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Youth Planning Charrettes: A Manual for Planners, Teachers, and Youth Advocates by Bruce Race 9781884829192
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $64.14Invest in the future! Involve young people in planning. Learn how to design charrettes, starting with workshops and ending with lessons learned. This book explores various approaches to involving... -
Urban Planning and Politics by William Johnson 9781884829147
RRP: $120.88Booksplease Price: $107.21In this decade of widespread public distrust of both government and big business, planning is often viewed as a process abused by the elite to pursue their own selfish ends at the expense of ordinary... -
Visions For a New American Dream: Process, Principles, and an Ordinance to Plan and Design Small Communities by Anton Nelessen
RRP: $154.03Booksplease Price: $135.97This book shows you how to combine the best design principles of the past with the technological advances of the present to achieve a more satisfying community environment.Anton Nelessen advocates... -
Strategic Planning in Local Government: A Casebook Roger Kemp 9780918286772
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $87.11This book shows how and why strategic planning is working in cities around the country. It illustrates how this technique enables a city to plan its future proactively and shows how local governments... -
Fundamentals of Urban Design by Richard Hedman
RRP: $107.23Booksplease Price: $96.54This book explains the fundamental tools for achieving a more cohesive and satisfying environment. Using more than 100 photographs and drawings, Hedman illustrates the basic components of urban... -
Board of Adjustment by V. Gail Easley 9781611901658
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $64.14Compatibility, ethics, hearings, record keeping, variances, and appeals. There are so many things board of adjustment members must consider-and so few sources to guide them. This book explains them... -
Growth Management Principles and Practices by James Duncan 9780918286925
RRP: $128.68Booksplease Price: $114.93Growth Management Principles and Practices shows how to integrate diverse growth management practices into a comprehensive system that balances potentially competing planning goals.Authors Nelson... -
Planning Atlanta by Harley F. Etienne 9781611901269
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.67More than any other major U.S. city, Atlanta regularly reinvents itself. From the Civil War's devastation to the 1996 Olympic boom to the current housing crisis, the city's history is a cycle of rise... -
Planning and Urban Design Standards American Planning Association 9780471760900
RRP: $185.15Booksplease Price: $165.11The new student edition of the definitive reference on urban planning and design Planning and Urban Design Standards, Student Edition is the authoritative and reliable volume designed to teach... -
Citizen's Guide to Zoning by Herbert Smith
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $79.83First published in 1983. An easy-to-read book about zoning that cuts the jargon out but leaves the wisdom in. Smith explains the fundamental principles of zoning, how to develop zoning regulations,... -
Planning Chicago D. Bradford Hunt 9781611900804
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.67In this volume the authors tell the real stories of the planners, politicians, and everyday people who shaped contemporary Chicago, starting in 1958, early in the Richard J. Daley era. Over the... -
Urban Land Use Planning, Fifth Edition by Philip R. Berke
RRP: $124.80Booksplease Price: $105.28Divided into three sections, this edition of Urban Land Use Planning deftly balances an authoritative, up-to-date discussion of current practices with a vision of what land use planning should... -
Redesigning Urban Centers: Adapting to Changing Real Estate Markets Jonathan Barnett 9781032759210
RRP: $74.08Booksplease Price: $67.45Redesigning Urban Centers: Adapting to Changing Real Estate Markets describes how well-managed places which offer clean, safe, and attractively designed streets and public spaces, along with... -
In Motion: The Experience of Travel Tony Hiss 9781611900118
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $64.14In this extraordinarily wide-ranging, insightful, and revelatory book, Tony Hiss is the much-praised author of The Experience of Places delves into a unique and instantly recognizable (though... -
Successful Public Meetings, 2nd ed.: A Practical Guide by Elaine Cogan
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $64.14The author explains why it's essential to begin the preparations by deciding what the meeting is intended to accomplish. That, in turn, determines what kind of meeting you should conduct:... -
Planning Los Angeles by David Sloane
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $70.75Los Angeles isn't planned; it just happens. Right? Not so fast! Despite the city's reputation for spontaneous evolution, a deliberate planning process shapes the way Los Angeles looks and lives... -
Delta Urbanism: New Orleans by Richard Campanella
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $79.05This volume of APA's Delta Urbanism series traces the development of New Orleans from precolonial times to post-Katrina realities, in the context of the deltaic plain on which it lies. The book... -
Neighbors and Neighborhoods: Elements of Successful Community Design by Sidney Brower
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $64.14How does the design of a neighborhood affect the people who live there? In this thoughtful, engaging book, the author explains how a neighborhood's design lays the groundwork for the social... -
Project Management for Planners by Terry A. Clark
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $85.68This book provides practicing planners with the knowledge of how to bring real world planning projects to a successful and efficient. It applies the five process groups of project management as... -
Career Worth Planning: Starting Out and Moving Ahead in the Planning Profession by Warren Jones
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $85.68Now that your planning degree is in sight or in hand, how and where can you find your "dream job?" Once you're on the job, what can you do to not just survive, but thrive and avoid common... -
Planning in Plain English: Writing Tips for Urban and Environmental Planners Natalie Macris 9781884829406
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $64.14In this volume, the author draws from more than a decade of editing experience to explain how to craft clear, understandable, and highly readable planning documents. The author suggests ways to... -
Rural by Design: Planning for Town and Country Randall Arendt 9781611901528
RRP: $243.75Booksplease Price: $218.40For America's rural and suburban areas, new challenges demand new solutions. Author Randall Arendt meets them in an entirely new edition of Rural by Design. When this planning classic first appeared... -
Foreclosing the Dream: How America's Housing Crisis is Reshaping our Cities and Suburbs by William Lucy 9781932364781
RRP: $116.98Booksplease Price: $103.92That America entered a profound housing crisis in 2008 is well known. The wave of foreclosures that began to sweep the nation has had radical economic effects. But the force, ramifications, and... -
Clear as Mud: Planning for the Rebuilding of New Orleans by Robert B. Olshansky
RRP: $140.38Booksplease Price: $124.39Planning the rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita has been among the greatest urban planning challenges of our time. Since 2005, Robert B. Olshansky and Laurie A. Johnson,... -
Reconsidering Jane Jacobs Max Page 9781932364941
RRP: $224.25Booksplease Price: $195.10This volume begins with the premise that the deepest respect is shown through honest critique. One of the greatest problems in understanding the influence of the author on cities and planning is that... -
Reconsidering Jane Jacobs by Max Page 9781932364958
RRP: $76.03Booksplease Price: $69.11This volume begins with the premise that the deepest respect is shown through honest critique. One of the greatest problems in understanding the influence of the author on cities and planning is that... -
Downtown Planning for Smaller and Midsized Communities by Philip Walker 9781932364675
RRP: $185.23Booksplease Price: $161.93"For so long we were floundering and taking ad hoc measures, but the minute I understood what a downtown plan really was I said 'We need one of those!' As it turned out, it was the most fantastic... -
Everyday Ethics for Practicing Planners by Carol Barrett
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $85.68"This book is on the suggested reading list for planners preparing to take the AICP exam. As veteran planner the author points out, the most troublesome conflicts for planners aren't between good and... -
Citistate Seattle: Shaping A Modern Metropolis by Mark Hinshaw 9781884829239
RRP: $185.23Booksplease Price: $162.51With style and humor, the author writes of special places in everyday Seattle. The author takes us to popular, high-profile landmarks like Pike Place Market as well as tucked-away gems - cozy... -
The Right to Transportation: Moving to Equity by Thomas Sanchez
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $102.84Does transportation affect the lives of minority, low-income, elderly, and physically disabled citizens? The answer is yes, and those effects can be profound, according to The Right to Transportation... -
The Planners Guide to CommunityViz: The Essential Tool for a New Generation of Planning by Doug Walker
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.67What does the future look like? Planners wrestle with this question daily as they strive to bring a community's vision of itself to life, in all its complexity. Here is an authoritative and... -
Reconsidering Ian McHarg Ignacio Bunster-Ossa 9781611901238
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $79.05In 1969 Ian McHarg laid out a new approach to land-use planning. His seminal work, Design by Nature, blazed the trail for sustainable urban development. The road was paved with good intentions. But... -
Neighborhood Planning: A Guide for Citizens and Planners by Bernie Jones
RRP: $107.23Booksplease Price: $96.54First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. This guide explains neighborhood planning for both citizens and professionals.About the AuthorBernie... -
Environmental Planning Handbook Tom Daniels 9781611901511
RRP: $234.00Booksplease Price: $211.59Environmental protection is a global issue. But most of the action is happening at the local level. How can communities keep their air clean, their water pure, and their people and property safe from... -
Transportation & Land Use Innovations: When you can't pave your way out of congestion by Reid Ewing
RRP: $113.08Booksplease Price: $100.60This handbook introduces community leaders to an understanding oftransportation mobility, offering suggestions to reduce congestion, automobile dependence, and vehicle miles of travel.About the... -
A Decent Home: Planning, Building, and Preserving Affordable Housing by Alan Mallach
RRP: $144.28Booksplease Price: $127.71What is a decent home? Does it simply provide shelter from the elements? Is it affordable enough that you can buy the other necessities of life? Does it connect you to a community with adequate... -
Planning Commissioners Guide: Processes for Reasoning Together by C. Gregory Dale
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $64.14Across the country, communities rely on their planning commissions for guidance. But who guides the planning commissioners? This step-by-step guidebook gets new commissioners off on the right foot... -
High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup
RRP: $234.00Booksplease Price: $210.03Off-street parking requirements are devastating American cities. So says the author in this no-holds-barred treatise on the way parking should be. Free parking, the author argues, has contributed to... -
Creating Healthy Neighborhoods: Evidence-Based Planning and Design Strategies by Ann Forsyth 9781611901917
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $64.72Good housing. Easy transit. Food access. Green spaces. Gathering places. Everybody wants to live in a healthy neighborhood. Bridging the gap between research and practice, it maps out ways for cities... -
Making Community Design Work: A Guide For Planners by Umut Toker
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $79.05Since the earliest settlements, people have deliberated the issues that affect their future together. Making Community Design Work shows how planners can guide the process toward effective decision...