Built Heritage
1. 
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
by:
Stewart Brand
4.35 avg rating — 1,842 ratings 
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Historic Preservation: An Introduction to Its History, Principles, and Practice
by:
Norman Tyler
3.88 avg rating — 260 ratings 
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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America
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Russell Shorto
4.17 avg rating — 11,143 ratings 
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Why Old Places Matter: How Historic Places Affect Our Identity and Well-Being 4.05 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Disappearing Motels, Niagara Falls, Ontario: Cultural Decline of a Post-War Travel Icon
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Joan Nicks
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 11. 
Beyond Preservation: Using Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities
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Andrew Hurley
3.75 avg rating — 89 ratings 11. 
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating — 73,874 ratings 11. 
Guide to Florida Pioneer Sites: Exploring the Cracker Heritage really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Lost Movie Theatres, Niagara Falls, Ontario: Movie-Going in a Cross-Border City
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Joan Nicks
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 15. 
This House, This Town: One Couple's Love Affair with an Old House and a Historic Town really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Buildings, Landscapes, and Memory: Case Studies in Historic Preservation
by:
Daniel Bluestone
3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings 18. 
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by:
Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating — 55,252 ratings 18. 
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Sustainability through Soccer: An Unexpected Approach to Saving Our World
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Leidy Klotz
3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings 22. 
Old Buildings, New Forms: New Directions in Architectural Transformations 4.40 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Patina Of Place: The Cultural Weathering Of A New England Industrial 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Where We Want to Live: Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities
by:
Ryan Gravel
3.81 avg rating — 270 ratings 26. 
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The Scallop: Studies of a Shell and Its Influences on Humankind
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Ian Cox
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings 26. 
City on the Verge: Atlanta and the Fight for America's Urban Future
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Mark Pendergrast
3.86 avg rating — 288 ratings 29. 
Saving Wright: The Freeman House and the Preservation of Meaning, Materials, and Modernity really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Not Just Anywhere: The Story of W.H.A.L.E. and New Bedford's Waterfront Historic District
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Marsha McCabe
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 29. 
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Writing Architecture: A Practical Guide to Clear Communication about the Built Environment
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Carter Wiseman
3.90 avg rating — 30 ratings 41. 
The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community
by:
Ray Oldenburg
3.86 avg rating — 982 ratings 
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Superbia: 31 Ways to Create Sustainable Neighborhoods
by:
Daniel D. Chiras
3.71 avg rating — 52 ratings 
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Skinny Streets and Green Neighborhoods: Design for Environment and Community
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Cynthia Girling
3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings 45. 
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Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs 3.81 avg rating — 160 ratings
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Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work and Family Life
by:
Dolores Hayden
4.16 avg rating — 129 ratings 49. 
The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
by:
Henry Petroski
3.44 avg rating — 522 ratings 51. 
A Better Place to Live: Reshaping the American Suburb
by:
Philip Langdon
4.09 avg rating — 46 ratings 51. 
Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) 4.04 avg rating — 70 ratings
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) 4.42 avg rating — 5,327 ratings
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How to Read Churches: A Crash Course in Ecclesiastical Architecture 3.92 avg rating — 342 ratings
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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape 4.05 avg rating — 4,483 ratings
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Main Street to Miracle Mile: American Roadside Architecture
by:
Chester Liebs
3.67 avg rating — 30 ratings 59. 
Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000
by:
Dolores Hayden
3.84 avg rating — 361 ratings 
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Precolumbian Architecture in Eastern North America (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Architecture of Francis Palmer Smith, Atlanta's Scholar-Architect
by:
Robert M. Craig
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 64. 
The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods
by:
John McKnight
3.83 avg rating — 439 ratings 64. 
Building the Past: Prehistoric Wooden Post Architecture in the Ohio Valley Great Lakes
by:
Brian G. Redmond
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Buildings without Architects: A Global Guide to Everyday Architecture
by:
John May
3.72 avg rating — 50 ratings 
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The Courthouse and Depot in Georgia, 1833-1910: The Architecture of Hope in an Age of Despair it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Finest Building in America: The New York Crystal Palace, 1853-1858
by:
Edwin G. Burrows
3.58 avg rating — 38 ratings 80. 
Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl
by:
Richard Moe
3.73 avg rating — 30 ratings 
82. 
The Secret Language of Churches & Cathedrals: Decoding the Sacred Symbolism of Christianity's Holy Building
by:
Richard Stemp
4.15 avg rating — 92 ratings 83. 
Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture
by:
Mabel O. Wilson
4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings 
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Bricks & Mortals: Ten Great Buildings and the People They Made
by:
Tom Wilkinson
3.76 avg rating — 93 ratings 86. 
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Folk Housing in Middle Virginia: A Structural Analysis of Historic Artifacts
by:
Henry Glassie
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 35 ratings 88. 
Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States
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Henry Glassie
3.65 avg rating — 48 ratings 89. 
Sacred Places of the Lowcountry: Lost Photographs from the Historic American Buildings Survey it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Remembering Roadside America: Preserving the Recent Past as Landscape and Place
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John A. Jakle
3.17 avg rating — 12 ratings 93. 
We Come for Good: Archaeology and Tribal Historic Preservation at the Seminole Tribe of Florida really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Lost Savannah: Photographs from the Collection of the Georgia Historical Society 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Vanishing Landmarks of Georgia: Gristmills & Covered Bridges
by:
Joseph Kovarik
4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings 
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