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The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community
Peter Katz
McGraw-Hill Professional
McGraw-Hill Professional
The move to liveable communities--ideal ``small towns'' and neighborhoods where people work, live, play, and walk from place to place--is on. Profit from what a visionary group of architects leading this movement has learned about designing new...
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The Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World
Thomas J. Campanella
Princeton Architectural Press
Princeton Architectural Press
China is the most rapidly urbanizing nation in the world, with an urban population that may well reach one billion within a generation. Over the past 25 years, surging economic growth has propelled a construction boom unlike anything the world has...
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Marmol Radziner + Associates: Between Architecture and Construction
Leo Marmol, Ron Radziner
Princeton Architectural Press
Princeton Architectural Press
If you design some of the most stylish and beautiful modern houses in the Los Angeles area, including many for celebrity clients, how do you ensure that the projects are built to the standards you, and your patrons, demand? If you’re the highly...
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Time-Saver Standards Site Construction Details Manual
Nicholas T. Dines, Kyle D. Brown, Kyle Brown
McGraw-Hill Professional
McGraw-Hill Professional
This efficiency-boosting resource gives you fast access to 350 of the most commonly used site construction details. Details for curbs, steps, lighting fixtures, walls, and much more are ready to be copied from the convenient spiral-bound, lie-flat...
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The Urban Design Handbook: Techniques and Working Methods
Urban Design Associates
W. W. Norton & Company
W. W. Norton & Company
A comprehnsive, beautifully designed guide to the complex process of urban design. From An Important Urban Design and architecture firm comes this manual for urban designers, based on the firm's in-house practice and procedures. Covering the process...
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The High Cost of Free Parking
Donald C. Shoup
American Planning Association
American Planning Association
American drivers park for free on nearly ninety-nine percent of their car trips, and cities require developers to provide ample off-street parking for every new building. The resulting cost? Today we see sprawling cities that are better suited to...
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The Architecture of the City (Oppositions Books)
Aldo Rossi
The MIT Press
The MIT Press
Aldo Rossi, a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza , is also one of the most influential theorists writing today. The Architecture of the City is his major work of architectural and urban theory. In...
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