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Community Development for Social Change by Dave Beck
RRP: $47.72$41.96Community Development for Social Change provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of community development and associated activities, discusses best practice from global experience and links that to the UK context. The book... -
Ramsgate: The town and its seaside heritage by Geraint Franklin
RRP: $23.85$21.81For over 250 years people have headed to Ramsgate for a day at the seaside - and discovered much more in the process. This book charts Ramsgate's transformation from quiet fishing village to a 'harbour of refuge' and seaside resort, driven by the town's... -
London by Design: The Iconic Transport Designs that Shaped our City by London Transport Museum
RRP: $25.80$18.95Curated and designed by the experts at The London Transport Museum, this collection showcases London's 100 greatest transport design icons from the past 150 years.From TfL's exclusive Johnston font; Westminster Station's ground breaking architecture;... -
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space by Jahn Gehl 9781597268271
RRP: $46.44$39.18The 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 period. The book carried an appeal to show concern for... -
Manchester: Something Rich and Strange by Paul Dobraszczyk
RRP: $16.76$12.44What 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, under-appreciated and overlooked parts of Greater Manchester... -
Smooth City: Against Urban Perfection, Towards Collective Alternatives by Rene Boer 9789493246201
RRP: $28.38$26.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493246201Author Rene BoerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 119mm * 23mm -
Urbanism Beyond 2020: Reflections During the Covid-19 Pandemic by Vinayak Bharne
RRP: $19.29$12.62Urbanism Beyond 2020 explores numerous questions triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic: Why is city making a health project? How are ecological and human wellbeing interrelated? How can leadership and governance help bridge gaps in our unjust cities? How... -
House in the Country: Where Our Suburbs and Garden Cities Came From and Why it's Time to Leave Them Behind by Simon Matthews
RRP: $25.79$17.36For nearly 150 years living in a house in the country has been what many of us aspire to. This book explores how this idea was imported from the US by Ebenezer Howard, founder of the garden city movement, the impact it has had in the UK and why, on cost... -
The Process of Creating Life: The Nature of Order, Book 2: An Essay of the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe by Christopher Alexander 9780972652926
RRP: $82.56$68.90Christopher Alexander's masterwork, the result of 27 years of research, considers three vital perspectives: a scientific perspective; a perspective based on beauty and grace; a commonsense perspective based on our intuitions and everyday life.About the... -
Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life by Adam Greenfield
RRP: $14.18$11.53Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with the... -
The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander
RRP: $68.37$53.46The 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 is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even afraid,... -
Collage City by Colin Rowe
RRP: $42.57$29.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262680424Author Colin RoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 297mm * 210mm * 11mm -
The Making of Our Urban Landscape by Geoffrey Tyack 9780198792635
RRP: $38.70$27.54Britain 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 of us inhabit and know best. But what do we actually... -
The Permaculture City: Regenerative Design for Urban, Suburban, and Town Resilience by Toby Hemenway
RRP: $25.80$17.22Permaculture is more than just the latest buzzword; it offers positive solutions for many of the environmental and social challenges confronting us. And nowhere are those remedies more needed and desired than in our cities. The Permaculture City... -
Responsive Environments by Sue McGlynn
RRP: $76.10$66.41Clearly demonstrates the specific characteristics that make for comprehensible, friendly and controllable places; 'Responsive Environments' - as opposed to the alienating environments often imposed today. By means of sketches and diagrams, it shows how... -
Up in Smoke: The Failed Dreams of Battersea Power Station by Peter Watts 9780993570209
RRP: $25.80$21.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993570209Author Peter WattsFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Paradise RoadPublisher Paradise Road -
9 Ways to Make Housing for People by David Baker Architects
RRP: $51.54$32.80Combining how-to with why-to, 9 Ways to Make Housing for People lays out the core principles that David Baker Architects uses to help communities develop great urban housing. Written for architects and residents - as well as officials, developers, and... -
Narrative Environments and Experience Design: Space as a Medium of Communication by Tricia Austin
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book argues narrative, people and place are inseparable and pursues the consequences of this insight through the design of narrative environments. This is a new and distinct area of practice that weaves together and extends narrative theory, spatial... -
How to Study Public Life: Methods in Urban Design by Jan Gehl
RRP: $39.99$34.48How 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 effects of a changing climate while global cities... -
Public Places Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design by Matthew Carmona
RRP: $56.75$52.68Public Places Urban Spaces provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, theory and practices of urban design for those new to the subject and for those requiring a clear and systematic guide. In this new edition the book has been extensively... -
Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the City by Pablo Sendra
RRP: $12.89$8.57In 1970, Richard Sennett published the groundbreaking The Uses of Disorder, arguing that the ideal of a planned and ordered city was flawed. Fifty years later, Sennett returns to these still fertile ideas and, alongside campaigner and architect Pablo... -
London of the Future by Peter Murray 9781858947105
RRP: $51.60$39.14The proposals in London of the Future aim to predict and prescribe how the metropolis might be governed, organized, and designed in years to come and to provoke debate among planners, architects, and developers. Over the course of eighteen essays,... -
Town and Country Planning in the UK by Barry Cullingworth
RRP: $92.87$81.33Town and country planning has never been more important to the UK, nor more prominent in national debate. Planning generates great controversy: whether it's spending GBP80m and four years' inquiry into Heathrow's Terminal 5, or the 200 proposed wind... -
Understanding African Real Estate Markets by Aly Karam 9780367233105
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book brings together a broad range of research that interrogates how real estate market analysis, finance, planning, and investment for residential and commercial developments across the African continent are undertaken. In the past two decades,... -
Sewer by Jessica Leigh Hester
RRP: $12.89$9.61Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. What can underground pipes tell us about human eating habits and the spread or containment of disease, such as COVID-19? Why are sewers spitting... -
Performance Metrics for Sustainable Cities by Sylvie Albert 9780367561338
RRP: $51.59$45.23Performance Metrics for Sustainable Cities provides an overview of measurement systems and tools to enable communities to self-assess and benchmark their progress along a continuum of smart, intelligent, and sustainable development. It begins by... -
The Architecture of the City by Aldo Rossi
RRP: $55.47$38.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262680431Author Aldo RossiFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 248mm * 213mm * 11mm -
The Playground Project by Gabriela Burkhalter 9783038603504
RRP: $64.50$43.80From the 1950s to the 1980s, the open-air playground was a social laboratory. Innovative, wacky, educational, and exciting playground designs emerged in European and American cities, as well as elsewhere around the world: artists, landscape designers,... -
The University as a Settlement Principle: Territorialising Knowledge in Late 1960s Italy by Francesco Zuddas
RRP: $51.59$45.23The 1960s and the 1970s marked a generational shift in architectural discourse at a time when the revolts inside universities condemned the academic institution as a major force behind the perpetuation of a controlling society. Focusing on the crisis and... -
Precisions on the Present State of Architecture and City Planning by Le Corbusier
RRP: $32.25$22.42Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of his death (August 27, 2015), one of Le Corbusier's most significant books becomes available again in English. The "Precisions", as the book is commonly known, emerged from a spontaneous and exuberant series of 10... -
Politics and Preservation: A policy history of the built heritage 1882-1996 by John Delafons 9780419224006
RRP: $109.64$95.78This book traces the policy history of urban conservation and its relationship to the town planning process and both are set in their political context. Part One deals with the origins of conservation and its cultural background. Part Two deals with the... -
Compulsory Purchase and Compensation by Barry Denyer-Green
RRP: $76.10$66.41Compulsory Purchase and Compensation is the essential guide to this complex and increasingly relevant area of the law. Now in its eleventh edition, no other book presents the same level of information on the law relating to compulsory purchase and... -
Sweet in Tooth and Claw: nature is more cooperative than we think by Kristin Ohlson
RRP: $21.92$14.94Ever since Darwin, science has enshrined competition as biology's brutal architect. But this revelatory new book argues that our narrow view of evolution has caused us to ignore the generosity and cooperation that exist around us, from the soil to the... -
Asmara: Africa's Secret Modernist City by Edward Denison 9781858943824
RRP: $32.19$25.52Asmara, the capital of the small East African country of Eritrea, bordering the Red Sea, is one of the most important and exciting architectural 'discoveries' of recent years. Built almost entirely in the 1930s by the Italians, who transformed it into a... -
The Pocket Guide to Oxford: A souvenir guidebook to the -architecture, history, and principal attractions of Oxford by Philip Atkins 9780953443871
RRP: $12.89$9.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for British Book Design and Production Awards 2005.Book InformationISBN 9780953443871Author Philip AtkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Oxgarth... -
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives by Chris Bruntlett
RRP: $30.95$25.94In 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 city as residents rather than as visitors. A year... -
Design with Nature Now by Frederick Steiner
RRP: $87.72$68.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558443938Author Frederick SteinerFormat HardbackPage Count 351Imprint Lincoln Institute of Land PolicyPublisher Lincoln Institute of Land... -
International Community Development Practice by Charlie McConnell
RRP: $42.56$37.62International Community Development Practice provides readers with practice-based examples of good community development, demonstrating its value for strengthening people power and improving the effectiveness of development agencies, whether these be... -
Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary by Ronald Rael 9780520283947
RRP: $32.25$24.74Borderwall as Architecture is an artistic and intellectual hand grenade of a book, and a timely re-examination of what the physical barrier that divides the United States of America from the United Mexican States is and could be. It is both a protest... -
Interpreting the NPPF: The new National Planning Policy Framework by Alistair Mills 9781916431522
RRP: $51.60$45.43In July 2018 a revised National Planning Policy Framework was published, coming into effect immediately. First published in 2012, the NPPF is the primary expression of the Government's planning policies for England. The NPPF sets out a framework for...