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  • Order without Design

    How Markets Shape Cities

    by Alain Bertaud ...
    An argument that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations and infrastructure.Urban planning is a craft learned through practice. Planners make rapid decisions that have an immediate impact on the ground—the width of streets, the minimum size of land parcels, the heights of buildings. The language they use to describe ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Fragile Neighborhoods

    Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time

    An “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.The neighborhoods we live in impact our lives in so many ways: they determine who we know, what resources and opportunities we have access to, the quality of schools our kids go to, our sense of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Strong Towns

    A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity

    A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizesStrong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • San Fransicko

    Why Progressives Ruin Cities

    National bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America’s faltering cities.Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse.Michael Shellenberger has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for thirty years. During that time, he advocated for the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity

    In a beautiful, durable volume suited to a lifetime of use, here is the all-in-one "bible" on how to harness the creative powers of your mind to achieve a life of prosperity-packaged in a handsome display box with a ribbon bookmark. The Prosperity Bible is a one-of-a-kind resource that collects the greatest moneymaking secrets of authors from every field-religion, finance, philosophy, and self ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Birth of a Building

    From Conception to Delivery

    by Ben Stevens ...
    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 understand the process as a whole. The Birth of a Building is an introduction to those aspects of finance, law, urban planning, architecture, engineering, construction, and real estate development which underlie ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Summary of Putin Country

    by Anne Garrels | Includes Analysis

    Summary of Putin Country by Anne Garrels | Includes AnalysisPreview:Putin Country is an account of foreign correspondent Anne Garrels’s travels in, and study of, Chelyabinsk, Russia. Chelyabinsk is a region of south central Russia located at the southern end of the Ural mountain chain, on the border of Europe and Asia. Although cosmopolitan Moscow is familiar to European and Western observers, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Good Food Revolution

    Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities

    by Will Allen ...
    A pioneering urban farmer and MacArthur “Genius Award” winner points the way to building a new food system that can feed—and heal—broken communities.The son of a sharecropper, Will Allen had no intention of ever becoming a farmer himself. But after years in professional basketball and as an executive for Kentucky Fried Chicken and Procter & Gamble, Allen cashed in his retirement fund for a two ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The New Urban Crisis

    How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It

    In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, demonstrates how the same forces that power the growth ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity

    In a beautiful, durable volume suited to a lifetime of use, here is the all-in-one "bible" on how to harness the creative powers of your mind to achieve a life of prosperity-packaged in a handsome display box with a ribbon bookmark. The Prosperity Bible is a one-of-a-kind resource that collects the greatest moneymaking secrets of authors from every field-religion, finance, philosophy, and self ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The End of the Suburbs

    Where the American Dream Is Moving

    “The government in the past created one American Dream at the expense of almost all others: the dream of a house, a lawn, a picket fence, two children, and a car. But there is no single American Dream anymore.”For nearly 70 years, the suburbs were as American as apple pie. As the middle class ballooned and single-family homes and cars became more affordable, we flocked to pre-fabricated ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Dubai

    Gilded Cage

    by Syed Ali ...
    This revealing portrait of the famously wealthy Persian Gulf city investigates the human cost of its miraculous rise to global prominence.In less than two decades, Dubai has transformed itself from an obscure territory of the United Arab Emirates into a global center for business, tourism, and luxury living. With astonishing skyscrapers and tax-free incomes, its rulers have made Dubai into a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Nature of Economies

    by Jane Jacobs ...
    From the revered author of the classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities comes a new book that will revolutionize the way we think about the economy.Starting from the premise that human beings "exist wholly within nature as part of natural order in every respect," Jane Jacobs has focused her singular eye on the natural world in order to discover the fundamental models for a vibrant ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Think and Grow Rich - 1937 Original Masterpiece

    by Napoleon Hill ...
    The most famous of all teachers of success spent a fortune and the better part of a lifetime of effort to produce the Law of Success philosophy that forms the basis of his books and that is so powerfully summarized and explained for the general public in this book. In Think and Grow Rich, Hill draws on stories of Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and other millionaires of his generation ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rise of the Creative Class

    World-renowned urbanist Richard Florida's bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century -- now updated with a new prefaceIn his modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class, urbanist Richard Florida identifies the emergence of a new social class reshaping the twenty-first century's economy, geography, and workplace. This Creative Class is made up of engineers ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Working Class Majority

    America's Best Kept Secret

    by Michael Zweig ...
    In the second edition of his essential book—which incorporates vital new information and new material on immigration, race, gender, and the social crisis following 2008—Michael Zweig warns that by allowing the working class to disappear into categories of "middle class" or "consumers," we also allow those with the dominant power, capitalists, to vanish among the rich. Economic relations then ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Transpacific Experiment

    How China and California Collaborate and Compete for Our Future

    by Matt Sheehan ...
    A timely, vital account of California’s unique relationship with China, told through the exploits of the entrepreneurs, activists, and politicians driving transformations with international implications.Tensions between the world’s superpowers are mounting in Washington, D.C., and Beijing. Yet, the People's Republic of China and the state of California have built deep and interdependent ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Sideways

    The City Google Couldn't Buy

    by Josh O'Kane ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE WRITERS' TRUST SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGFrom the Globe and Mail tech reporter who revealed countless controversies while following the Sidewalk Labs fiasco in Toronto, an uncompromising investigation into the bigger story and what the Google sister company's failure there reveals about Big Tech, data privacy and the monetization of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Sustainable Energy Access for Communities

    Rethinking the Energy Agenda for Cities

    Edited by Aminata Fall, Reinhard Haas ...
    This open access book examines the transition to sustainable energy systems in emerging cities. Experts from around the world present case studies from different countries and discuss efforts were needed for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The authors look into the issue of environment vs. economics and discuss the question of whether the energy transition goal ... Read more

    Free

  • Disrupting D.C.

    The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City

    A panoramic account of the urban politics and deep social divisions that gave rise to UberThe first city to fight back against Uber, Washington, D.C., was also the first city where such resistance was defeated. It was here that the company created a playbook for how to deal with intransigent regulators and to win in the realm of local politics. The city already serves as the nation’s capital. Now, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Streetwise Independent Consulting

    Your Comprehensive Guide to Building Your Own Consulting Business

    Series series Streetwise
    A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions

    Results of SSPCR 2019—Open Access Contributions

    Series series Green Energy and Technology
    This open access book offers a selection of research papers and case studies presented at the 3rd international conference “Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions”, held in December 2019 in Bolzano, Italy, and explores the concept of smart and sustainable planning, including top contributions from academics, policy makers, consultants and other professionals.Innovation processes ... Read more

    Free

  • America's Frozen Neighborhoods

    The Abuse of Zoning

    This book examines local zoning policies and suggests reforms that states and the federal government might adopt to counter the negative effects of exclusionary zoningIn this book, Robert Ellickson asserts that local zoning policies are the most consequential regulatory program in the United States. Many localities have created barriers to the development of less costly forms of housing. Numerous ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Emerald Cities

    Urban Sustainability and Economic Development

    Here is a refreshing look at how American cities are leading the way toward greener, cleaner, and more sustainable forms of economic development. In Emerald Cities, Joan Fitzgerald shows how in the absence of a comprehensive national policy, cities like Chicago, New York, Portland, San Francisco, and Seattle have taken the lead in addressing the interrelated environmental problems of global ... Read more

    $47.99 USD