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Why We Build by Rowan Moore
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $12.89Buildings are driven by human emotions and desires; hope, power, money, sex, the idea of home. In Why We Build Rowan Moore explores the making of buildings from conception to inhabitation and reveals... -
Anatomy of a Building Rowan Moore 9781408706220
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.15The Royal College of Physicians celebrates its 500th anniversary in 2018, and to observe this landmark is publishing this series of ten books. Each of the books focuses on fifty themed elements that... -
Property: The myth that built the world Rowan Moore 9780571350100
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'A rallying cry for a deep rethink of how we build, buy and manage homes.' ARCHITECTS' JOURNAL'A calm analysis of the concept of property ownership, its promises, successes and betrayals.' THE... -
Property: The myth that built the world by Rowan Moore 9780571350094
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56A powerful examination of how property shaped the modern world - and why it now threatens the freedoms and stability it was meant to sustain.Property carries a great promise: that it will make you... -
Slow Burn City: London in the Twenty-First Century by Rowan Moore
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35With a new introduction for the paperback.London is a supreme achievement of civilization. It offers fulfilments of body and soul, encourages discovery and invention. It is a place of freedom,... -
The City of Today is a Dying Thing: In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow by Des Fitzgerald 9780571362219
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.85'Counterintuitive, funny and provocative . . . We could all use a little more of Fitzgerald's scepticism.' Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times'Like Jon Ronson on town planners . . . Endlessly funny and... -
The Age of Spectacle: Adventures in Architecture and the 21st-Century City by Tom Dyckhoff 9780099538233
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98'A great storyteller . . . you would be hard pushed to find a more knowledgeable or entertaining [guide]' Icon'Such an interesting book . . . I cannot recommend it enough.' Lauren LaverneIn Dubai, a... -
Spitalfields: The History of a Nation in a Handful of Streets by Dan Cruickshank
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $18.25SHORTLISTED FOR THE HESSELL-TILTMAN HISTORY PRIZE 2017AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016Religious strife, civil conflict, waves of immigration, the rise and fall of industry, great prosperity and... -
The View from the Train by Patrick Keiller 9781781687765
Booksplease Price: $28.90In his classic sequence of films, Patrick Keiller retraces the hidden story of the places where we live, the cities and landscapes of our everyday lives. This collection explores the surrealist... -
Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City by Bradley Garrett 9781781685570
Booksplease Price: $37.72What does it feel like to find the city's edge, to explore its forgotten tunnels and scale unfinished skyscrapers high above the metropolis? Explore Everything reclaims the city, recasting it as a... -
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91Happy City is the story of how the solutions to this century's problems lie in unlocking the secrets to great city livingThis is going to be the century of the city. But what actually makes a good... -
Big Capital: Who Is London For? by Anna Minton
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91The inside story of London's housing crisis, by the award-winning author of Ground ControlLondon is facing the worst housing crisis in modern times, with knock-on effects for the rest of the UK... -
Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen by Peter Apps
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.98***WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023*** 'Never before, in years of reviewing books about buildings, has one brought me to tears. This one did.' Rowan Moore, Observer Book of... -
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City by Richard Sennett
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56'Thank god for Richard Sennett ... essential reading for all students of the city' Anna Minton, Prospect'Constantly stimulating ideas from a veteran of urban thinking' Jonathan Meades, GuardianIn... -
Nairn's London by Ian Nairn
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR and OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014'This book is a record of what has moved me between Uxbridge and Dagenham. My hope is that it moves you, too.' Nairn's London is an... -
Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing by John Boughton
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.17Traversing the nation, Municipal Dreams offers an architectural tour of some of the best and most remarkable of our housing estates, and in doing so offers an engrossing social history of housing in... -
A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain by Owen Hatherley
Booksplease Price: $39.20Back in 1997, New Labour came to power amid much talk of regenerating the inner cities left to rot under successive Conservative governments. Over the next decade, British cities became the... -
Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis by Nick Bano 9781804293874
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $14.44Housing means prosperity and security for some; poverty, precarity and sickness for others. More people live in private rented accommodation than ever before, and rents rise without apparent reason... -
A Short History of London: The Creation of a World Capital by Simon Jenkins
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91LONDON: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes and ruled by the Normans. This changeful place became a medieval maze of alleys and courtyards, later to be... -
Boom Cities: Architect Planners and the Politics of Radical Urban Renewal in 1960s Britain by Otto Saumarez Smith 9780198836407
Booksplease Price: $154.74Boom Cities is the first published history of the profound transformations of British city centres in the 1960s. It has often been said that urban planners did more damage to Britain's cities than... -
Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis Nick Bano 9781804298336
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.17Housing means prosperity and security for some; poverty, precarity and sickness for others. More people live in private rented accommodation than ever before, and rents rise without apparent reason... -
Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past by Robert Bevan 9781839761881
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07How the past is memorialized can have a dangerous influence on the future. Monumental Lies exposes the truths buried at contested heritage sites and demands that we safeguard the material evidence of... -
Circles and Squares: The Lives and Art of the Hampstead Modernists by Caroline Maclean
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.66A spellbinding portrait of the Hampstead Modernists, threading together the lives, loves, rivalries and ambitions of a group of artists at the heart of an international avant-garde. Hampstead in... -
Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession by Reinier de Graaf 9780674241466
RRP: $27.03Booksplease Price: $23.68A Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Guardian Best Architecture Book of the Year"Sharp, revealing, funny."-The Guardian"An original and even occasionally hilarious book about losing ideals and... -
Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past Robert Bevan 9781839761874
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.77The past is weaponised in culture wars and cynically edited by those who wish to impose their ideology upon the physical spaces around us. Holocaust deniers use details of the ruins of the gas... -
Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency by Barnabas Calder
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $9.98A groundbreaking history of architecture told through the relationship between buildings and energyThe story of architecture is the story of humanity. The buildings we live in, from the humblest... -
Fathers and Sons by Howard Cunnell
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55Was he thinking, do I have to be this kind of boy to survive? Is this what being a boy is?As a boy growing up on the south coast of England, Howard Cunnell's sense of self was dominated by his... -
Queer Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London's Fierce History by Dan Glass
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.16This groundbreaking guide will take you through the city streets to uncover the scandalous, hilarious and empowering events of London's queerstory. Follow in the footprints of veteran activists, such...