City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Radical Technologies
The Design of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
A field manual to the technologies that are transforming our lives
Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider...
The Next Hundred Million
America in 2050
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
Visionary social thinker Joel Kotkin looks ahead to America in 2050, revealing how the addition of one hundred million Americans by midcentury will transform how we all live, work, and prosper.
In stark contrast to the rest of the world's advanced nations, the United States is growing at a...
Multiply/Divide
On the American Real and Surreal
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
I have never been particularly interested in slavery, perhaps because it is such an obvious fact of my family's history. The fact that I am descended from slaves is hard to acknowledge on a day-to-day basis, because slavery does not fit with my self-image. Perhaps this is because I am pretty certain...
Home Truths
Confronting New Zealand’s Housing Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
The poor standard of current housing, and the inability of too many people on low incomes to access decent housing, is causing a cascade of problems that are avoidable.Housing affordability. Unhealthy homes. Wealth inequality. Environmental sustainability. Social mobility. The state of New Zealand...
by Jody Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Moving can be overwhelming, but with patience, organization and a good sense of humor, it can be accomplished without the loss of hair or sanity (assuming you had those things to start with). This guide will help you with issues such as determining which items you will be taking, how to pack or if a professional mover is needed. It's your best investment for saving time and money.
Move: How to Rebuild and Reinvent America's Infrastructure
Putting America’s Infrastructure Back in the Lead
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Americans are stuck.
Americans are stuck.
We live with travel delays on congested roads, shipping delays on clogged railways, and delays on repairs and project approvals due to gridlocked leadership. And when we can’t move, when goods are delayed, and when information networks can’t...
Four Walls and a Roof
The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Architects, we like to believe, shape the world as they please. Reinier de Graaf draws on his own tragicomic experiences to present a candid account of what it is really like to work as an architect. To achieve anything, he notes, architects must serve the powers they strive to critique, finding themselves in a perpetual conflict of interest.
by Miles Carter
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
When you find out that you need to move from one home to another, you probably started searching the internet to find out how much the move will cost. This requires that you provide some information online to receive quotes from moving companies. Then the game of phone tag begins. From my experience,...
by Michael Gecan
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
A longtime community organizer outlines a way to reverse the fifty-year decline in social mobility and economic progress.
Classics of International Relations
Essays in Criticism and Appreciation
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Classics of International Relations introduces, contextualises and assesses 24 of the most important works on international relations of the last 100 years. Providing an indispensable guide for all students of IR theory, from advanced undergraduates to academic specialists, it asks why are these works...
Enough
Our Fight to Keep America Safe from Gun Violence
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, share their impassioned argument for responsible gun ownership.
After the 2011 Tucson shooting that nearly took her life, basic questions consumed Gabby Giffords and her family: Would Gabby survive the bullet through...
by C. Eugene Steuerle
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
C. Eugene Steuerle, one of the country's most influential economists, offers an insider's look at tax policy based on a quarter century of working with officials of all political stripes. Steuerle outlines the principles of taxation and the early postwar period before proceeding to the tax policy...
The Plurality of Power
An Archaeology of Industrial Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
How do people experience power within capitalist societies? Research presented here explicitly addresses the notion of pluralistic power, which encompasses both productive and oppressive forms of power and acknowledges that nuanced and multifaceted power relations can exist in combination with binary...
Internal Improvement
National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2002
When the people of British North America threw off their colonial bonds, they sought more than freedom from bad government: most of the founding generation also desired the freedom to create and enjoy good, popular, responsive government. This book traces the central issue on which early Americans...