Planning & Urban Design

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  1. Book ImageThe Municipal Art Society of New York: Ten Architectural Walks in Manhattan

    Francis Morrone, Matthew A. Postal, Robyn Lynn, Et Al.

    Highlights of architecture, preservation, urban planning, and public art described by two experienced guides, with pictures, route maps, and transit information.More

  2. Book ImagePublic Art New York

    Jean Parker Phifer

    A tour of the best permanent public art in all five boroughs of New York City.More

  1. Book ImagePlanning and Community Development: A Guide for the 21st Century

    Norman Tyler, Robert M. Ward

    An ideal introduction to community planning for students, planners, local officials, community leaders, and citizens.More

  2. Book ImageKey Buildings of the Twentieth Century: Plans, Sections and Elevations

    Richard Weston

    Second Edition

    An analysis of influential work by seminal architects, including Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, and Rem Koolhaas.More

  3. Book ImageInclusive Housing: A Pattern Book: Design for Diversity and Equality

    Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access, Edward Steinfeld, Jonathan White

    Why inclusive housing is necessary to achieve important urban goals and describes how to design in a variety of contexts.More

  4. Book ImageGreat Public Squares: An Architect's Selection

    Robert F. Gatje

    Forty outstanding urban spaces of the Western world, analyzed and drawn at a common scale for easy comparison.More

  5. Book ImageUrban Integration / Bishopsgate Good Yards: Johnson, Nick and FAT Architects

    Yale School of Architecture, Andrei Harwell, Lydia Miller, Et Al.

    The fourth book in this series records the collaboration of Nick Johnson, development director of Urban Splash, Manchester, with Kahn Visiting Professors Sean Griffiths, Charles Holland, and Sam Jacob, who worked with a studio of Yale students to investigate alternative possibilities for development of the derelict Bishopsgate Goods Yard in East London.More

  6. Book ImageNegotiated Terrains

    Yale School of Architecture, Heather Kilmer, Nina Rappaport

    Negotiated Terrains is the second book that features the work of the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professors, a chairmanship endowed in 2004 to bring young innovators in architectural design to the Yale School of Architecture.More

  7. Book ImageThe Future of the Past: A Conservation Ethic for Architecture, Urbanism, and Historic Preservation

    Steven W. Semes

    A comprehensive and eloquent argument for “new traditional” architecture that preserves the style and character of historic buildings.More

  8. Book ImageParks, Plants, and People: Beautifying the Urban Landscape

    Lynden B. Miller

    An inspirational and practical book about the benefits of enhancing cities with well-planted gardens, parks, and streets.More

  9. Book ImageUnderstanding Green Building Guidelines: For Students and Young Professionals

    Traci Rose Rider

    Summarizes the main issues and strategies of the forceful and fast-paced green building movement.More

  10. Book ImageThe Human City: Kings Cross: 03: Roger Madelin / Demetri Porphyrios

    Yale School of Architecture, George Knight, Nina Rappaport, Et Al.

    This book documents the third collaborative developer/architect studio at the Yale School of Architecture.More

  11. Book ImageKey Urban Housing of the Twentieth Century: Plans, Sections and Elevations

    Hilary French

    The design of multiple housing – a new building type, especially for growing urban populations – was a major new area of activity for architects at the beginning of the twentieth century, and one that continues into the twenty-first century.More

  12. Book ImageRobert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York

    Hilary Ballon, Kenneth T. Jackson

    A fresh look at the greatest builder in the history of New York City and one of its most controversial figures.More

  13. Book ImageLayered Urbanisms: Gregg Pasquarelli / Galia Solomonoff / Mario Gooden

    Yale School of Architecture

    Layered Urbanisms presents critical discussions and illustrations of urban research and design analysis as carried out in advanced studios with young architects investigating ways to design new urban spaces for New York.More

  14. Book ImageKey Contemporary Buildings: Plans, Sections and Elevations

    Rob Gregory

    A collection of more than one hundred twenty-first-century buildings of particular interest for study by students and professionals.
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  15. Book ImagePublic Markets

    Helen Tangires

    An illustrated history of the buildings and spaces devoted to the urban marketplace for fresh food.More

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