Jacobs has been working on this classic -- there's no other word for it -- for a decade. Jacobs rightly believes that good cities...
Bicycling in cities is booming, for many reasons: health and environmental benefits, time and cost savings, more and better bike...
Urban sidewalks, critical but undervalued public spaces, have been sites for political demonstrations and urban greening, promenades...
Big Plans: The Allure and Folly of Urban Design springs from the idea that human aspirations for the city tend to overstate the...
The future of humanity is urban, and the nature of urban space enables, and necessitates, sharing - of resources, goods and services,...
Over the past hundred years of urbanization and suburbanization, four key themes have shaped urban and regional planning in both...
In distressed urban neighborhoods where residential segregation concentrates poverty, liquor stores outnumber supermarkets, toxic...
Divided into three sections, this edition of Urban Land Use Planning deftly balances an authoritative, up-to-date discussion of...
The message of Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development is clear: livelihoods approaches are an essential lens on questions...
Every day, millions of people enter old buildings, pass monuments, and gaze at landscapes unaware that these acts are possible...
The United States has evolved into a nation of twenty densely populated mega regions.Yet despite the environmental advantages...
In The New Science of Cities, Michael Batty suggests that to understand cities we must view them not simply as places in space...
Over the last several thousand years of human life on Earth, agricultural settlements became urban cores, and these regional settlements...
The Metropolitans holdings of late 17th- and 18th-century French decorative arts, unrivaled outside Europe, are on display in...
One of the most visible consequences of our society's breakneck level of production and consumption is the increasing amount of...
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