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  • Beyond Sightseeing

    The Art of Exploring Cities

    de Alexander Garvin ...
    As vivid as it is practical, Beyond Sightseeing distills the considerable insights Alexander Garvin has acquired through a lifetime of traveling the world over in his career as one of the nation's most notable urban planners. With historical context, personal stories, and photos from his own travels to locales as far flung as Moscow and Seville, Paris and Havana, Garvin generously invites the ... Leer más

    $9.89 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Heart of the City

    Creating Vibrant Downtowns for a New Century

    de Alexander Garvin ...
    Downtowns are more than economic engines: they are repositories of knowledge and culture and generators of new ideas, technology, and ventures. They are the heart of the city that drives its future. If we are to have healthy downtowns, we need to understand what downtown is all about; how and why some American downtowns never stopped thriving (such as San Jose and Houston), some have been in ... Leer más

    $26.69 USD

  • What Makes a Great City

    de Alexander Garvin ...
    One of Planetizen's Top Planning Books for 2017 • San Francisco Chronicle's 2016 Holiday Books Gift Guide PickWhat makes a great city? Not a good city or a functional city but a great city. A city that people admire, learn from, and replicate. City planner and architect Alexander Garvin set out to answer this question by observing cities, largely in North America and Europe, with special attention ... Leer más

    $86.39 USD

  • Ed Bacon

    Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia

    de Gregory L. Heller, Alexander Garvin ...
    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    In the mid-twentieth century, as Americans abandoned city centers in droves to pursue picket-fenced visions of suburbia, architect and urban planner Edmund Bacon turned his sights on shaping urban America. As director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, Bacon forged new approaches to neighborhood development and elevated Philadelphia's image to the level of great world cities. Urban ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Ed Bacon

    Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia

    de Gregory L. Heller, Alexander Garvin ...
    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    In the mid-twentieth century, as Americans abandoned city centers in droves to pursue picket-fenced visions of suburbia, architect and urban planner Edmund Bacon turned his sights on shaping urban America. As director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, Bacon forged new approaches to neighborhood development and elevated Philadelphia's image to the level of great world cities. Urban ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • The American City: What Works, What Doesn't

    de Alexander Garvin ...
    The definitive guide to urban planning and design--completely updated and now in full colorIn the Third Edition of The American City: What Works, What Doesn't, award-winning city planner and renowned urban scholar Alexander Garvin examines more than 350 programs and projects that have been implemented nationwide in 150 cities and suburbs, evaluates their successes and failures, and offers relevant ... Leer más

    $74.69 USD

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  • Triumph of the City

    How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

    de Edward Glaeser ...
    **Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Best Book of the Year Award in 2011“A masterpiece.” —Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics“Bursting with insights.” —The New York Times Book ReviewA pioneering urban economist presents a myth-shattering look at the majesty and greatness of cities**America is an urban nation, yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, ... Leer más

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  • Budapest Sights: a travel guide to the top 30 attractions in Budapest, Hungary (Mobi Sights)

    de MobileReference ...
    This illustrated Travel Guide is a part of the Mobi Sights series, our concise guides that only feature the most essential information on city attractions. This guide is designed for optimal navigation on eReaders, smartphones, and other mobile electronic devices. Inside you will find a locator map and a list of top attractions linked to individual articles. Addresses, telephones, hours of ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Makeshift Metropolis

    Ideas About Cities

    de Witold Rybczynski ...
    In this new work, prizewinning author, professor, and Slate architecture critic Witold Rybczynski returns to the territory he knows best: writing about the way people live, just as he did in the acclaimed bestsellers Home and A Clearing in the Distance. In Makeshift Metropolis, Rybczynski has drawn upon a lifetime of observing cities to craft a concise and insightful book that is at once an ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Prague Sights: a travel guide to the top 25 attractions in Prague, Czech Republic (Mobi Sights)

    de MobileReference ...
    This illustrated Travel Guide is a part of the Mobi Sights series, our concise guides that only feature the most essential information on city attractions. This guide is designed for optimal navigation on eReaders, smartphones, and other mobile electronic devices. Inside you will find a locator map and a list of top attractions linked to individual articles. Addresses, telephones, hours of ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Consumers' Republic

    The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America

    de Lizabeth Cohen ...
    In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life.Trumpeted as a means to promote the general welfare, mass consumption quickly outgrew its economic objectives and became synonymous with patriotism, social equality, and the ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Travel Prague, Czech Republic: Illustrated City Guide, Phrasebook, And Maps (Mobi Travel)

    de MobileReference ...
    This illustrated Travel Guide is designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically and by category, making it easier to access individual articles. Articles feature information about attractions, landmarks, districts, transportation, cultural venues, dining, history and much more. Addresses, telephones, hours of operation and admissions ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus