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The Death and Life Of Great American Cities

The Death and Life Of Great American Cities

by Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs was born on May 4, 1916, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Her father was a physician and her mother taught school and worked as a nurse. After high school and a year spent as a reporter on the Scranton Tribune, Jacobs went to New York, where she found a succession of jobs as a stenographer and wrote free-lance articles about the city's many working districts, which fascinated her. In 1952, after a number of writing and editing jobs ranging in subject matter from metallurgy to a geography of the... Read more about this item
City Of Quartz

City Of Quartz

by Mike Davis

Mike Davis is the author of several books including Planet of Slums, City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Late Victorian Holocausts, and Magical Urbanism. He was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. He lives in Papa’aloa, Hawaii.
City In History, The

City In History, The

by Lewis Mumford

The city’s development from ancient times to the modern age. Winner of the National Book Award. “One of the major works of scholarship of the twentieth century” (Christian Science Monitor). Index; illustrations.
The Economy Of Cities

The Economy Of Cities

by Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs was the legendary author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, a work that has never gone out of print and that has transformed the disciplines of urban planning and city architecture. Her other major works include The Economy of Cities, Systems of Survival, The Nature of Economies and Dark Age Ahead. She died in 2006.
The Urban Experience

The Urban Experience

by David Harvey

Abridged version of: The urbanization of capital and Consciousness and the urban experience. 1985.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [279]-285.
The Image Of the City

The Image Of the City

by Kevin Lynch

Design With Nature

Design With Nature

by Ian L McHarg

Shadow Cities

Shadow Cities

by Robert Neuwirth

The Elusive City

The Elusive City

by Jonathan Barnett

Town and Country

Town and Country

by Mr Mark Girouard

East European Modernism

East European Modernism

by Wojciech; Slapeta, Vladimir; Bonta, Janos; MacSai, John; Czerner, Olgierd Lesnikowski

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

by Frank Lloyd; Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks Wright

Wheel Estate

Wheel Estate

by Allan D Wallis

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The City

by Max Weber

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Design and Cultural Politics In Postwar Britain

by Patrick J and Woodham, Jonathan M Maguire

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Design and Cultural Politics In Postwar Britain

by Patrick Joseph Maguire; Jonathan M Woodham

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A Reader In Planning Theory

by Andreas Faludi

Urban Studies Books & Ephemera

The Death and Life Of Great American Cities

The Death and Life Of Great American Cities

by Jacobs, Jane

Jane Jacobs was born on May 4, 1916, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Her father was a physician and her mother taught school and worked as a nurse. After high school and a year spent as a reporter on the Scranton Tribune, Jacobs went to New York, where she found a succession of jobs as a stenographer and wrote free-lance articles about the city's many working districts, which fascinated her. In 1952, after a number of writing and editing jobs ranging in subject matter from metallurgy to a geography of the... Read more about this item
The Urban Experience

The Urban Experience

by Harvey, David

Abridged version of: The urbanization of capital and Consciousness and the urban experience. 1985.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [279]-285.
City Of Quartz

City Of Quartz

by Davis, Mike

Mike Davis is the author of several books including Planet of Slums, City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Late Victorian Holocausts, and Magical Urbanism. He was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. He lives in Papa’aloa, Hawaii.
The Elusive City

The Elusive City

by Barnett, Jonathan

Representation Of Places

Representation Of Places

by Bosselmann, Peter

Architectural Ornament

Architectural Ornament

by Brolin, Brent C

I M Pei

I M Pei

by Wiseman, Carter

Ando Architect

Ando Architect

by Matsuba, Kazukiyo

Venetian Villas

Venetian Villas

by Muraro, Michelangelo

East European Modernism

East European Modernism

by Lesnikowski, Wojciech; Slapeta, Vladimir; Bonta, Janos; MacSai, John; Czerner, Olgierd

Erich Mendelsohn

Erich Mendelsohn

by Stephan, Regina