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  • Job of the Planning Commissioner

    by Albert Solnit ...
    A popular and practical guide on how to be an effective planning commissioner. Filled with checklists and outlines, it's both a good introduction and a handy reference. Includes a training checklist for new commissioners, criteria for keeping a master plan in working order, lists of tools to guide growth, advice on how to deal with professional staff, and dos and don'ts for conducting successful ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Job of the Practicing Planner

    by Albert Solnit ...
    This practical handbook demystifies development review. It explains the tools of local regulation and the technical, bureaucratic, and organizational skills planners need to be effective. Solnit shows how to work with developers, evaluate projects, and use fiscal impact analysis. Includes a section on planning ethics, checklists, and tips on negotiating. Chapters by contributing authors cover ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • Land Use and the Constitution

    Principles for Planning Practice

    This practical handbook explains eight constitutional principles and applies them to real-world planning situations. These statements of principles reflect consensus opinions, but the book also discusses points of dissent. It includes detailed summaries of more than fifty U.S. Supreme Court cases affecting land-use planning, along with a comprehensive table of contents, a cross-referenced index, ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • The Canadian City

    St. John's to Victoria: A Critical Commentary

    by Roger Kemble ...
    Architect and artist Roger Kemble has demonstrated his ideas of urban design with images from sixteen major Canadian cities—among others. He has walked, measured, and sketched their streets, squares and places, scanned their horizons, probed the relationships between structures, land and landscape with unprecedented energy. More significantly, he has reacted to the negative effect that all the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Agriculture Production and Marketing

    by Sandy Rose ...
    Agriculture Continues to be the key industry. It is not only the dominant form of employment but also forms the basis for a way of life for, perhaps, two*thirds of the world’s households. Agriculture being the function of physical, socio-institutional and techno-economic factors which are dynamic in nature, keeps on changing with the basic objective of increasing production and generation of ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Boundaries of the City

    The Architecture of Western Urbanism

    Series series Heritage
    In this study Alan Waterhouse draws on anthropological, social and cultural history, literature, and philosophy to reach an understanding of the roots of Western architecture and city building. He explores the illusion that cities are constructed to impose rational order, an order articulated through urban boundaries. These boundaries, he finds, are shaped around our instinctive fears and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Model Subdivision Regulations

    A major revision of a classic planning text. This book contains a complete model subdivision ordinance for city and county governments as well as more than 100 pages of legal commentary. The model regulations are generally compatible with all state statutes and work in urban, suburban, and rural settings. They show how communities can finance capital facilities, balance new development with ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • L' Architecture des villes

    Inhospitalières, enlaidies, dégradées, les villes alimentent aujourd'hui incertitudes et malaises. Quelles sont les causes profondes de ces dégâts ? Quelles solutions mettre en place ? Comment retrouver la beauté des villes et, avec elle, une véritable urbanité ? À l'heure où se multiplient les politiques à court terme, Ricardo Bofill et Nicolas Véron dessinent une vision d'ensemble de la cité et ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Métapolis

    Ou l’avenir des villes

    Les grandes villes sont le lieu par excellence où les hommes créent, échangent, se rencontrent. Pourtant, on les rend souvent responsables de tous nos maux. François Ascher analyse ici la tendance actuelle à la concentration des hommes, des activités et des richesses dans les métropoles. Est-elle généralisée ? Quelles formes concrètes prend-elle ? Les nouveaux modes de communication vont-ils l ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Cities on the Rebound: A Vision for Urban America

    Author Bill Hudnut draws on his past experience as mayor of Indianapolis to describe his vision for dealing with diversity, encouraging sustainable development, finding alternatives to sprawl, managing technological change, regional collaboration, improving government efficiency, and more. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • East/West

    A Guide to Where People Live in Downtown Toronto

    Let's say you want to know which famous Canadian poet lived in the Waverley Hotel for seven years, constantly changing rooms in fear of RCMP bugs. Or you live at 44 Walmer and want to know what on earth they were thinking with those balconies. Or you want to know what's behind (or underneath!) that giant O hanging over Harbord at Spadina. These things were troubling us, too, so we assembled East ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Changer la ville

    Pour une nouvelle urbanité

    Après vingt ans de politique de la ville, on constate aujourd’hui que la ségrégation n’a cessé de croître, que la mixité sociale n’a cessé de régresser et que dans nombre de quartiers la ghettoïsation progresse. Jean-Pierre Sueur propose une relecture critique des politiques correctrices de la ville mises en œuvre depuis plusieurs années et indique les voies possibles pour s’attaquer enfin aux ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Urban Planning in a Changing World

    The Twentieth Century Experience

    by Freestone ...
    Urban planning in today's world is inextricably linked to the processes of mass urbanization and modernization which have transformed our lives over the last hundred years. Written by leading experts and commentators from around the world, this collection of original essays will form an unprecedented critical survey of the state of urban planning a ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • Residential Streets

    Taking a practical approach to planning and designing streets in master-planned, new urbanist, and other subdivisions, this book offers a fresh look at street widths, geometrics, traffic flow, intersections, drainage systems, and pavement. ... Read more

    $48.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Place Making

    Developing Town Centers, Main Streets, and Urban Villages

    Addressing one of the hottest trends in real estate—the development of town centers and urban villages with mixed uses in pedestrian-friendly settings—this book will help navigate through the unique design and development issues and reveal how to make all elements work together. ... Read more

    $84.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Recoveries and Reclamations

    This second volume of the series 'Advances in Art & Urban Futures' brings together contributions from artists, sociologists, architects and cultural theorists in addressing the recoveries and reclamations being made within urban and rural landscapes as a result of the fallout of redevelopment in the twentyfirst century. Recoveries and Reclamations addresses pertinent issues facing all those ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Cultural Politics in the Third World

    First Published in 1999. This book does not aim to offer a new or radically different interpretation of the ongoing debate over cultural geography. Kamrava states nor does it seek to present a universal theory of what Third World countries have done or ought to do as they navigate the political, economic and sociocultural traumas of development. Instead, it tries to place culture in its proper ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Big Plans

    The Allure and Folly of Urban Design

    “Similar in spirit to Lewis Mumford’s The City in History and Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities . . . wonderful, funny, idiosyncratic.” —Frederick R. Steiner, author of The Living LandscapeBig Plans: The Allure and Folly of Urban Design springs from the idea that human aspirations for the city tend to overstate the role of rationality in public life. Inspired by the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Planning in Postmodern Times

    Series series RTPI Library Series
    Postmodern social theory has provided significant insights into our understanding of society and its components. Key thinkers including Foucault, Baudrillard and Lyotard have challenged existing ideas about power and rationality in society. This book analyses planning from a postmodern perspective and explores alternative conceptions based on a combination of postmodern thinking and other fields ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Conservation and the City

    by Peter Larkham ...
    It is a widely held belief that cities must change, or they will wither and die. One of the key problems of urbanization is how to cope with these changes while retaining the structures constructed and maintained by previous generations.Conservation and the City is a study of conservation and change throughout the built environment - city centres, suburbs and even tiny villages - and how the ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Art of Revitalization

    Improving Conditions in Distressed Inner-City Neighborhoods

    Series series Contemporary Urban Affairs
    This book discusses the revitalization of decayed inner-city neighborhoods. It explores the role of social capital in stabilizing and turning around distressed communities, and it highlights the roles that local actors can and do play in the revitalization process.The Art of Revitalization takes two Chicago neighborhoods, Englewood and North Lawndale, as case studies. Zielenbach discusses them in ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Regional Policy and Planning in Europe

    Regional Policy and Planning in Europe explores the ways regional policy and planning systems across Europe have been influenced by:* economic and monetary union* the impending enlargement of the European Union* the devolution of administrative power from central government to regional authorities* the increased importance of environmental and urban issues.Presenting a comprehensive overview of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Reviving America's Forgotten Neighborhoods

    An Investigation of Inner City Revitalization Efforts

    Series series Contemporary Urban Affairs
    This book examines both successful and unsuccessful efforts at revitalizing low-income neighborhoods and features case studies on a wide range of American cities. ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Urban Process and Power

    by Peter Ambrose ...
    Urban Process and Power has two chief aims. Firstly, it analyses and explains a century of the production and reproduction of the urban environment in which most of us live. Secondly, the book focuses on recent changes in the control of these processes and the ideology that has brought these changes about. Immense disparities exist between the "best" and the "worst" urban areas in Britain. Why do ... Read more

    $205.99 USD