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Building Change : Architecture, Politics and Cultural Agency
Lisa Findley
Paperback - $117.95
"Building Change" provides a vision of a revitalized role for architecture as a critical cultural and spatial practice. It discusses the dynamic between power and building and lays out the spatial strategies those in power use to manipulate and contr ...
Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century : Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier
Robert Fishman
Paperback - $70.95
As Robert Fishman writes of three of urban planning's greatest visionaries, Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, they 'hated the cities of their time with an overwhelming passion. The metropolis was the counter-image of their ideal c ...
Trails for the Twenty-First Century : Planning, Design, and Management Manual for Multi Use Trails
Charles A. Flink
Paperback - $82.95
Communities across the country are working to convert unused railway and canal corridors into trails for pedestrians, cyclists, horseback riders, and others, serving the needs of both recreationists and commuters alike. These multi-use trails can pla ...
The Spaces Between Buildings
Larry R. Ford
Paperback - $61.95
Three photographic essays offer a study of the neglected "nooks and crannies" between structures, from gates and fences to sidewalks, alleys, and parking lots. In his exploration of how spaces become places, geographer Ford invites readers to see ane ...
New Urban Housing
Hilary French
Hardcover - $69.95
The design of high-density housing is inextricably linked to the growth of towns and cities: as urban centers have increased in both geographical size and density, housing has had to be provided to accommodate the numbers and needs of the population. ...
Downtown, Inc. : How America Rebuilds Cities
Bernard J. Frieden
Paperback - $64.95
Pioneering observers of the urban landscape Bernard Friedenand Lynne Sagalyn delve into the inner workings of the exciting new public entrepreneurship and public-private partnerships that have revitalized the downtowns of such cities as Boston, San D ...
Understanding Sustainable Architecture
Martin J. Gainsborough
Paperback - $84.95
"Understanding Sustainable Architecture" is a concise review of the assumptions, beliefs, goals and bodies of knowledge that underlie the endeavor to design environmentally sustainable buildings and other built environments. The authors set out a coh ...
Decent Homes for All : Reviewing Planning's Role in Housing Provision
Gallent and Tewdr-Jones
Hardcover - $304.95
Decent Homes for All reviews the relationship between planning and housing provision over the last hundred years in Britain. The planning system has developed in tandem with housing policy, both of which find their contemporary roots in nineteenth ce ...
Concrete and Clay : Reworking Nature in New York City
Matthew Gandy
Paperback - $39.95
In this innovative account of the urbanization of nature in New York City, Matthew Gandy explores how the raw materials of nature have been reworked to produce a "metropolitan nature" distinct from the forms of nature experienced by early settlers. T ...