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  • The Culture of Cities

    by Lewis Mumford ...
    Series series Forbidden Bookshelf
    A classic work advocating ecological urban planning—from a civic visionary and former architecture critic for the New Yorker.Considered among the greatest works of Lewis Mumford—a prolific historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and longtime architecture critic for the New Yorker—The Culture of Cities is a call for communal action to “rebuild the urban world on a sounder human ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spatial Revolution

    Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union

    Spatial Revolution is the first comparative parallel study of Soviet architecture and planning to create a narrative arc across a vast geography. The narrative binds together three critical industrial-residential projects in Baku, Magnitogorsk, and Kharkiv, built during the first fifteen years of the Soviet project and followed attentively worldwide after the collapse of capitalist markets in 1929 ... Read more

    Free

  • 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

  • Cities

    by John Reader ...
    A “vastly entertaining” history of urban centers—from the ancient world to today (Time).From the earliest example in the Ancient Near East to today’s teeming centers of compressed existence, such as Mumbai and Tokyo, cities are home to half the planet’s population and consume nearly three-quarters of its natural resources. They can be seen as natural cultural artifacts—evidence of our civic spirit ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Curbing Traffic

    The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives

    In 2019, mobility experts Melissa and Chris Bruntlett began a new adventure in Delft in the Netherlands. They had packed up their family in Vancouver, BC, and moved to Delft to experience the biking city as residents rather than as visitors. A year earlier they had become unofficial ambassadors for Dutch cities with the publication of their first book Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Arbitrary Lines

    How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It

    by M. Nolan Gray ...
    What 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-dependent development?It’s time for America to move beyond zoning, argues city planner M. Nolan Gray in Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It. With lively explanations and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Building the Cycling City

    The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality

    In car-clogged urban areas across the world, the humble bicycle is enjoying a second life as a legitimate form of transportation. City officials are rediscovering it as a multi-pronged (or -spoked) solution to acute, 21st-century problems, including affordability, obesity, congestion, climate change, inequity, and social isolation. As the world’s foremost cycling nation, the Netherlands is the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Root Shock

    How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, And What We Can Do About It

    Root Shock examines 3 different U.S. cities to unmask the crippling results of decades-old disinvestment in communities of color and the urban renewal practices that ultimately destroyed these neighborhoods for the advantage of developers and the elite.Like a sequel to the prescient warnings of urbanist Jane Jacobs, Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove reveals the disturbing effects of decades of ... Read more

    $18.99 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 Measure of Manhattan: The Tumultuous Career and Surprising Legacy of John Randel, Jr., Cartographer, Surveyor, Inventor

    "Randel is endlessly fascinating, and Holloway’s biography tells his life with great skill." —Steve Weinberg, USA TodayJohn Randel Jr. (1787–1865) was an eccentric and flamboyant surveyor. Renowned for his inventiveness as well as for his bombast and irascibility, Randel was central to Manhattan’s development but died in financial ruin. Telling Randel’s engrossing and dramatic life story for the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Terrarium City

    This exposition presents the blueprint for a future city. Its detailed design is a complete overhaul of contemporary layouts and bestows numerous new benefits. Some of the highlights are: every residential property overlooks a park; pedestrians never cross the path of a vehicle; commuters travel from point to point without encountering an intersection; nobody walks from their car to their ... Read more

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  • If Venice Dies

    Translated by André Naffis-Sahely ...
    “This powerful book of cultural criticism” by the renowned art historian “shines a harsh light on” a historic city’s destruction in the name of profit (The Washington Post).What is Venice worth? To whom do its irreplaceable treasures belong? This eloquent book by art historian Salvatore Settis urgently poses these questions, igniting a new debate about urban stewardship and cultural patrimony at ... Read more

    $12.99 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

  • 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

  • Deep Oakland

    How Geology Shaped a City

    by Andrew Alden ...
    A San Francisco Chronicle BestsellerRead the rocks as only a geologist can, with this deep drill-down into Oakland’s geological history and its impacts on the city’s urban present."This book has turned me into a newcomer to my own city, but has also changed the way I will view any landscape. I can think of few greater gifts than that."—Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing"Spending time with ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra-Thin

    Architecture and Capitalism in the 21st Century

    "Soules's excellent book makes sense of the capitalist forces we all feel but cannot always name… Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra Thin arms architects and the general public with an essential understanding of how capitalism makes property. Required reading for those who think tomorrow can be different from today."— Jack Self, coeditor of Real Estates: Life Without DebtIn Icebergs, Zombies, and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Inclusive Transportation

    A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities

    Transportation planners, engineers, and policymakers in the US face the monumental task of righting the wrongs of their predecessors while charting the course for the next generation. This task requires empathy while pushing against forces in the industry that are resistant to change. How do you change a system that was never designed to be equitable? How do you change a system that continues to ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • A City Is Not a Computer

    Other Urban Intelligences

    Series Book 2 - Places Books
    A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computersComputational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences. Yet these models limit our understanding of what we can know about a city. A City Is Not a Computer reveals how cities ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Taming Manhattan

    Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City

    George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental HistoryVSNY Book Award, New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in AmericaHornblower Award for a First Book, New York Society LibraryJames Broussard Best First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American RepublicWith pigs roaming the streets and cows foraging in the Battery, antebellum Manhattan would have ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Settling for Less

    The Planned Resettlement of Israel's Negev Bedouin

    Series Book 3 - Space and Place
    The resettlement of the Negev Bedouin (Israel) has been wrought with controversy since its inception in the 1960s. Presenting evidence from a two-decade period, the author addresses how the changes that took place over the past sixty to seventy years have served the needs and interests of the State rather than those of Bedouin community at large. While town living fostered improvements in social ... Read more

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  • 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

  • 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

  • City

    A Guidebook for the Urban Age

    by P.D. Smith ...
    For the first time in the history of the planet, more than half the population - 3.3 billion people - are now living in cities. Two hundred years ago only 3 per cent of the world's population were urbanites, a figure that had remained fairly stable (give or take the occasional plague) for about 1000 years. By 2030, 60 per cent of us will be urban dwellers.City is the ultimate handbook for the ... Read more

    $22.99 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