Best Urban Planning Documentaries - April 2024

Kirk Whalum: The Gospel According to Jazz, Chapter IV

• ASIN: B01DQ5O0FG
• ASIN: B01DQ5O0FG

The Devil in the White City: A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair that Changed America

• ASIN: B000FC0ZIA
• ASIN: B000FC0ZIA
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Molandra Products got Urbanity? - White 20oz Stainless Steel Water Bottle with Carabiner

When you are feeling saucy and you need something to say it without saying it, grab this water bottle and fill it with your favorite liquid. It should be alcohol but if that is not your fancy, do as you please.

• ASIN: B0741MHG73
• ASIN: B0741MHG73
• Brand: Molandra Products
• Manufacturer: Molandra Products

got urbanity? - White 14oz Ceramic Statesman Coffee Mug Cup

When you are feeling saucy and you need something to say it without saying it, grab this mug and fill it with your favorite liquid. It should be alcohol but if that is not your fancy, do as you please.

• ASIN: B0742RFW51
• ASIN: B0742RFW51
• Brand: Molandra Products
• Size: 14 ounce
• Manufacturer: Molandra Products

One Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in Italy (Rizzoli Classics)

The perfect guide for those who can't resist succumbing to Italy's charms again and again, now in a popular pocket-sized format. Who hasn't dreamt of being whisked away to a sweet little Italian town buried deep in the countryside? The small towns sprinkled throughout this expansive book are not only rich with beauty but also saturated with as much historical and cultural importance as their sister cities. The fact that they are "off the beaten path"-though sometimes extraordinarily famous for their art, food, and wine, or simply their setting-makes them rare gems even more desirable to see. T... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0847842940
• ASIN: 0847842940
• ISBN: 9780847842940
• Brand: Rizzoli International Publications
• Manufacturer: Rizzoli

The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy

• ASIN: 1250125146
• ASIN: 1250125146
• ISBN: 1250125146
• Manufacturer: Metropolitan Books

Paris: A Journey Through Time

How would Paris look if images from its glorious past were placed side-by-side with photographs of the city today? In Paris: A Journey Through Time, Leonard Pitt does just this.With a stunning array of archival and contemporary photos he peels away the many layers of old Paris to document the city's transformation with events such as the demolition of a section of rue Beaubourg in 1975 and its eventual reconstruction into modern condos and a shopping center, or the narrow cobblestoned rue du Four becoming the wide, paved street we know today bustling with automobiles and bicycles. Along with t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1582436223
• ASIN: 1582436223
• ISBN: 1582436223
• Brand: Brand: Counterpoint
• Manufacturer: Counterpoint

Permanent Error

The most recent publication from the award-winning photographer Pieter Hugo reveals the devastating consequences of toxic waste on one community in Africa. In his previous well-received volumes of photographs, Hugo offers unflinching yet striking portraits of humans, animals, societies, and landscapes that shock and disturb, but also demand our attention. In Permanent Error, he documents a garbage dump in Ghana that has become the repository for discarded computers from around the world. These haunting images document the true cost of a misguided policy-the shipping of millions of tons of obso... [Read More]

• ASIN: 3791345206
• ASIN: 3791345206
• ISBN: 3791345206
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Prestel

got urbanity? - White 15oz Ceramic Coffee Mug Cup

When you are feeling saucy and you need something to say it without saying it, grab this mug and fill it with your favorite liquid. It should be alcohol but if that is not your fancy, do as you please.

• ASIN: B074278BHF
• ASIN: B074278BHF
• Brand: Molandra Products
• Size: 15 ounce
• Manufacturer: Molandra Products

Designing Healthy Communities

• ASIN: 1118033663
• ASIN: 1118033663
• ISBN: 1118033663
• Brand: Brand: Jossey-Bass
• Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass

Memory Remains: 9/11 Artifacts at Hangar 17

This large landscape-format book, exquisitely designed and produced, features the remarkable photography created by Spanish artist Francesc Torres, who was granted special access to visit JFK International Airport's Hangar 17 after it became the repository for all significant non-human materials salvaged from the site of the World Trade Center after the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. With his lifelong interest in questions of human memory and meaning, Torres creates photographs that turn twisted steel or smashed ambulances into objects of contemplation and wonder. Accompanying his chi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1426208332
• ASIN: 1426208332
• ISBN: 1426208332
• Brand: Brand: National Geographic
• Manufacturer: National Geographic

Helvetica: Homage to a Typeface

Helvetica is a sans-serif typeface. It is simple and clean, and commonly seen in advertising, signage, and literature. The R has a curved leg, and the i and j have square dots. The Q has a straight angled tail, and the counterforms inside the O, Q, and C are oval. It is an all-purpose type design that can deliver practically any message clearly and efficiently. It is one of the most popular typefaces of all time. Helvetica: Homage to a Typeface presents 400 examples of Helvetica in action, selected from two diametrically opposed worlds. Superb applications by renowned designers are juxtaposed ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 3037780460
• ASIN: 3037780460
• ISBN: 3037780460
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Lars Muller

Frank Thiel: A Berlin Decade 1995-2005

Frank Thiel's photographs are unique reflections upon the urban landscape of Berlin, that twentieth-century patchwork of architecture and intellect. Thiel, born in 1966 in Kleinmachnow, near Berlin, describes a type of architecture in transition, the formation of a new political space within urban structures, but his real subject matter is the incomplete: he prefers the process of construction over the end result, and persistently pursues the aesthetics of temporality and change. Thiel's photographs seem to refer to a larger narrative context, yet they also explore the relationship of photogra... [Read More]

• ASIN: 3775718648
• ASIN: 3775718648
• ISBN: 3775718648
• Brand: Brand: Hatje Cantz
• Manufacturer: Hatje Cantz

The Landmarks of New York: An Illustrated Record of the City's Historic Buildings

The Landmarks of New York is a definitive resource on the architectural history of the city, documenting and illustrating more than 1,100 buildings that have been accorded landmark status over the past forty years. Organized chronologically, the book presents a panorama of styles and building types -- simple colonial farmhouses, churches, Gilded Age mansions, and the great skyscrapers of the city skyline. Landmarks and Historic Districts are located in all five boroughs, and each has a distinctive character and history, which is recorded here. The book celebrates the fortieth anniversary of th... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1580931545
• ASIN: 1580931545
• ISBN: 1580931545
• Brand: Brand: The Monacelli Press
• Manufacturer: The Monacelli Press

Joel Sternfeld: Sweet Earth- Experimental Utopias in America

It is a dream we have all cherished at least fleetingly: the hope of finding a place in this world in which to live more simply, surrounded by beauty and like-minded people. Photographer Joel Sternfeld's new book Sweet Earth: Experimental Utopias in America explores the past and present of these idealized communities across the United States. Sternfeld's photographs highlight the land on which these foundations for bliss were built while the accompanying text lends insight into the people whose vision led to their creation. And the two have much in common. Like the would-be creators of these U... [Read More]

• ASIN: 3865211240
• ASIN: 3865211240
• ISBN: 3865211240
• Brand: Brand: Steidl
• Manufacturer: Steidl

Managing Urban Expansion in Mongolia : Best Practices in Scenario-Based Urban Planning

This book is a best practice in urban planning exercise and provides clear cost and benefit implication of three different development paths in seven sectors for policy makers and citizens of Ulaanbaatar to improve their

• UPC: 13724079

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

Best Practices in Metropolitan Transportation Planning

9780815381037

• UPC: 143436865

Planning for Coastal Resilience : Best Practices for Calamitous Times

In this timely book, Tim Beatley argues that, in the face of such threats, all future coastal planning and management must reflect a commitment to the concept of resilience.  Resilience, Beatley explains, is a profoundly

• UPC: 10886879

Planning Support Systems Best Practice and New Methods

Taking as its subject the particular set of geo-information technologies known as Planning Support Systems (PSS), this text focuses on their practical application. It sets out both best practice and new methods for creating the

• UPC: 664217373

The New Transit Town : Best Practices In Transit-Oriented Development

9781559631174

• UPC: 52923131

Hazard Mitigation : Integrating Best Practices Into Planning

Every year, communities face natural hazards--floods, wildfires, landslides, earthquakes--that can cause millions of dollars in property damage. Development patterns of the past that ignored the risks of building on vulnerable sites such as floodplains and

• UPC: 14900465

Sustaining Places : Best Practices for Comprehensive Plans

Sustaining Places: Best Practices for Comprehensive Plans offers six principles for creating livable, healthy communities in harmony with nature--communities that have resilient economies, social equity, and strong regional ties. Four steps show how to turn

• UPC: 44779258

Sustainable Program Management

9781466575165

• UPC: 21599281