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Urban/Urban Landscape (nonfiction)
1.
The Urban Mystique: Notes on California, Los Angeles, and Beyond
by:
Josh Stephens
4.82 avg rating β 11 ratings
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Cities for People
by:
Jan Gehl
4.35 avg rating β 2,335 ratings
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Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape
by:
Peter Reed
4.36 avg rating β 33 ratings
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Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture
by:
Justin McGuirk
4.26 avg rating β 426 ratings
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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
by:
James Howard Kunstler
4.05 avg rating β 4,483 ratings
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Ballpark: Baseball in the American City
by:
Paul Goldberger
4.31 avg rating β 852 ratings
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
by:
Jane Jacobs
4.29 avg rating β 19,192 ratings
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Thinking Architecture
by:
Peter Zumthor
4.24 avg rating β 3,498 ratings
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Housing a divided community
by:
Charles Edward Bainbridge Brett
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Sustainable Stormwater Management: A Landscape-Driven Approach to Planning and Design
by:
Thomas W. Liptan
4.25 avg rating β 8 ratings
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The Son of Saint Death
by:
Derek Weisman
4.50 avg rating β 4 ratings
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The World by Design: The Story of a Global Architecture Firm
by:
A. Eugene Kohn
4.34 avg rating β 35 ratings
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Neon Spectacular: Japan: A Photographic Documentary of the Japanese Neon Industry
by:
Kody Shafer
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 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 β 270 ratings
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Visions of Seaside: Foundation/Evolution/Imagination. Built and Unbuilt Architecture
by:
Dhiru A. Thadani
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Charles Correa: Citizen Charles
by:
Mustansir Dalvi
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Shaping the Postwar Landscape: New Profiles from the Pioneers of American Landscape Design Project
by:
Charles A Birnbaum
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Visions of Seaside: Foundation/Evolution/Imagination. Built and Unbuilt Architecture
by:
Dhiru A. Thadani
4.50 avg rating β 12 ratings
19.
Transforming the Common Place: Selections from Laurie Olin's Sketchbooks
by:
Laurie Olin
4.50 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Writings on Landscape, Culture, and Society
by:
Frederick Law Olmsted
3.93 avg rating β 14 ratings
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The Language of Towns & Cities: A Visual Dictionary
by:
Dhiru A. Thadani
4.46 avg rating β 26 ratings
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Bulldozer: Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape
by:
Francesca Russello Ammon
3.94 avg rating β 18 ratings
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Reflections on Seaside: Muses/Ideas/Influences
by:
Dhiru Thadani
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
24.
Design With Nature
by:
Ian L. McHarg
4.26 avg rating β 645 ratings
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From Meetinghouse to Megachurch: A Material and Cultural History
by:
Anne C. Loveland
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Space and Anti-Space: The Fabric of Place, City and Architecture
by:
Barbara Littenberg
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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On The Grid:A Plot of Land, an Average Neighborhood, and the Systems That Make Our World Work
by:
Scott Huler
3.76 avg rating β 326 ratings
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Charter of The New Urbanism
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Congress for the New Urbanism
3.94 avg rating β 51 ratings
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The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community
by:
Peter Katz
3.68 avg rating β 91 ratings
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Codifying New Urbanism: How To Reform Municipal Land Development Regulations
by:
Congress for the New Urbanism
3.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
31.
The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream
by:
Peter Calthorpe
4.03 avg rating β 109 ratings
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The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Our Homes
by:
Judith Flanders
3.82 avg rating β 720 ratings
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Enabling Better Places: Users' Guide to Zoning Reform
by:
Congress for the New Urbanism
4.50 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
by:
Annalee Newitz
3.78 avg rating β 7,116 ratings
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Context Sensitive Solutions in Designing Major Urban Thoroughfares for Walkable Communities
by:
Congress for the New Urbanism
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back
by:
Jane Holtz Kay
3.65 avg rating β 247 ratings
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Perfect City: An Urban Fixer's Global Search for Magic in the Modern Metropolis
by:
Joe Berridge
3.65 avg rating β 89 ratings
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2004 CNU Charter Awards Book
by:
Congress for the New Urbanism
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World
by:
Witold Rybczynski
3.73 avg rating β 426 ratings
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2002 CNU Charter Awards Book
by:
Congress for the New Urbanism
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Urgent Architecture: 40 Sustainable Housing Solutions for a Changing World
by:
Bridgette Meinhold
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 15 ratings
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Slums of the World: The face of urban poverty in the new millennium?
by:
Un-Habitat
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
41.
2005 CNU Charter Awards Book
by:
Congress for the New Urbanism
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
44.
The Planning Game: Lessons from Great Cities
by:
Alexander Garvin
3.65 avg rating β 20 ratings
44.
Urban Ecology: A Natural Way to Transform Kids, Parks, Cities, and the World
by:
Ken Leinbach
4.42 avg rating β 55 ratings
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2013 CNU Charter Awards Book
by:
Congress for the New Urbanism
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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The Landscape Urbanism Reader
by:
Charles Waldheim
3.80 avg rating β 143 ratings
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Urban Smellscapes
by:
Victoria Henshaw
4.38 avg rating β 8 ratings
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2007 CNU Charter Awards Book
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Congress for the New Urbanism
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Southeast Asian Houses: Embracing Urban Context
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Seo Ryeung Ju
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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2010 CNU Charter Awards Book
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Congress for the New Urbanism
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Seeing the Better City: How to Explore, Observe, and Improve Urban Space
by:
Charles R. Wolfe
3.74 avg rating β 27 ratings
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2017 CNU Charter Awards Book
by:
Congress for the New Urbanism
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Classβand What We Can Do About It
by:
Richard Florida
3.50 avg rating β 1,330 ratings
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2011 CNU Charter Awards Book
by:
Congress for the New Urbanism
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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City on the Verge: Atlanta and the Fight for America's Urban Future
by:
Mark Pendergrast
3.86 avg rating β 288 ratings
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2006 CNU Charter Awards Book
by:
Congress for the New Urbanism
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
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Janette Sadik-Khan
4.26 avg rating β 2,120 ratings
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2008 CNU Charter Awards Book
by:
Congress for the New Urbanism
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World
by:
Wade Graham
3.63 avg rating β 626 ratings
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2012 CNU Charter Awards Book
by:
Congress for the New Urbanism
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Street Smart: A Fifty-Year Mistake Set Right and the Great Urban Revival
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Samuel I. Schwartz
4.12 avg rating β 681 ratings
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2015 CNU Charter Awards Book
by:
Congress for the New Urbanism
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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The Inevitable City: The Resurgence of New Orleans and the Future of Urban America
by:
Scott Cowen
3.33 avg rating β 114 ratings
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2018 CNU Charter Awards Book
by:
Congress for the New Urbanism
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
by:
AndrΓ©s Duany
4.12 avg rating β 2,640 ratings
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Civilizing Downtown Highways: Putting New Urbanism to Work on California's Highways
by:
Sarah Pulleyblank
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence
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JΓΆrn Ahrens
3.18 avg rating β 17 ratings
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Windsor Forum on Design Education by Stephanie E Bothwell (2004-06-08)
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Stephanie E Bothwell;Andres M Duany;Peter J Hetzel;Steven W Hurtt;Dhiru A Thadani
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Cities: The First 6,000 Years
by:
Monica L. Smith
3.26 avg rating β 436 ratings
70.
Windsor Forum on Design Education
by:
Stephanie E Bothwell
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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How Cities Work
by:
James Gulliver Hancock
4.29 avg rating β 85 ratings
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Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet
by:
Michael R. Bloomberg
4.07 avg rating β 1,018 ratings
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Genius of Common Sense: Jane Jacobs and the Story of the Death and Life of Great American Cities
by:
Glenna Lang
4.01 avg rating β 71 ratings
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Hidden Cities: The Discovery and Loss of Ancient North American Civilization
by:
Roger G. Kennedy
3.88 avg rating β 48 ratings
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The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
by:
Roman Mars
4.03 avg rating β 7,319 ratings
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Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It
by:
Mindy Thompson Fullilove
4.06 avg rating β 314 ratings
78.
The Walkable City: From Haussmann's Boulevards to Jane Jacobs' Streets and Beyond
by:
Mary Soderstrom
3.47 avg rating β 62 ratings
79.
The Past and Future City: How Historic Preservation is Reviving America's Communities
by:
Stephanie Meeks
3.95 avg rating β 137 ratings
80.
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City
by:
Richard Sennett
4.02 avg rating β 922 ratings
81.
Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City
by:
Julia Wertz
4.33 avg rating β 1,437 ratings
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Habitats: Private Lives in the Big City
by:
Constance Rosenblum
3.57 avg rating β 28 ratings
83.
Imagineering Atlanta: The Politics of Place in the City of Dreams (Haymarket Series)
by:
Charles Rutheiser
3.85 avg rating β 26 ratings
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The Waters of Rome: Aqueducts, Fountains, and the Birth of the Baroque City
by:
Katherine Wentworth Rinne
4.69 avg rating β 13 ratings
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Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
by:
Jeff Speck
4.32 avg rating β 8,338 ratings
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City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World
by:
Catie Marron
3.72 avg rating β 90 ratings
87.
Science and the City: The Mechanics Behind the Metropolis
by:
Laurie Winkless
3.74 avg rating β 293 ratings
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Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers
by:
Stephen Graham
4.08 avg rating β 149 ratings
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Historic Preservation: Caring for Our Expanding Legacy
by:
Michael A. Tomlan
3.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
90.
Science and Technology in Historic Preservation
by:
Ray A. Williamson
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
91.
Rebuilding Earth: Designing Ecoconscious Habitats for Humans
by:
Teresa Coady
3.96 avg rating β 51 ratings
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Adapt: How Humans Are Tapping into Nature's Secrets to Design and Build a Better Future
by:
Amina Khan
3.99 avg rating β 103 ratings
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Anasazi Architecture and American Design
by:
Baker H. Morrow
3.23 avg rating β 13 ratings
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Grave Landscapes: The Nineteenth-Century Rural Cemetery Movement
by:
James R. Cothran
4.33 avg rating β 12 ratings