Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Suburban Nation Suburban Nation Andres Duany,Jeff Speck,Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk Suburban Nation is a groundbreaking analysis of the detrimental ecological effects and societal costs of late 20th century automobile-based settlement patterns and policies OL16240716W
Vital little plans Vital little plans Will Self,Jane Jacobs,Samuel Zipp,Nathan Storring A survey of Jacobs's career in forty short pieces that have never been collected in a single volume: essays, articles, speeches, interviews, and lectures, covering her work in urban and economic plan… OL20040663W
The European urban charter The European urban charter Council of Europe Council of Europe. OL24650329W
Urban planning and cultural identity Urban planning and cultural identity William J. V. Neill Urban Planning and Cultural Identity reviews the intense spatiality of conflict over identity construction in three cities where culture and place identity are not just post-modernist playthings but … OL3001914W
Sprawl Sprawl Robert Bruegmann As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to ca… OL3274625W