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The Smart Growth Manual

Andres Duany, Jeff Speck, Mike Lydon

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Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Hardcover: 240 pages
Language: English
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Everyone is calling for smart growth... More

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The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape

Brian Ladd

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Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Hardcover: 282 pages
Language: English
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"In this compelling work, Brian Ladd examines the ongoing conflicts radiating from the remarkable fusion of architecture, history, and national identity in Berlin... More

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Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck

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Publisher: North Point Press
Hardcover: 320 pages
Language: English
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A manifesto by America's most controversial and celebrated town planners, proposing an alternative model for community design... More

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The Works: Anatomy of a City

Kate Ascher

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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Hardcover: 240 pages
Language: English
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A fascinating guided tour of the ways things work in a modern city Have you ever wondered how the water in your faucet gets there? Where your garbage goes? What the pipes under city streets do? How bananas from Ecuador get to your local market? Why radiators in apartment buildings clang? Using New York City as its point of reference, The Works takes readers down manholes and behind the scenes to explain exactly how an urban infrastructure operates... More

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Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A do-it-Ourselves Guide

Scott Kellogg, Stacy Pettigrew

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Publisher: South End Press
Hardcover: 242 pages
Language: English
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The tools you need to create self-sufficient, ecologically sustainable cities “A surprisingly effective model for connecting people with dreams to the resources they need... More

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Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community's Assets

John P. Kretzmann, John L. McKnight

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Publisher: ACTA Publications
Hardcover: 376 pages
Language: English
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This guide summarizes lessons learned by studying successful community-building initiatives in hundreds of neighborhoods across the U... More

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Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American city

Antero Pietila

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Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
Hardcover: 336 pages
Language: English
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Eugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal government's actions toward housing in the 20th century, dooming American cities to ghettoization... More

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Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York

Samuel Zipp

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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Hardcover: 488 pages
Language: English
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Moving beyond the usual good-versus-evil story that pits master-planner Robert Moses against the plucky neighborhood advocate Jane Jacobs, Samuel Zipp sheds new light on the rise and fall of New York's urban renewal in the decades after World War II... More

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Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City

Anthony Flint

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Publisher: Random House
Hardcover: 256 pages
Language: English
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To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be... More

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Beyond Charity: The Call to Christian Community Development

John M. Perkins

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Publisher: Baker Books
Hardcover: 192 pages
Language: English
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The urban poor are oppressed, observes Perkins, but not always in the ways normally thought... More

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The Origins of the Urban Crisis : Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit

Thomas J. Sugrue

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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Hardcover: 408 pages
Language: English
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Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit has become the symbol of the American urban crisis... More

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Professional Real Estate Development, Second Edition: The ULI Guide to the Business

Anne B. Frej, Richard B. Peiser

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Publisher: Urban Land Institute
Hardcover: 414 pages
Language: English
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Thoroughly updated, the second edition of Professional Real Estate Development explains the nuts and bolts of the real estate development industry... More

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The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs

Roberta Brandes Gratz

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Publisher: Nation Books
Hardcover: 400 pages
Language: English
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In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom... More

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Going Public: An Organizer's Guide to Citizen Action

Michael Gecan

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Publisher: Anchor
Hardcover: 224 pages
Language: English
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Urban decay can sap the determination—not to mention the soul—of anyone who experiences it... More

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The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention

David W. Orr

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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Hardcover: 247 pages
Language: English
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The environmental movement has often been accused of being overly negative--trying to stop "progress... More

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America's Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of New York

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Publisher: Columbia University Press
Hardcover: 224 pages
Language: English
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In a stunning repudiation of the Democratic machine, John V... More

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