Best Urban Planning Projects - April 2024

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Everywhere acknowledged as a modern American classic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, The Power Broker is a huge and galvanizing biography revealing not only the saga of one man's incredible accumulation of power, but the story of the shaping (and mis-shaping) of New York in the twentieth century. Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York. And in telling the Moses story, C... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0394720245
• ASIN: 0394720245
• ISBN: 0394720245
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)

• ASIN: 0195019199
• ASIN: 0195019199
• ISBN: 0195019199
• Brand: Oxford University Press USA
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

Site Planning and Design Handbook, Second Edition

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Essential site planning and design strategies, up-to-date with the latest sustainable development techniquesDiscover how to incorporate sound environmental considerations into traditional site design processes. Written by a licensed landscape architect with more than 20 years of professional experience, this authoritative guide combines established approaches to site planning with sustainable practices and i... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0071605584
• ASIN: 0071605584
• ISBN: 0071605584
• Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Education

The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre!

This comprehensive guide to homesteading provides all the information you need to grow and preserve a sustainable harvest of grains and vegetables; raise animals for meat, eggs, and dairy; and keep honey bees for your sweeter days. With easy-to-follow instructions on canning, drying, and pickling, you’ll enjoy your backyard bounty all winter long.

• ASIN: 1603421386
• UPC: 037038421385
• ASIN: 1603421386
• ISBN: 1603421386
• Brand: Storey Publishing, LLC
• Manufacturer: Storey Publishing, LLC

Project Planning, Scheduling, and Control: The Ultimate Hands-On Guide to Bringing Projects in On Time and On Budget , Fifth Edition

All you need to execute a project perfectly A new edition of the classic project management book is here, revised and updated with even more guidelines and real-world examples. This expanded fifth edition provides an applications-oriented understanding of the issues you must confront and important tips for passing the Project Management Professional exam. The standard guidebook in the Project Management field for over 20 years Project Planning Scheduling and Control now offers more strategies for dealing effectively with team members, clients, senior managers and other key stakeholders and is ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0071746528
• ASIN: 0071746528
• ISBN: 0071746528
• Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Education

Encyclopedia of Landscape Design: Planning, Building, and Planting Your Perfect Outdoor Space

Be inspired to imagine the garden of your dreams with this guide that will help you plan, build, and plant your perfect outdoor space.Whether you're aiming for a total redesign or targeting a specific area, Encyclopedia of Landscape Design offers fresh and achievable ideas for every gardener: grasp the fundamentals of landscape and garden design, find a style that's right for you, and create the structures and planting plans to bring your ideas to life. Produced by a team of award-winning horticultural experts, Encyclopedia of Landscape Design offers extensive design inspiration backed up with... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1465463852
• ASIN: 1465463852
• ISBN: 1465463852
• Manufacturer: DK

Sustainable Nation: Urban Design Patterns for the Future

PROSE Award Finalist 2019Association of American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly ExcellenceAs a follow up to his widely acclaimed Sustainable Urbanism, this new book from author Douglas Farr embraces the idea that the humanitarian, population, and climate crises are three facets of one interrelated human existential challenge, one with impossibly short deadlines. The vision of Sustainable Nation is to accelerate the pace of progress of human civilization to create an equitable and sustainable world. The core strategy of Sustainable Nation is the perfection of the design and gov... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0470537175
• ASIN: 0470537175
• ISBN: 0470537175
• Manufacturer: Wiley

Multifamily Housing Development Handbook (Development Handbook series)

Illustrated in full color, this authoritative resource explains best practices, techniques, and trends in multifamily housing developments.

• ASIN: 0874208696
• ASIN: 0874208696
• ISBN: 0874208696
• Manufacturer: Urban Land Institute

Never Built New York

New York City as it might have been: 200 years of visionary architectural plans for unbuilt subways, bridges, parks, airports, stadiums, streets, train stations and, of course, skyscrapersNever Built New York shows us the visionary architectural ideas of the city's greatest dreamers across two centuries of New York City history. Nearly 200 proposals spanning 200 years encompass bridges, skyscrapers, master plans, parks, transit schemes, amusements, airports, plans to fill in rivers and extend Manhattan, and much, much more. Included are alternate visions for Central Park, Columbus Circle, Linc... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1938922751
• ASIN: 1938922751
• ISBN: 1938922751
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Metropolis Books

How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

Buildings have often been studies whole in space, but never before have they been studied whole in time. How Buildings Learn is a masterful new synthesis that proposes that buildings adapt best when constantly refined and reshaped by their occupants, and that architects can mature from being artists of space to becoming artists of time.From the connected farmhouses of New England to I.M. Pei's Media Lab, from "satisficing" to "form follows funding," from the evolution of bungalows to the invention of Santa Fe Style, from Low Road military surplus buildings to a High Road English classic like C... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0140139966
• ASIN: 0140139966
• ISBN: 0140139966
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Frank Lloyd Wright Designs: The Sketches, Plans, and Drawings

The first major presentation in decades of the visionary drawings of the artist-architect and master designer. Frank Lloyd Wright was an architect of vast and unprecedented vision, whose work is not only still admired by the critics and carefully studied by historians but is also widely beloved. Comfortable spaces, humanly scaled, with extraordinary attention to detail-as seen in a range of architectural forms-are at the center of Wright’s enduring appeal. This vision and attention is nowhere more evident than in the drawings. It has been said that had Wright left us only drawings, and not h... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0847835707
• ASIN: 0847835707
• ISBN: 0847835707
• Manufacturer: Rizzoli

Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

"Timely and important, a delightful, insightful, irreverent work . . . Should be required reading." ―The Christian Science MonitorA Best Book of the Year according to Planetizen and the American Society of Landscape Architects Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability. Making downtown into a walkable, viable community is the essential fix for thetypical American city; it is eminently achievable and its benefits are manifold. Walk-able City―bursting with sharp observations and key insights into how u... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0865477728
• UPC: 884392975197
• ASIN: 0865477728
• ISBN: 0865477728
• Brand: North Point Press
• Manufacturer: North Point Press

The New Localism: How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism

The New Localism provides a roadmap for change that starts in the communities where most people live and work.In their new book, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious social, economic, and environmental challenges.Power is shifting in the world: downward from national governments and states to cities and metropolitan communities; horizontally from the public sector to networks of public, private and civic actors; and globally along circuits of capital, trade, and innovatio... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0815731647
• ASIN: 0815731647
• ISBN: 0815731647
• Manufacturer: Brookings Institution Press

Points and Lines: Diagrams and Projects for the City

Points + Lines: Diagrams and Projects for the City is a book of New York architect Stan Allen's writings and projects that propose new architectural strategies for the contemporary city. Organized in the form of a user's manual, it juxtaposes speculative texts outlining Allen's general principles with specific projects created by his office. The book's title refers to this interplay of practice and theory, evoking not only the points of activity and the paths of movement found in a contemporary city but also the points of speculation and lines of argument in theoretical discourse.Projects incl... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1568981554
• ASIN: 1568981554
• ISBN: 1568981554
• Manufacturer: Princeton Architectural Press

Design Unbound: Designing for Emergence in a White Water World (Infrastructures) (Volume 1)

Tools for navigating today's hyper-connected, rapidly changing, and radically contingent white water world.Design Unbound presents a new tool set for having agency in the twenty-first century, in what the authors characterize as a white water world―rapidly changing, hyperconnected, and radically contingent. These are the tools of a new kind of practice that is the offspring of complexity science, which gives us a new lens through which to view the world as entangled and emerging, and architecture, which is about designing contexts. In such a practice, design, unbound from its material thingn... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0262535793
• ASIN: 0262535793
• ISBN: 0262535793
• Manufacturer: The MIT Press

Factors Influencing Public Participation in Urban Planning Projects. A Case of Nairobi Central Ward - eBook

Project Report from the year 2015 in the subject Urban and Regional Planning, grade: 1, University of Nairobi (School of Continuing and Distance Education), course: Masters of Arts in Project Planning and Management (MAPPM), language:

• UPC: 544961122

Changing Spatial Elements in Chinese Socio-economic Five-year Plan: from Project Layout to Spatial Planning - eBook

As a legacy of the socialist state with central planning, Five-Year Planning (FYP) is very important in regulating socio-economic and spatial development even in post-reform China. This book tries to fill the research gap between

• UPC: 841101141

Making Best Use of Your Lihtc Dollars : A Planning Paper for State Policy Makers

This paper is intended to help state officials think about how to make strategic use of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC), which since the late 1980s has been the primary vehicle for building

• UPC: 53545768

Urban Planning in Europe : International Competition, National Systems and Planning Projects

Urban Planning in Europe: International Competition, National Systems, and Planning

• UPC: 102450878

Making Better Places : The Planning Project in the Twenty-First Century

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• UPC: 11020633

Framing Strategic Urban Projects: Learning from Current Experiences in European Urban Regions Paperback

9780415647885

• UPC: 21123569

Best Practices in Metropolitan Transportation Planning

9780815381037

• UPC: 143436865

Factors Influencing Public Participation in Urban Planning Projects. a Case of Nairobi Central Ward

Factors Influencing Public Participation in Urban Planning Projects. a Case of Nairobi Central

• UPC: 460650415

Urban Construction Project Management (McGraw-Hill Construction Series)

9780071544689

• UPC: 183998140

Urban Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization : Turning a Federal Program Into Local Projects

Urban Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization: Turning a Federal Program into Local Projects (Contributions in Ethnic

• UPC: 920096899