Category - Architecture
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Heaven on the Hudson: Mansions, Monuments, and Marvels of Riverside Park
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Winner, Victorian Society in America Book Awards A colorful tale of a singular New York City neighborhood and the personalities who make it special...
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South Bronx Rising: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Thirty-five years after this landmark of urban history first captured the rise, fall, and rebirth of a once-thriving New York City borough--ravaged...
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Walkable City (Tenth Anniversary Edition): How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITIONWINNER OF THE GREEN PRIZE FOR SUSTAINABLE LITERATURE Updated with 100+ pages of new material and a foreword by Janette Sad...
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and keenly detailed, a monumental work that provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all c...
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities: 50th Anniversary Edition
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs's masterpiece, The Death and Life o...
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Civic Buildings After the Spanish-American War
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$135.99$135.99 - $135.99Current price $135.99| /Following the 1898 Spanish-American War, the United States constructed federal buildings in its newly acquired territories, including Cuba, Puerto ...
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The Living City: Why Cities Don't Need to Be Green to Be Great
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A sociologist explores why “green cities” won’t fix everything—and urges us to celebrate urban life as it is Everywhere you look, cities are ge...
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Horror in Architecture: The Reanimated Edition
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 new edition of this extensive visual analysis of horror tropes and their architectural analogues Horror in Architecture presents an unflinch...
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Architect, Verb.: The New Language of Building
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Hidden Rules of Architecture: how to build world-class, award winning, creative, innovative, sustainable, liveable and beautiful spaces that ...
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Postindustrial DIY: Recovering American Rust Belt Icons
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Chronicles grassroots efforts to recover, rebuild, and enjoy architecturally iconic but economically obsolete places in the American Rust Belt.A ...
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Building Antebellum New Orleans: Free People of Color and Their Influence
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /2022 PROSE Award in Architecture and Urban Planning2022 Summerlee Book Prize in Nonfiction, Center for History and Culture of Southeast Texas and...
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The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age
HardcoverOriginal price $235.00 - Original price $235.00Original price $235.00$265.99$265.99 - $265.99Current price $265.99| /The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age presents a broad overview of current understanding of the archaeology of Europe from 1000 BC through t...
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Shifting Sands: Landscape, Memory, and Commodities in China's Contemporary Borderlands
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /How China's borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. China's land borders, shared w...
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Children of the Soil: The Power of Built Form in Urban Madagascar
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In Children of the Soil, Tasha Rijke-Epstein offers an urban history of the port city of Mahajanga, Madagascar, before, during, and after colonizat...
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Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement
PaperbackOriginal price $31.95Original price $31.95 - Original price $31.95Original price $31.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Environments associated with migration are often seen as provisional, lacking both history and architecture. As Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi demonstrates...
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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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Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“A comprehensive, entertaining, and compelling argument for how rebuilding social infrastructure can help heal divisions in our society and move ...
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Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The astonishing story of how the dead live on via memorials across the globe, from Ethiopia and Nepal to Cambodia and Rwanda, told through arrest...
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From Boom to Bubble: How Finance Built the New Chicago
PaperbackOriginal price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /An unprecedented historical, sociological, and geographic look at how property markets change and fail—and how that affects cities. In From Boom ...
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Black Landscapes Matter
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /The question "Do black landscapes matter?" cuts deep to the core of American history. From the plantations of slavery to contemporary segregated ...
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The Industrial Ephemeral: Labor and Love in Indian Architecture and Construction Volume 7
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /What transformative effects does a multimillion-dollar industry have on those who work within it? The Industrial Ephemeral presents the untold stor...
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Westminster
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Westminster Colony was founded in 1870 by Presbyterian minister Rev. Lemuel P. Webber. The colony, based on Protestant Christian tenets and tempera...
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Representing Modern Istanbul: Urban History and International Institutions in Twentieth Century Beyoglu
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Istanbul would lose its position as capital yet remain a crucial urban centre in the new Turkish repu...
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Ottoman Cairo: Religious Architecture from Sultan Selim to Napoleon
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /A unique, richly illustrated study of Ottoman religious buildings standing today in Cairo With the conquest in 1517 CE of Egypt by the Ottomans, Ca...
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