City Planning & Urban Development
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Freedomland: Co-Op City and the Story of New York
$32.95 Add to cartIn Freedomland, Annemarie H. Sammartino tells Co-op City’s story from the perspectives of those who built it and of the ordinary people who made their homes in this monument to imperfect liberal ideal
- Author: Sammartino, Annemarie H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1501716433
- Language: English
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The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back
$38.00 Add to cartThe book the American Prospect calls “an essential resource for future reformers on how not to govern,” by America’s leading defender of the public interest and a bestselling historian
“An essential re
- Author: Cohen, Donald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1620976536
- Language: English
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A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City
$20.00 Add to cartA young college grad buys a house in Detroit for $500 and attempts to restore it–and his new neighborhood–to its original glory in this “deeply felt, sharply observed personal quest to create meanin… [more below]
- Author: Philp, Drew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1476797994
- Language: English
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The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy
$37.00 Add to cartFrom one of today’s most inspired architects and urban advocates, a manifesto for architecture as a force for addressing our biggest social challenges
The world is facing unprecedented challenges, fro- Author: Chakrabarti, Vishaan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0691208433
- Language: English
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Lost in Austin: The Evolution of an American City
$30.00 Read more- Author: Hannaford, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 006325302X
- Language: English
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The Loop: The “L” Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago
$26.95 Read moreThe structure that anchors Chicago
Every day Chicagoans rely on the loop of elevated train tracks to get to their jobs, classrooms, or homes in the city’s downtown. But how much do they know about th- Author: Reardon, Patrick T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0809338106
- Language: English
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Why Place Matters: Geography, Identity, and Civic Life in Modern America
$18.99 Add to cartContemporary American society, with its emphasis on mobility and economic progress, all too often loses sight of the importance of a sense of place; and community. Appreciating place is essential for … [more below]
- Author: McClay, Wilfred M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1641771178
- Language: English
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Seoul: Tale of a Smart City
$19.99 Add to cartSeoul, the capital of South Korea, serves as a shining example of the potential and transformative impact of smart city interventions. In just two decades, Seoul has evolved from a chaotic and struggl
- Author: Shalla, Kristi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 27 2024
- ISBN10: 9798891321069
- Language: English
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A Troubled Oasis: A Critical History of Palm Springs, California: Revised and Enlarged Edition
$52.95 Add to cartThis is a revised and enlarged version of A Troubled Oasis: A Critical History of Palm Springs. The key chapter on the tragedy of the Section Fourteen so-called “urban holocaust,” when minorities were
- Author: Isetti, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 398
- Publish Date: October 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1977256481
- Language: English
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Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias
$17.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 WRITERS’ TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 DONNER BOOK PRIZE
WINNER OF THE PATTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION GLOBAL CITIES BOOK AWARD
Is the ‘smart city’ the utop… [more below]
- Author: Lorinc, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1552454282
- Language: English
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The Commonist Horizon: Futures Beyond Capitalist Urbanization
$20.00 Add to cartHow do we move from defensive tactics that respond to the latest stages of capitalist urbanization, to transformative, strategic revolts, attacking the root causes and putting into practice alternativ… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Mary N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1942173717
- Language: English
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Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World
$24.95 Read moreFeminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world.
We live in the city of men. Our public spaces are not designed for female bodies.- Author: Kern, Leslie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1788739817
- Language: English
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Survival of the City: The Future of Urban Life in an Age of Isolation
$18.00 Add to cartOne of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existential threats the pandemic has only accelerated
Cities can- Author: Glaeser, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0593297709
- Language: English
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What I Found in a Thousand Towns: A Traveling Musician’s Guide to Rebuilding America’s Communities-One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, and Open-Mike Night at a
$29.00 Add to cartA beloved folk singer presents an impassioned account of the fall and rise of the small American towns she cherishes.
Dubbed by the New Yorker as “one of America’s very best singer-songwriters,” Dar- Author: Williams, Dar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0465098967
- Language: English
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Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities
$30.00 Add to cartSegregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation. Starting… [more below]
- Author: Trounstine, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: November 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1108454984
- Language: English
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Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul
$19.99 Add to cart“Essential reading for fans of Jane Jacobs, Joseph Mitchell, Patti Smith, Luc Sante, and Cheap Pierogi” —Vanity Fair
An unflinching chronicle of gentrification in the twenty-first century and a love l
- Author: Moss, Jeremiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 24 2018
- ISBN10: 0062439685
- Language: English
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We’re Still Here Ya Bastards: How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City
$32.00 Add to cartThe aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is one of the darkest chapters in American history. The storm caused unprecedented destruction, and a toxic combination of government neglect and socioeconomic inequ… [more below]
- Author: Gratz, Roberta Brandes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 1568587449
- 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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The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-And What We Can Do about
$19.99 Add to cartIn recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urba… [more below]
- Author: Florida, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 1541644123
- 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
