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Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Gail LaRue returned to her hometown of Gulf Breeze, Florida, after college with an urban planning degree and dreams of planning utopian communities. Instead, as the junior member of the Community Development team, she finds herself battling residents about their weedy yards. But when a prominent local environmentalist is kidnapped by a zealot, Gail and her friend Emily find themselves digging into the mitigation bank industry. In the process they...
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Trinity Harbor volume 2
Language
English
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Single mother and urban planner Jenna Pennington Kennedy must go up against sexy, annoyingly stubborn property owner Bobby Spencer as she strives to win the contract to develop Trinity Harbor's waterfront.
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Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Urban planners are problem solvers. They find out how housing, transportation, business, and recreational areas can work together to create a successful community. They consult with city officials, developers, and the public during the planning process. This fascinating career can involve restoring historic buildings and conserving natural resources as well as overseeing construction. This book examines the history of urban planning as well as the...
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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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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence can still be felt in any discussion of urban planning to this day.
Eyes on the Street is a revelation of the phenomenal woman who raised three children, wrote seven groundbreaking books, saved neighborhoods, stopped expressways, was arrested twice, and engaged at home and on the streets in thousands of debates—all...
Eyes on the Street is a revelation of the phenomenal woman who raised three children, wrote seven groundbreaking books, saved neighborhoods, stopped expressways, was arrested twice, and engaged at home and on the streets in thousands of debates—all...
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English
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"In Walking in the City with Jane, award-winning author Susan Hughes tells the fictionalized story of Jane Jacobs through a celebration of city life and grassroots activism. Even as a young girl, Jane was an independent thinker with an extraordinary imagination and sense of wonder. She was known to challenge her teacher and was often found playing with her imaginary friends, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Cedric the warrior. Always curious...
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[Sacramento Public Library]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The Valley to Vietnam series, produced by Sacramento Public Library, traces the arc of experience of Vietnam era veterans living in the Sacramento, California area. Larry Brooks grew up in the heart of the Southland in Long Beach. After a short stint at Compton Junior College, he found himself drafted into the Army, the Ninth Infantry Division, and Tan Tru, Mekong Delta, Republic of Vietnam. Upon return, Brooks became a professional planner at both...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The story of Daniel Burnham, a dreamer who shaped some of America's best-known places and spaces. The film explores Burnham's fascinating career and complex legacy as public debate continues today about how and for whom cities are planned.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Portland has become a global model of transit-oriented development (TOD). For more than 40 years, city planners have integrated transport decisions into urban growth and development efforts. The result: Portland is consistently ranked as one of the country's most livable cities, boasting a healthy two percent population growth annually.
14) Renaissance: The Transformation of the West: Episode 13,Italian Sculpture, Architecture, and Music
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Learn how Renaissance architects and city planners - including Donato Bramante, Sebastian Serlio, and Andrea Palladio - imbued sculpture and architecture with tremendous ideological and practical power. Then, discover how Renaissance musicians helped move music out of the religious sphere and into the princely courts.
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English
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"Legal scholar and architect Sara C. Bronin examines how zoning became such a prevailing force and reveals its impact--and its potential for good. Outdated zoning codes have maintained racial segregation, prioritized cars over people, and enabled great ecological harm. But, as Bronin argues, once we recognize the power of zoning, we can harness it to create the communities we desire, and deserve. Drawing on her own experience leading the overhaul...
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The world looks to Portland, Oregon as an example of how bicycle culture can blossom out of the ruinous freeways of car-oriented civilization. Aftermass is the first feature documentary to explore the events, people, politics, and social changes that led to Portland becoming the first major bicycle city in the United States.. Aftermass features many of the leaders and major participants behind the growth of bicycling ridership since 1971.. The narrative...
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English
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"Imagine a very different New York City--one whose streets are filled with horses and buggies and people on foot. Now imagine that vehicles that shared the road--block-long freight trains trying to deliver goods to the west-side factories. How did New York in the 1800s solve the problem of trains barreling through busy city streets? They built the High Line. But the High Line's story doesn't end there. Once cars became common, innovative New Yorkers...
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English
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"Cyclists are everywhere, the cautionary bumper stickers tell you. More than ever before, bicycle culture is everywhere, too: from Portland, Oregon, to Portland, Maine, city planners are making big changes to city infrastructure for the increasing numbers of people who are leaving their cars at home (or deep-sixing them altogether) and upgrading to two wheels. Biking in the city is no longer just for bike messengers with a death wish. Biking's benefits...
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A cultural, architectural, and historical guide to twenty walks around and through New York, led by the NYT chief architecture critic during the height of COVID-19. As New York came to a standstill in March of 2020, Michael Kimmelman composed an email to a group of architects, historians, writers, engineers, and city planners, and invited them to take him on a walk. As the chief architecture critic for the New York Times, he was no stranger to the...
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English
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"A unique, revelatory portrait of small-town America: the activities, changes, and events that shape this mostly unseen part of our national landscape, and the issues and concerns that matter to the ordinary Americans who make these towns their home. For the last five years, James and Deborah Fallows have been traveling across America in a single-prop airplane, visiting small cities and meeting civic leaders, factory workers, recent immigrants, and...
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