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A Burglar's Guide to the City
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A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computersComputational models of urbanism...
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A Natural History of North American Trees
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction / Edition 1
HardcoverOriginal price $67.99Original price $67.99 - Original price $67.99Original price $67.99Current price $55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighbor...
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ABC & D: Creating a regenerative circular economy for all
PaperbackOriginal price $38.99Original price $38.99 - Original price $38.99Original price $38.99Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /This book is about an economic system that creates and circulates value. ABC&D explores an economy that is regenerative, accessible, abundant, ...
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Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning
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Arabic-Islamic Cities: Building and Planning Principles
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Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /What if scrapping one flawed policy could bring US cities closer to addressing debilitating housing shortages, stunted growth and innovation, persi...
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Becoming Philadelphia: How an Old American City Made Itself New Again
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Before Central Park
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Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit
PaperbackOriginal price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /"Better Buses, Better Cities is likely the best book ever written on improving bus service in the United States." — Randy Shaw, Beyond Chron "The...
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Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Blueprint for Disaster traces public housing's history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through current mayor Richard M. Daley's Plan for Trans...
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Brave New Home: Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /This smart, provocative look at how the American Dream of single-family homes, white picket fences, and two-car garages became a lonely, overpriced...
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Brooklyn Bridge Park: A Dying Waterfront Transformed
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A major social and political phenomenon of how a community overcame overwhelming opposition and obstacles to build the Brooklyn Bridge Park. Stre...
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Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality
PaperbackOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /In car-clogged urban areas across the world, the humble bicycle is enjoying a second life as a legitimate form of transportation. City officials ...
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Buildings of Pittsburgh
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /At the forefront of national and international change, Pittsburgh has long been portrayed as a place for innovative architecture. From its origin...
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Charleston and Savannah: The Rise, Fall, and Reinvention of Two Rival Cities
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Thomas D. Wilson’s Charleston and Savannah is the first comprehensive history of Charleston and Savannah in a single volume that weaves together ...
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City on a Grid: How New York Became New York
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City Planning: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /City planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and—sometimes utopian—aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of ci...
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Close-Up: How to Read the American City / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $33.00 - Original price $33.00Original price $33.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /"Grady Clay looks hard at the landscape, finding out who built what and why, noticing who participates in a city's success and who gets left in a...
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Designing San Francisco: Art, Land, and Urban Renewal in the City by the Bay
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /A major new urban history of the design and development of postwar San Francisco Designing San Francisco is the untold story of the formative postw...
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Downtown, Inc.: How America Rebuilds Cities / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Pioneering observers of the urban landscape Bernard Frieden and Lynne Sagalyn delve into the inner workings of the exciting new public entreprene...
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Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World
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Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Tokyo is one of the most vibrant and livable cities on the planet, a megacity that somehow remains intimate and adaptive. Com-pared to Western metr...
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