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Sprawl: A Compact History by Robert Bruegmann
Booksplease Price: £17.69As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to... -
Roman Ivory by Robert Bruegmann 9798989559527
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £12.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798989559527Author Robert BruegmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Beautiful Dreamer... -
Sprawl: A Compact History by Robert Bruegmann 9780226076904
Booksplease Price: £34.18As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to... -
The Architecture of Paul Rudolph by Timothy M. Rohan 9780300149395
RRP: £57.50Booksplease Price: £50.63The first major study of one of the most important architects of the postwar era Equally admired and maligned for his remarkable Brutalist buildings, Paul Rudolph (1918-1997) shaped both late... -
Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934-1986: How Technology, Politics, Finance, and Race Reshaped the City by Thomas Leslie 9780252044953
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £31.80From skyline-defining icons to wonders of the world, the second period of the Chicago skyscraper transformed the way Chicagoans lived and worked. Thomas Leslie's comprehensive look at the modern... -
Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs: A Historical Guide by Ann Durkin Keating
Booksplease Price: £25.10'Which neighborhood?' It's one of the first questions you're asked when you move to Chicago. And the answer you give - be it Bucktown, Bronzeville, or Bridgeport - can give your inquisitor a pretty... -
Building Home: Howard F. Ahmanson and the Politics of the American Dream by Eric John Abrahamson 9780520273757
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21"Building Home" is an innovative biography that weaves together three engrossing stories. It is one part corporate and industrial history, using the evolution of mortgage finance as a way to... -
Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century by Nicholas Dagen Bloom 9780812220674
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.51When it comes to large-scale public housing in the United States, the consensus for the past decades has been to let the wrecking balls fly. The demolition of infamous projects, such as Pruitt-Igoe... -
Slaughterhouse: Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World It Made by Dominic A. Pacyga
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £16.37From the minute it opened--on Christmas Day in 1865--it was Chicago's must-see tourist attraction, drawing more than half a million visitors each year. Families, visiting dignitaries, even school... -
The Day in Its Color: Charles Cushman's Photographic Journey Through a Vanishing America by Eric Sandweiss 9780199772339
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £31.04Charles Cushman (1896-1972) photographed a disappearing world in living color. Cushman's midcentury America--a place normally seen only through a scrim of gray--reveals itself as a place as vivid and... -
The Streets of Europe: The Sights, Sounds, and Smells That Shaped Its Great Cities Brian Ladd 9780226840147
Booksplease Price: £21.05A multi-sensory urban history of Europe's bustling streets. Merchants' shouts, jostling strangers, aromas of fresh fish and flowers, plodding horses, and friendly chatter long filled the narrow,...