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Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In 1970, Richard Sennett published the groundbreaking The Uses of Disorder, arguing that the ideal of a planned and ordered city was flawed. Fifty years later, Sennett returns to these still fertile ideas and, alongside campaigner and architect Pablo Sendra, sets out an agenda for the design and ethics of the Open City. The public spaces of our cities are under siege from planners, privatisation and increased surveillance. Our streets are becoming...
Author
Publisher
ForbesBooks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
For generations, homeownership has been an avenue to a better life. But discriminatory policies left many people out, and today's trend of rising home prices continues to put housing beyond the reach of significant sectors of the workforce. This is particularly true in America's urban centers, where a shortage of affordable housing is stifling social and economic mobility. We must face this problem with a balance of compassion and competence. The...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"How will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chaos? In Extreme Cities, Ashley Dawson argues that cities are ground zero for climate change, contributing the lion's share of carbon to the atmosphere, while also lying on the frontlines of rising sea levels. Today, the majority of the world's megacities are located in coastal zones, yet few of them are...
Author
Publisher
No Starch Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Step-by-step instructions show how to build detailed LEGO models of neighborhoods - complete with homes, stores, restaurants, barbershops, and more. Enter the fantastical world of model building. The LEGO Neighborhood Book 2 is a full-color guide to creating intricate, bustling LEGO neighborhoods, and cities. In this second volume, a follow up to the runaway best-selling first volume, readers learn even more ways to create classic architectural styles...
Author
Publisher
Que Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Provides information on uncovering the Minecraft game's advanced resources and techniques, including how to automate farming, generate infinite ores on demand, manage a multiplayer server, and mass-produce zombies, spiders, creepers, and skeletons.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties where the homeless make their homes. The adage that...
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Nearly every US city would like to be more walkable-for reasons of health, wealth, and the environment-yet few are taking the proper steps to get there. The goals are often clear, but the path is seldom easy. Jeff Speck's follow up to his bestselling Walkable City is the resource that cities and citizens need to usher in an era of renewed street life. Walkable City Rules is a doer's guide to making change in cities, and making it now. The 101 rules...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The most comprehensive survey of the current crisis, Urban Warfare charts how the financial crisis and wider urban politics have left millions homeless and in financial desperation across the world. The financialisation of housing has become a global catastrophe, leaving millions desperate and homeless. Since the 2008 financial collapse, models of home ownership, originating in the US and UK, are being exported around the world. Using examples from...
32) Built to last
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Reveals the how and why behind some of the most fascinating and enduring structures humankind has ever created.
33) Until I met you
Author
Series
Restoring Heritage volume 2
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Libby Kingsley dreams of a new life and a new library for the charming town of Heritage, Michigan. Things get complicated when her big ideas threaten Austin William's blueprints and his plan to leave town unattached"--
35) Murder ink
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Could anger over a tattoo parlor on Victoria Square lead to murder?
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Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"An eminent sociologist--and coauthor, with Aziz Ansari, of the #1 New York Times bestseller Modern Romance--makes the provocative case that the future of democratic societies rests not only on shared values but also on shared "social infrastructure": the libraries, childcare centers, bookstores, coffee shops, pools, and parks that promote crucial, sometimes life-saving connections between people who might otherwise fail to find common cause"--
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Black Landscapes Matter probes the very timely issue of how race, memory, and meaning intersect in the American landscape. The book provides examples of how African American landscapes are rejected and erased in a variety of places across the US--from Charlotte, NC, to New Orleans, LA, Detroit, MI, and Milwaukee, WI--along with calls to action"--
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"At least thirteen million Americans will have to move away from American coasts in the coming decades, as rising sea levels and increasingly severe storms put lives at risk and cause billions of dollars in damages. In Charleston, South Carolina, denial, boosterism, widespread development, and public complacency about racial issues compound; the city, like our country, has no plan to protect its most vulnerable. In these pages, Susan Crawford tells...
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"William H. Whyte's curiosity compelled him to question the status quo-whether helping to make Fortune Magazine essential reading for business leaders, warning of "groupthink" in his bestseller The Organization Man, or standing up for Jane Jacobs as she advocated for the vitality of city life and public space. This compelling biography sheds light on Whyte's bold way of thinking, ripe for rediscovery at a time when we are reshaping our communities...
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