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Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville: Real Estate Development in America from George Washington to the Builders of the Twenty-First Century and Why We Live in Houses Anyway

by Witold Rybczyński

In Last Harvest , the award-winning author of Home and A Clearing in the Distance tells the compelling story of New Daleville, a brand-new residential subdivision in rural Pennsylvania. When Witold Rybczynski first heard about New Daleville, it was only a developer's idea, attached to... (learn more about this book)

Village Homes: A Community By Design (Case Studies Land Community Design)

by Mark Francis

The Village Homes neighborhood in Davis, California is one of the few long-standing examples of sustainable community design. Mark Francis has been studying Village Homes for more than two decades and brings together existing research and writing on the community, studies about the children of... (learn more about this book)

Mussolini's Rome: Rebuilding the Eternal City (Italian & Italian American Studies)

by Borden W. Painter

An eye-opening look at the architectural mark fascism left on one of the world's most beloved cities R ome was Mussolini's obsession. After coming to power as a result of his famed march on the city in 1922, he promised Italians that his fascist revolution would unite them as never before and... (learn more about this book)

Views of Seaside: City of Ideas

by Seaside Institute

Seaside, Florida, is a town designed as an "ideal" community, where houses have front porches and verandas, picket fences, sleeping porches, where streets are carved and paved with brick, and sidewalks are made of pebbles and seashells. This resort town on Florida’s panhandle coast has had an... (learn more about this book)

Cities and Urban Life (4th Edition)

by John J. Macionis

Cities and Urban Life, authored by two of the best-known textbook writers in the field, provides a comprehensive introduction to urban sociology, urban anthropology, and urban studies courses. Primarily sociological in approach, this book incorporates historical, social psychological,... (learn more about this book)

Seaside: Making a Town in America

Seaside provides a history of the town, interviews with its planners, zoning and building codes, and drawings, photographs, and descriptions of over 120 buildings by 40 architects.

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Story and Sustainability: Planning, Practice, and Possibility for American Cities

Story and Sustainability explores the role of story in planning theory and practice, with the goal of creating U.S. cities able to balance competing claims for economic growth, environmental health, and social justice. In the book, urban practitioners and scholars from fields as diverse as... (learn more about this book)

New Haiti villages : Steven Holl Architects, Guy Nordenson and Associates, Matthias Schuler, Transsolar, Jean Henock Beauchamps & Araby Smyth

by Steven Holl

This project has been generously supported by Capital Partners. After the devastating earthquake in Haiti, on January 12, 2010, Steven Holl had the idea of devoting the next Pamphlet Architecture book to solutions for rebuilding the architecture and infrastructure of the country. Going back to... (learn more about this book)

J.C. Nichols and the Shaping of Kansas City: Innovation in Planned Residential Communities

by William S. Worley

Chronicles the success of J.C. Nichols, the architect who changed the shape of Kansas City in the 1930s, and has influenced urban development throughout the USA. Nichols created the Country Club Plaza, an upscale mid-town shopping centre, and the surrounding urban community.

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Rosemary Beach

by Richard Sexton

Designed by planning pioneers Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk--the same husband and wife team who rose to prominence for their design of Seaside--Rosemary Beach is a decidedly different community. Whereas Seaside evokes small-town America, Rosemary Beach evokes the ambiance of... (learn more about this book)