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Block by Block  

Block by Block is a far-ranging collection of essays about Jane Jacobs from an impressive group of writers and cultural critics including Marshall Berman, Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Gopnik, Paul Goldberger, Tama Janowitz, Ben Katchor, Phillip Lopate, Luc Sante, Bill "Reverend Billy" Talen, Colson Whitehead, and Tom Wolfe.

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City Sense and City Design  

The collected essays of Kevin Lynch make the seminal urban design ideas penned by this planning pioneer available to a new generation of readers. Includes many out-of-print and hard-to-find articles.

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Classic Readings in Urban Planning  

The best anthology in planning just got better! This indispensable compilation is essential reading for planning students, practitioners, and educators.

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Comprehensive City Planning  

Mel Branch has written the perfect introduction to city planning for students, planning officials, and professionals in related disciplines. It's good reading for anyone interested in planning.

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Comprehensive City Planning  

Mel Branch has written the perfect introduction to city planning for students, planning officials, and professionals in related disciplines. It's good reading for anyone interested in planning.

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Envisioning Better Communities  

Randall Arendt's work has shaped a generation of planners, designers, and landscape architects. In Envisioning Better Communities, he brings his insights to a broader public, with a profusely illustrated demonstration of how local officials, planning commissioners, and everyday citizens can work to make their communities more attractive, more habitable, and more sustainable.

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Fundamentals of Urban Design  

Successful urban design does not require that all decision makers become skilled in design analysis. But it does demand that they know what to look for and essential criteria to consider. This book explains the basic tools needed for design analysis.

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Green Metropolis  

The environmental lessons that New York and other dense cities offer are not necessarily easy to apply--and, even to city dwellers, they can often be difficult to discern--but the most important of them can be summarized simply: Live smaller:

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Growth and Convergence in Metropolitan America  

An analysis of population trends that shows a strong connection between regional growth and improved socioeconomic vitality.

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Growth Management Principles and Practices  

This is the first book to both assess growth management principles and show how they relate to traditional, new, and emerging growth management practices. It demonstrates how planners shape communities while considering resources and future needs.

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Guidelines for Preparing Urban Plans  

A book for planning practitioners, planning commissioners, and students that leads you step by step through the complex process of preparing urban plans.

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Land Use and Society  

A look at how metropolitan areas changed in the 20th century and how those changes spurred the search for regional planning solutions.

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Land-Use Regulations Handbook  

Affordable housing is in short supply in America. This publication shows how to increase housing densities and streamline development review to keep housing affordable.

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Learning from Las Vegas  

A revised edition of the 1972 book that stoked controversy by calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes of "common" people.

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Local Planning  

The newest edition of the classic book, The Practice of Local Government Planning. Recommended for AICP exam preparation.

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My Kind of Transit  

In America's car-dominated landscape, public transit has long played second fiddle, but rising gasoline prices and the global warming crisis point to a need for alternative means of transportation. Darrin Nordahl sets the stage for these efforts by proposing that the experience of public transit and the quality of the ride are pivotal to the success of public transit.

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New Towns for Old  

A reissue of the classic text by planning pioneer John Nolen.

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New Urbanism  

The Fourth edition of New Urbanism: Best Practices Guide is the most comprehensive and up-to-date sourcebook on the ideas and techniques of New Urbanism ever published.

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Planning and Urban Design Standards  

The definitive guide to principles and techniques used by planners, designers, and their partners in community building.

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Planning the Built Environment  

This book explains the systems that make up our built environment and how they are interrelated.

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