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Humanise: A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World by Thomas Heatherwick 9780241389799
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £9.68From 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... -
History of Cities in Maps Philip Parker 9780008671815
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.60A fascinating cartographic study of urban development, perfect for map and history lovers. The city, a concept nearly as old as history itself, is a paradox of human innovation and... -
Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Land and How to Take It Back by Guy Shrubsole
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28'A formidable, brave and important book' Robert Macfarlane Who owns England? Behind this simple question lies... -
Hidden London: Discovering the Forgotten Underground by David Bownes 9780300245790
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.48An 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... -
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London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd 9780099422587 [USED COPY]
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £2.40Much 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... -
London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd 9780099422587
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.74Much 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... -
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life David Sim 9781642830187
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.00Imagine waking up to the gentle noises of the city, and moving through your day with complete confidence that you will get where you need to go quickly and efficiently. Soft City is about ease and... -
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs 9781847926180
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05In 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... -
New Orleans: An Intimate Journey Through a City with Soul by Geoffrey H. Baker 9781864707175
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.66New 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... -
Cities for People Jan Gehl 9781597265737
Booksplease Price: £69.59For 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... -
Estates: An Intimate History by Lynsey Hanley 9781783788651
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Lynsey 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... -
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space Jan Gehl 9781597268271
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £28.82The first Danish language version of this book, published in 1971, was very much a protest against the functionalistic principles for planning cities and residential areas that prevailed during that... -
The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander 9780195024029
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.36The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the power of present-day ideas... -
The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £29.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262620017Author Kevin LynchFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint -
Triumph of the City: How Urban Spaces Make Us Human by Edward Glaeser
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Understanding 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... -
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Happy City is the story of how the solutions to this century's problems lie in unlocking the secrets to great city livingThis is going to be the century of the city. But what actually makes a good... -
Landscape Architect's Pocket Book by Siobhan Vernon
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.43This 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... -
Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism Barnabas Calder 9781529156089
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.81AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEARBeginning in a tiny hermitage on the remote north Scottish coast, and ending up backstage at the National Theatre, Raw Concrete embarks on a wide-ranging journey through... -
City Planning: A Very Short Introduction by Carl Abbott
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.99City planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and--sometimes utopian--aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of cities as physical spaces and social environments... -
Complete Planning Permission: How to get it, stop it or alter it by Roy Speer
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The UK Planning Regulations are a minefield for anyone looking to build a new home - and for those who are worried about the impact of a new planning application near their home. Avoid being one of... -
The Language of Cities by Deyan Sudjic
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The 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... -
The City in the City: Architecture and Change in London's Financial District by Amy Thomas 9780262048415
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048415Author Amy ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint -
Manchester: Something Rich and Strange by Paul Dobraszczyk
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.24What is Manchester? Moving far from the glitzy shopping districts and architectural showpieces, away from cool city-centre living and modish cultural centres, this book shows us the unheralded,... -
How to Study Public Life: Methods in Urban Design Jan Gehl 9781610914239
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.08How do we accommodate a growing urban population in a way that is sustainable, equitable, and inviting? This question is becoming increasingly urgent as we face diminishing fossil-fuel resources and... -
The Essential Guide to Planning Law: Decision-Making and Practice in the UK Adam Sheppard 9781447324461
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.99This is the first textbook to provide a focused, subject specific guide to planning practice and law. It gives students essential background and contextual information to planning's statutory basis,... -
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £43.66You 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 neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a... -
Grave by Allison C. Meier
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.52Object 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... -
New Towns: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth by Katy Lock
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.76Often misunderstood, the New Towns story is a fascinating one of anarchists, artists, visionaries, and the promise of a new beginning for millions of people. New Towns: The Rise Fall and Rebirth... -
The City of Today is a Dying Thing: In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow by Des Fitzgerald 9780571362219
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.84'Counterintuitive, funny and provocative . . . We could all use a little more of Fitzgerald's scepticism.' Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times'Like Jon Ronson on town planners . . . Endlessly funny and... -
Urban Planning For Dummies Jordan Yin 9781118100233
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.59How to create the world's new urban future With the majority of the world's population shifting to urban centres, urban planning-the practice of land-use and transportation planning to help shape... -
How to Read Towns and Cities: A Crash Course in Urban Architecture by Jonathan Glancey
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99A highly-illustrated, pocket-sized guide to understanding the forces that have shaped the world's cities from the dawn of civilisation to the present day. The fortunes of towns and cities rise... -
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives Chris Bruntlett 9781642831658
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.00In 2019, mobility experts Melissa and Chris Bruntlett began a new adventure in Delft in the Netherlands. They had packed up their family in Vancouver, BC, and moved to Delft to experience the cycling... -
Mini-Forest Revolution: Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World by Hannah Lewis
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38'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... -
A Burglar'S Guide to the City by Geoff Manaugh 9780374117269
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Making of Our Urban Landscape by Geoffrey Tyack 9780198792635
RRP: £32.49Booksplease Price: £21.58Britain was the first country in the world to become an essentially urban county. And England is still one of the most urbanized countries in the world. The town and the city is the world that most... -
The Essential Guide to the Dubai Real Estate Market Michael Waters 9781032033563
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.07This is the first book to fully present, analyse and interpret the Dubai real estate market. Dubai is fast becoming one of the world's most attractive places to invest in real estate and this book... -
Curiocity: In Pursuit of London by Matt Lloyd-Rose
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.27'The most ingenious, informative, inimitable, individual, innovative, insightful, inspiring, instructive, intelligible, intoxicating, intricate guide to the great city that I have ever seen. Bravo!'... -
Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough
Booksplease Price: £15.82Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9780671457112Author David McculloughFormat HardbackPage Count 636Imprint -
A Vision of a Living World: The Nature of Order, Book 3: An Essay of the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe by Christopher Alexander 9780972652933
Booksplease Price: £64.71In Book Three of this four-volume work, Alexander presents hundreds of his own buildings and those of his contemporaries who have used methods consistent with the theory of living process.Containing... -
How to Read Bridges: A crash course spanning the centuries by Edward Denison
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86A 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...