Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Digital drawing for designers Digital drawing for designers Douglas R. Seidler "Created specifically to help designers master AutoCAD, "Digital Drawing for Designers 2014" is neither overly simplistic nor excessively technical, and teaches by relating to what architects and int… OL15425418W
Sustainable transportation planning Sustainable transportation planning Jeffrey Tumlin "As transportations-related disciplines of urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture, urban economics, and social policy have undergone major internal reform efforts in recent decades Writ… OL15946839W
Retrofitting suburbia Retrofitting suburbia Ellen Dunham-Jones "While there has been considerable attention by practitioners and academics to development in urban cores and new neighborhoods on the periphery of cities, there has been little attention to the rede… OL15988823W
Detroit City is the place to be Detroit City is the place to be Mark Binelli "The fall and maybe rise of Detroit, America's most epic urban failure, from local native and Rolling Stone reporter Mark BinelliOnce America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greates… OL16627040W
SynergiCity SynergiCity Paul J. Armstrong,Paul Hardin Kapp "SynergiCity: Reinventing the Postindustrial City proposes a new and invigorating vision of urbanism, architectural design, and urban revitalization in twenty-first-century America. Culling transform… OL16688801W
Twenty minutes in Manhattan Twenty minutes in Manhattan Michael Sorkin ""This is the most brilliant epitome of Manhattan ever written." --Mike Davis Every morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks from his apartment in Greenwich Village to his office in Tr… OL16726854W
Crime and planning Crime and planning Derek J. Paulsen "Presenting the first comprehensive discussion of the interconnections between urban planning, criminal victimization, and crime prevention, this book aims to provide planners with the tools and know… OL17731471W
The well-tempered city The well-tempered city Jonathan F. P. Rose In the vein of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Edward Glaeser's Triumph of the City, Jonathan F.P. Rose--a visionary in urban development and renewal--champions the role… OL20040996W
Designing Our Way to a Better World Designing Our Way to a Better World Thomas Fisher "Envisioning what we need, when it doesn't yet exist: this, Thomas Fisher tells us, is what design does. And if what we need now is a better world--functioning schools, working infrastructure, thrivi… OL20241478W
The High Cost of Free Parking The High Cost of Free Parking Donald Shoup The High Cost of Free Parking is an urban planning book by UCLA professor Donald Shoup dealing with the costs of free parking on society. It is structured as a criticism of the planning and regulatio… OL22070678W