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Modern Housing by Catherine Bauer
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.51The original guide on modern housing from the premier expert and activist in the public housing movement Originally published in 1934, Modern Housing is widely acknowledged as one of the most... -
Tulips for Breakfast by Catherine Bauer 9781922696199
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922696199Author Catherine BauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint -
Houser: The Life and Work of Catherine Bauer, 1905-64 by H. Peter Oberlander 9780774807210
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04Catherine Bauer was a leading member of a small group of idealists who called themselves housers because of their commitment to improving housing for low-income families. In her lifetime she changed... -
Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era by Gail Radford 9780226702230
Booksplease Price: £32.30The basic shape of American federal policy in housing as in many other areas, was determined during the New Deal, but not without conflict among movements and intellectuals advocating alternative... -
From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City by Nathan Glazer 9780691129570
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.80Modernism in architecture and urban design has failed the American city. This is the decisive conclusion that renowned public intellectual Nathan Glazer has drawn from two decades of writing and... -
The Contested City by John Hull Mollenkopf 9780691022208
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £51.87Over the last five decades American cities have been transformed as profoundly and tumultuously as they were during the industrial revolution. In contrast to that earlier era, this contemporary... -
The Handbook of Operator Fatigue Gerald Matthews 9781138077812
RRP: £62.99Booksplease Price: £59.19Fatigue is a recognized problem in many facets of the human enterprise. It is not confined to any one area of activity but enters all situations in which humans have to perform for extended intervals... -
Women in Housing Design History Katy Chey 9781032999661
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book examines the women whose contributions significantly shaped housing management, policy and design. It highlights how these women leveraged their experiences, opportunities, and, in some... -
Urban Theory by Ely Chinoy
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63What is the future of the American city? What are the relevant contexts for the analysis of urban problems? Should attention be focused on the metropolitan area, the region, or the megalopolis? Does... -
Civitas by Design: Building Better Communities, from the Garden City to the New Urbanism by Howard Gillette 9780812222227
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.66Since the end of the nineteenth century, city planners have aspired not only to improve the physical living conditions of urban residents but also to strengthen civic ties through better design of... -
Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930 by Frank Lloyd Wright
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.00Modern Architecture is a landmark text--the first book in which America's greatest architect put forth the principles of a fundamentally new, organic architecture that would reject the trappings of... -
Environmental Design: Architecture, Politics, and Science in Postwar America by Avigail Sachs 9780813947556
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.70Much of twentieth-century design was animated by the creative tension of its essential duality: is design an art or a science? In the postwar era, American architects sought to calibrate... -
Becoming Jane Jacobs by Peter L. Laurence
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Jane Jacobs is universally recognized as one of the key figures in American urbanism. The author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, she uncovered the complex and intertwined physical and...