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Urban Design by Alex Krieger 9780816656394
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.62Highlights key issues in contemporary urban design through a discussion of its origins, current state, and futureFifty years ago a landmark conference at Harvard University established urban design... -
Mapping Boston by Alex Krieger 9780262611732
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $33.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Second Prize, 2000, American Association of Museums (AAM) publication competition. 2000.Book... -
City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present by Alex Krieger
RRP: $38.64Booksplease Price: $33.23A sweeping history of American cities and towns, and the utopian aspirations that shaped them, by one of America's leading urban planners and scholars.The first European settlers saw America as a... -
We Came Naked and Barefoot: The Journey of Cabeza De Vaca Across North America by Alex D. Krieger 9780292742352
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $27.94Second place, Presidio La Bahia Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas, 2003 Perhaps no one has ever been such a survivor as Alvar NUNez Cabeza de Vaca. Member of a 600-man expedition sent out from... -
New Urbanism and American Planning: The Conflict of Cultures by Emily Talen 9780415701334
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $62.05New Urbanism and American Planning presents the history of American planners' quest for good cities and shows how New Urbanism is a culmination of ideas that have been evolving since the nineteenth... -
Sprawl and Suburbia: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader by William Saunders
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.08Sprawl is the single most significant and urgent issue in American land use at the turn of the twenty-first century. Efforts to limit and reform sprawl through legislative "Smart Growth" initiatives... -
How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken by Alex Marshall
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.52Do cities work anymore? How did they get to be such sprawling conglomerations of lookalike subdivisions, megafreeways, and "big box" superstores surrounded by acres of parking lots? And why, most of... -
Americans and Their Land by Anne Mackin 9780472115563
Booksplease Price: $50.63"A compelling, even moving, portrait of the national landscape-its past, its meaning, its urgent need of rescue."-James Carroll, author of House of War and An American Requiem, winner of the National... -
Rebuilding the American Town: Design and Strategy at Small Scale David Gamble 9780367258535
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $56.51In the scholarship of urbanism, small towns are overlooked and understudied. Rebuilding the American Town highlights how smaller municipalities are transforming to serve their communities and meet...