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The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding: How to Build a Product or Service into a World-Class Brandby Al Ries, Laura RiesISBN 0060007737 (0-06-000773-7)
Softcover, Harperbusiness
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding: How to Build a Product or Service into a World-Class Brand'Book summary:When you call a book The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding, you're pretty much ruling out Oprah's Book Club as potential buyers. (Not that Oprah herself isn't a terrific brand.) This is an audiobook for a narrow demographic: entrepreneurs, top managers, and public-relations directors. Coauthor Al Ries comes off like the eccentric genius that most of these managers keep in a basement office, only listening to when necessary. When he says, "The power of a brand is inversely proportional to its scope," and hectors managers with the idea that "customers want brands that are narrow in scope," you know he's right (he backs himself up with dozens of examples), and you know it's the last thing powerful, expansion-minded businesspeople want to hear. Coauthor Laura Ries, his daughter and marketing-firm partner, also reads sections. (Running time: 1.5 hours, one cassette) --Lou Schuler [via]
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- The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding: How to Build a Product or Service into a World-Class Brand: ISBN 0887309372 (0-88730-937-2)
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- The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding: How to Build a Product or Service into a World-Class Brand: ISBN 0887309372 (0-88730-937-2)
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Riskby Al Ries, Jack TroutISBN 0887306667 (0-88730-666-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Agile Estimating And Planningby Not AvailableISBN 0131479415 (0-13-147941-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The Architecture of the Vacioby Melvin VillarroelISBN 9688873187 (968-887-318-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Art of the Long Viewby Peter SchwartzISBN 0471977853 (0-471-97785-3)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The Art of the Long View: Paths to Strategic Insight for Yourself and Your Companyby Peter SchwartzISBN 0385267320 (0-385-26732-0)
Softcover, Doubleday
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of the Long View: Paths to Strategic Insight for Yourself and Your Company'Book summary:Using the techniques Peter Schwartz presents for the first time in The Art of the Long View, can begin to chart the course of their own future or their company's, not with hard numbers, but with intangibles: belief in the company, their own hopes and fears, and their reaction to events. Among Schwartz' clients are the White House, Disney, Nissan, the New York Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange. Author lecture tour. National business media. [via]
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Celebration, U.S.A: Living in Disney's Brave New Townby Douglas Frantz, Catherine CollinsISBN 0805055614 (0-8050-5561-4)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Lifeby Jane JacobsISBN 0394729110 (0-394-72911-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life'Book summary:"Learned, iconoclastic and exciting...Jacobs' diagnosis of the decay of cities in an increasingly integrated world economy is on the mark."New York Times Book Review
"Jacobs' book is inspired, idiosyncratic and personal...It is written with verve and humor; for a work of embattled theory, it is wonderfully concrete, and its leaps are breathtaking."Los Angeles Times
"Not only comprehensible but entertaining...Like Mrs. Jacobs' other books, it offers a concrete approach to an abstract and elusive subject. That, all by itself, makes for an intoxicating experience."New York Times [via]More editions of Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life:
Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Centuryby Peter HallISBN 0631232524 (0-631-23252-4)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century'Book summary:This is a history of the ideas, events and personalities that shaped the cities of the world during the twentieth century. Peter Hall shows the benevolent influence of the anarchist ideals of Reclus and Kropotkin in the work of Howard, Geddes and Lloyd Wright, which found expression in garden cities and community planning. He contrasts this with the totalitarian vision of Le Corbusier which, spurned by Mussolini and Stalin, was enthusiastically taken up by countless city authorities in Europe and America. He explores the nightmare cities of Brasilia and Chandigarh and seeks the origins of the high-rise slums and vandalized spaces that afflict the lives of so many people. Planners have become the handmaidens of business, architects the designers of spectacle: both have retreated from any active interest in real, social achievement. Meanwhile the threat to civilized life represented on the one hand by the despair and resentment of the urban underclass and on the other by uncontrolled demolition and development, remains as real and as intractable as ever. Peter Hall is author of over 20 books on planning and related subjects including "London 2000", "The World Cities" "Great Planning Disasters" and "High Tech America". He has been credited with the invention of the "urban enterprise zone" concept. He is widely known throughout the west for his contributions both to the practice and to the theory of city and regional planning. [via]
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- Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century: ISBN 0631175679 (0-631-17567-9)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub - Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century: ISBN 0631199438 (0-631-19943-8)
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Hardcover, Blackwell Pub - Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century: ISBN 0631232524 (0-631-23252-4)
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The City Readerby Richard T. Legates, Frederic StoutISBN 0415271738 (0-415-27173-8)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The City Reader'Book summary:This second edition of "The City Reader" brings together writing on the city. Each piece is introduced with a brief intellectual biography and a review of the authors' writings and related literature, and an explanation of how the piece fits into the broader context of: urban history and practice; competing ideological perspectives on the city; and the major current debates concerning race and gender, global restructuring, sustainable urban development, and the impact of technology and postmodernism. [via]
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- The City Reader: ISBN 0415119014 (0-415-11901-4)
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Hardcover, Routledge - The City Reader: ISBN 0415271738 (0-415-27173-8)
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- The City Reader: ISBN 0415119014 (0-415-11901-4)
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The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through Historyby Spiro KostofISBN 0821220160 (0-8212-2016-0)
Softcover, Bulfinch Pr
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The Colonial Iron Horse: Railroads and Regional Development in the Philippines, 1875-1935by Arturo G. CorpuzISBN 9715422209 (971-542-220-9)
Hardcover, University of the Philippines Press
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The Construction of Dublinby Frank McDonaldISBN 0946846502 (0-946846-50-2)
Softcover, Gandon Editions
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Contemporary Urban Planningby John M. LevyISBN 0131930680 (0-13-193068-0)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Contemporary Urban Planning'Book summary:Based on the author's extensive experience as a working planner, this book gives readers an insider's view of sub-state urban planningthe nitty-gritty details on the interplay of politics, law, money, and interest groups. The author takes a balanced, non-judgmental approach to introduce a range of ideological and political perspectives on the operation of political, economic, and demographic forces in city planning. Unlike other books on the subject, this one is strong in its coverage of economics, law, finance, and urban governance. It examines the underlying forces of growth and change and discusses frankly who benefits and loses by particular decisions. A four-part organization covers the background and development of contemporary planning; the structure and practice of contemporary planning; fields of planning; and national planning in the United States and other nations, and planning theory. For individuals headed for a career in planning. [via]
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- Contemporary Urban Planning: ISBN 0130835749 (0-13-083574-9)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - Contemporary Urban Planning: ISBN 0130985988 (0-13-098598-8)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - Contemporary Urban Planning: ISBN 0135753171 (0-13-575317-1)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - Contemporary Urban Planning: ISBN 0131930680 (0-13-193068-0)
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- Contemporary Urban Planning: ISBN 0130835749 (0-13-083574-9)
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United Statesby Kenneth T. JacksonISBN 0195132874 (0-19-513287-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States'Book summary:This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how "the good life" in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social history with economic and architectural analysis, and taking into account such factors as the availability of cheap land, inexpensive building methods, and rapid transportation, Kenneth Jackson chronicles the phenomenal growth of the American suburb from the middle of the 19th century to the present day. He treats communities in every section of the U.S. and compares American residential patterns with those of Japan and Europe. In conclusion, Jackson offers a controversial prediction: that the future of residential deconcentration will be very different from its past in both the U.S. and Europe.
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- Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States: ISBN 0195049837 (0-19-504983-7)
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The Death and Life of Great American Citiesby Jane JacobsISBN 067974195X (0-679-74195-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Death and Life of Great American Cities'Book summary:Jane Jacobs sets out to produce an attack on current city-planning and rebuilding in America and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. Throughout the post-war period, planners temperamentally unsympathetic to cities have been let loose on the urban environment. Inspired by the ideals of the Garden City or Le Corbusier's Radiant City, they have dreamt up ambitious projects based on self-contained neighbourhoods, super-blocks, rigid "scientific" plans and endless acres of grass. Yet they seldom stop to look at what actually works on the ground. The real vitality of cities, argues Jacobs, lies in their diversity, architectural variety, teeming street life and human scale. It is only when we appreciate such fundamental realities that we can hope to create cities that are safe, interesting and economically viable, as well as places that people want to live in. [via]
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- The Death and Life of Great American Cities: ISBN 0140551417 (0-14-055141-7)
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Hardcover, Penguin - The Death and Life of Great American Cities: ISBN 0375508732 (0-375-50873-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - The Death and Life of Great American Cities: ISBN 0679600477 (0-679-60047-7)
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- The Death and Life of Great American Cities: ISBN 0140551417 (0-14-055141-7)
Design of Citiesby Edmund N. BaconISBN 0140042369 (0-14-004236-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Design with Natureby Ian L. McHargISBN 047111460X (0-471-11460-X)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Design With Nature'Book summary:"In presenting us with a vision of organic exuberance and human delight, which ecology and ecological design promise to open up for us, McHarg revives the hope for a better world." --Lewis Mumford
". . . important to America and all the rest of the world in our struggle to design rational, wholesome, and productive landscapes." --Laurie Olin, Hanna Olin, Ltd.
"This century's most influential landscape architecture book." --Landscape Architecture
". . . an enduring contribution to the technical literature of landscape planning and to that unfortunately small collection of writings which speak with emotional eloquence of the importance of ecological principles in regional planning." --Landscape and Urban Planning
In the twenty-five years since it first took the academic world by storm, Design With Nature has done much to redefine the fields of landscape architecture, urban and regional planning, and ecological design. It has also left a permanent mark on the ongoing discussion of mankind's place in nature and nature's place in mankind within the physical sciences and humanities. Described by one enthusiastic reviewer as a "user's manual for our world," Design With Nature offers a practical blueprint for a new, healthier relationship between the built environment and nature. In so doing, it provides nothing less than the scientific, technical, and philosophical foundations for a mature civilization that will, as Lewis Mumford ecstatically put it in his Introduction to the 1969 edition, "replace the polluted, bulldozed, machine-dominated, dehumanized, explosion-threatened world that is even now disintegrating and disappearing before our eyes." [via] -
Deterministic and Stochastic Scheduling: Proceedingsby J. K. Lenstra, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Scientific Affairs Division, M. A. H. Dempster, A.H.G. Rinnooy Kan, NATO Advanced Study and Research Institute on Theoretical Approaches TISBN 9027713979 (90-277-1397-9)
Hardcover, Kluwer Academic Pub
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Dreaming the Rational City: The Myth of American City Planningby Christine M. BoyerISBN 0262521113 (0-262-52111-3)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dreaming the Rational City: The Myth of American City Planning'Book summary:Dreaming the Rational City is both a history of the city planning profession in the United States and a major polemical statement about the effort to plan and reform the American city. Boyer shows why city planning, which had so much promise at the outset for making cities more liveable, largely failed. She reveals planning's real responsibilities and goals, including the kind of "rational order" that was actually forseen by the planning mentality, and concludes that the planners have continuously served the needs of the dominant capitalist economy. [via]
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The Economy of Citiesby Jane JacobsISBN 039470584X (0-394-70584-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Edge Cityby Joel GarreauISBN 0385424345 (0-385-42434-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edge City'Book summary:First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the most sweeping change in 100 years in how they live, work, and play. The Edge City. [via]
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The Edge City: Life on the New Frontierby Joel GarreauISBN 0385262493 (0-385-26249-3)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Fundamentals of Urban Designby Richard HedmanISBN 0918286352 (0-918286-35-2)
Softcover, Amer Planning Assn
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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscapeby James Howard KunstlerISBN 0671888250 (0-671-88825-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape'Book summary:An analysis of America's national landscape argues that much of what surrounds Americans is depressing, ugly, and unhealthy and traces America's evolution from a land of village commons to a man-made landscape that ignores nature and human needs. [via]
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Getting Things Done: Staying Stress Free & Productive in a World of Too Much to Doby David AllenISBN 0670889067 (0-670-88906-7)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Getting Things Done: Staying Stress Free & Productive in a World of Too Much to Do'Book summary:With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, "flow", "mind like water", and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you'd almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance.
Not quite. Yes, Getting Things Done offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-dos clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists--all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you're working on. However, it still operates from the decidedly Western notion that if we could just get really, really organised, we could turn ourselves into 24/7 productivity machines. (To wit, Allen, whom the New Economy bible Fast Company has dubbed "the personal productivity guru", suggests that instead of meditating on crouching tigers and hidden dragons while you wait for a plane, you should unsheathe that high-tech sabre known as the mobile phone and attack that list of calls you need to return.)
As whole-life-organising systems go, Allen's is pretty good, even fun and therapeutic. It starts with the exhortation to take every unaccounted-for scrap of paper in your workstation that you can't junk. The next step is to write down every unaccounted-for gotta-do cramming your head onto its own scrap of paper. Finally, throw the whole stew into a giant "in-basket".
That's where the processing and prioritising begin; in Allen's system, it get a little convoluted at times, rife as it is with fancy terms, subterms, and sub-subterms for even the simplest concepts. Thank goodness the spine of his system is captured on a straightforward, one-page flowchart that you can pin over your desk and repeatedly consult without having to refer back to the book. That alone is worth the purchase price. Also of value is Allen's ingenious Two-Minute Rule: if there's anything you absolutely must do that you can do right now in two minutes or less, then do it now, thus freeing up your time and mind tenfold over the long term. It's common sense advice so obvious that most of us completely overlook it, much to our detriment. Allen excels at dispensing such wisdom in this useful, if somewhat belaboured, self-improver aimed at everyone from CEOs to football mums (who, we all know, are more organised than most CEOs to start with). --Timothy Murphy [via]
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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress Free Productivityby David AllenISBN 0142000280 (0-14-200028-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress Free Productivity'Book summary:With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, "flow", "mind like water", and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you'd almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance.
Not quite. Yes, Getting Things Done offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-dos clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists--all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you're working on. However, it still operates from the decidedly Western notion that if we could just get really, really organised, we could turn ourselves into 24/7 productivity machines. (To wit, Allen, whom the New Economy bible Fast Company has dubbed "the personal productivity guru", suggests that instead of meditating on crouching tigers and hidden dragons while you wait for a plane, you should unsheathe that high-tech sabre known as the mobile phone and attack that list of calls you need to return.)
As whole-life-organising systems go, Allen's is pretty good, even fun and therapeutic. It starts with the exhortation to take every unaccounted-for scrap of paper in your workstation that you can't junk. The next step is to write down every unaccounted-for gotta-do cramming your head onto its own scrap of paper. Finally, throw the whole stew into a giant "in-basket".
That's where the processing and prioritising begin; in Allen's system, it get a little convoluted at times, rife as it is with fancy terms, subterms, and sub-subterms for even the simplest concepts. Thank goodness the spine of his system is captured on a straightforward, one-page flowchart that you can pin over your desk and repeatedly consult without having to refer back to the book. That alone is worth the purchase price. Also of value is Allen's ingenious Two-Minute Rule: if there's anything you absolutely must do that you can do right now in two minutes or less, then do it now, thus freeing up your time and mind tenfold over the long term. It's common sense advice so obvious that most of us completely overlook it, much to our detriment. Allen excels at dispensing such wisdom in this useful, if somewhat belaboured, self-improver aimed at everyone from CEOs to football mums (who, we all know, are more organised than most CEOs to start with). --Timothy Murphy [via]
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Good City Formby Kevin LynchISBN 0262620464 (0-262-62046-4)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good City Form'Book summary:With the publication of The Image of the City in 1959, Kevin Lynch embarked upon the process of exploring city form. Good City Form is both a summation and an extension of his vision, a high point from which he views cities past and possible.First published in hardcover under the title A Theory of Good City Form
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Guide to California Planningby William FultonISBN 0923956050 (0-923956-05-0)
Softcover, Solano Pr
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A History of Urban Form: Before the Industrial Revolutionsby A.E.J. MorrisISBN 0582301548 (0-582-30154-8)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Urban Form: Before the Industrial Revolutions'Book summary:Provides an international history of urban development, from its origins to the industrial revolution. This well established book maintains the high standard of information found in the previous two editions, describing the physical results of some 5000 years of urban activity. It explains and develops the concept of 'unplanned' cities that grow organically, in contrast with 'planned' cities that were shaped in response to urban form determinants. Spread throughout the texts are copious illustrations from a wealth of sources, including cartographic urban records, aerial and other photographs, original drawings and the author's numerous analytical line drawings.
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The Image of the Cityby Kevin LynchISBN 0262620014 (0-262-62001-4)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Image of the City'Book summary:What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion--imageability--and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities.The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book. [via]
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Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Formby Robert VenturiISBN 026272006X (0-262-72006-X)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Life Between Buildings: Using Public Spaceby Jan GehlISBN 0442230117 (0-442-23011-7)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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Main Street Revisited: Time, Space and Image Building in Small-Town Americaby Richard V. FrancavigliaISBN 0877455430 (0-87745-543-0)
Softcover, Univ of Iowa Pr
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Making Learning VisibleISBN 8887960259 (88-87960-25-9)
Softcover, Reggio Children Pubns
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Managing the Sense of a Regionby Kevin LynchISBN 0262620359 (0-262-62035-9)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Metro Manila: In Search of a Sustainable Future Impact Analysis of Metropolitan Policies for Development and Environmental Conservationby University of the Philippines Press, Emerlinda R. RomanISBN 9715423582 (971-542-358-2)
Hardcover, University of the Philippines Press
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My Systemby Aron NimzowitschISBN 9197600539 (91-976005-3-9)
Softcover, Quality Chess Europe
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My System'Book summary:[via]My System is at the top of a very short list of chess classics. Nimzowitschs ideas have had a profound influence on modern chess thinking. Most chess masters will at some point have studied Nimzowitschs work, and not to have read My System is by many regarded as a shocking gap in a chess players education.
The problem for an English-speaking audience has been that My System was written in German more than eighty years ago. The commonly-used contemporary translations have sounded dated for some time, and were always questionable: the translators frequently toned down many passages, fearing Nimzowitschs biting wit would be too controversial.
This edition uses a brand-new translation that recreates the authors original intentions. For the first time an English-speaking audience can appreciate the true nature of a famous chess book.
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Constructionby Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein, Sara IshikawaISBN 0195019199 (0-19-501919-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction'Book summary:The second of three books published by the Center for Environmental Structure to provide a "working alternative to our present ideas about architecture, building, and planning," A Pattern Language offers a practical language for building and planning based on natural considerations. The reader is given an overview of some 250 patterns that are the units of this language, each consisting of a design problem, discussion, illustration, and solution. By understanding recurrent design problems in our environment, readers can identify extant patterns in their own design projects and use these patterns to create a language of their own. Extraordinarily thorough, coherent, and accessible, this book has become a bible for homebuilders, contractors, and developers who care about creating healthy, high-level design. [via]
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Planning in the Face of Powerby John F. ForesterISBN 0520064135 (0-520-06413-5)
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New Yorkby Robert A. CaroISBN 0394720245 (0-394-72024-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York'Book summary:For the sheer magnitude, depth and authority of its revelations, The Power Broker stands alone---a huge and galvanizing biography revealing not only the virtually unknown saga of one man's incredible accumulation of power, but the hidden story of the shaping (and mis-shaping) of New York through the past half-century.
Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders have known: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of our time in the City and in the State of New York. And in telling the Moses story, Caro both opens up to an unprecedented degree the way in which politics really happens--the way things really get done in America's City Halls and Statehouses--and brings to light a bonanza of vital new information about such national figures as Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt (and the genesis of their blood feud), about Fiorello La Guardia, John V. Lindsay and Nelson Rockefeller.
But The Power Broker is first and foremost a brilliant multidimensional portrait of a man--an extraordinary man who, denied power within the normal framework of the democratic process, stepped outside that framework to grasp power sufficient to shape a great city and to hold sway over the very texture of millions of lives. We see how Moses began: the handsome, intellectual young heir to the world of Our Crowd, an idealist. How, rebuffed by the entrenched political establishment, he fought for the power to accomplish his ideals. How he first created a miraculous flowering of parks and parkways, playlands and beaches--and then ultimately brought down on the city the smog-choked aridity of our urban landscape, the endless miles of (never sufficient) highway, the hopeless sprawl of Long Island, the massive failures of public housing, and countless other barriers to humane living. How, inevitably, the accumulation of power became an end in itself.
Moses built an empire and lived like an emperor. He was held in fear--his dossiers could disgorge the dark secret of anyone who opposed him. He was, he claimed, above politics, above deals; and through decade after decade, the newspapers and the public believed. Meanwhile, he was developing his public authorities into a fourth branch of government known as "Triborough"--a government whose records were closed to the public, whose policies and plans were decided not by voters or elected officials but solely by Moses--an immense economic force directing pressure on labor unions, on banks, on all the city's political and economic institutions, and on the press, and on the Church. He doled out millions of dollars' worth of legal fees, insurance commissions, lucrative contracts on the basis of who could best pay him back in the only coin he coveted: power. He dominated the politics and politicians of his time--without ever having been elected to any office. He was, in essence, above our democratic system.
Robert Moses held power in the state for 44 years, through the governorships of Smith, Roosevelt, Lehman, Dewey, Harriman and Rockefeller, and in the city for 34 years, through the mayoralties of La Guardia, O'Dwyer, Impellitteri, Wagner and Lindsay, He personally conceived and carried through public works costing 27 billion dollars--he was undoubtedly America's greatest builder.
This is how he built and dominated New York--before, finally, he was stripped of his reputation (by the press) and his power (by Nelson Rockefeller). But his work, and his will, had been done. [via]More editions of The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York:
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The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes As Public Historyby Dolores HaydenISBN 0262581523 (0-262-58152-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes As Public History'Book summary:Winner, 1995, category of Archeology and Anthropology, Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc.
Based on her extensive experience in the urban communities of Los Angeles, historian and architect Dolores Hayden proposes new perspectives on gender, race, and ethnicity to broaden the practice of public history and public art, enlarge urban preservation, and reorient the writing of urban history to spatial struggles.
In the first part of The Power of Place, Hayden outlines the elements of a social history of urban space to connect people's lives and livelihoods to the urban landscape as it changes over time. She then explores how communities and professionals can tap the power of historic urban landscapes to nurture public memory.
The second part documents a decade of research and practice by The Power of Place, a nonprofit organization Hayden founded in downtown Los Angeles. Through public meetings, walking tours, artists's books, and permanent public sculpture, as well as architectural preservation, teams of historians, designers, planners, and artists worked together to understand, preserve, and commemorate urban landscape history as African American, Latina, and Asian American families have experienced it.
One project celebrates the urban homestead of Biddy Mason, an African American ex-slave and midwife active betwen 1856 and 1891. Another reinterprets the Embassy Theater where Rose Pesotta, Luisa Moreno, and Josefina Fierro de Bright organized Latina dressmakers and cannery workers in the 1930s and 1940s. A third chapter tells the story of a historic district where Japanese American family businesses flourished from the 1890s to the 1940s. Each project deals with bitter memoriesslavery, repatriation, internmentbut shows how citizens survived and persevered to build an urban life for themselves, their families, and their communities.
Drawing on many similar efforts around the United States, from New York to Charleston, Seattle to Cincinnati, Hayden finds a broad new movement across urban preservation, public history, and public art to accept American diversity at the heart of the vernacular urban landscape. She provides dozens of models for creative urban history projects in cities and towns across the country. [via]More editions of The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes As Public History:
The Practice of Local Government Planningby Frank S. So, Charles Hoch, Linda C. DaltonISBN 0873261712 (0-87326-171-2)
Hardcover, Intl City County Management Assn
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Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Lifeby David AllenISBN 0143034545 (0-14-303454-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ready For Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life'Book summary:In Getting Things Done, David Allen offered a breakthrough system to enhance productivity-at work and in daily life. Now "the guru of personal productivity" (Fast Company) asks readers what is holding them back and shows how they can be ready for anything-with a clear mind, a clear deck, and clear intentions.
Based on Allen's highly popular e-newsletter, Principles of Productivity, Ready for Anything offers fifty-two principles to clear your head, focus productively, create structures that work, and get in motion, including:
* stability on one level opens creativity on another
* you can't win a game you haven't defined
* the value of a future goal is the present change it fosters
With wit, motivational insights, and inspiring quotes, Ready for Anything shows readers how to make things happen with less effort, stress, and ineffectiveness, and lots more energy, creativity, and clarity. This is the perfect book for anyone wanting to work and live at their very best. [via]More editions of Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life:
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failedby James ScottISBN 0300078153 (0-300-07815-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed'Book summary:James C. Scott's research for this book began with an examination of the tensions between state authorities and various "unstable" individuals throughout history, from hunter-gatherer tribes to Gypsies to the homeless. He soon became fascinated, however, by the recurring patterns of failure and authoritarianism in certain social engineering programs aimed at bringing such people fully into the state's fold. Soviet collectivization, the Maoist Great Leap Forward, the precisely planned city of Brasilia--these and other projects around the world, while deeply ambitious, extracted immeasurable tolls on the people they were designed to help.
One of the most important common factors that Scott found in these schemes is what he refers to as a high modernist ideology. In simplest terms, it is an extremely firm belief that progress can and will make the world a better place. But "scientific" theories about the betterment of life often fail to take into account "the indispensable role of practical knowledge, informal processes, and improvisation in the face of unpredictability" that Scott views as essential to an effective society. What high modernism lacks is metis, a Greek word which Scott translates as "the knowledge that can only come from practical experience." Although metis is closely related to the concept of "mutuality" found in the anarchist writings of, among others, Kropotkin and Bakunin, Scott is careful to emphasize that he is not advocating the abolition of the state or championing a complete reliance on natural "truth." He merely recognizes that some types of states can initiate programs which jeopardize the well-being of all their subjects.
Although the collapse of most socialist governments might lead one to believe that Seeing Like a State is old news, Scott's analysis should prove extremely useful to those considering the effects of global capitalism on local communities. [via]
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Site Planningby Kevin LynchISBN 0262121069 (0-262-12106-9)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Site Planning'Book summary:This new edition of Kevin Lynch's widely used introductory textbook has been completely revised; and is also enriched by the experience of Lynch's coauthor, Gary Hack. For over two decades, Site Planning has remained the only comprehensive source of information on all the principal - activities and concerns of arranging the outdoor physical environment. Now, new illustrations double the visual material and one hundred pages of new appendixes cover special techniques, provide references to more detailed technical sources, and put numerical standards in a concise form.An introduction summarizes the site planning process. This is followed by a case study of a typical professional project and ten chapters which provide new materials on user analysis, programming, site planning for built places, housing tenures and their planning implications, cost estimating, mapping, the reading of air photographs, site design for housing in developing countries, design strategies, environmental impact analyses, and many others - all illustrated with in-text photographs and line drawings and with Lynch's characteristic marginal sketches.Kevin Lynch is Professor Emeritus of City Planning at MIT and à partner in Carr, Lynch Associates. Gary Hack is Head of the Department of Urban Studies and planning at MIT
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Spreading the News: Sharing the Stories of Early Childhood Educationby Margie Carter, Debbie CurtisISBN 1884834140 (1-884834-14-0)
Softcover, Redleaf Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spreading the News: Sharing the Stories of Early Childhood Education'Book summary:How do we communicate to others the important work we do for and with children? How do we enhance understanding and knowledge of the early childhood care and education field?
With documentation panels.
With what? Documentation panels - an exciting graphic technique which helps educators and professionals in the early childhood care and education field make and use unique and beautiful eye-catching posters - called "documentation panels" or "display panels," which can be used to communicate child development, parenting, program and public policy information. Based on the work in early childhood education originating in Reggio Emilia, Italy, this technique captures in visual form with a brief narrative, the importance of a play-based curriculum in young childrens lives.
A fascinating and innovative book, Spreading the News: Sharing the Stories of Early Childhood Education shows the many uses of these documentation panels, the tools needed to make them and the results to expect. [via]
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Strategic Planning And Management For Library Managersby Joseph MatthewsISBN 1591582318 (1-59158-231-8)
Softcover, Libraries Unltd Inc
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Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dreamby Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff SpeckISBN 0865476063 (0-86547-606-3)
Softcover, North Point Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream'Book summary:A manifesto by America's most controversial and celebrated town planners, proposing an alternative model for community design.[via]
There is a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and to replace the automobile-based settlement patterns of the past fifty years with a return to more traditional planning principles. This movement stems not only from the realization that sprawl is ecologically and economically unsustainable but also from a growing awareness of sprawl's many victims: children, utterly dependent on parental transportation if they wish to escape the cul-de-sac; the elderly, warehoused in institutions once they lose their driver's licenses; the middle class, stuck in traffic for two or more hours each day.
Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are at the forefront of this movement, and in Suburban Nation they assess sprawl's costs to society, be they ecological, economic, aesthetic, or social. It is a lively, thorough, critical lament, and an entertaining lesson on the distinctions between postwar suburbia-characterized by housing clusters, strip shopping centers, office parks, and parking lots-and the traditional neighborhoods that were built as a matter of course until mid-century. It is an indictment of the entire development community, including governments, for the fact that America no longer builds towns. Most important, though, it is that rare book that also offers solutions.More editions of Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream:
Sustainable Architecture: Towards a Diverse Built Environmentby Ed MeletISBN 9056621181 (90-5662-118-1)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Towards a New Architectureby Le CorbusierISBN 0486250237 (0-486-25023-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Towards a New Architecture'Book summary:This pioneering proclamation by the great architect expounds Le Corbusier's technical and aesthetic theories, views on industry, economics, the relation of form to function, "mass-production spirit," and much more. Profusely illustrated with over 200 line drawings and photographs of Le Corbusier's buildings and other important structures.[via]More editions of Towards a New Architecture:
Urban and Regional Planningby Peter HallISBN 0415217776 (0-415-21777-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Urban and Regional Planning'Book summary:Provides students with an up-to-date introduction to planning and traces the evolution of problems, planning philosophies, techniques and legislation from a historical perspective in order to explain modern planning practices today. [via]
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What Time Is This Place?by K. LynchISBN 0262620324 (0-262-62032-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Time Is This Place?'Book summary:Time and Place -- Timeplace -- is a continuum of the mind, as fundamental as the spacetime that may be the ultimate reality of the material world.Kevin Lynch's book deals with this human sense of time, a biological rhythm that may follow a different beat from that dictated by external, "official," "objective" timepieces. The center of his interest is on how this innate sense affects the ways we view and change -- or conserve, or destroy -- our physical environment, especially in the cities.
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The Works: Anatomy of a Cityby Kate Ascher, Wendy MarechISBN 1594200718 (1-59420-071-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Works: Anatomy of a City'Book summary:Kate Ascher could not have chosen a much drier topic for a book than water mains, parking meters, railroad classification yards, and the other doodads of city infrastructure. But in Ascher's captivating book, The Works, the innards of New York City come alive. Wonderfully illustrated, the book combines text, maps, and other graphics to tell the story of the systems that keep America's greatest city running smoothly. How are traffic lights coordinated? How do potholes form and which areas have streets with the best "smoothness score"? How is mail processed? What happens when you flush the toilet? Ascher, who has a PhD in government from the London School of Economics and is now executive vice president of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, dissects the colorful workings of all these systems and much more.
The Works contains a section on pretty much every aspect of the Big Apple's infrastructure. You'll learn the mystery of the shiny silver tanks that have become a familiar sight on New York streets. (They prevent moisture from damaging underground phone lines.) Ascher explains how the city's 23 million daily pieces of mail are processed. We also learn about the 27-mile underground pneumatic mail tube that used to carry canisters with 500 letters up to 30 miles per hour around Manhattan. Also interesting: the story of the nine-foot-long, 800-pound robot submarine that city engineers send to probe leaks in the Delaware Aqueduct--which, it might interest you to know, is the world's longest continuous underground tunnel. And you'll find out all about Colonel Waring and his "White Wings." A great coffee table book for New York lovers or anyone with a curiosity bone. --Alex Roslin [via]
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Organízate con Eficacia: Máxima Productividad Personal Sin Estrésby David AllenISBN 8495787164 (84-95787-16-4)
Hardcover, Ediciones Urano S. A.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Organízate con Eficacia: Máxima Productividad Personal Sin Estrés'Book summary:Este libro tiene un objetivo claro: demostrar que existe un sistema de organización del trabajo que nos permite liberar la mente de las tensiones que inhiben nuestra creatividad, y que nos hace más eficaces en todos los aspectos de la vida.
David Allen sostiene que nuestra mente tiene una capacidad limitada para almacenar información y propone una serie de fórmulas prácticas para eliminar las tensiones e incrementar nuestra capacidad de trabajo y nuestro rendimiento.
Organízate con eficacia se fundamenta en unas sencillas normas básicas de organización del tiempo, como por ejemplo la necesidad de determinar cuál es el siguiente paso a dar en cada uno de nuestros proyectos, o la regla de los dos minutos (si surge una tarea pendiente y se puede hacer en menos de dos minutos, debe hacerse inmediatamente). El sistema propuesto por Allen soluciona ansiedades y desconciertos, y nos permite transformar nuestro modo de trabajar y la manera de percibir nuestros retos cotidianos. [via]
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