Anatomy of a Park: The Essentials of Recreation Area Planning and Design
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Square 8vo. About 100 black and white Illustrations, including Plans.
Urban Planning
Restored America: A Tour Guide to the Preserved Towns, Villages and Historic City Districts of the United States and Canada
New York: American Legacy Press, 1984. Hardcover. 8vo., 384 pp. Illustrated with drawings and maps.
Learning from Bryant Park: Revitalizing Cities, Towns and Public Spaces
New Brunswick and London: Rutgers Univ Press, 2020. Hardcover. 8vo., 293 pp.
The Struggle for Modernism: Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning at Harvard
New York: W.W. Norton, 2002. Hardcover. 311 pp., a few color plates, numerous black and whiteÊ illustrations, appendix, credits, index. Tells the unique history of modernism as reflected in the teaching of architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Tracing developments at the GSD.....
The Very Hungry City: Urban Energy Efficiency and the Economic Fate of Cities
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012. Hardcover. 8vo., 366 pp. Signed and inscribed by the author.
New York City in Crisis: Prepared By the New York Herald Tribune Staff Under the Direction of Barry Gottehrer
New York: Pocket, 1965. Softcover. 8vo., 212 pp. Appendix. Rewritten and reorganized with additional material from a series which appeared in the New York Herald Tribune. Investigative reportage by the editors of the Tribune to discover what was wrong with NYC, to find out just how things went wrong and.....
The Emergence of Metropolitan America 1915-1966
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1968. Hardcover. 8vo., 311 pp. A suggestive historical analysis of Metropolitan America during the last half century. Photo illustrated.
Philadelphia Neighborhoods, Division and Conflict in a Postindustrial City [Comparative American Cities]
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993. Softcover. 8vo., 224 pp. Illustrated with maps, tables and graphs.
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Park Plaza [Boston] Planning Report
Boston: City of Boston, 1975. Softcover. Interim Report of the [Boston] Park Plaza Civic Advisory Committee.
A New Jersey Anthology
Newark: New Jersey Historical Society, 1994. Softcover. 8vo., Eighteen illustrations. Contains seventeen essays covering eighteenth-century agrarian unrest, the Revolutionary War, politics in the Jackson era, feminism and the women's movements, slavery from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, strikes and labor struggles, land use and regional planning issues, Blacks in.....
Urban Planning My Way
Chicago: American Planning Association Press, 2004. Hardcover. 8vo. 301 pp. Wallace vividly recounts in his memoir his illustrious urban planning and design careerÑone that spanned more than five decades. He reveals the inside story of how large-scale urban development projects succeed and traces the creation of his pioneering planning and.....
New Energy from Old Buildings
Washington, D.C. Preservation Press, 1981. Softcover. 8vo., 207 pp. Illustrated with diagrams and black and white photos.
Envisioning the City: Six Studies in Urban Cartography [The Kenneth Nebenzahl Jr. Lectures in the History of Cartography]
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Hardcover. Small 4to., 181 pp. Index, Notes, Illustrations. Expresses perceptions of cities on plans.
Frontiers of Planned Unit Development: A Synthesis of Expert Opinion
New Brunswick: Rutgers Center for Urban Policy, 1975. Hardcover. 8vo., 329 pp. Appendix.
Sources of Metropolitan Growth
New Brunswick: Rutgers University, 1992. Hardcover. 8vo., 307 pp. Rutgers University Center for Urban Policy Research.
The Renaissance City
Braziller: Braziller, 1970. Hardcover. 8vo., 128 pp. With illustrations, maps and plans. From the Planning and Cities Series.
The Concise Townscape
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1961. Softcover. 8vo., 199 pp. Trade paperback. Black and white photos throughout.
City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States
London and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. Softcover. 8vo., 267 pp. Second printing. Notes, Index.
Cities and the Wealth of Nations
New York: Random House, 1984. Hardcover. 8vo., 257 pp. Includes bibliographical references and index. Jacobs answers countless questions about the economic functions, powers, and limitations of cities, ultimately maintaining that a nation's maintenance and change sits squarely on the shoulders of its cities. Drawing on global examples throughout history, Jacobs.....
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
New York: Random House, 1961. Hardcover. 8vo., 458 pp. Fourth print. Jacket design by Sam Marsh. A seminal critique of mid-century 'rationalist' planning by the writer and activist Jane Jacobs, who has come to be regarded as the patron saint of humanist urban planning and architectural preservation and for her.....
The Death and Life of Great American Cities: 50th Anniversary Edition
New York: Modern Library, 2011. Hardcover. 8vo., 598 pp. Decorated endpapers. Modern Library edition. Later print. 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......
Cleveland's Flats on Tour: A Self Gude to the Riverfront
Cleveland: History Associates, 1987. Softcover. 8vo., Cover with photograph of flats and back cover red with black map of the Cleveland Flats. Covers history of the flats, businesses [many gone], maps and bridges.
Montclair: The Preservation of Its Natural Beauty and Its Improvement as a Residence Town. Report of John Nolan Landscape Architect to the Municipal Art Commission and the Commission's Recommendations to the Citizens of Montclair
New York: Styles and Nash, 1909. Hardcover. Quarto. 102 pp. Illustrated with photographs of potential housing, buildings, playgrounds, parks, school grounds, trees, railroad stations, train tracks, streets, country roads, and more. Also contains two color plates of town landscape architectural renderings, several street plan figure drawings, and a tri-fold-out town.....
The Elusive City: Five Centuries of Design, Ambition and Miscalculation
New York: Harper and Row, 1986. Hardcover. 8vo., 212 pp. With 157 illustrations. Encapsulates 500 years of urban planning. Barnett, an urban designer, is skeptical about the possibility of successful urban design, given the matrix of powerful social and economic forces within which the profession must operate.
Urban Design as Public Policy: Practical Methods for Improving Cities
New York: Architecture Record/McGraw-Hill, 1974. Hardcover. 8vo., 200 pp. With black and white photos and illustrations throughout. Index.