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This book is the latest book from the author, documents the United States' hidden crisis and shows how balanced transportation and natural resources preservation can make new urban development sustainable, as well as more efficient and more equitable.

Planetizen's Contemporary Debates in Urban Planning is a fascinating review of major topics and issues discussed in the field of urban planning, assembled by editors at Planetizen, the leading source of news and information for the planning and developmcommunity on the web. The book brings together...

The Routledge Handbook of Institutions and Planning in Action contains a selection of 25 chapters prepared by specialized international scholars of urban planning and urban studies focusing on the question of how institutional innovation occurs in practices of action. The contributors share expertise...

Conditions for travel have changed and are still changing the world – a world experiencing what John Urry calls the ‘mobility turn’. Since World War Two we have been moving faster and going further – a fact that has profoundly changed our way of experiencing both the world and ourselves. The...

In this pioneering study of contemporary Chinese urban form, Duanfang Lu provides an analysis of how Chinese society constructed itself through the making and remaking of its built environment. She shows that as China’s quest for modernity created a perpetual scarcity as both a social reality and...

This book describes many of the unique contributions of the Food & Fitness program including a number of early successes, drawing lessons from efforts to form and maintain partnerships, and from the strategies employed to create structural change in communities. This important study introduces...

Urban Complexity and Spatial Strategies develops important new relational and institutionalist approaches to policy analysis and planning, of relevance to all those with an interest in cities and urban areas. Well-illustrated chapters weave together conceptual development, experience and implications...

Written for gardeners by a gardener Gardener‘s Guide to the Perennial Blackberry Lily relates how to grow the leopard flower in the flower garden. From seed to division, learn how to propagate this wonderful perennial plant.

Learn how to attract, feed and care for wild birds. In this book by gardening expert Jeanne Grunert, you'll learn about planting trees, shrubs and flowers that naturally create a wild bird sanctuary in your yard. Jeanne also shares tips for choosing bird feeders for different species of birds,...

Regional equity as a field of scholarship, as an arena of policy change, and as a social movement has grown, diversified, and matured in important ways over the past decade. The fruits of that growth and development can be seen in recent federal and state policies, in the practices of many regional...

Lamb’s Ears is a tough, low maintenance plant suitable for the perennial rock garden.  In Gardener's Guide to Lamb’s Ears, the gardener will find all the information needed to grow Stachys byzantina. Written for gardeners by a gardener, Gardener's Guide to Lamb’s Ears relates how to...

Creeping phlox is a tough, low maintenance plant suitable for the perennial rock garden.  In Abe‘s Guide to the Perennial Creeping, the gardener will find all the information needed to grow it. Creeping phlox has many varieties available and you will find the most readily obtainable ones...

The classic turfgrass management handbook, updated with new developments in the field Fundamentals of Turfgrass Management is the bestselling guide with expert coverage of basic turfgrass science and all aspects of practical care. Now in its fifth edition, this industry favorite offers the...

The Deneen Family built a pond in their backyard. In this book, they share their experiences about how it progressed into a beautiful water garden and Koi pond.