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Urban builder
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James Smallwood |
A biography of a North Carolinian who came west in 1919 and built Oklahoma City into a city and continued for sixty years improving the state's urban landscape. Photo illustrated. 334 pages. Hardcov… |
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Robert Moses
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Pierre Christin |
From the subway to the skyscraper, from Manhattan's financial district to the Long Island suburbs, every inch of New York tells the story of one man's mind: Robert Moses, the architect who designed i… |
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Planificación y política en Bogotá
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Julio D. Dávila |
This is a biography of Jorge Gaitan Cortes, an architect and urban planner who was Bogota City Councillor in 1958-1961 and Mayor of Bogota in 1961-1966. His was the longest uninterrupted administrati… |
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Wrestling with Moses
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Anthony Flint |
To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. The activist, writer, and mother of three grew so fon… |
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Lewis Mumford, a Life
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Donald L. Miller |
A multitalented man of letters, Mumford is one of the ""last intellectuals,"" Russell Jacoby's term for that generation of independent writers and thinkers who once survived without a base in the uni… |
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Biopolis
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Volker M. Welter |
"The Scottish urbanist and biologist Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) is perhaps best known for introducing the concept of the "region" to architecture and planning. At the turn of the twentieth century, h… |
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