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Great Streets
Allan B. Jacobs
The MIT Press
The MIT Press
This book received Honorable Mention in the category of Architecture and Urban Studies in the 1993 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc. Which are the world's...
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The Natural Step for Communities: How Cities and Towns can Change to Sustainable Practices
Sarah James, Torbjrn Lahti
New Society Publishers
New Society Publishers
Sustainability may seem like one more buzzword and cities and towns like the last places to change, but The Natural Step for Communities provides inspiring examples of communities that have made dramatic changes toward sustainability and explains...
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London: A Life in Maps
Peter Whitfield
British Library
British Library
A city long shrouded in literary and historical mists--not to mention real ones--London seduces tourists and natives alike. From Big Ben to the grimy Victorian streets of Dickens novels on up to the sleek high-rises that dot the skyline of the...
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The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History
Spiro Kostof
Bulfinch
Bulfinch
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 architects and students of architecture, The City Shaped won the AIAs prestigious...
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Suburban Transformations
Princeton Architectural Press
Princeton Architectural Press
Smart Growth advocates, environmentalists, and New Urbanists have all tried in their own ways to spread the message of reforming current land use patterns. Their solutions are often criticized for being overly prescriptive, opposed to growth, or...
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Large Parks
Princeton Architectural Press
Princeton Architectural Press
In Large Parks, editors Julia Czerniak and George Hargreaves present eight essays by leading scholars and practitioners that engage large urban parks in depth as complex cultural spaces, where key issues of landscape discourse, ecological...
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Architecture: Form, Space, and Order
Francis D.K. Ching
Wiley
Wiley
The Second Edition of this classic introduction to the principles of architecture is everything you would expect from the celebrated architect, author, and illustrator, Francis D. K. Ching. Each page has been meticulously revised to incorporate...
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New York Nocturne: The City After Dark in Literature, Painting, and Photography, 1850-1950
William Chapman Sharpe
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
As early as the 1850s, gaslight tempted New Yorkers out into a burgeoning nightlife filled with shopping, dining, and dancing. Electricity later turned the city at night into an even more stunning spectacle of brilliantly lit streets and glittering...
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