Books, Arts & Photography, Architecture, Urban & Land Use Planning

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Jane Jacobs
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
by Vintage (Paperback) (Release Date: 1992-12-01)

A classic since its publication in 1961, this book is the defintive statement on American cities: what makes them safe, how they function, and why all too many official attempts at saving them have failed.

Francis D. K. Ching
Architecture : Space, Form and Order
by John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated (Paperback)

Christopher Alexander
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by Oxford University Press, USA (Hardcover)

Alain de Botton
The Architecture of Happiness
by Hamish Hamilton (Paperback)

John Ruskin proposed that every good building must do two things: it must shelter us, but it must also speak to us. In this beautiful book, Alain de Botton poses the following question: what do we want our buildings to talk about? Tackling the questions of architecture and interior design at a new and deserved level of philosophical depth, "The Architecture of Happiness" takes us on a riveting journey through Western and Eastern aesthetics. The issues surrounding the decoration of our own homes touch on major questions at the heart of the philosophy of art - what is beautiful? Are beauty and goodness related? Can beauty bring happiness?

Kate Ascher
The Works: Anatomy of a City
by Penguin (Non-Classics) (Paperback)

Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
by North Point Press (Paperback)

A manifesto by America's most controversial and celebrated town planners, proposing an alternative model for community design.There is a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and to replace the automobile-based settlement patterns of the past fifty years with a return to more traditional planning principles. This movement stems not only from the realization that sprawl is ecologically and economically unsustainable but also from a growing awareness of sprawl's many victims: children, utterly dependent on parental transportation if they wish to escape the cul-de-sac; the elderly, warehoused in institutions once they lose their driver's licenses; the middle class, stuck in traffic for two or more hours each day.Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are at the forefront of this movement, and in Suburban Nation they assess sprawl's costs to society, be they ecological, economic, aesthetic, or social. It is ...

Kevin Lynch
The Image of the City
by The MIT Press (Paperback)

What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion--imageability--and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.

Rem Koolhaas
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
by Monacelli (Paperback) (Release Date: 1997-12-01)

Princeton Arch Staff
Peter Zumthor Thinking Architec*OP*
by Lars Muller (Hardcover)

The creative act in which a work of architecture comes into being is beyond all historical and technical knowledge. Its focus is on the dialogue with the issues of the time. At the moment of its creation, architecture is bound to the present in a very special way. It reflects the spirit of its inventor and gives its own answers to the questions of the time through its user-oriented form and appearance, its relationship with other works of architecture, and its association with the place where it stands.

Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau, Hans Werlemann
S M L XL: Second Edition
by Monacelli Press (Hardcover)

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