City Planning & Urban Development
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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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Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place
$30.00 Add to cartBest-selling author and beloved chronicler of Los Angeles D.J. Waldie reconsiders the city in a collection of contemporary essays.
Nobody sees Los Angeles with more eloquence than D. J. Waldie.
– Susan- Author: Waldie, D. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1626400792
- Language: English
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Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind’s Greatest Invention
$22.00 Add to cartIn a captivating tour of cities famous and forgotten, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson tells the glorious, millennia-spanning story how urban living sparked humankind’s greatest innovations.
“A towerin- Author: Wilson, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0525436332
- Language: English
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Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City
$32.00 Add to cartIn 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0593863739
- Language: English
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Black Wall Street 100: An American City Grapples With Its Historical Racial Trauma
$24.95 Add to cartBlack Wall Street 100: An American City Grapples with its Historical Racial Trauma, endorsed by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission and the 400 Years of African American History Commiss
- Author: Johnson, Hannibal B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: July 20 2020
- ISBN10: 168179179X
- 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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The Works: Anatomy of a City
$31.00 Read moreA 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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Boston in Transit: Mapping the History of Public Transportation in the Hub
$75.00 Add to cartA richly illustrated story of public transit in one of America’s most historic cities, from public ferry and horse-drawn carriage to the MBTA.
A lively tour of public transportation in Boston over the- Author: Beaucher, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048078
- Language: English
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Pretreatment Guide for Homeless Outreach & Housing First: Helping Couples, Youth, and Unaccompanied Adults
$21.95 Add to cartThis book provides social workers, outreach clinicians, case managers, and concerned community members with a pretreatment guide for assisting homeless couples, youth, and single adults. The inter-rel… [more below]
- Author: Levy, Jay S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1615992014
- Language: English
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New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
$19.95 Add to cart- Author: Bridle, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1804290424
- 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 7, 2023
- ISBN10: 0385548117
- 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
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In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
$30.00 Add to cartAcross America, universities have become big businesses–and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow.
Urban universities play an outsized role in America’- Author: Baldwin, Davarian L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1568588925
- Language: English
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Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One
$21.95 Add to cartMajora Carter shows how brain drain cripples low-status communities and maps out a development strategy focused on talent retention to help them break out of economic stagnation.
“My musical, In the H- Author: Carter, Majora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1523000295
- Language: English
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Excluded: How Snob Zoning, Nimbyism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don’t See
$30.00 Add to cartAn indictment of America’s housing policy that reveals the social engineering underlying our segregation by economic class, the social and political fallout that result, and what we can do about it
T- Author: Kahlenberg, Richard D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: 11-Jul-23
- ISBN10: 1541701461
- Language: English
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The Empire of “The City”: The Secret History of British Financial Power
$13.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 07, 2006
- ISBN10: 1585092622
- Language: English
