City planning
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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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Socializing Architecture: Top-Down / Bottom-Up
$54.95 Read moreWith a focus on deepening inequality across this world, this richly illustrated monograph of social practice in architecture shows how to catalyze productive change in the world’s border regions.
Situ- Author: Cruz, Teddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0262545187
- Language: English
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Sideways: The City Google Couldn’t Buy
$28.95 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER
FINALIST FOR THE WRITERS’ TRUST SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING From the Globe and Mail tech reporter who revealed countless controversies while following the Sidewal- Author: O’Kane, Josh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1039000789
- 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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Foundations of Urban Design
$39.95 Add to cartThe book is structured into twenty-nine essays, each dedicated to a pair of urbanistic concepts.
Discussing historical and contemporary, interpretive and designerly approaches to urbanity, the notions- Author: Smets, Marcel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1638400334
- Language: English
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How Cycling Can Save the World
$20.00 Read morePeter Walker—reporter at the Guardian and curator of its popular bike blog—shows how the future of humanity depends on the bicycle.
Car culture has ensnared much of the world–and it’s no wonder. C- Author: Walker, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0143111779
- Language: English
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A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences
$19.95 Read moreA bold reassessment of “smart cities” that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computers
Computational models of urbanism–smart cities that use data-driven planning and algor- Series: Places Books #2
- Author: Mattern, Shannon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0691208050
- 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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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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The Living City: Why Cities Don’t Need to Be Green to Be Great
$30.00 Add to cartA sociologist explores why “green cities” won’t fix everything–and urges us to celebrate urban life as it is
Everywhere you look, cities are getting greener. The general assumption is clear: if som- Author: Fitzgerald, Des
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1541674502
- Language: English
