City Planning & Urban Development
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Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See
$25.95 Add to cartA muckraking history of San Diego that covers the city’s historically recent shift from politically conservative to politically progressive while also outlining a new cast of right-wing villains and t… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 1644215446
- Language: English
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Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World
$19.99 Add to cartZoning codes dictate how and where we can build housing, factories, restaurants, and parks. They limit how tall buildings can be and where trees can be planted. They have become the most significant r
- Author: Bronin, Sara C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123508
- Language: English
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Becoming the Twin Cities: Swindles, Schemes, and Enduring Rivalries
$27.95 Add to cartWhether motivated by visionary ideals or commercial gain or political ambition, many have tried to unite Minneapolis and St. Paul into one city, and all have failed. This book explains why.
Why haven’- Author: Ross, Drew M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1681343231
- Language: English
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Atlas of Cities
$49.50 Add to cartA unique, stunningly illustrated look at the origins, development, and future prospects of cities
More than half the world’s population lives in cities, and that proportion is expected to rise to thre- Author: Knox, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 24 2014
- ISBN10: 0691157812
- Language: English
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The Works: Anatomy of a City
$31.00 Add to cartA fascinating guided tour of the ways things work in a modern city
“It’s a rare person who won’t find something of interest in The Works, whether it’s an explanation of how a street-sweeper works or t- Author: Ascher, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0143112708
- Language: English
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Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City
$30.00 Read moreIn this exhilarating look at cities, past and future, Ben Wilson proposes that, in our world of rising seas and threatening weather, the natural world may prove the city’s savior
“Illuminating…Wils- Author: Wilson, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0385548117
- Language: English
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Engineered Conflict: Structural Violence and the Future of Black Life in Chicago
$24.95 Add to cartA hard-hitting exploration of how state policy displaces and isolates Black communities and how collective resistance creates spaces for working-class people of color to identify the true cause of con
- Author: Stovall, David Omotoso
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 9798888904626
- Language: English
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Black Public Joy: No Permit or Permission Required
$24.00 Add to cartFrom one of North America’s most influential public space experts comes a powerful treatise celebrating Black people’s audacious, complex, and universally embraced public joy expressions.
How much saf- Author: Pitter, Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0771051913
- Language: English
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The Invention of the Future: A History of Cities in the Modern World
$35.00 Add to cartA kaleidoscopic and original new history of urbanization–from Lisbon to New York, Paris to Rio de Janeiro, and Buenos Aires to Lagos
For the past three centuries, urban dwellers and planners have ima- Author: Carvalho, Bruno
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0691246556
- Language: English
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Houston 2020: America’s Boom Town – An Extreme Close Up
$29.99 Add to cartIn Houston 2020: America’s Boom Town – An Extreme Close Up, Ralph Bivins examines the entrepreneurial mecca that became one of nation’s fastest-growing cities. With deft forensics and informed observa
- Author: Bivins, Ralph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: March 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1943307067
- Language: English
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The Death and Life of Gentrification: A New Map of a Persistent Idea
$29.95 Add to cartA provocative account of what is gained and what is lost when a word that once narrowly referred to neighborhood change takes on a life all its own
Sociologist Ruth Glass coined the term gentrificatio- Series: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
- Author: Brown-Saracino, Japonica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0691244359
- Language: English
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Becoming the Twin Cities: Swindles, Schemes, and Enduring Rivalries
$27.95 Add to cartWhether motivated by visionary ideals or commercial gain or political ambition, many have tried to unite Minneapolis and St. Paul into one city, and all have failed. This book explains why.
Why haven’- Author: Ross, Drew M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1681343231
- Language: English
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The Unfinished Metropolis: Igniting the City-Building Revolution
$35.00 Add to cartConsider your surroundings. Maybe you’re in a house or in an apartment building. Maybe you’re at a desk in an office building, or in a caf? looking out on a lively main street. The urban landscape is
- Author: Schneider, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1642833533
- Language: English
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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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Urban Republican Mayor: My Story
$30.00 Add to cartA midwestern urban Republican mayor reveals the success of his moderate approach to governing.
Throughout his eight years as mayor of Indianapolis, Greg Ballard did what he thought was right, looking o
- Author: Ballard, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0253073197
- Language: English
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The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City
$20.00 Add to cartEye-opening and thoroughly engaging, this is an indispensible look at American urban/suburban society and its future.
In The Great Inversion, Alan Ehrenhalt, one of our leading urbanologists, reveals- Author: Ehrenhalt, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0307474372
- 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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Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
$28.00 Add to cartFrom the hosts of The War on Cars podcast, a searing indictment of how cars ruin everything–and what we can do to fight back
When the very first cars rolled off production lines, they were a technolo- Author: Goodyear, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0593850726
- Language: English
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Queering Rehoboth Beach: Beyond the Boardwalk
$30.00 Read more“Create a More Positive Rehoboth” was a decades-long goal for progress and inclusiveness in a charming beach town in southern Delaware. Rehoboth, which was established in the 19th century as a Methodi… [more below]
- Author: Sears, James T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: May 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1439923809
- Language: English
