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Above New York: A Collection of Historical and Original Aerial Photographs of New York Cityby Paul Goldberger, Robert CameronISBN 0918684420 (0-918684-42-0)
Hardcover, Ingram Pub Services
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Above Chicago: A New Collection of Historical and Original Aerial Photographs of Chicagoby Cheryl Kent, Robert Cameron, Tim SamuelsonISBN 0918684277 (0-918684-27-7)
Hardcover, Ingram Pub Services
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An American Vitruvius : An Architect's Handbook of Civic Artby Werner Hegemann, Elbert PeetsISBN 0910413355 (0-910413-35-5)
Hardcover, Princeton Architectural Press
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An Atlas of Rare City Maps: Comparative Urban Design, 1830-1842by Melville C. BranchISBN 1568980736 (1-56898-073-6)
Hardcover, Princeton Architectural Pr
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Building Gotham: Civic Culture and Public Policy in New York City, 1898-1938by Keith D. RevellISBN 0801882060 (0-8018-8206-0)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Built in Boston: City and Suburb, 1800-1950by Douglass Shand-TucciISBN 0870236490 (0-87023-649-0)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Built in Boston: City and Suburb, 1800-2000by Douglass Shand-TucciISBN 1558492011 (1-55849-201-1)
Softcover, University of Massachusetts Press
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Charter of the New Urbanismby Michael Leccese, Kathleen McCormickISBN 0071355537 (0-07-135553-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Chicago Then & Nowby Elizabeth McNultyISBN 1592237320 (1-59223-732-0)
Softcover, Advantage Pub Group
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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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"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 on Stone: Nineteenth Century Lithograph Images of the Urban Westby John W. RepsISBN 088360051X (0-88360-051-X)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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Cities on the Rebound: A Vision for Urban Americanby William H. HudnutISBN 0874208637 (0-87420-863-7)
Hardcover, Urban Land Inst
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Cities Then and Nowby Jim AntoniouISBN 078581115X (0-7858-1115-X)
Hardcover, Book Sales, Incorporated
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Cities Without Suburbsby David RuskISBN 0943875501 (0-943875-50-1)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cities Without Suburbs'Book summary:Cities without Suburbs, first published in 1993, has become an influential analysis of America's cities among city planners, scholars, and citizens alike. In it, David Rusk, the former mayor of Albuquerque, argues that America must end the isolation of the central city from its suburbs in order to attack its urban problems.
The second edition not only employs updated census data available since publication of the first edition, but it provides more precise information about population, income, and racial trends in central cities. Updated case studies of metropolitan reforms are based on Rusk's direct involvement as a consultant in over fifty metro areas since the publication of the first edition.
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Cities Without Suburbs: A Census 2000 Updateby David RuskISBN 1930365144 (1-930365-14-4)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Rusk's analysis, extending back to 1950, covers 522 central cities in 320 metro areas of the United States. He finds that cities trapped within old boundaries have suffered severe racial segregation and the emergence of an urban underclass. But cities with annexation powerstermed "elastic" by Ruskhave shared in area-wide development.
This third edition is among the first books of any kind to employ information from the 2000 U.S. census. While refining his argument with this new data, Rusk assesses the major trends of the 1990s, including the perceived rebound of central cities, the impact of Hispanic and Asian migration, the growing similarities of older "inner-ring" suburbs to central cities, and the emerging influence of faith-based movements. New recommendations take account of growing restrictions on cities' annexation powers, even in the Southwestern United States, and of new opportunities for federal shaping of home mortgage programs and urban planning processes. Rusk's conclusion stresses cities' growing experience with building political coalitions in pursuit of development and growth.
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Cities, the Forces That Shape Themby Lisa Taylor, Cooper-Hewitt MuseumISBN 0847804151 (0-8478-0415-1)
Softcover, Rizzoli
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The City Assembled: The Elements of Urban Form Through Historyby Spiro KostofISBN 0821225995 (0-8212-2599-5)
Softcover, Bulfinch Pr
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City Comforts: How to Build an Urban Villageby David SucherISBN 0964268019 (0-9642680-1-9)
Softcover, City Comforts Inc
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City Life: Urban Expectations in a New Worldby Witold RybczynskiISBN 0788155172 (0-7881-5517-2)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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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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City Spaces: Photographs of Chicago Alleysby Ross Miller, Bob ThallISBN 1930066074 (1-930066-07-4)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Citymaze: A Collection of Amazing City Mazesby Wendy Madgwick, Dan Courtney, Nick GibbardISBN 1562945610 (1-56294-561-0)
Hardcover, Lerner Pub Group
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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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Design of Citiesby Edmund N. BaconISBN 0140042369 (0-14-004236-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed Americaby Erik LarsonISBN 0786252189 (0-7862-5218-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America'Book summary:Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such drama that readers may find themselves checking the book's categorization to be sure that The Devil in the White City is not, in fact, a highly imaginative novel. Larson tells the stories of two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair's construction, and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor. Burnham's challenge was immense. In a short period of time, he was forced to overcome the death of his partner and numerous other obstacles to construct the famous "White City" around which the fair was built. His efforts to complete the project, and the fair's incredible success, are skillfully related along with entertaining appearances by such notables as Buffalo Bill Cody, Susan B. Anthony, and Thomas Edison. The activities of the sinister Dr. Holmes, who is believed to be responsible for scores of murders around the time of the fair, are equally remarkable. He devised and erected the World's Fair Hotel, complete with crematorium and gas chamber, near the fairgrounds and used the event as well as his own charismatic personality to lure victims. Combining the stories of an architect and a killer in one book, mostly in alternating chapters, seems like an odd choice but it works. The magical appeal and horrifying dark side of 19th-century Chicago are both revealed through Larson's skillful writing. --John Moe [via]
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Down & Out: The Life and Death of Minneapolis's Skid Rowby Joseph Hart, Edwin C. HirschoffISBN 0816640548 (0-8166-4054-8)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Energy and Land Useby and BurchellISBN 0882850695 (0-88285-069-5)
Hardcover, Rutgers Univ Center for Urban
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Engineering the City: How Infrastructure Worksby Matthys Levy, Richard PanchykISBN 1556524196 (1-55652-419-6)
Softcover, Chicago Review Pr
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Fort Towns of France: The Bastides of the Dordogne and Aquitaineby James Bentley, Francesco VenturiISBN 1850436088 (1-85043-608-8)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the Worldby Alan WeismanISBN 1890132284 (1-890132-28-4)
Softcover, Chelsea Green Pub Co
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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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Great Streetsby Allan B. JacobsISBN 0262600234 (0-262-60023-4)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Streets'Book summary:This book received Honorable Mention in the category of Architecture and Urban Studies in the 1993 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc.
Which are the world's best streets, and what are the physical, designable characteristics that make them great? To answer these questions, Allan Jacobs has surveyed street users and design professionals and has studied a wide array of street types and urban spaces around the world. With more than 200 illustrations, all prepared by the author, along with analysis and statistics, Great Streets offers a wealth of information on street dimensions, plans, sections, and patterns of use, all systematically compared. It also reveals Jacobs's eye for the telling human and social details that bring streets and communities to life.
An extensive introduction discusses the importance of streets in creating communities and criteria for identifying the best streets. The essays that follow examine 15 particularly fine streets, ranging from medieval streets in Rome and Copenhagen to Venice's Grand Canal, from Parisian boulevards to tree-lined residential streets in American cities. Jacobs also looks at several streets that were once very fine but are less successful today, such as Market Street in San Francisco, identifying the factors that figure in their decline.
To broaden his coverage, Jacobs adds briefer treatments of more than 30 other streets arranged by street type, including streets from Australia, Japan, and classical antiquity in addition to European and North American examples. For each of these streets he has prepared plans, sections, and maps, all drawn at the same scales to facilitate comparisons, along with perspective views and drawings of significant design details.
Another remarkable feature of this book is a set of 50 one square-mile maps, each reproduced at the same scale, of the street plans of representative cities around the world. These reveal much about the texture of the cities' street patterns and hence of their urban life. Jacobs's analysis of the maps adds much original data derived from them, including changes of street patterns over time.
Jacobs concludes by summarizing the practical design qualities and strategies that have contributed most to the making of great streets. [via]More editions of Great Streets:
Hollywood: The First Hundred Yearsby Bruce T. TorrenceISBN 0918432308 (0-918432-30-8)
Softcover, New York Zoetrope
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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Builtby Stewart BrandISBN 0140139966 (0-14-013996-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built'Book summary:This book on buildings asks the question why so many buildings punish and restrict us because almost none of them adapt well. In real use, buildings need to adapt because their uses are constantly changing. All buildings are predictions, and yet more high-style buildings are designed not to change, not to accommodate new use. A good portion of how buildings learn will be a natural history of how buildings change with time and what things work to make buildings adapt gracefully, what building layouts allow easy redefinition of space and building code considerations that permit remodelling. This practical book aims to integrate all the different aspects of the fragmented design and construction process, so that buildings can be seen as embodying a functional, yet aesthetic and capacious vision, not the conflicts, compromises and conveniences of clients, architects, engineers and contractors, all working in their interests, not the buildings. [via]
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How the Other Half Livesby Jacob August RiisISBN 0809000121 (0-8090-0012-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New Yorkby Jacob A. RiisISBN 1420925032 (1-4209-2503-2)
Softcover, Digireads.Com
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The Image of the Cityby Kevin LynchISBN 0262620014 (0-262-62001-4)
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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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Impossible Worldsby Stephen Coates, Alex StetterISBN 3764363177 (3-7643-6317-7)
Hardcover, Springer Verlag
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The Little Houseby Virginia Lee BurtonISBN 0881032328 (0-88103-232-8)
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London: A Pilgrimageby Blanchard Jerrold, Gustave Dore, Peter AckroydISBN 1843311933 (1-84331-193-3)
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Lost Chicagoby David LoweISBN 0823028712 (0-8230-2871-2)
Softcover, Watson-Guptill Pubns
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These dazzling, poignant pages recreate the magical built environment that thrilled generations of Chicago residents and visitors alike before falling victim to the wrecking ball of progress.
Here are the grand residences and hotels, opulent theaters, legendary trains, and state-of-the-art office buildings and department storesincluding the worlds first skyscraper. Here too are the famous convention halls, parks, and racetracks of a great American city whose architectural treasures have been, and continue to be, recklessly squandered.
Rare photographs and prints, many of them published here for the first time, document the transformative architectural achievements of such giants as Dankmar Adler, Louis Sullivan, John Wellburn Root, Daniel Burnham, William Holabird, and Frank Lloyd Wright. But this remarkable book is much more than a portfolio of now-vanished buildings; within its pages are evocative sketches of scores of Chicago personalities, from the world-famous (Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Dreiser, Clarence Darrow, Ben Hecht, Jane Addams, Cyrus McCormick, George Pullman, and Gustavus Swift, to name just a few) to the locally notorious. [via]More editions of Lost Chicago:
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Manhattan Manners: Architecture and Style, 1850-1900by M. Christine BoyerISBN 0847806502 (0-8478-0650-2)
Hardcover, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
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The Mayors' Institute : Excellence in City Designby James S. Russell, Mark Robbins, Mayors' Institute on City Design StaffISBN 1568983778 (1-56898-377-8)
Softcover, Princeton Architectural Press
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The New American Villageby Bob ThallISBN 0801861586 (0-8018-6158-6)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The New Civic Art: Elemments of Town Planningby Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Robert AlminanaISBN 0847821862 (0-8478-2186-2)
Hardcover, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
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The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Communityby Peter KatzISBN 0070338892 (0-07-033889-2)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dreamby Peter CalthorpeISBN 1878271687 (1-878271-68-7)
Softcover, Princeton Architectural Pr
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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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The Perfect Cityby Bob Thall, Peter Bacon HalesISBN 0801847265 (0-8018-4726-5)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Points + Lines : Diagrams and Projects for the Cityby Stan AllenISBN 1568981554 (1-56898-155-4)
Softcover, Princeton Architectural Press
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The book's title refers to this interplay of practice and theory, evoking not only the points of activity and the paths of movement found in a contemporary city but also the points of speculation and lines of argument in theoretical discourse.
Projects include the Cardiff Bay Opera House, Wales; the Korean-American Museum of Art, Los Angeles; the Museo del Prado, Madrid; and White Columns Gallery, New York. Each project is accompanied by explanatory text as well as numerous drawings, models, photographs, and computer renderings. K. Michael Hays contributes an introductory essay; R. E. Somol writes the postscript. [via]More editions of Points + Lines : Diagrams and Projects for the City:
The Production of Housesby Christopher AlexanderISBN 0195032233 (0-19-503223-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Renaissance Cityby Giulio C. ArganISBN 0807605212 (0-8076-0521-2)
Softcover, Braziller Incorporated, George
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Robert Polidori's Metropolisby Robert Polidori, Martin C. Pedersen, Criswell LappinISBN 1891024981 (1-891024-98-1)
Hardcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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The Scenic Daguerreotype: Romanticism and Early Photographyby John WoodISBN 0877455112 (0-87745-511-2)
Hardcover, Univ of Iowa Pr
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The Sky's the Limit: A Century of Chicago Skyscrapersby Pauline A. SaligaISBN 0847811794 (0-8478-1179-4)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Social Life of Small Urban Spacesby William H. WhyteISBN 097063241X (0-9706324-1-X)
Softcover, Project for Public Spaces Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Social Life of Small Urban Spaces'Book summary:In 1980, William H. Whyte published the findings from his revolutionary Street Life Project in The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Both the book and the accompanying film were instantly labeled classics, and launched a mini-revolution in the planning and study of public spaces. They have since become standard texts, and appear on syllabi and reading lists in urban planning, sociology, environmental design, and architecture departments around the world.
Project for Public Spaces, which grew out of Hollys Street Life Project and continues his work around the world, has acquired the reprint rights to Social Life, with the intent of making it available to the widest possible audience and ensuring that the Whyte family receive their fair share of Hollys legacy. [via]
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Stalking Detroitby Jason Young, Charles Waldheim, Gerogia DaskalakisISBN 8495273772 (84-95273-77-2)
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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)
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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 Communities: A New Design Synthesis for Cities, Suburbs, and Townsby Sim Van Der Ryn, Peter CalthorpeISBN 0871568152 (0-87156-815-2)
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Suzhou: Shaping an Ancient City for the New China An Edaw/Pei Workshopby Helaine Kaplan PrenticeISBN 1888931159 (1-888931-15-9)
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Timeless Way of Buildingby Christopher AlexanderISBN 0195024028 (0-19-502402-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Timeless Way of Building'Book summary:The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the power of present-day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even afraid, to say openly that they dislike what is happening, because they are afraid to seem foolish, afraid perhaps that they will be laughed at.
Now, at last, there is a coherent theory which describes in modern terms an architecture as ancient as human society itself.
The Timeless Way of Building is the introductory volume in the Center for Environmental Structure series, Christopher Alexander presents in it a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from their own being.
Alexander writes, "There is one timeless way of building. It is thousands of years old, and the same today as it has always been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way. And as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form as the trees and hills, and as our faces are." [via]More editions of Timeless Way of Building:
Town Planning in Frontier Americaby John William RepsISBN 0826203167 (0-8262-0316-7)
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Town Spaces : New Traditionalism in Urban Design Todayby Harald Bodenschatz, Michael GravesISBN 3764369426 (3-7643-6942-6)
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Town Spaces: Contemporary Interpretations in Traditional Urbanism, Krier, Kohl, Archtitectsby Rob Krier, Hans Ibelings, Philipp Meuser, Harald Bodenschatz, Michael GravesISBN 3764375582 (3-7643-7558-2)
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Towns and Townmaking Principlesby Andres Duany, William Lennertz, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Alex KriegerISBN 084781436X (0-8478-1436-X)
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Urban Open Spacesby Lisa TaylorISBN 084780304X (0-8478-0304-X)
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Urban Spaceby Rob KrierISBN 0847802361 (0-8478-0236-1)
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Urban Spaces No. 3by John Morris DixonISBN 1584710276 (1-58471-027-6)
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Urban Spaces: The Design of Public Placesby John Morris DixonISBN 1584710233 (1-58471-023-3)
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Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Spaceby Michael SorkinISBN 0809096072 (0-8090-9607-2)
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Visions for a New American Dream: Process, Principles, & an Ordinance to Plan & Design Small Communitiesby Anton C. NelessenISBN 1884829007 (1-884829-00-7)
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Washington, Design of the Federal Cityby National A, United States National Archives and Records ServiceISBN 0874914175 (0-87491-417-5)
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The Wealth of Citiesby John O. NorquistISBN 0738201340 (0-7382-0134-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wealth of Cities'Book summary:Milwaukee Mayor Norquist, a first-time author, appropriately alludes to Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations in his title. This strongly free-market book blames bad government policy for much of what's gone wrong with cities. He names a few familiar enemies, such as welfare's culture of dependency and the government monopoly on public education. More interesting, however, is his analysis of how government created the suburbs through road construction and housing subsidies--public actions that gave people the means to abandon once-thriving urban cores. Norquist describes how some cities have begun to turn the corner, and also recommends a series of commonsense public policies. Politicians have a knack for writing books that say nothing, but Norquist offers a thoughtful analysis of urban America, one that avoids the tired answers of both Left and Right and sets forth its own unique vision. --John J. Miller [via]
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The Wealth of Cities: Revitalizing the Centers of American Lifeby John O. NorquistISBN 0201442132 (0-201-44213-2)
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