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Long before Occupy, cities were the subject of much utopian thinking. They are the centers of capital accumulation as well as of revolutionary politics, where deeper curre...
Sovereign City examines the nature of the city-state's changing role and traces the evolution of the city as a political entity from ancient times, when it flour...
If humankind can be said to have a single greatest creation, it would be those places that represent the most eloquent expression of our species’s ingenuity, beliefs, and ...
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 fi...
"The major contemporary work on urban design . . . Splendidly presented, filled with thoughtful and brilliant intuitive insights." —The New Republic
In a brilliant synthe...
The NACTO Urban Street Design Guide shows how streets of every size can be reimagined and reoriented to prioritize safe driving and transit, biking, walking, and public ac...
Spanning the ages and the globe, Spiro Kostof explores the city as a "repository of cultural meaning" and an embodiment of the community it shelters. Widely used by both a...
This comprehensive introduction to the policies, theory and practice of planning outlines land use, urban planning and environmental protection policies and explains the n...
Reclaiming American Cities: The Struggle for People, Place, and Nature Since 1900
Rutherford H Platt
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(0)For most of the past century, urban America was dominated by top-down policies serving the white business and cultural elite, the suburbs, and the automobile. At times the...
Green areas of all kinds have gained significance for contemporary urban planning. In addition to the importance for the structure and appearance of urban spaces, these ar...
Divided into three sections, this edition of "Urban Land Use Planning" deftly balances an authoritative, up-to-date discussion of current practices with a vision of what l...
From the publishers of Architectural Graphic Standards, this book, created under the auspices of The American Planning Association, is the most comprehensive reference boo...
Монография посвящена исследованию процессов взаимодействия культуры и пространства. Анализируются различные культурные традиции восприятия и воображения географического пр...
Planetizen's Contemporary Debates in Urban Planning is a fascinating review of major topics and issues discussed in the field of urban planning, assembled by editors at P...
Книга ведущего британского специалиста по развитию городов Чарльза Лэндри дает ответ на самые насущные вопросы: как сделать наши города тем местом, где хочется жить и пров...
Updated in its 10th edition, Contemporary Urban Planning provides readers with in-depth coverage of the historic, economic, political, legal, and environmental factors aff...
Putting Faith in Neighborhoods: Making Cities Work through Grassroots Citizenship
Stephen Goldsmith, Ryan Streeter
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(0)As mayor of Indianapolis, Stephen Goldsmith saw firsthand that urban renewal begins with residents claiming responsibility for the future of their neighborhoods. In "Putti...
'Anybody who thinks the study of urban politics is stagnating needs to pick up a copy of Theories of Urban Politics. Insightful analysis of scholarship on traditional topi...
