7 principles for building better cities | Peter Calthorpe
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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- ISBN: 0394720245
- Brand: Vintage
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Everywhere acknowledged as a modern American classic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, The Power Broker is a huge and galvanizing biography revealing not only the saga of one man's incredible accumulation of power, but the story of the shaping (and mis-sha... [Read More]
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
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Site Planning and Design Handbook, Second Edition
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The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre!
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Project Planning, Scheduling, and Control: The Ultimate Hands-On Guide to Bringing Projects in On Time and On Budget , Fifth Edition
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Encyclopedia of Landscape Design: Planning, Building, and Planting Your Perfect Outdoor Space
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Sustainable Nation: Urban Design Patterns for the Future
- ASIN: 0470537175
- ISBN: 0470537175
- Manufacturer: Wiley
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Multifamily Housing Development Handbook (Development Handbook series)
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- Manufacturer: Urban Land Institute
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Never Built New York
- ASIN: 1938922751
- ISBN: 1938922751
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Metropolis Books
New York City as it might have been: 200 years of visionary architectural plans for unbuilt subways, bridges, parks, airports, stadiums, streets, train stations and, of course, skyscrapersNever Built New York shows us the visionary architectural ideas of the city's greatest dreamers across two centuries of New York City history. Nearly 200 proposal... [Read More]
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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
- ASIN: 0140139966
- ISBN: 0140139966
- Brand: Penguin Books
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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.From the con... [Read More]
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Frank Lloyd Wright Designs: The Sketches, Plans, and Drawings
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Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
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- ISBN: 0865477728
- Brand: North Point Press
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The New Localism: How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism
- ASIN: 0815731647
- ISBN: 0815731647
- Manufacturer: Brookings Institution Press
The New Localism provides a roadmap for change that starts in the communities where most people live and work.In their new book, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious social, economic, and environmental challenges.Power is shif... [Read More]
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Points and Lines: Diagrams and Projects for the City
- ASIN: 1568981554
- ISBN: 1568981554
- Manufacturer: Princeton Architectural Press
Points + Lines: Diagrams and Projects for the City is a book of New York architect Stan Allen's writings and projects that propose new architectural strategies for the contemporary city. Organized in the form of a user's manual, it juxtaposes speculative texts outlining Allen's general principles with specific projects created by his office. The bo... [Read More]
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Design Unbound: Designing for Emergence in a White Water World (Infrastructures) (Volume 1)
- ASIN: 0262535793
- ISBN: 0262535793
- Manufacturer: The MIT Press
Tools for navigating today's hyper-connected, rapidly changing, and radically contingent white water world.Design Unbound presents a new tool set for having agency in the twenty-first century, in what the authors characterize as a white water world―rapidly changing, hyperconnected, and radically contingent. These are the tools of a new kind of pr... [Read More]
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Toward an Urban Ecology: SCAPE / Landscape Architecture
- ASIN: 1580934366
- ISBN: 1580934366
- Brand: Monacelli Pr
- Manufacturer: The Monacelli Press
Kate Orff, 2017 MacArthur Fellow, has an optimistic and transformative message about our world: we can bring together social and ecological systems to sustainably remake our cities and landscapes. Part monograph, part manual, part manifesto, Toward an Urban Ecology reconceives urban landscape design as a form of activism, demonstrating how... [Read More]
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Planning Under Pressure: The Strategic Choice Approach, 3rd Edition (Urban and Regional Planning)
- ASIN: 0750663731
- ISBN: 9780750663731
- Brand: Brand: Routledge
- Manufacturer: Butterworth-Heinemann
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Rain Gardens: Sustainable Landscaping for a Beautiful Yard and a Healthy World
- UPC: 752748340442
- ASIN: 0760340447
- ISBN: 0760340447
- Manufacturer: Voyageur Press
Rain gardens are at the forefront of the green revolution. This environmentally friendly landscaping captures rainwater runoff rather than redirecting it into storm drains. The result is less erosion, less water pollution, and a beautiful, low-maintenance, sustainable garden. This is the first rain garden handbook for the backyard home gardener. Co... [Read More]
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HEX Book 1 Big City Magic: An Urban Fantasy Series
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Robert A. M. Stern: Buildings & Projects 2004-2009
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- ISBN: 1580932347
- Brand: Brand: The Monacelli Press
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I think that all architecture comes from what went before. And how carefully one hews to precedent or how many liberties one takes, in my view, is part of a larger set of judgments as to what is, or could be called, “appropriate.” Appropriate from every point of view, especially from the site, the cultural expectations of a community and of the... [Read More]
7 principles for building better cities | Peter Calthorpe
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