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  • Hollow Land

    Israel's Architecture of Occupation

    by Eyal Weizman ...
    Acclaimed exploration of the political space created by Israel’s colonial occupationThis new edition of the classic work on the politics of architecture—and the architecture of politics—appears on the fiftieth anniversary of the Six-Day War, which expanded Israel’s domination over Palestinian lands.From the tunnels of Gaza to the militarized airspace of the Occupied Territories, Eyal Weizman ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Urban Raptors

    Ecology and Conservation of Birds of Prey in Cities

    Raptors are an unusual success story of wildness thriving in the heart of our cities—they have developed substantial populations around the world in recent decades. But there are deeper issues around how these birds make their urban homes. New research provides insight into the role of raptors as vital members of the urban ecosystem and future opportunities for protection, management, and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Retrofitting Suburbia, Updated Edition

    Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs

    Updated with a new Introduction by the authors and a foreword by Richard Florida, this book is a comprehensive guide book for urban designers, planners, architects, developers, environmentalists, and community leaders that illustrates how existing suburban developments can be redesigned into more urban and more sustainable places. While there has been considerable attention by practitioners and ... Read more

    $44.00 USD

  • City on a Grid

    How New York Became New York

    Winner of the 2015New York City Book AwardThe never-before-told story of the grid that ate ManhattanYou either love it or hate it, but nothing says New York like the street grid of Manhattan. This is its story.Praise for City on a Grid"The best account to date of the process by which an odd amalgamation of democracy and capitalism got written into New York's physical DNA."--New York Time... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Pattern Language

    Towns, Buildings, Construction

    Series series Center for Environmental Structure Series
    You 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 workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Right of Way

    Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America

    by Angie Schmitt ...
    The face of the pedestrian safety crisis looks a lot like Ignacio Duarte-Rodriguez. The 77-year old grandfather was struck in a hit-and-run crash while trying to cross a high-speed, six-lane road without crosswalks near his son’s home in Phoenix, Arizona. He was one of the more than 6,000 people killed while walking in America in 2018. In the last ten years, there has been a 50 percent increase in ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Building Small

    A Toolkit for Real Estate Entrepreneurs, Civic Leaders, and Great Communities

    by Jim Heid ...
    Small-scale, incremental, real estate development offers a growing alternative to more conventional approaches. It helps create more authentic places, acts as a magnet for new investment, helps attract talent based employment, all while fostering a more resilient local economy. This in turn helps communities better differentiate themselves when seeking new investment in an increasingly competitive ... Read more

    $44.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Human Transit

    How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives

    Public transit is a powerful tool for addressing a huge range of urban problems, including traffic congestion and economic development as well as climate change. But while many people support transit in the abstract, it's often hard to channel that support into good transit investments. Part of the problem is that transit debates attract many kinds of experts, who often talk past each other. ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Urban Theory

    New critical perspectives

    Edited by Mark Jayne, Kevin Ward ...
    Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives provides an introduction to innovative critical contributions to the field of urban studies. Chapters offer easily accessible and digestible reviews, and as a reference text Urban Theory is a comprehensive and integrated primer which covers topics necessary for a full understanding of recent theoretical engagements with cities.The introduction outlines the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • How Paris Became Paris

    The Invention of the Modern City

    by Joan DeJean ...
    "This lively history charts the growth of Paris from a city of crowded alleyways and irregular buildings into a modern marvel."--New YorkerAt 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 past. But in a mere century Paris would be transformed into the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Permaculture City

    Regenerative Design for Urban, Suburban, and Town Resilience

    by Toby Hemenway ...
    Permaculture is more than just the latest buzzword; it offers positive solutions for many of the environmental and social challenges confronting us. And nowhere are those remedies more needed and desired than in our cities.The Permaculture City provides a new way of thinking about urban living, with practical examples for creating abundant food, energy security, close-knit communities, local and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • More Urban Less Poor

    An Introduction to Urban Development and Management

    A world more urban...The world is undergoing massive urbanization, and is projected to increase from three to over four billion city dwellers, mostly in the developing world, within 15 years. This historic shift is producing dramatic effects on human well-being and the environment....but less poorUnplanned shanty-towns without basic services are not an inevitable consequence of urbanization and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD $32.99 USD

  • What Goes Up

    The Right and Wrongs to the City

    A radical architect examines the changing fortunes of the contemporary cityMichael Sorkin is one of the most forthright and engaging architectural writers in the world. In What Goes Up he takes to task the public officials, developers, “civic” organizations, and other heroes of big money, who have made of Sorkin’s beloved New York a city of glittering towers and increasing inequality. He unpacks ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Radical Cities

    Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture

    What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city?In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and alternative communities already answering these questions. From Brazil to Venezuela, and from Mexico to Argentina, McGuirk discovers the people and ideas shaping the way cities are evolving.Ever since the mid ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Better Buses, Better Cities

    How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit

    "Better Buses, Better Cities is likely the best book ever written on improving bus service in the United States." — Randy Shaw, Beyond Chron"The ultimate roadmap for how to make the bus great again in your city." — Spacing"The definitive volume on how to make bus frequent, fast, reliable, welcoming, and respected..." — StreetsblogImagine a bus system that is fast, frequent, and reliable—what would ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Cities Under Siege

    The New Military Urbanism

    Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces the spread of political violence through the sites, spaces, infrastructure and symbols of the world’s rapidly expanding metropolitan areas.Drawing on a wealth of original research, Stephen Graham shows how Western militaries and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Real Estate Law

    Fundamentals for The Development Process

    Unlike existing textbooks written for law students on specific subjects impacting real estate transactions, Real Estate Law: Fundamentals for The Development Process uses "The Development Process" as a framework for understanding how the U.S. legal system regulates, facilitates, and generally impacts real estate transactions and their outcomes.This book not only addresses the nature of specific ... Read more

    $240.99 USD

  • Junkspace with Running Room

    Junkspace first appeared in the Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping (2001), a vast compendium of text, images, and data concerning the consumerist transformation of city and suburb from the first department store to the latest mega mall. The architect Rem Koolhaas itemized in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed. His celebrated jeremiad is updated here and twinned with Running ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Concrete Reveries

    Consciousness and the City

    by Mark Kingwell ...
    In Concrete Reveries, acclaimed philosopher and cultural critic Mark Kingwell offers a thoughtful answer to Socrates’ injunction about the life worth living, using the urban experience to illustrate the dynamic between concreteness and abstraction that operates within us.Witty and authoritative, the book is an exhilarating journey through unexpected terrain. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Smart Cities

    Una visión para el ciudadano

    Series series Acción Empresarial
    Smart Cities es un libro que ayuda a conocer y entender todos los progresos tecnológicos que nos ofrecen las ciudades donde vivimos. Esta revolución tecnológica convierte a nuestras ciudades en ciudades inteligentes gracias a las múltiples conexiones entre personas, procesos, datos y objetos que va a transformarlo todo. Debemos entender qué está ocurriendo, cómo podemos ser parte activa y ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Brooklyn

    The Once and Future City

    An unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to todayAmerica's most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has become an internationally recognized brand in recent decades—celebrated and scorned as one of the hippest destinations in the world. In Brooklyn: The Once and Future City, Thomas J. Campanella unearths ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Social Project

    Housing Postwar France

    by Kenny Cupers ...
    Winner of the 2015 Abbott Lowell Cummings prize from the Vernacular Architecture ForumWinner of the 2015 Sprio Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural HistoriansWinner of the 2016 International Planning History Society Book Prize for European Planning HistoryHonorable Mention: 2016 Wylie Prize in French StudiesIn the three decades following World War II, the French government engaged ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Edifice Complex

    How the Rich and Powerful--and Their Architects--Shape the World

    by Deyan Sudjic ...
    A provocative look at architecture-"exceptionally intelligent and original" (Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World)Deyan Sudjic-"probably the most influential figure in architecture you've never heard of" - argues that architecture, far from being auteur art, must be understood as a naked expression of power. From the grandiose projects of Stalin and Hitler to the "theme park" excess of ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Designing the Modern City

    Urbanism Since 1850

    by Eric Mumford ...
    A comprehensive new survey tracing the global history of urbanism and urban design from the industrial revolution to the present.Written with an international perspective that encourages cross-cultural comparisons, leading architectural and urban historian Eric Mumford presents a comprehensive survey of urbanism and urban design since the industrial revolution. Beginning in the second half of the ... Read more

    $32.99 USD