Urban & Land Use Planning
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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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Plugin House: Modern Prefab Architecture
$45.00 Add to cartA manifesto for a new age of architecture, Plugin House presents innovative, sustainable, and community–driven solutions to the global housing crisis. Challenging conventional architectural practices
- Author: People’s Architecture Office
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0500027587
- Language: English
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An Even Better Way to Zone: Achieving More Affordable, Equitable, and Sustainable Communities
$58.33 Add to cartZoning is the tool that everyone loves to hate. It may also be the most important and least understood process affecting how US communities shape the lives of their residents. While almost every commu… [more below]
- Author: Elliott, Donald L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1642834343
- Language: English
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Human Transit, Revised Edition: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives
$46.67 Add to cartTransportation expert Jarrett Walker believes that transit can be simple, if we focus on the underlying geometry that all transit systems share. In Human Transit, Revised Edition, he provides the basi… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Jarrett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1642833053
- Language: English
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Preserving with Purpose: Reimagining Buildings for Community Benefit
$53.33 Add to cartWhile prominent buildings like Notre Dame in Paris rise from the ashes, historic buildings in disinvested communities are lost at an alarming rate. The resulting holes in the fabric of the community a… [more below]
- Author: Hetletvedt, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1642833487
- Language: English
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Shifting Grounds: The Ground Between Form and Practice in Beirut
$34.95 Add to cartThe book investigates spatial practices at the ground level of Beirut – Appropriation, Commoning, Production, and Activism – that fill the gap between the city’s capital-driven development and the asp… [more below]
- Author: Aramouny, Carla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1638401241
- Language: English
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Overbuilt: The High Costs and Low Rewards of Us Highway Construction
$46.67 Read moreThe world’s largest public works investment visible from space, the Interstate Highway System and the hundreds of thousands of miles of supporting roadways, are frequently hailed as a marvel and trium… [more below]
- Author: Guerra, Erick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1642833363
- Language: English
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Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life
$49.33 Add to cartImagine waking up to the gentle noises of the city, and moving through your day with complete confidence that you will get where you need to go quickly and efficiently. Soft City is about ease and com… [more below]
- Author: Sim, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1642830186
- Language: English
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When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency
$42.67 Add to cartOne third of people living in the United States do not have a driver license. Because the majority of involuntary nondrivers are disabled, lower income, unhoused, formerly incarcerated, undocumented i… [more below]
- Author: Zivarts, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1642833150
- Language: English
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If You Want to Win, You’ve Got to Fight: A Guide to Effective Transportation Advocacy
$42.67 Add to cartYour transit and street safety dreams are within your reach. While challenging our dangerous car-centric systems can feel daunting, you can win, and this book is here to help. In If You Want to Win, Y… [more below]
- Author: Lavin, Carter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1642833738
- Language: English
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Meet Me at the Library: A Place to Foster Social Connection and Promote Democracy
$32.00 Add to cartAmerica is facing an epidemic of loneliness and isolation, with troubling effects on our mental and physical health. We live in one of the most divisive times in our history, one in which we tend to w… [more below]
- Author: Hallman, Shamichael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1642833193
- Language: English
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Watercolor Artist’s Index of the Urban Landscape: A Field Trip of Features and How to Paint Them
$24.99 Add to cartA brilliant new manual of practical techniques for the urban landscape watercolor artist
- introductory section provides expert insight and guidance on materials, perspective, paint effects, light, and s
- Author: Taylor, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1446316165
- Language: English
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Frank Gehry & Robert Tannen: Art, Architecture & Ideas: The 50 Year Friendship Between Architects Frank Gehry & Robert Tannen
$40.00 Add to cartFrank Gehry & Robert Tannen: Art, Architecture & Ideas, is a book documenting the lifelong friendship and collaborative efforts of noted architects and friends Frank Gehry and Robert Tannen. The book … [more below]
- Author: Gehry, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 9798991223447
- Language: English
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Seattle’s Locks and Ship Canal: A History and Guide
$24.95 Add to cartHow one canal reshaped Seattle’s history, economy, and environment
Seattle’s waterways are central to the city’s identity, and none more so than the Lake Washington Ship Canal and Ballard (Hiram M. Ch
- Author: Williams, David B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 029575494X
- 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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The Parks of Nashville: A History of the Board of Parks and Recreation (1984-2024)
$71.99 Add to cartOn July 4, 1984, Nashville celebrated Independence Day at Riverfront Park for the first time. The park itself was just a year old. Richard Fulton was mayor. The only Athena statue in the Parthenon was
- Author: Gresham, Zachary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 652
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218702595
- Language: English
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New York 2020: Architecture and Urbanism at the Beginning of a New Century
$150.00 Add to cart‘To have such a biography, on this scale and with this ambition, of the physical form of the greatest city on earth is little short of a miracle.’ – Ric Burns, Filmmaker
The culmination of Robert A.M.
- Author: Stern, Robert A. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1488
- Publish Date: October 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1580936946
- Language: English
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Strangers Need Strange Moments Together: Designing Interaction for Public Spaces
$30.00 Read moreRecentering the human experience in public space, Andraos and Mongiat create room for the whimsical in urban life
Mouna Andraos and Melissa Mongiat, cofounders of the Montreal collective Daily tous les
- Author: Andraos, Mouna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 9083449858
- Language: English
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The Urban Design Legacy of Colin Rowe
$70.00 Add to cartThe Urban Design Legacy of Colin Rowe describes the ideas developed and described primarily by Colin Rowe, professor of architecture and head of the Urban Design Studio at Cornell, and additionally by… [more below]
- Author: Hurtt, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 684
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1940743516
- 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
