English
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Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
$26.00 Read moreA new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern w
- Author: Marohn, Charles L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1119564816
- Language: English
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She Who Wins
$25.00 Read moreIf these past years have taught us anything, it’s that so many women are stuck–stuck in jobs they despise, marriages that are joyless, roles they didn’t ask for, and even in their own heads. The pand… [more below]
- Author: Bauer, Ren?e
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1953027083
- Language: English
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Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time
$30.00 Add to cartAn “essential and engaging ” (Richard Florida) exploration of social decline in America: its true causes and the practical steps each of us can take to combat it, starting with the places we call home… [more below]
- Author: Kaplan, Seth D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0316521396
- Language: English
