Category: Urban & Land Use Planning

A Concise Guide to Community Planning

By: Porterfield, Gerald; Hall, Kenneth

Price: $21.30 USD

Publisher: McGraw Hill : 1994-08-22

Seller ID: 0070255911-11-25334898

ISBN-13: 9780070255913

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

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Communitas: Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life (Morningside Books)

By: Percival Goodman; Paul Goodman

Price: $5.43 USD

Publisher: Columbia University Press : 1990-08-01

Seller ID: 0231072996-4-27221801

ISBN-13: 9780231072991

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Community Capitalism: The South Shore Bank's Strategy for Neighborhood Revitalization

By: Richard P. Taub

Price: $3.48 USD

Publisher: Harvard Business School Pr : 1994-03-01

Seller ID: 0875845533-3-27376993

ISBN-13: 9780875845531

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Chicago's South Shore Bank has been heralded as a model for urban development by political and business leaders throughout America inspiring similar programmes from Arkansas to Michigan. Despite dire predictions that a depressed neighbourhood could not support a financial institution, the South Shore Bank fought to make a difference in its community, not only succeeding but earning sunstantial profits. This work tells the story of the people who built the bank and of the neighbourhood it serves, detailing the struggles and successes of this urban revitalization effort.
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Community Planning: An Introduction To The Comprehensive Plan

By: Kelly, Eric Damian; Becker Ph.D., Dr. Barbara; So, Frank [Foreword]

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Island Press : 1999-12-01

Seller ID: 1559635401-4-19742967

ISBN-13: 9781559635400

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

A thorough examination of the comprehensive planning process, with a clear, step-by-step approach to creating a plan for a city, town or village.
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Creating Sustainable Cities (2) (Schumacher Briefings)

By: Girardet, Herbert

Price: $4.43 USD

Publisher: Green Books : 1999-08-01

Seller ID: 1870098773-3-25573421

ISBN-13: 9781870098779

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

How can we put the pulsing heart of conviviality back into our cities? How can we make sure of creating cities of diversity for the new millennium--places of cultural vigour and physical beauty that are also sustainable in economic and environmental terms? This Schumacher Briefing shows the way forward.
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Divided We Stand: A Biography Of New York's World Trade Center

By: Darton, Eric

Price: $3.43 USD

Publisher: Basic Books : 2000-12-27

Seller ID: 0465017274-3-21826649

ISBN-13: 9780465017270

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

When the World Trade Towers in New York City were erected at the Hudson's edge, they led the way to a real estate boom that was truly astonishing. Divided We Stand reveals the coming together and eruption of four volatile elements: super-tall buildings, financial speculation, globalization, and terrorism. The Trade Center serves as a potent symbol of the disastrous consequences of undemocratic planning and development.This book is a history of that skyscraping ambition and the impact it had on New York and international life. It is a portrait of a building complex that lives at the convergence...
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Divided We Stand: A Biography Of New York's World Trade Center

By: Darton, Eric

Price: $3.43 USD

Publisher: Basic Books : 2000-12-27

Seller ID: 0465017274-4-27698431

ISBN-13: 9780465017270

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

When the World Trade Towers in New York City were erected at the Hudson's edge, they led the way to a real estate boom that was truly astonishing. Divided We Stand reveals the coming together and eruption of four volatile elements: super-tall buildings, financial speculation, globalization, and terrorism. The Trade Center serves as a potent symbol of the disastrous consequences of undemocratic planning and development.This book is a history of that skyscraping ambition and the impact it had on New York and international life. It is a portrait of a building complex that lives at the convergence...
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Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit

By: Gore, Albert

Price: $3.46 USD

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin : 1992-01-01

Seller ID: 0395578213-3-20337096

ISBN-13: 9780395578216

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

A passionate defender of the environment, Vice President Al Gore described in this now classic best-selling book how the engines of human civilization have brought us to the brink of catastrophe, threatening the destruction of nature and ultimately ourselves. Its groundbreaking analysis placed the environment on the national agenda, prompting politicians, the media, and the public to reckon with a looming disaster. The message remains just as urgent today as it did eight years ago: while much has been accomplished, we are still facing a crisis that reaches into every aspect of society.In brave...
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Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit

By: Gore, Albert

Price: $4.88 USD

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin : 1992-01-01

Seller ID: 0395578213-11-16090523

ISBN-13: 9780395578216

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A passionate defender of the environment, Vice President Al Gore described in this now classic best-selling book how the engines of human civilization have brought us to the brink of catastrophe, threatening the destruction of nature and ultimately ourselves. Its groundbreaking analysis placed the environment on the national agenda, prompting politicians, the media, and the public to reckon with a looming disaster. The message remains just as urgent today as it did eight years ago: while much has been accomplished, we are still facing a crisis that reaches into every aspect of society.In brave...
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Ecological Design

By: Van der Ryn, Sim; Cowan, Stuart

Price: $3.55 USD

Publisher: Island Press : 1995-11-01

Seller ID: 1559633891-4-26623061

ISBN-13: 9781559633895

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Sim Van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan present a vision of how the living world and the human world can be rejoined by taking ecology as the basis for design. Ecological design intelligence -- effective adaptation to and integration with nature's processes -- can be applied at all levels of scale, creating revolutionary forms of buildings, landscapes, cities, and technologies.The authors weave together case studies, personal anecdotes, images, and theory to provide a thorough treatment of the concept of ecological design. In the process, they present and explain a series of design principles that ca...
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Health and Community Design: The Impact Of The Built Environment On Physical Activity

By: Frank, Lawrence; Engelke, Peter; Schmid, Thomas

Price: $3.53 USD

Publisher: Island Press : 2003-05-23

Seller ID: 1559639172-4-28098584

ISBN-13: 9781559639170

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Health and Community Design is a comprehensive examination of how the built environment encourages or discourages physical activity, drawing together insights from a range of research on the relationships between urban form and public health. It provides important information about the factors that influence decisions about physical activity and modes of travel, and about how land use patterns can be changed to help overcome barriers to physical activity. Chapters examine: the historical relationship between health and urban form in the United States; why urban and suburban development should ...
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Here's the Deal: The Making and Breaking of a Great American City

By: Miller, Ross

Price: $9.47 USD

Publisher: Northwestern University Press : 2003-03-12

Seller ID: 0810120372-11-17136230

ISBN-13: 9780810120372

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

A hard-hitting study of how ambition and greed are leading our cities to disaster. Before there was a Ground Zero in New York City, Block 37 was a giant hole in the heart of a great American city. In 1990, Chicago's Block 37 (as a key part of a twenty-seven-acre urban renewal project) was razed to the ground. After the expenditure of nearly $250 million of public and private capital, nothing has been built on this once vital and densely-occupied city block. This stubborn vacancy at the center of Chicago's historic downtown eerily presaged the post 9/11 wasteland in Lower Manhattan. In a new cr...
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Inventing Times Square: Commerce and Culture at the Crossroads of the World

By: Taylor, William R. [Editor]

Price: $3.67 USD

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press : 1996-04-01

Seller ID: 0801853370-4-26057574

ISBN-13: 9780801853371

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

A unique volume, Inventing Times Square approaches the subject of twentieth-century American city culture through a multidimensional examination of one quintessential urban space: Times Square. Ranging in time from 1905, when the crossroad was given its present name, through to the current plans for redevelopment, the authors examine Times Square as economic hub, real estate bonanza, entertainment center, advertising medium, architectural experiment, and erotic netherworld. Though the volume centers on Times Square, the essays venture much further into urban history and American social history...
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Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. Big City

By: Davis, Mike; Sprinker, Michael [Series Editor]

Price: $3.93 USD

Publisher: Verso : 2001-07-01

Seller ID: 185984328X-3-26691313

ISBN-13: 9781859843284

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Winner of the 2001 Carey McWilliams Award Is the capital of Latin America a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River? Will California soon hold the balance of power in Mexican national politics? Will Latinos reinvigorate the US labor movement? These are some of the provocative questions that Mike Davis explores in this fascinating account of the Latinization of the US urban landscape. As he forefully shows, this is a demographic and cultural revolution with extraordinary implications. With Spanish surnames increasing five times faster than the general population, salsa is becoming the pre...
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Managing Geographic Information System Projects (Spatial Information Systems)

By: Huxhold, William E.; Levinsohn, Allan G.

Price: $4.73 USD

Publisher: Oxford University Press : 1995-01-05

Seller ID: 0195078691-3-26438007

ISBN-13: 9780195078695

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Most of the current publications on geographic information systems (GIS) focus on its mechanics, technology, and project-specific applications. This much-needed book, however, introduces the reader to GIS implementation from a management and organizational perspective. GIS is becomingincreasingly popular and is evolving from a mapping tool used for support functions to a technology capable of redesigning land administration. In other sectors, information technology has had a dramatic effect on operations. This book examines those cases, and applies them to GIS paradigm, stressing that GIS tech...
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Out of Ground Zero: Case Studies in Urban Reinvention

By: Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture; Ockman, Joan [Editor]

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Prestel Pub : 1999-12-30

Seller ID: 3791327909-3-27051180

ISBN-13: 9783791327907

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Planning the Twentieth-Century American City

By: Sies, Mary Corbin [Editor]; Silver, Christopher [Editor];

Price: $3.58 USD

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press : 1996-05-12

Seller ID: 0801851645-3-25380557

ISBN-13: 9780801851643

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Planning the Twentieth-Century American City reassesses the history of planning ideas and the impact of the planning process on specific neighborhoods, regions, and urban communities in the United States since 1900. Focusing on large and small metropolitan areas in all regions of the country, the authors analyze a wide range of planners, issues, and influences to explain how the twentieth-century built environment has developed.Arguing that planning in practice is far more complicated than historians usually depict, the authors examine closely the everyday social, political, economic, ideologi...
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Sprawl and Suburbia: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader

By: Saunders, William

Price: $3.55 USD

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press : 2005-11-01

Seller ID: 0816647550-4-24576024

ISBN-13: 9780816647552

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Sprawl is the single most significant and urgent issue in American land use at the turn of the twenty-first century. Efforts to limit and reform sprawl through legislative "Smart Growth" initiatives have been enacted around the country while the neotraditionalist New Urbanism has been embraced by many architects and urban planners. Yet most Americans persist in their desire to live farther and farther away from urban centers, moving to exurbs made up almost entirely of single-family residential houses and stand-alone shopping areas. Sprawl and Suburbia brings together some of the foremost thin...
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The Exploding Metropolis (Volume 1)

By: Whyte Jr., William H. [Editor]; Warner, Sam Bass [Foreword];

Price: $6.24 USD

Publisher: University of California Press : 1993-03-08

Seller ID: 0520080904-3-23273681

ISBN-13: 9780520080904

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

In The Exploding Metropolis, first published in 1958, William H. Whyte, Jane Jacobs, Francis Bello, Seymour Freedgood, and Daniel Seligman address the problems of urban decline and suburban sprawl, transportation, city politics, open space, and the character and fabric of cities. A new foreword by Sam Bass Warner, Jr., and preface by Whyte demonstrate the relevance of The Exploding Metropolis to urban issues in the 90s.
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The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape

By: Ladd, Brian

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: University of Chicago Press : 1998-11-15

Seller ID: 0226467627-11-28512424

ISBN-13: 9780226467627

Binding: paperback

Condition: New

In this compelling work, Brian Ladd examines the ongoing conflicts radiating from the remarkable fusion of architecture, history, and national identity in Berlin. Ladd surveys the urban landscape, excavating its ruins, contemplating its buildings and memorials, and carefully deconstructing the public debates and political controversies emerging from its past. Written in a clear and elegant style, The Ghosts of Berlin is not just another colorless architectural history of the German capital. . . . Mr. Ladd's book is a superb guide to this process of urban self-definition, both past and present....
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The Tourist City

By: Judd, Dennis R. [Editor]; Fainstein, Susan S. [Editor];

Price: $3.46 USD

Publisher: Yale University Press : 1999-05-11

Seller ID: 0300078463-3-25572309

ISBN-13: 9780300078466

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Throughout the world, cities vie for tourist dollars in a competition so intense that they sometimes totally reconstruct their downtowns and waterfronts to attract tourists. Growing at an astonishing pace, urban tourism now plays a pivotal role in the economic development strategies of urban governments around the globe. In this book, distinguished urban experts from a variety of disciplines investigate tourism and its transforming impact on cities. As cities become places to play, the authors show, tourism recasts their spatial form. In some cities, separate spaces devoted to tourism and leis...
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Category: Urban & Land Use Planning