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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Urban builder Urban builder 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… OL2662005W
Robert Moses Robert Moses 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… OL27694567W
Planificación y política en Bogotá Planificación y política en Bogotá 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… OL36914221W
Wrestling with Moses Wrestling with Moses 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… OL5836872W
Lewis Mumford, a Life Lewis Mumford, a Life 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… OL869795W
Biopolis Biopolis 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… OL9161851W