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Urban Design and Planning Good Neighbors; Affordable Family Housing by: Jones, R. Thomas Hardcover Buy Now! for 10% to 40% off the retail price. Based on the lauded AIA Design for Housing initiative and supported by an NEA grant, here is the first truly authoritative guide to modern affordable housing design. This landmark book provides architects, landscape architects, planners, developers, advocates, government officials, and policy makers with workable answers for the design of affordable, anesthetically pleasing housing. 300 color illus. 240 pp. Pub: 10/96. A Concise Guide to Community Planning by: Hall, Kenneth B. Hardcover Buy Now! for 10% to 40% off the retail price. A quick, one-stop guide that shows readers the "big picture" for creating eff ective planning strategies and design solutions. Generic urban plans, typical street grids, environmental checklists, and other useful tools are enhanced with real-life case studies of recent community development plans. Illustrations and appendix with glossary are included.  Architectural Graphic Standard$199.00 918 pages, 9th edition The American City; What Works, What Doesn't by: Garvin, Alexander Hardcover Buy Now! for 10% to 40% off the retail price. This definitive sourcebook on urban planning points out what has and hasn't worked in the ongoing attempt to solve the continuing problems of American cities. Hundreds of examples and case studies clearly illustrate successes and failures in urban planning and regeneration, including examples of the often misunderstood and maligned "Comprehensive Plan." The Fractured Metropolis; Improving the New City, Restoring the Old City, Reshaping the Region by: Barnett, Jonathan Quality Paperback Buy Now! for 10% to 40% off the retail price.  The New Urbanism; Toward an Architecture of Community by: Katz, Peter Hardcover Buy Now! for 10% to 40% off the retail price. An exploration of new suburban communities and neighborhoods on the edge of the 21st century. Table of Contents: I. Introduction; II. Examples of the New Urbanism: Satellite Towns; New Towns on the Edge; Urban Insertions; Urban Reconstruction; Regional Plan, Policy Studies; III. Appendix, Reference Material. Index. 11 x 8 1/2. 500 illustrations. Frank Lloyd Wright : Designs for an American Landscape 1922-1932 ~ Our Price: $31.50 ~ Read more about this title... Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie ~ Melanie Birk(Introduction) / Hardcover / Published 1998 Our Price: $13.27 ~ Read more about this title... The New Waterfront; A Worldwide Urban Success Story Transit Villages in the 21st Century The 100 Mile City ~ America's First City : St. Augustine's Historic Neighborhoods
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