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Alvar Aaltoby Peter Gossel, Louna LahtiISBN 3822835277 (3-8228-3527-7)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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American Architecture and Urbanismby Vincent Joseph ScullyISBN 0500340366 (0-500-34036-6)
Hardcover, Thames & Hudson
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Architecture: Choice or Fateby Leon KrierISBN 1901092038 (1-901092-03-8)
Softcover, Andreas Papadakis Pub
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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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Cities and People: A Social and Architectural Historyby Mark GirouardISBN 0300039689 (0-300-03968-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Cities from the Sky: An Aerial Portrait of Americaby Thomas J. CampanellaISBN 1568982992 (1-56898-299-2)
Hardcover, Princeton Architectural Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cities from the Sky: An Aerial Portrait of America'Book summary:Piloting a single-engine biplane high above Washington D.C. in 1920, the intrepid inventor and aviation pioneer Sherman Fairchild first tested his custom-built sky camera, effectively founding the aerial photography company that would bear his name. Roaming America's skies for the next 40 years, the photographers of the Fairchild Aerial Survey Company documented nearly every major city in the United States. Their images, both maplike shots from high above, and low-angle raking views, form a definitive portrait of the American landscape. Rescued from destruction in the 1970s, the Fairchild archive was scattered across the country. Painstakingly reassembled for this book, the images (many of which have never been seen before) are brought together here for the first time. This beautifully produced, large format book collects over 125 extraordinary images taken between the 1920s and the 1960s. The photographs, valued both as works of art and as tools for urban historians, often capture historic moments: the Capitol Building during Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first inauguration and Yankee Stadium during Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series. Others depict architectural landmarks: the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, the Washington Monument, Hoover Dam, and Alcatraz, to name a few. Some of the cities revealed in astonishing detail include: Albuquerque, Atlanta, Baltimore, Berkeley, Boston, Cedar Rapids, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Des Moines, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Miam,i Minneapolis, New Orleans, New York, Oakland, Palo Alto, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, Reno, Salt Lake City, St. Louis, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington [via]
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The City: A Global Historyby Joel KotkinISBN 0375756515 (0-375-75651-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angelesby Mike Davis, Robert MorrowISBN 1844675688 (1-84467-568-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles'Book summary:This new edition of Mike Daviss visionary work gives an update on Los Angeles as the city hits the 21st century.
No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide- ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut militias.
In City of Quartz, Davis reconstructs LA's shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy. He tells us who has the power and how they hold on to it. He gives us a city of Dickensian extremes, Pynchonesque conspiracies, and a desperation straight out of Nathaniel Westa city in which we may glimpse our own future mirrored with terrifying clarity.
In this new edition, Davis provides a dazzling update on the city's current status.
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The City of To-Morrow and Its Planningby Le CorbusierISBN 0486253325 (0-486-25332-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Community by Design: New Urbanism for Suburbs and Small Communitiesby Kenneth B. Hall, Gerald A. PorterfieldISBN 007134523X (0-07-134523-X)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United Statesby Kenneth T. JacksonISBN 0195132874 (0-19-513287-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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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] 
Dialectical Urbanism: Social Struggles in the Capitalist Cityby Andy MerrifieldISBN 1583670602 (1-58367-060-2)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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Dublin 1660-1860: The Shaping of a Cityby Maurice James Craig, Mark GirouardISBN 1905483112 (1-905483-11-2)
Softcover, Dufour Editions
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Dublin, 1910-1940: Shaping the City & Suburbsby Ruth McManusISBN 1851827129 (1-85182-712-9)
Softcover, Intl Specialized Book Service Inc
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The Edifice Complex: How the Rich And Powerful Shape the Worldby Deyan SudjicISBN 1594200688 (1-59420-068-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Environmental Quality in Canadian CitiesISBN 1894737083 (1-894737-08-3)
Softcover, Renouf Pub Co Ltd
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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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Getting to Know ArcView GIS: The Geographic Information System (GIS) for Everyoneby Environmental Systems Research Institute (Redlands, Calif.)ISBN 186242019X (1-86242-019-X)
Hardcover, GeoInformation International
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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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Great Leap Forward: Harvard Design School Project on the Cityby Rem Koolhaas, Sze Tsung Leong, Jeffrey Inaba, Judy Chung ChuihuaISBN 3822860484 (3-8228-6048-4)
Hardcover, Taschen America Llc
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The Green House: New Directions In Sustainable Architectureby Christopher Hawthorne, Alanna StangISBN 1568984812 (1-56898-481-2)
Hardcover, Princeton Architectural Pr
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The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping : Project on the Cityby Rem Koolhaas, Jeffrey Inaba, Chuihua Judy Chung, Sze Tsung LeongISBN 3822860476 (3-8228-6047-6)
Hardcover, Taschen America, LLC
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The HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Designby Mendler, Sandra, Aia, Odell, William, AiaISBN 0471379069 (0-471-37906-9)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Design'Book summary:A real-world DESIGN tool for sustainable design
In this comprehensive guide, the world's largest architectural/engineering design firm helps architects, engineers, planners, interior designers, and landscape architects integrate sustainable design strategies into their work. Featuring twenty-four case studies of a variety of international HOK projects, it shows how, far from being an all-or-nothing proposition, sustainable design thinking can improve projects within the conventional constraints of budget, schedule, and market demand. It provides practical guidelines that enhance real projects, including urban planning, site design, buildings, interiors, and renovations. This book:
* Demonstrates how real, completed, sustainable design projects are economically viable and increase client satisfaction
* Provides a clear road map for the integrated multidisciplinary design process that is critical to the successful development of sustainable design projects
* Captures the key principles of sustainable design in a list of "Ten Simple Things You Can Do"
* Provides concise checklists of issues to consider at each stage of the design process,followed by detailed how-to guidance
* Contains a detailed glossary of terms and a list of top print and Internet resources
* Covers issues and design strategies related to site planning and design, energy and water conservation, materials selection and specification, and interior environmental quality [via]More editions of The HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Design:
The HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Designby William Odell, Mendler, Sandra, Aia, Mary Ann LazarusISBN 0471696137 (0-471-69613-7)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanismby Rebecca Solnit, Susan SchwartzenbergISBN 1859843638 (1-85984-363-8)
Softcover, Verso Books
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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:Buildings have often been studies whole in space, but never before have they been studied whole in time. How Buildings Learn is a masterful new synthesis that proposes that buildings adapt best when constantly refined and reshaped by their occupants, and that architects can mature from being artists of space to becoming artists of time.[via]From the connected farmhouses of New England to I.M. Pei's Media Lab, from "satisficing" to "form follows funding," from the evolution of bungalows to the invention of Santa Fe Style, from Low Road military surplus buildings to a High Road English classic like Chatsworththis is a far-ranging survey of unexplored essential territory.
More than any other human artifacts, buildings improve with timeif they're allowed to. How Buildings Learn shows how to work with time rather than against it.
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Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscapeby Brian HayesISBN 0393329593 (0-393-32959-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape'Book summary:We are surrounded by the hardware of the modern world, but how much of it do we even notice, much less understand? This unique and fascinating book covers the parts of the landscape that are often overlooked despite their ubiquity--objects such as utility poles, power lines, cell phone towers, highway overpasses, railroad tracks, factories, and other man-made mechanical marvels. And they are not just in urban areas, but include out of the way "ecosystems" such as mines, dams, wind farms, power plants, grain operators, steel mills, and oil refineries. In Infrastructure, Brian Hayes offers clear explanations of the systems that keep the modern world running, including agriculture, energy supplies, shipping, air transportation, and the various ingenious methods of recycling and managing the waste we generate.
Subtitled "A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape," the book is laid out like a nature guide, with comprehensive details and photographs on every page. "There can be just as much of interest happening on a factory rooftop as there is in the forest canopy, just as much to marvel at in the operation of a strip-mining dragline as in the geological carving of a river canyon," writes Hayes. A mine may not be as scenic as a mountain peak, but he argues it can hold as much fascination. His "chief aim is simply to describe and explain the technological fabric of society, not to judge whether it is good or bad, beautiful or ugly." In this he does an impressive job. He tells us how things work and why they are located where they are, and answers dozens of practical questions in the process. He also walks us through how raw materials such as coal, timber, petroleum, and water are converted and transported for use in our homes and businesses. Readers won't view the industrial landscape that same way after poring over this remarkable book. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Leon Krier: Architecture & Urban Design 1967-1992by Leon Krier, Richard EconomakisISBN 185490163X (1-85490-163-X)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Londonby Samantha HardinghamISBN 1841660604 (1-84166-060-4)
Softcover, Ellipsis London, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'London'Book summary:London: A Guide to Recent Architecture is one in a series of lovely little guides to many of the world's major cities created by British publisher Ellipsis. The information contained here ranges from brief perspectives on the city's architectural history to tips on which maps are best for visitors and how to navigate the local public transit system. The book considers architecture not as something that happens on isolated building sites, but rather as social, cultural, and political phenomena. At four inches square, this highly portable book is an ideal travel companion.
Some of the other books in the series cover Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York City, and Tokyo. Each guidebook has its own flavor, as different writers--usually architects--cover each city. --Loren E. Baldwin [via]
London: A Guide to Recent Architectureby Samantha HardinghamISBN 189985892X (1-899858-92-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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London a Guide to Recent Architecture: A Guide to Recent Architectureby Samantha HardinghamISBN 1874056773 (1-874056-77-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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London: Bread and Circusesby Jonathan GlanceyISBN 1859844642 (1-85984-464-2)
Softcover, Analytical Psychology Club of San Francisco, Incorporated
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Los Angeles: The Architecture of 4 Ecologiesby Reyner BanhamISBN 0140211780 (0-14-021178-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologiesby Reyner BanhamISBN 0520219244 (0-520-21924-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies'Book summary:DIVERSE AS FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, CHARLES EAMES, RICHARD NEUTRA AND SIMON RODIA (WHO DESIGNED THE UNIQUE WATTS TOWERS) IN THEIR PROPER CONTEXTS OF MOUNTAINS, PLAINS, BEACHES AND FREEWAYS. [via]
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Managing the Sense of a Regionby Kevin LynchISBN 0262620359 (0-262-62035-9)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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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 Metropolis Of Tomorrowby Hugh FerrissISBN 0486437272 (0-486-43727-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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New American Urbanism: Re-Forming the Suburban Metropolisby John A. DuttonISBN 8881187418 (88-8118-741-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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New York 1880 : Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Ageby Robert A. M. Stern, Thomas Mellins, David FishmanISBN 1580930271 (1-58093-027-1)
Hardcover, Monacelli Press, Incorporated
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On the Street: How We Created the Homelessby Barbara MurphyISBN 1896239684 (1-896239-68-4)
Softcover, J Gordon Shillingford Pub Inc
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Once There Were Greenfields: How Urban Sprawl Is Undermining Americas's Environment, Economy, and Social Fabricby F. Kaid Benfield, Donald D.T. Chen, Matthew RaimiISBN 1893340171 (1-893340-17-1)
Hardcover, Island Pr
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Paris: A Century of Change, 1878-1978by Norma EvensonISBN 0300022107 (0-300-02210-7)
Hardcover, Yale University Press
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Paris: A Century of Change, Eighteen Seventy-Eight to Nineteen Seventy-Eightby Norma EvensonISBN 0300026676 (0-300-02667-6)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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People, Potholes, and City Politicsby Karen HerlandISBN 1895431522 (1-895431-52-2)
Softcover, Black Rose Books
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Planet of Slumsby Mike DavisISBN 1844670228 (1-84467-022-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Planner's Use of Informationby Hemalata C. Dandekar, Dandekar HemalataISBN 1884829724 (1-884829-72-4)
Softcover, Amer Planning Assn
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Precisions on the Present State of Architecture and City Planning With an American Prologue, a Brazilian Corollary Followed by the Temperature of pariby Lecorbusier, Edith Schreiber AujameISBN 0262121492 (0-262-12149-2)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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Rats: Observations On The History And Habitat Of The City's Most Unwanted Inhabitantsby Robert SullivanISBN 1582344779 (1-58234-477-9)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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Rats live in the world precisely where humans do; they survive on the effluvia of human society; they eat our garbage. While dispensing gruesomely fascinating rat facts and strangely entertaining rat-stories-everyone has one, it turns out-Sullivan gets to know not just the beast but its friends and foes: the exterminators, the sanitation workers, the agitators and activists who have played their part in the centuries-old war between human city dweller and wild city rat. With a notebook and night-vision gear, he sits nightly in the streamlike flow of garbage and searches for fabled rat-kings, sets out to trap a rat, and eventually travels to the Midwest to learn about rats in Chicago, Milwaukee, and other cities of America. With tales of rat fights in the Gangs of New York era and stories of Harlem rent strike leaders who used rats to win tenants basic rights, Sullivan looks deeper and deeper into the largely unrecorded history of the city and its masses-its herd-of-rats-like mob. Funny, wise, sometimes disgusting but always compulsively readable, Rats earns its unlikely place alongside the great classics of nature writing.
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- 26% of all electric cable breaks and 18% of all phone cable disruptions are caused by rats, 25% of all fires of unknown origin are rat-caused, and rats destroy an estimated 1/3 of the world's food supply each year. The rat has been called the world's most destructive mammal-other than man.
- Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day. A female can produce up to twelve litters of twenty rats a year: one pair of rats has the potential for 15,000 descendants in a year.More editions of Rats: Observations On The History And Habitat Of The City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants:
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Readings in Planning Theoryby Scott Campbell, Susan S. FainsteinISBN 0631223479 (0-631-22347-9)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Readings in Planning Theory'Book summary:The second edition of this very successful volume examines the current state of planning theory and the new directions it has taken in recent years.
- Examines the current state of planning theory and the new directions it has taken in recent years.
- Draws on a wide range of authors who address planning history, arguments for and against planning, competing planning styles, planning ethics, the public interest, and considerations of race and gender.
- Theoretical perspectives include political economy, postmodernism, communicative rationality, and feminism.
- Readings new to this edition examine themes emerging in planning theory, including a critique of the modernist roots of centralized planning, a reemphasis on space in planning, and a discussion of the difficulty of sustainable development.
- Features new case studies of planning success and failure in both the United States and the United Kingdom.
- Contains thirteen wholly new readings.
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Rob Krier: Architecture and Urban Designby Rob KrierISBN 1854902059 (1-85490-205-9)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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S,M,L,Xlby Rem KoolhausISBN 1885254865 (1-885254-86-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'S,M,L,Xl'Book summary:This extraordinary, massive, and mind-boggling 1,300-page book combines essays, manifestos, diaries, fairy tales, travelogues, a cycle of meditations on the contemporary city--and complex illustration--with work produced by Koolhaas' Office for Metropolitan Architecture over the past twenty years. This almost overwhelming accumulation of words and images illuminates the condition of architecture today--its splendors and miseries--exploring and revealing the corrosive effects of politics, context, the economy, and globalization. In some ways, this is the "Medium is the Message" of 1990s architectural discourse: guaranteed to be hugely influential in the coming decades, but grossly misunderstood by those who have not read it. The core arguments it makes about metropolitan architecture--accepting complexity and lack of centralized control--are similar to those of Kevin Kelly's Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World. Very highly recommended. [via]
Seasideby Steven BrookeISBN 1589802853 (1-58980-285-3)
Softcover, Pelican Pub Co Inc
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Seaside: Making a Town in Americaby David Mohney, Keller EasterlingISBN 187827144X (1-878271-44-X)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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Seven American Utopias: The Architecture of Communitarian Socialism, 1790-1975by Dolores HaydenISBN 0262580373 (0-262-58037-3)
Softcover, MIT Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seven American Utopias: The Architecture of Communitarian Socialism, 1790-1975'Book summary:From the time of its discovery, the new world was regarded by American settlers as a new Eden and a new Jerusalem. Although individual pioneers' visions of paradise were inevitably corrupted by reality, some determined ideatists carved out enclaves in order to develop collective models of what they believed to be more perfect societies. All such communitarian groups consciously attempted to express their social ideals in their buildings and landscapes; invariably, ideological predispositions can be inferred from a close study of the environments they created. The interplay between ideology and architecture, the social design and the physical design of American utopian communities, is the basis of this remarkable book by Dolores Hayden.At the heart of the book are studies of seven communitarian groups, collectively stretching over nearly two centuries and the full breadth of the American continent-the Shakers of Hancock, Massachusetts; the Mormons of Nauvoo, lllinois; the Fourierists of Phalanx, New Jersey; the Perfectionists of Oneida, New York; the Inspirationists of Amana, Iowa; the Union Colonists of Greeley, Colorado; and the Cooperative Colonists of Llano del Rio, California. Hayden examines each of these groups to see how they coped with three dilemmas that all socialist' societies face: conflicts betweeft authoritarian and participatory processes, between communal and private territory, and between unique and replicable community plans.The book contains over 260 historic and contemporary photographs and drawings which illustrate the communitarian processes of design and building. The drawings range in scale from regional plans showing land ownership, access to transportation, and availability of natural resources, through site plans of communal domains and building plans of dwellings and assembly halls, down to detailed diagrams of furniture configurations. To aid readers in making comparisons, a series of site and building plans drawn at constant scales has been provided for all seven case studies.
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Seven Fires: The Urban Infernos That Reshaped Americaby Peter HofferISBN 1586483552 (1-58648-355-2)
Hardcover, Public Affairs
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Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, a New Urban Worldby Robert NeuwirthISBN 0415953618 (0-415-95361-8)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, a New Urban World'Book summary:In almost every country of the developing world, the most active builders are squatters, creating complex local economies with high rises, shopping strips, banks, and self-government. As they invent new social structures, Neuwirth argues, squatters are at the forefront of the worldwide movement to develop new visions of what constitutes property and community.
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Sidewalk Critic: Lewis Mumford's Writings on New Yorkby Lewis Mumford, Robert WojtowiczISBN 1568981333 (1-56898-133-3)
Hardcover, Princeton Architectural Pr
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Sidewalk Critic: Lewis Mumford's Writings on New Yorkby Robert WojtowiczISBN 1568982526 (1-56898-252-6)
Softcover, Princeton Architectural Pr
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Solar Power: The Evolution of Sustainable Architectureby Sophia Behling, Stefan BehlingISBN 379132411X (3-7913-2411-X)
Softcover, Prestel Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Solar Power: The Evolution of Sustainable Architecture'Book summary:Examining the way in which natural systems have arisen through the sun's influence, how humans have adapted to them and what today's urban planners can do to respond to the challenge of a sustainable world, this book outlines the need to reconsider how we organise our lives in terms of energy, technology and architecture. It goes on to illustrate the various natural cycles of which the sun is part. As the book explains, these include sustainable ecosystems, wind patterns, ocean currents, fossil fuels and the life cycles of animals. The various ways in which people have harnessed the sun's power in different parts of the world since neolithic times, the ancient civilization of Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas is explained as well as to the present with those living in the tundras, the rainforests, savannas, deserts and in earth's comfort zones. It finally sets out exciting ways in which solar-oriented architecture can lead to energy-conscious buildings. [via]
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Solving Sprawl: Models of Smart Growth in Communities Across Americaby Nancy Vorsanger, F. Kaid Benfield, Jutka TerrisISBN 1893340333 (1-893340-33-3)
Softcover, Island Pr
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Tapiola: A History and Architectural Guideby Espoon kaupunginmuseo, Timo TuomiISBN 9518572046 (951-857-204-6)
Hardcover, Espoo City Museum
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There Goes the 'Hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Upby Lance FreemanISBN 1592134378 (1-59213-437-8)
Softcover, Temple Univ Pr
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The Urban Ideal: Conversations With Paolo Soleriby Paolo Soleri, John StrohmeierISBN 1893163288 (1-893163-28-8)
Softcover, Berkeley Hills Books
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The Urban Wilderness: A History of the American Cityby Charles Tilly, Sam Bass WarnerISBN 0520202244 (0-520-20224-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Wanderlust: A History of Walkingby Rebecca SolnitISBN 1859846238 (1-85984-623-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wanderlust: A History of Walking'Book summary:The ability to walk on two legs over long distances distinguishes Homo sapiens from other primates, and indeed from every other species on earth. That ability has also yielded some of the best creative work of our species: the lyrical ballads of the English romantic poets, composed on long walks over hill and dale; the speculations of the peripatetic philosophers; the meditations of footloose Chinese and Japanese poets; the exhortations of Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman.
Rebecca Solnit, a thoughtful writer and spirited walker, takes her readers on a leisurely journey through the prehistory, history, and natural history of bipedal motion. Walking, she observes, affords its practitioners an immediate reward--the ability to observe the world at a relaxed gait, one that allows us to take in sights, sounds, and smells that we might otherwise pass by. It provides a vehicle for much-needed solitude and private thought. For the health-minded, walking affords a low-impact and usually pleasant way of shedding a few pounds and stretching a few muscles. It is an essential part of the human adventure--and one that has, until now, been too little documented.
Written in a time when landscapes and cities alike are designed to accommodate automobiles and not pedestrians, Solnit's extraordinary book is an enticement to lace up shoes and set out on an aimless, meditative stroll of one's own. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Water : Designing with Waterby Topos - European Landscape Magazine StaffISBN 3764369760 (3-7643-6976-0)
Softcover, Princeton Architectural Press
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What the World Needs Nowby Steven JohnsonISBN 1580083099 (1-58008-309-9)
Softcover, Ten Speed Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What the World Needs Now'Book summary:Ever wanted a chair that converts into a rowing machine? Sunglasses that serve as a wallet? A car with a sundeck so you can work on your tan on those long road trips? Well, inventor and illustrator Steven Johnson has designed these marvels and many, many more, spurred on by a truly insatiable imagination. His wacky, wonderful concepts could very well change the world-that is, if someone was ever bold enough to build them. From clothing to dining technology, home furnishings to appliances, and gardening gadgets to survival gear, WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW is a sourcebook of revolutionary designs that prove how far our techno-culture has yet to go. Ä¢ Includes a three-step plan for inventing useful and useless things. [via]
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What Time Is This Place?by K. LynchISBN 0262620324 (0-262-62032-4)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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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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Architectuur En Stedebouw in Oorlogstijd: De Wederopbouw Van Middelburg, 1940-1948by Koos BosmaISBN 9069060086 (90-6906-008-6)
Hardcover, De Hef
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Gepland Nederland: Een Inleiding in Ruimtelijke Ordening En Planologieby Tejo Spit, Paul ZoeteISBN 9012095115 (90-12-09511-5)
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Een Onderwerp Van Voortdurende Zorg: Het Naoorlogse Bouwen in Nederlandby Ids Haagsma, Hilde de HaanISBN 9061582245 (90-6158-224-5)
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Den Moderna Staden Tar Form: Arkitektur Och Debatt 1910-1935by Eva ErikssonISBN 9173247685 (91-7324-768-5)
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Den Moderna Stadens Fodelse: Svensk Arkitektur 1890-1920by Eva ErikssonISBN 9173243221 (91-7324-322-1)
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Elogio De La Lentitudby Carl HonoreISBN 9871068743 (987-1068-74-3)
Softcover, Distal S R L
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Elogio De La Lentitud / The Praise of Moving Slow: Un Movimientto Mundial Desafia El Culto A La Velocidadby Carl Honorek, Jordi FiblaISBN 8478715282 (84-7871-528-2)
Softcover, Rba Publicaciones Editores revistas
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elogio De La Lentitud / The Praise of Moving Slow: Un Movimientto Mundial Desafia El Culto A La Velocidad'Book summary:Life is getting faster, no doubt about it. We rush everything: we eat fast food, have quickie sex, drive like maniacs, and compete hard for fast-paced jobs. Why are we always in such a rush? What is the cure for time-sickness? Is it possible, or even desirable, to slow down? The big secret is that slower people succeed, and slow often works better than fast. In Praise of Slowness traces the history of our increasingly breathless relationship with time, and tackles the consequences and conundrum of living in this accelerated culture of our own creation. With chapters on food, transportation, meditation and exercise, medicine, sex, work, and parenting, London-based journalist, Honor shows us the benefits of slowness. Description in Spanish: ¿Por qué tenemos siempre tanta prisa? ¿Cómo se cura esa auténtica enfermedad que es nuestra actitud ante el tiempo? ¿Es posible, e incluso deseable, hacer las cosas con más lentitud? Vivimos en la era de la velocidad. El mundo que nos rodea se mueve con más rapidez de lo que jamás lo había hecho. Nos esforzamos por ser más eficientes, por hacer más cosas por minuto, por hora, cada día. Desde que la revolución industrial hizo avanzar al mundo, el culto a la velocidad nos ha empujado hasta el punto de ruptura. Esta obra rastrea la historia de nuestra relación cada vez más dependiente del tiempo, y aborda las consecuencias y la dificultad de vivir en esta cultura acelerada que hemos creado. [via]
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A Guide to Ecstacityby Nigel CoatesISBN 1568984243 (1-56898-424-3)
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A La Recherche De La Cite Idealeby Institut Claude-Nicolas LedouxISBN 2826511327 (2-8265-1132-7)
Hardcover, Institut Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
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