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A Vision of a Living World: The Nature of Order, Book 3
Christopher Alexander
Center for Environmental Structure
Center for Environmental Structure
In Book 3 of this four-volume work, Alexander presents hundreds of his own buildings and those of other contemporaries who have used methods consistent with the theory of living process. Nearly seven hundred pages of projects, built and planned in...
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Mixed-Use Development Handbook (Development Handbook series)
Dean Schwanke
Urban Land Institute
Urban Land Institute
The latest volume in ULI's highly respected Development Handbook Series, this handsomely illustrated reference takes you step by step through the development of complex mixed-use projects. You will learn about the key points that can make or break a...
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A Better Way to Zone: Ten Principles to Create More Livable Cities
Donald L. Elliott
Island Press
Island Press
Nearly all large American cities rely on zoning to regulate land use. According to Donald L. Elliott, however, zoning often discourages the very development that bigger cities need and want. In fact, Elliott thinks that zoning has become so complex...
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Architecture and Disjunction
Bernard Tschumi
The MIT Press
The MIT Press
Avant-garde theorist and architect Bernard Tschumi is equally well known for his writing and his practice. Architecture and Disjunction, which brings together Tschumi's essays from 1975 to 1990, is a lucid and provocative analysis of many of the key...
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Creating Central Park (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Morrison H. Heckscher
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The year 2008 marks the 150th anniversary of the design of Central Park, the first and arguably the most famous of America’s urban landscape parks. In October 1857 the new park’s board of commissioners announced a public design competition, and...
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Housing Policy in the United States: An Introduction
Alex F. Schwartz
Routledge
Routledge
Housing Policy in the United States is an essential guidebook to and textbook for housing policy, and is written for students, practitioners, government officials, real estate developers, and policy analysts. It discusses the most important...
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The City of To-morrow and Its Planning
Le Corbusier
Dover Publications
Dover Publications
The great revolutionary architect's probing analysis of urban problems and their origins, and his bold solutions, which include the "Voisin" scheme for the center of Paris, and the more developed scheme for a "City of Three Million Inhabitants."...
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