Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development
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The Civic Brand: The Power & Responsibility of Place
$28.00 Add to cartThe Civic Brand: The Power & Responsibility of Place is a bold and practical book that challenges conventional thinking about city-building, tourism, economic development, and community engagement. Au
- Author: Short, Ryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 9798999480705
- Language: English
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The Civic Brand: The Power & Responsibility of Place
$17.99 Add to cartThe Civic Brand: The Power & Responsibility of Place is a bold and practical book that challenges conventional thinking about city-building, tourism, economic development, and community engagement. Au
- Author: Short, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 9798999480712
- Language: English
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How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
$19.99 Add to cart“An exacting look at gentrification” (New York Times Book Review)–and the lives devastated in the process
The term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods- Author: Moskowitz, Pe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1645030741
- Language: English
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Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car
$44.95 Add to cartInsideHook: The 10 Books You Should Be Reading This November
A gripping account of how the automobile has failed NYC and how mass transit and a revitalized streetscape are vital to its post-pandemic re- Author: Gelinas, Nicole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1531508219
- Language: English
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Feeling at Home: Transforming the Politics of Housing
$24.95 Add to cartOur feelings about housing are political, and a grasp of them is essential to solving the housing crisis – from the author of They Call It Love
Housing is more than bricks and mortar. The home is wher- Author: Gotby, Alva
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 180429621X
- Language: English
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Turf War: How a Band of Activists Saved New York from Donald Trump’s “Masterpiece”
$33.32 Add to cartIn the late 1980s, a band of New York civic groups set out to stop Donald Trump from building his “masterpiece,” a half-mile of gargantuan buildings overlooking the Hudson River on Manhattan’s West Si… [more below]
- Author: Robinson, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: September 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1665763531
- Language: English
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City Planning: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartCity planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and–sometimes utopian–aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of cities as physical spaces and social environments calls… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Abbott, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 22 2020
- ISBN10: 019094434X
- Language: English
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Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife
$29.95 Read moreSanitation is fundamental to urban public life and health. We need Sanitation for All.
In an age of pandemics the relationship between the health of the city and good sanitation has never been more im- Author: McFarlane, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1839760540
- Language: English
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Shrink the City: The 15-Minute Urban Experiment and the Cities of the Future
$16.95 Add to cartCities define the lives of all those who call them home: where we go, how we get there, how we spend our time. But what if we rethink the ways we plan, live in, and move around our cities? What if we
- Author: Whittle, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1891011898
- Language: English
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City Planning: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Read moreCity planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and–sometimes utopian–aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of cities as physical spaces and social environments calls… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Abbott, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 22 2020
- ISBN10: 019094434X
- Language: English
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A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America
$29.95 Add to cart“Chakrabarti has written a wonderful book about the potential of America’s cities. He argues convincingly how the country would benefit economically and environmentally if the suburbs started to move
- Author: Chakrabarti, Vishaan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: May 30 2013
- ISBN10: 1935202170
- Language: English
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Community Building: What Makes It Work: A Review of Factors Influencing Successful Community Building
$33.95 Add to cartThis practical guide shows you what really does (and doesn’t) contribute to community building success. It reveals 28 keys to help you build community more effectively and efficiently. You won’t find … [more below]
- Author: Mattessich, Paul W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0940069121
- Language: English
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Times Square Remade: The Dynamics of Urban Change
$39.95 Read moreThe illuminating evolution of the iconic space of Times Square.
What is it about Times Square that has inspired such attention for well over a century? And how is it that, despite its many changes of- Series: Urban and Industrial Environments
- Author: Sagalyn, Lynne B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 026204854X
- Language: English
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Smart Cities
$19.95 Read moreKey concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts for understanding smart cities, along with discussions of both drawbacks and benefits of this approach to urban problems.
Over the past ten
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Halegoua, Germaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0262538059
- Language: English
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The Empire of “The City”: The Secret History of British Financial Power
$28.95 Add to cartThe author presents a behind the scenes look at the secretive international policies of the British government and how their successes allowed them to rise to the top of a vast secret order of World F
- Author: Knuth, E. C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 02 2006
- ISBN10: 1585095370
- Language: English
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The New City: How to Build Our Sustainable Urban Future
$39.95 Read moreCities are at once among humanity’s crowning achievements and core drivers of the climate crisis. Their dependence on the outside world for vital resources is causing global temperatures to rise and w
- Author: Despommier, Dickson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0231205503
- Language: English
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Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
$24.95 Read moreShortlisted for the Architectural Book of the Year
How gentrification is killing our cities, and what we can do about it What does gentrification look like? Can we even agree that it is a process that- Author: Kern, Leslie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 1839767545
- Language: English
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Preserving Los Angeles: How Historic Places Can Transform America’s Cities
$50.00 Add to cartKen Bernstein, a Principal City Planner for the City of Los Angeles and a national advocate for historic preservation shares how Los Angeles has led the nation in historic preservation and how other c
- Author: Bernstein, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 162640075X
- Language: English
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San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities
$32.50 Add to cartNational 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.
- Author: Shellenberger, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 12, 2021
- ISBN10: 0063093626
- Language: English
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Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
$26.00 Add to cartDiscover insider secrets of how America’s transportation system is designed, funded, and built – and how to make it work for your community
In Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for
- Author: Marohn, Charles L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 8, 2021
- ISBN10: 1119699290
- Language: English
