The Nature of Economies20 reviews Jane Jacobs Vintage, 2001 The content is major even if the form is debatable + Nice concept - shame about the delivery + Definitely worth reading A number of the other reviews critiscise the conversational form of this book. And one reviewer (who is clearly an investment analyst) critiscises one tiny sentence which makes a rather erroneous analogy between corporate and national behaviour. But the central theme of the book, that economies ...             Great Streets4 reviews Allan B. Jacobs The MIT Press, 1995 If you're an Urban Planner or a World Traveler... + great book + Walking in Thought + Attention urban planners, designers and urbanists!             The Form of Cities: Political Economy and Urban Design Alexander R. Cuthbert Wiley-Blackwell, 2006 The Form of Cities offers readers a considered theoretical introduction to the art of designing cities. Demonstrates that cities are replete with symbolic values, collective memory, association and conflict. Proposes a new theoretical understanding of urban design, based in political economy. Demonstrates different ways of conceptualising the city, whether through aesthetics or the ...             Cities of Dispersal (Architectural Design) Wiley, 2008 Questioning the traditional boundaries between cities, suburbs, countryside and wilderness, this issue of AD explores emergent types of public space in low-density environments. It describes this new form of urbanism: decentralised, in a constant process of expansion and contraction, not homogenous or necessarily low-rise, nor guided by one mode of development, typology or pattern. While ...             Future Forms and Design for Sustainable Cities Architectural Press, 2005 Concentrating on the planning and design of cities, the three sections take a logical route through the discussion from the broad considerations at regional and city scale, to the larger city at high and lower densities through to design considerations on the smaller block scale. Key design issues such as access to facilities, access for sunlight, life cycle analyses, and the impact of ...             Cities and the Wealth of Nations8 reviews Jane Jacobs Vintage, 1985 Wealth Creation + Cities are the fundamental macroeconomic units -- not nations + Dated in some particulars but not as a whole + Age Does Not Wither the Provocative Appeal + An exciting, observant, and enduring work             The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History5 reviews Spiro Kostof Bulfinch, 1993 A Bible for an Urban Designer + A well-written foray into urban formation + excelent + A classic + a guidebook of magnificent ideas on city             Cities People Planet: Liveable Cities for a Sustainable World1 review Herbert Girardet Academy Press, 2004 An urban future? Cities People Planet Liveable Cities for a Sustainable World by Herbert Girardet; Wiley Academy 2004, pp 296 £ 20 Review by Judith Ryser Herbert Girardet is well known for his relentless campaigning for a sustainable world. Through films, exhibitions, books, speeches and built examples he ...             Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century2 reviews Peter Hall Wiley-Blackwell, 2002 Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century + Good read and study of planning history! Be the first to review this item             The Making of Urban Europe, 1000-1994 Paul Hohenberg, Lynn Lees Harvard University Press, 1995 Europe became a land of cities during the last millennium. The story told in this book begins with North Sea and Mediterranean traders sailing away from Dorestad and Amalfi, and with warrior kings building castles to fortify their conquests. It tells of the dynamism of textile towns in Flanders and Ireland. While London and Hamburg flourished by reaching out to the world and once vibrant Spanish ...             Suburban Transformations2 reviews Princeton Architectural Press, 2007 Suggests ways to make our suburbs better + Extraordinary typology & process for suburban retrofitting I like this book because it suggests ways that we can make our suburbs better places to live. I really like books that tell us about how we can improve the status quo, and/or about better alternatives to the status quo, and/or about solutions to problems. I would really like all of North America's ...             Design of Cities: Revised Edition (Penguin Books)4 reviews Edmund N. Bacon Penguin (Non-Classics), 1976 The most important book for my town-planning practice + Excellent Book + Well designed book + The Quintessential book on Urban Design             Preserving the World's Great Cities: The Destruction and Renewal of the Historic Metropolis7 reviews Anthony Max Tung Three Rivers Press, 2002 Truly excellent book on the great cities of the world + agree with above, but i hated the tone + a thoughtful work + Great book! Great cities! Great Stories, and well told! + Can We Save Our Great Cities?             The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Modern Library Series)63 reviews Modern Library, 1993 The triumph of common sense + Read it! + Read it + It'll make a city slicker out of the most ardent farm boy + A classic             The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects14 reviews Lewis Mumford Harvest Books, 1968 tricks + A must read book! + Good Until the Last Hundred or So Pages this book is fine. go get it from the library and learn the origins of the city. critique civilization and its facets with other books and never mind intellectual/acedemia. educate yourself. civilizations origins are the origins of humanity's current polarized state. "Computers serve as much more ...             Public Places - Urban Spaces3 reviews Matthew Carmona, Tim Heath, ... Architectural Press, 2003 Public Places Urban Spaces + great introduction to urban design + For teachers and designers This book is very useful to understand the theory,design approach and planning schemes and concept development for public spaces. In addition the presentation and data are easily to understand the message of the author. The case study also provide good attempt to look at several good examples. ...             The Form of Cities: Political Economy and Urban Design Alexander R. Cuthbert Wiley-Blackwell, 2006 The Form of Cities offers readers a considered theoretical introduction to the art of designing cities. Demonstrates that cities are replete with symbolic values, collective memory, association and conflict. Proposes a new theoretical understanding of urban design, based in political economy. Demonstrates different ways of conceptualising the city, whether through aesthetics or the ...             Design of Cities: Revised Edition (Penguin Books)4 reviews Edmund N. Bacon Penguin (Non-Classics), 1976 The most important book for my town-planning practice + Excellent Book + Well designed book + The Quintessential book on Urban Design             Great Streets4 reviews Allan B. Jacobs The MIT Press, 1995 If you're an Urban Planner or a World Traveler... + great book + Walking in Thought + Attention urban planners, designers and urbanists!             The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History5 reviews Spiro Kostof Bulfinch, 1993 A Bible for an Urban Designer + A well-written foray into urban formation + excelent + A classic + a guidebook of magnificent ideas on city