Urban & Land Use Planning
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Smooth City: Against Urban Perfection, Towards Collective Alternatives
$25.00 Add to cartHow urban paradigms of efficiency, sanitization and surveillance transform city life into seamless “experience” and erode the non-normative
In cities across the world, a new urban condition is spreadin
- Author: Boer, Rene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 9493246205
- Language: English
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City Planning: A Very Short Introduction
$13.99 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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Sixteenth Street NW: Washington, DC’s Avenue of Ambitions
$34.95 Read moreDeFerrari and Sefton have created a highly illustrated architectural “biography” of one of DC’s most important boulevards. From the front door of the White House, this north-south artery runs through
- Author: Deferrari, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1647121566
- Language: English
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Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City
$30.00 Add to cartTokyo is one of the most vibrant and livable cities on the planet, a megacity that somehow remains intimate and adaptive. Com-pared to Western metropolises like New York or Paris, however, few outside… [more below]
- Author: Almazán, Jorge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1951541324
- Language: English
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Vertical Urban Factory
$49.95 Add to cartThis revised edition focuses on the spaces of production in cities–both the modernist period and today–and the technologies that have contributed to shifts in factory architecture, manufacturing, an… [more below]
- Author: Rappaport, Nina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1948765144
- Language: English
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The Smart Growth Manual
$35.00 Add to cartPublisher’s Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.
Everyone is … [more below]
- Author: Duany, Andres
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0071376755
- Language: English
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Digitalstructures: Data and Urban Strategies of the Civic Future
$35.00 Add to cartdigitalSTRUCTURES: Data and Urban Strategies of the Civic Future engages with digital property and data infrastructures, and explores new modes and impacts of data collection affecting architecture an… [more below]
- Author: Fok, Wendy W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1954081812
- Language: English
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Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, 2006-2021
$60.00 Add to cartAdrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture’s, 2006-2020 monograph showcases the spectacular work of the firm from the first 15 years of its practice through drawings, renderings, model photography, photo… [more below]
- Author: Gordon Gill Architecture
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1954081359
- 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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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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Learning from Las Vegas, Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
$32.95 Add to cartLearning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of “common” people and less immodest in their erec… [more below]
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Venturi, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 15 1977
- ISBN10: 026272006X
- Language: English
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Increments of Neighborhood: A Compendium of Built Types for Walkable and Vibrant Communities
$80.00 Read moreIntended as a comprehensive resource, Increments of Neighborhood is a compendium of recent built work for urban neighborhoods, encompassing the spectrum of building types financed/built by today’s Ame… [more below]
- Author: O’Looney, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1940743869
- Language: English
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Foundations of Urban Design
$39.95 Read moreThe 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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Merging City & Nature: 10 Commitments to Combat Climate Change
$44.95 Add to cartAfter 40 years of professional experience developed in three areas of work –City-Territory, Landscape-Public Space and Building–, Batlle i Roig acquires a new commitment and positions itself in the … [more below]
- Author: Batlleiroig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1638400091
- Language: English
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The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society
$44.99 Add to cartIn The Lure of the Local Lucy R. Lippard weaves together cultural studies, history, geography, and contemporary art to provide a fascinating examination of our multiple senses of place.
Divided into f
- Author: Lippard, Lucy R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1565842480
- Language: English
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The North Atlantic Cities
$29.95 Read moreWhat do Amsterdam, London, Brooklyn, Washington, Boston, and Philadelphia have in common? They are all North Atlantic cities. Charles Duff shows how the Dutch invented a new way of building cities in … [more below]
- Author: Duff, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 279
- Publish Date: July 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1908457538
- Language: English
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Becoming Urban: City of Nomads
$30.00 Read moreThis book positions Ulaanbaatar as a unique case and one that allows us to view our urban world differently. Operating as a primordial soup of emerging conditions, Ulaanbaatar is conceived as an incu… [more below]
- Author: Bolchover, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1954081065
- Language: English
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Newport: The Artful City
$44.95 Add to cartAs one of the most historically intact cities in North
America, Newport, Rhode Island, has a cultural
and architectural heritage of national significance.
Each of the city’s districts has its own dist… [more below]- Author: Tschirch, John R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1911282697
- Language: English
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Boston’s Franklin Park: Olmsted, Recreation, and the Modern City
$45.00 Read moreEthan Carr’s forthcoming book, Boston’s Franklin Park: Olmsted, Recreation, and the Modern City, documents the design and history of Frederick Law Olmsted’s most mature expression of urban park design
- Author: Carr, Ethan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1952620384
- Language: English
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A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences
$19.95 Add to cartA 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
