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Humanise: A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World by Thomas Heatherwick 9780241389799
RRP: £15.99£11.61From one of the world's most imaginative designers comes a story about humanity told through the lens of our buildings.'This book is a super-accessible guide as to why we shouldn't put up with soulless buildings and how we might change that' GRAYSON... -
London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £30.00£21.75Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. For him it is a living organism, with its own laws of growth and change, so London is a biography rather... -
Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Land and How to Take It Back by Guy Shrubsole
RRP: £10.99£7.25'A formidable, brave and important book' Robert Macfarlane Who owns England? Behind this simple question lies this country's oldest and best-kept secret. This is the... -
High Street: How our town centres can bounce back from the retail crisis by David Rudlin
RRP: £40.00£33.18The high street is in crisis. How did we get here and what happens next? The global pandemic has made the crisis immeasurably worse but it wasn’t the cause. The crisis was already raging in 2019 with thousands of store closures. Large retailers became... -
How to Read Bridges: A crash course spanning the centuries by Edward Denison
RRP: £12.99£9.54A lavishly illustrated practical guide for understanding bridges, with case studies of the world's most famous bridges. How to Read Bridges is a practical introduction to looking at the structure and purpose of bridges and a guide to reading the... -
The Language of Cities by Deyan Sudjic
RRP: £10.99£7.77The director of the Design Museum defines the greatest artefact of all time: the cityWe live in a world that is now predominantly urban. So how do we define the city as it evolves in the twenty-first century? Drawing examples from across the globe, Deyan... -
Smart Cities by Germaine Halegoua
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262538053Author Germaine HalegouaFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 16mm -
Mini-Forest Revolution: Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World by Hannah Lewis
RRP: £16.99£11.54'There may be no single climate solution that has a greater breadth of benefits than mini-forests...[and] can be done by everyone everywhere.' Paul Hawken, from the foreword Are you ready to join the movement to restore biodiversity in our cities and... -
New Orleans: An Intimate Journey Through a City with Soul by Geoffrey H. Baker
RRP: £35.00£24.03New Orleans, like Venice, is built in a location that at first sight seems curious in the extreme. How could it be that these cities, built so precariously in the face of a watery threat, were to become among the great cities of the world? How could a... -
Curiocity: In Pursuit of London by Matt Lloyd-Rose
RRP: £22.00£17.22'The most ingenious, informative, inimitable, individual, innovative, insightful, inspiring, instructive, intelligible, intoxicating, intricate guide to the great city that I have ever seen. Bravo!' Philip Pullman'A glorious and delightful compendium and... -
Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center by Daniel Okrent
RRP: £18.91£14.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Times Notable Book.Book InformationISBN 9780142001776Author Daniel OkrentFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam... -
The Urban Design Process by Philip Black 9781848222885
RRP: £35.00£26.68This useful guide sets out clearly a bespoke urban design process for practice, developed by the authors. The process works through urban analysis; policy and people; strategic framework; concepts and options; design layering and technical detail; to... -
Guidelines for Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment by Landscape Institute
RRP: £130.00£112.51Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA) can be key to planning decisions by identifying the effects of new developments on views and on the landscape itself. This fully revised edition of the industry standard work on LVIA presents an authoritative... -
Architecture and Anarchism: Building without Authority by Paul Dobraszczyk 9781913645175
RRP: £25.00£16.84This groundbreaking new book presents 60 projects - past and present, real and imagined - of 'anarchist' architecture. From junk playgrounds to Extinction Rebellion in the UK, from Christiania to the Calais Jungle in Europe, and from Dignity Village to... -
Grave by Allison C. Meier
RRP: £9.99£7.45Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Grave takes a ground-level view of how burial sites have transformed over time and how they continue to change. As a cemetery tour guide,... -
Biodesign in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Deep Green by Claudia Pasquero 9780367768010
RRP: £32.99£29.16Biodesign in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Deep Green investigates the potential of nature-based technology for shaping the evolution of contemporary architecture and design. It takes on the now pervasive topic of design intelligence, extending its... -
Hidden London: Discovering the Forgotten Underground by David Bownes
RRP: £30.00£25.85An exploration of the abandoned tributaries of London's vast and vital transportation network through breathtaking images and unexpected storiesHidden London is a lavishly illustrated history of disused and repurposed London Underground spaces. It... -
The Social Project: Housing Postwar France by Kenny Cupers
RRP: £29.99£26.99Winner of the 2015 Abbott Lowell Cummings prize from the Vernacular Architecture Forum Winner of the 2015 Sprio Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians Winner of the 2016 International Planning History Society Book Prize for... -
New Industrial Urbanism: Designing Places for Production by Tali Hatuka
RRP: £32.99£29.16Since the Industrial Revolution, cities and industry have grown together; towns and metropolitan regions have evolved around factories and expanding industries. New Industrial Urbanism explores the evolving and future relationships between cities and... -
Megastructure by Reyner Banham
RRP: £34.95£26.69A long-sought reprint of this classic of architectural history and criticism, surveying a movement that would inspire architects, fantasists, and filmmakers alike. It is an architectural concept as alluring as it is elusive, as futuristic as it is... -
Performative Urbanism: Generating and Designing Urban Space by Sophie Wolfrum 9783868593044
RRP: £26.00£23.27The concept of relational space in urbanism-understanding the space of the city as produced by society-is connected with an understanding of architecture unfolding in situations. Urban space is induced by architecture, space is produced while... -
Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City by Catherine McNeur
RRP: £25.95£20.22George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental HistoryVSNY Book Award, New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in AmericaHornblower Award for a First Book, New York Society LibraryJames Broussard Best First Book Prize,... -
The Routledge Handbook of Urban Disaster Resilience: Integrating Mitigation, Preparedness, and Recovery Planning by Michael Lindell
RRP: £35.99£31.69The Routledge Handbook of Urban Disaster Resilience emphasizes the intersection of urban planning and hazard mitigation as critical for community resilience, considering the interaction of social, environmental, and physical systems with disasters. The... -
Estates: An Intimate History by Lynsey Hanley 9781783788651
RRP: £10.99£7.32Lynsey Hanley was born and raised just outside of Birmingham on what was then the largest council estate in Europe, and she has lived for years on an estate in London's East End. Writing with passion, humour and a sense of history, she recounts the rise... -
London Alleyways Map by Matthew Turner
RRP: £9.50£7.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912018871Author Matthew TurnerPage Count 2Imprint Blue Crow MediaPublisher Blue Crow MediaWeight(grams) 40gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 1mm -
Triumph of the City: How Urban Spaces Make Us Human by Edward Glaeser
RRP: £10.99£7.77Understanding the modern city and the powerful forces within it is the life's work of Harvard urban economist Edward Glaeser, who at forty is hailed as one of the world's most exciting urban thinkers. Travelling from city to city, speaking to planners... -
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs 9781847926180
RRP: £20.00£14.69In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written. Throughout... -
Cities for People by Jan Gehl 9781597265737
RRP: £46.00£39.43For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use - or could use - the spaces where they live and work. In this revolutionary book, Gehl presents his... -
Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin's Capital by Katherine Zubovich
RRP: £38.00£29.84An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraperIn the early years of the Cold War, the skyline of Moscow was forever transformed by a citywide skyscraper building project. As the steel girders of the monumental towers went up, the centuries-old... -
AIA Guide to New York City by Norval White
RRP: £29.99£23.08Hailed as "extraordinarily learned" (New York Times), "blithe in spirit and unerring in vision," (New York Magazine), and the "definitive record of New York's architectural heritage" (Municipal Art Society), Norval White and Elliot Willensky's book is an... -
Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes by Andre Viljoen
RRP: £35.99£32.09This book on urban design extends and develops the widely accepted 'compact city' solution. It provides a design proposal for a new kind of sustainable urban landscape: Urban Agriculture. By growing food within an urban rather than exclusively rural... -
The Urban Block: A Guide for Urban Designers, Architects and Town Planners by Jonathan Tarbatt
RRP: £42.00£34.37The block is no more than the land and building area defined by streets. It is the nature of the interface between the two, which has a critical impact on the quality of the spaces between those buildings. The importance of the block to city life is well... -
Planning Law Essentials by A.M. Slater
RRP: £19.99£17.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845861100Author A.M. SlaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Discovery PressPublisher Dundee University Press Ltd -
Riyadh: Transforming a Desert City by Yasser Elsheshtawy 9781032038742
RRP: £39.99£35.06Riyadh has set its sights on becoming a world city befitting the twenty-first century. To that end it has embarked on a massive construction drive evidenced in the proliferation of proposals for high-end districts, giga-developments and elaborate... -
Why Preservation Matters by Max Page
RRP: £19.99£16.97Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, a critique of the preservation movement-and a bold vision for its future Every day, millions of people enter old buildings, pass monuments, and gaze at landscapes unaware... -
Smart Cities For Dummies by Jonathan Reichental
RRP: £25.99£17.38Become empowered to build and maintain smarter cities At its core, a smart city is a collection of technological responses to the growing demands, challenges, and complexities of improving the quality of life for billions of people now living in urban... -
Shock City - Image and Architecture in Industrial Manchester by Mark Crinson
RRP: £35.00£29.57A bold reassessment of the major architectural monuments and urban forms of the world's first industrial city: Manchester From the mid-eighteenth century to the nineteen-twenties, from the birth of the Industrial Revolution to the height of Manchester's... -
The 'One Planet' Life: A Blueprint for Low Impact Development by David Thorpe
RRP: £43.99£38.84The One Planet Life demonstrates a path for everyone towards a way of life in which we don't act as if we had more than one planet Earth. The difference between this approach and others is that it uses ecological footprint analysis to help to determine... -
Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers by Stephen Graham
RRP: £12.99£8.88Vertical will make you look at the world around you anew: this is a revolution in understanding your place in the world.Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-dimensional map, but must now be understood as a series of vertical... -
Landscape Architect's Pocket Book by Siobhan Vernon
RRP: £28.99£25.09This third edition of the bestselling Landscape Architect's Pocket Book, written by leading practitioners, incorporates updates and revisions to environmental and building regulations, contracts, and a range of design guidelines including materials,...