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Urban Planning

	A Better Way to Zone Ten Principles to Create More Livable Cities By: Donald L. Elliott Format: Paperback $62.90 Nearly all large American cities rely on zoning to regulate land use. According to Donald L. Elliott, however, zoning often discourages the very development that bigger cities need and want. In fact, Elliott thinks that zoning has become so complex that i... More information... , , /
	A Pattern Language Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) By: Witold Rybczynski Format: Hardcover From $33.90 "Brilliant....Here's how to design or redesign any space you're living or working in--from metropolis to room. Consider what you want to happen in the space, and then page through this book. Its radically conservative observations will spark, enhance, or... More information... , , /
	A Prayer for the City By: Witold Rybczynski Format: Hardcover From $33.90 Current Affairs/Urban Studies "An extraordinary book, an insider's account of the dailyworkings of a big-city administration."--Witold Rybczynski, The New York Review of BooksA Prayer for the City is Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Buzz Bissinger's true... More information... , , /
	Big Box Reuse By: Witold Rybczynski Format: Hardcover From $33.90 Winning entry, General Trade Cover/Jacket Category, in the 2009 New England Book Show sponsored by Bookbuilders of Boston., "Best of Category", General Trade Illustrated Books, in the 2009 New England Book Show sponsored by Bookbuilders of Boston. and Win... More information... , , /
	Building Communities from the Inside Out A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community's Assets By: Witold Rybczynski Format: Hardcover From $33.90 This guide summarizes lessons learned by studying successful community-building initiatives in hundreds of neighborhoods across the U.S. It outlines what local communities can do to start their own journies down the path of asset-based development. More information... , , /
	Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems Principles and Practices By: Witold Rybczynski Format: Hardcover From $33.90 Modern city dwellers are largely detached from the environmental effects of their daily lives. The sources of the water they drink, the food they eat, and the energy they consume are all but invisible, often coming from other continents, and their waste e... More information... , , /
	Cities for People By: Witold Rybczynski Format: Hardcover From $33.90 For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually useor could usethe spaces where they live and work. In this revolutionary book, Gehl presents his latest... More information... , , /
	Cities, Politics, and Policy A Comparative Analysis By: Witold Rybczynski Format: Hardcover From $33.90 Just because Milwaukee isn't Manhattan, doesn't mean that those urban centers face completely unique challenges. Through effective comparative analysis of key issues in urban studies--how city managers share power with mayors, how spending policies ... More information... , , /
	City of Quartz Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (New Edition) By: Witold Rybczynski Format: Hardcover From $33.90 This new edition of Mike Davis’s visionary work gives an update on Los Angeles as the city hits the 21st century.No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunl... More information... , , /
	Community Planning An Introduction To The Comprehensive Plan By: Witold Rybczynski Format: Hardcover From $33.90 Community Planning is an introductory textbook that provides a thorough examination of the comprehensive planning process as practiced in the United States today. The authors consider all aspects of the comprehensive plan: its elements, adoption, and impl... More information... , , /
	Contemporary Urban Planning (9th Edition) By: Witold Rybczynski Format: Hardcover From $33.90 Updated in a new 9th edition, Contemporary Urban Planning provides readers with in-depth coverage of the historic, economic, political, legal, and environmental factors affecting urban planning. With updated coverage of the Obama administration’s r... More information... , , /
	Creating a Life Together Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities By: Witold Rybczynski Format: Hardcover From $33.90 Creating a Life Together is the only resource available that provides step-by-step practical information distilled from numerous firsthand sources on how to establish an intentional community. It deals in depth with structural, interpersonal and leadershi... More information... , , /
	Designing Greenways Sustainable Landscapes for Nature and People By: Witold Rybczynski Format: Hardcover From $33.90 How are greenways designed? What situations leadto their genesis, and what examples best illustratetheir potential for enhancing communities and theenvironment? Designing greenways is a key to protectinglandscapes, allowing wildlife to move freely,and f... More information... , , /
	Drosscape Wasting Land in Urban America By: Witold Rybczynski Format: Hardcover From $33.90 Do you really know what is under that new house you just bought? How about what lies beneath the neighborhood playground? Was that "big box" retailer down your street built atop a toxic site? Will the warehouse just beyond your backyard be converted into ... More information... , , /
	EcoCities Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature By: Witold Rybczynski Format: Hardcover From $33.90 Most of the world’s population now lives in cities. So if we are to address the problems of environmental deterioration and peak oil adequately, the city has to be a major focus of attention. Ecocities is about re-building cities and towns based on ecol... More information... , , /

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