Urban category: 4425 books
by Danielle Allen
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
So tender yet courageous is this fierce family memoir that it makes mass incarceration nothing less than a new American tragedy.
In a shattering work that shifts between a woman’s private anguish over the loss of her beloved baby cousin and a scholar’s fierce critique of the American prison...
Ghost Cities of China
The Story of Cities without People in the World's Most Populated Country
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Featuring everything from sports stadiums to shopping malls, hundreds of new cities in China stand empty, with hundreds more set to be built by 2030. Between now and then, the country's urban population will leap to over one billion, as the central government kicks its urbanization initiative into...
City of Scoundrels
The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
The masterfully told story of twelve volatile days in the life of Chicago, when an aviation disaster, a race riot, a crippling transit strike, and a sensational child murder transfixed and roiled a city already on the brink of collapse.
When 1919 began, the city of Chicago seemed on the verge...
Refinery Town
Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
The People vs. Big Oil—how a working-class company town harnessed the power of local politics to reclaim their community
Home to one of the largest oil refineries in the state, Richmond, California, was once a typical company town, dominated by Chevron. This largely nonwhite, working-class...
by Jane Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Thirty years after its publication, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning....[It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions...
London
A History
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In its two thousand years of history, London has ruled a rainy island and a globe-spanning empire, it has endured plague and fire and bombing, it has nurtured and destroyed poets and kings, revolutionaries and financiers, geniuses and visionaries of every stripe. To distill the magic and the majesty...
Eyes on the Street
The Life of Jane Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence can still be felt in any discussion of urban planning to this day.
Eyes on the Street is a revelation of the phenomenal woman who raised three children, wrote seven groundbreaking...
St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street
The Many Lives of America’s Hippest Street
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
A vibrant narrative history of three hallowed Manhattan blocks—the epicenter of American cool.
St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O’Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation...
Maker City
A Practical Guide for Reinventing American Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
The Maker City Playbook is a comprehensive case studies and how-to information useful for city leaders, civic innovators, nonprofits, and others engaged in urban economic development. The Maker City Playbook is committed to going beyond stories to find patterns and discern promising practices to help...
The Mirage Factory
Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
From bestselling author Gary Krist, the story of the metropolis that never should have been and the visionaries who dreamed it into reality
Little more than a century ago, the southern coast of California—bone-dry, harbor-less, isolated by deserts and mountain ranges—seemed destined to remain...
Unruly Places
Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
A tour of the world’s hidden geographies—from disappearing islands to forbidden deserts—and a stunning testament to how mysterious the world remains today
At a time when Google Maps Street View can take you on a virtual tour of Yosemite’s remotest trails and cell phones double as navigational...
by Yusuf Shahid; Nabeshima Kaoru
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Beijing and Shanghai comprise the axes of China's two leading urban regions. Their economic fortunes will affect the overall growth of China. The economic composition of the two megacities differs significantly and the future sources of competitive advantage also lie in different areas although there...
by Jay Walljasper and Project for Public Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Abandoned lots and litter-strewn pathways or rows of green beans and pockets of wildflowers? Graffiti-marked walls and desolate bus stops or shady refuges and comfortable seating? What transforms a dingy inhospitable area into a dynamic gathering place? How do individuals take back their neighborhood?Neighborhoods...
Masters of Craft
Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
How educated and culturally savvy young people are transforming traditionally low-status manual labor jobs into elite taste-making occupations
In today’s new economy—in which “good” jobs are typically knowledge or technology based—many well-educated and culturally savvy young men...