(Paperback)
By: Jon Coaffee
ISBN: 9781137288820
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In the century of the city when crisis has become the new normal, planners are trying to find ways to make cities less vulnerable and to build in resilience. Drawing on international examples and detailed case-studies, this book examines the theory and practice of urban resilience in response to a range of disruptions.
(Hardback)
By: David C. Soule
ISBN: 9780313320385
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Comprehensive enough for high school students and also appropriate for undergraduate students, this book delves into the challenges of urban sprawl by looking to some of America's top thinkers on the matter, including Robert Yaro, the President of the Regional Plan Association.
(Hardback)
By: Donald C. Williams
ISBN: 9781576072257
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This even-handed survey of contemporary urban development in America examines how and why a growing number of citizens are concerned about urban sprawl.
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By: Phil Mcmanus
ISBN: 9780868407012
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2004
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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Introduces the largest Australian cities, their history and the planning ideas that have influenced their development. The notion of sustainable cities is seen as the latest in a long tradition of attempts to improve urban environments.
(Hardback)
By: Celina Su
ISBN: 9780691251318
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2026
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Peter Moskowitz
ISBN: 9781645030744
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2025
Publisher: Bold Type Books
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How to Kill a City takes readers on a journey to the front lines of the battle for the future of American cities, uncovering the massive, systemic forces behind gentrification in New Orleans, Detroit, San Francisco, and New York--and the lives that are altered in the process.
(Paperback)
By: Julian Bolleter
ISBN: 9781760803063
Publication Date: Aug 2025
Publisher: UWA Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Japonica Brown-Saracino
ISBN: 9780691244358
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2026
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback, 2nd edition)
By: Arnold Fleischmann
ISBN: 9781538197325
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A concise primer on urban politics and policy that highlights the ways in which politics and policies are shaped by the many different institutions, actors, and practices that exist in urban communities.
(Paperback)
By: Chris Fitch
ISBN: 9780008557195
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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(Hardback)
By: Chris Fitch
ISBN: 9780008557188
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 10th April 2025
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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(Hardback)
By: Mahyar Arefi
ISBN: 9781526174765
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Borrowing from Isaiah Berlin's foxes vs hedgehogs and Gregory Treverton's puzzle vs mystery solving analogies, this book encourages urban designers to be multitaskers like foxes, rather than hedgehogs who can do one thing right. Thinking this way allows them to better engage with and unravel the mysterious nature of informal urban design.
(Hardback)
By: Tracy Rosenthal
ISBN: 9798888902967
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
Publisher: Haymarket Books
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(Paperback)
By: Jill Bennett
ISBN: 9781742233352
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2014
Publisher: UNSW Press
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What happens when artists are asked the questions usually addressed to planners and administrators Here artists, architects, writers, designers and curators reimagine Sydneys relationship to its environment. They envisage a future where public art plays a vital role in Sydneys food, water, energy and waste management, and explore new collaborative and creative planning practices.
(Paperback)
By: Lezlie Lowe
ISBN: 9781552453704
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Coach House Books
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This book is Number One in addressing the politics of where we're allowed to go in public.
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By: Michael Buxton
ISBN: 9780643104723
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2016
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
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A book about past, present and future planning for the city of Melbourne.
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By: Richard E. Foglesong
ISBN: 9780691610610
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Starting with the colonial period, but focusing especially on the Progressive era, Richard Foglesong offers both a narrative account and a theoretical interpretation of urban planning in the United States. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-o
(Paperback)
By: Joel Kotkin
ISBN: 9781572842168
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Surrey Books,U.S.
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Internationally recognized urbanist Joel Kotkin challenges the conventional urban-planning wisdom that favors high-density, "pack-and-stack" strategies. Instead, Kotkin advocates for "smart suburbs" that take advantage of new technologies, family-friendly policies, and sustainable planning to build dynamic small cities, redeveloped neighborhoods, and a human-scale urban environment.
(Hardback)
By: Alex Schafran
ISBN: 9781526143365
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book is about how a new form of social contract, which we call the spatial contract, can help revitalize the economies of the basic things that matter - the core systems which build and provision the settlements human beings call home. -- .
(Paperback)
By: Paul Stouten
ISBN: 9789085940265
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2025
Publisher: Techne Press
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(Paperback)
By: Frank Eckhardt
ISBN: 9789085940371
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2025
Publisher: Techne Press
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(Paperback, 3rd New edition)
By: Gareth Winter
ISBN: 9780958205382
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2004
Publisher: Wairarapa Archive
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(Paperback)
By: Rob Atkinson
ISBN: 9789085940227
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
Publisher: Techne Press
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(Paperback)
By: Maria Ignatieva
ISBN: 9780478093971
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2007
Publisher: Manaaki Whenua Press
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