Urban Design & Development

1. Building the Empire State

   Carol Willis

   A rediscovered 1930s notebook charts the construction of the Empire State Building.
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2. Key Houses of the Twentieth Century: Plans, Sections and Elevations

   Colin Davies

   A companion to the popular Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century, this book includes classic residential works by such seminal architects as Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and Alvar Aalto, as well as houses by more recent masters such as Tadao Ando, Rem Koolhaas, and Glen Murcutt.More

3. Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect

   Jewel Stern, John A. Stuart

   One of the fabled "three Napoleons" of New York (with Raymond Hood and Ralph Walker) yet almost unknown today, Ely Jacques Kahn had a nearly half-century career and some three dozen of his buildings still grace the New York cityscape.
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4. A Field Guide to Sprawl

   Dolores Hayden, Jim Wark

   A visual lexicon of the colorful slang, from alligator investment to zoomburb, that defines sprawl in America.More

5. Inquiry by Design: Environment/Behavior/Neuroscience in Architecture, Interiors, Landscape, and Planning

   John Zeisel, John P. Eberhard

   This update of a classic text folds the new field of neuroscience for design into well-established environment-behavior (E-B) methods and approaches.More

6. Ranches, Rowhouses, and Railroad Flats: American Homes: How They Shape Our Landscapes and Neighborhoods

   Christine Hunter

   An introduction to housing in the United States: its characteristic forms and its environmental implications.More

7. Werner Hegemann and the Search for Universal Urbanism

   Christiane Crasemann Collins

   Addressing the life and work of a major figure of the Modern Movement in architecture and city planning, about whom very little is known, this first full study of Werner Hegemann (1881-1936) recounts his contribution to the emerging discipline of international city planning and his influential position within the movement.More

8. The Architectural Pattern Book: A Tool for Building Great Neighborhoods

   Urban Design Associates

   This manual documents the revival of the traditional architectural pattern book as a means of implementing urban design.
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9. Colors of the World

   Dominique Lenclos, Jean-Philippe Lenclos, Gregory Bruhn

   Colors of the World presents a chromatic journey through the colors of vernacular architecture from the United States to the far corners of the globe.More

10. 6,000 Years of Housing

    Norbert Schoenauer

    Revised and Expanded Edition

    The fascinating evolution of house forms from the Stone Age to the present.More

11. Urban Design Handbook: Techniques and Working Methods

    Urban Design Associates

    Based on Urban Design Associates’ in-house training procedures, this unique handbook details the techniques and working methods of a major urban design and planning firm.More

12. Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work and Family Life

    Dolores Hayden

    Winner of the National Endowment for the Arts Award for Excellence in Design Research, the Paul Davidoff Award for an Outstanding Book in Urban Planning, the Vesta Award for Feminist Scholarship in the Arts, and an ALA Notable Book Award: a provocative critique of how American housing patterns impact private and public life.More