City Planning & Urban Development
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High Desert, Higher Costs: Bend and the Housing Crisis in the American West
$24.95 Add to cartNestled against the Cascade Mountains, former lumber town Bend, Oregon, entices residents who long to live in a wonderland of sagebrush and forests. But like so many other communities across the West
- Author: Bach, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1962645282
- Language: English
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Messy Cities: Why We Can’t Plan Everything
$21.95 Add to cartCan messiness make our cities more liveable, lively, and inclusive?
Crowded streets, sidewalk vendors, jumbled architecture, constant clamour, graffitied walls, parks gone wild: are these signs of a po
- Author: Ebrahim, Zahra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1552455033
- Language: English
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Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
$31.99 Add to cart“Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!” That legendary and apocryphal phrase, allegedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above Yankee Stadium, seemed to encapsul
- Author: Ansfield, Bench
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 132409351X
- Language: English
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Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons
$32.00 Add to cartA tale of 2 NYC affordable housing co-ops’ struggle over privatization, public goods, and the future of American housing
The American Dream of homeownership is becoming an American Delusion. As renter- Author: Tarleton, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0807017809
- Language: English
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Democracy and Urban Form
$27.95 Add to cartIf discourse is the foundation of democracy, how can the design of our cities empower and enable discourse?
“Never have the potential political consequences of architecture been greater, and never has- Series: Sternberg Press / The Incidents
- Author: Sennett, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 191560947X
- Language: English
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Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car
$48.95 Read moreInsideHook: 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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Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life
$19.99 Read moreLibrary of Science Book Club selection
“A really great book.” —IRA FLATOW, Science Friday “One of the finest science writers I’ve ever read.” —Los Angeles T
Discover magazine “What to Read” selection- Author: Ellard, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1942658001
- Language: English
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Planet of Slums
$19.95 Add to cartThe “profound . . . brilliant” account of the rise of the world’s slums and the failures of modern urbanization–by the world’s leading urbanist (Arundhati Roy, activist and Booker Prize-winning autho… [more below]
- Series: Essential Mike Davis
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1784786616
- Language: English
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Phytopolis: The Living City
$24.99 Add to cartA renowned plant expert explains how we can make urgent, positive changes to our cities that protect against and reduce global warming.
The conquest of new lands has been the greatest occupation of ou- Author: Mancuso, Stefano
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1635425247
- Language: English
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Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
$21.00 Read moreLike a modern-day Jane Jacobs, Janette Sadik-Khan transformed New York City’s streets to make room for pedestrians, cyclists, buses, and green spaces. Describing the battles she fought to enact change… [more below]
- Author: Sadik-Khan, Janette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0143128973
- Language: English
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Saving Stuyvesant Town: How One Community Defeated the Worst Real Estate Deal in History
$34.95 Add to cartFrom city streets to City Hall and to Midtown corporate offices, Saving Stuyvesant Town is the incredible true story of how one middle class community defeated the largest residential real estate dea
- Author: Garodnick, Daniel R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1501754378
- Language: English
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Madam Mayor: Love and Loss in an American City
$32.99 Add to cartFormer Syracuse mayor Stephanie Miner offers a candid insider look at her trailblazing time in elected office, the pressures and pitfalls of city and state politics, and the true potential of local go
- Author: Miner, Stephanie A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0700638288
- 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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City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America’s Highways
$30.00 Add to cartAn eye-opening investigation into how our ever-expanding urban highways accelerated inequality and fractured communities–and a call for a more just, sustainable path forward
“Megan Kimble manages to … [more below]- Author: Kimble, Megan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0593443780
- Language: English
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In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis
$24.95 Read more- Author: Marcuse, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1804294942
- 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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Katrina: A History, 1915-2015
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the Bancroft Prize
“The main thrust of Horowitz’s account is to make us understand Katrina–the civ
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Book of the Year- Author: Horowitz, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0674271076
- 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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Virginia-Highland
$24.99 Add to cartMany of the dynamics associated with the United States in the mid-20th century had not yet touched the tranquil northeast Atlanta community of Virginia-Highland in 1950. The next quarter-century would… [more below]
- Series: Images of Modern America
- Author: Carlisle, Lola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1467128554
- Language: English
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Atlas of the Senseable City
$35.00 Read moreA fascinating exploration of how the growth of digital mapping, spurred by sensing technologies, is affecting cities and daily lives
What have smart technologies taught us about cities? What lessons- Author: Picon, Antoine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0300247516
- Language: English
