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Public Produce: The New Urban Agriculture (March, 2010)
The Architectural Jewels of Rochester, New Hampshire (March, 2010)
The Smart Growth Manual (January-February, 2010)
Sidewalks: Conflict and Navigation Over Public Space (January-February, 2010)
194X: Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Home Front (January-February, 2010)
My Kind of Transit: Rethinking Public Transportation in America (December, 2009)
Urban Worrier: Making Politics Personal (October-November, 2009)
Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture (October-November, 2009)
Urban Design and People (October-November, 2009)
Green Metropolis: What the City Can Teach the Country About True Sustainability (October-November, 2009)
Genius of Common Sense: Jane Jacobs and the Story of the Death and Life of Great American Cities (September, 2009)
Wrestling With Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City (September, 2009)
From Despair to Hope: HOPE VI and the New Promise of Public Housing in America’s Cities (September, 2009)
Moving Minds: Conservatives and Public Transportation (July-August, 2009)
Urban Design Reclaimed: Tools, Techniques, and Strategies for Planners (July-August, 2009)
Urban Design (June, 2009)
Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists are Changing American Cities (June, 2009)
The Architecture of Community (June, 2009)
Getting Real About Urbanism: Contextual Design for Cities (April-May, 2009)
Urban Design for an Urban Century: Placemaking for People (March, 2009)
Materials for Sustainable Sites (March, 2009)
Transport and Neighborhoods (January-February, 2009)
The Architectural Tuning of Settlements (January-February, 2009)
The Place of Dwelling (January-February, 2009)
Views of Seaside: Commentaries and Observations on a City of Ideas (January-February, 2009)
Self-sufficient Urbanism: A vision of contraction for the non-distant future (January-February, 2009)
The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community Through Public Art and Urban Design (December, 2008)
Urban Spaces No. 5 Featuring Green Design Strategies (December, 2008)
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew America (October-November, 2008)
Visioning and Visualization: People, Pixels, and Plans (October-November, 2008)
A Legal Guide to Urban and Sustainable Development for Planners, Developers, and Architects (September, 2008)
Writing Urbanism: A Design Reader (September, 2008)
Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America’s Independent Businesses (July-August, 2008)
New Urbanism and Beyond: Designing Cities for the Future (June, 2008)
Tradition Today: Continuity in Architecture and Society (June, 2008)
Suburban Transformations (April-May, 2008)
Biophilic Design: The Theory, Science, and Practice of Bringing Buildings to Life (April-May, 2008)
Architecture of the Absurd: How “Genius” Disfigured a Practical Art (March, 2008)
Rivertown: Rethinking Urban Rivers (March, 2008)
Get Your House Right: Architectural Elements to Use & Avoid (January-February, 2008)
America Town: Building the Outposts of Empire (January-February, 2008)
The University & Urban Revival: Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the Streets (January-February, 2008)
Block by Block: Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York (January-February, 2008)
Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature (December, 2007)
Craving Community: The New American Dream (December, 2007)
Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York (December, 2007)
The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream (October-November, 2007)
New Urban Cowboy: The Labors of Michael E. Arth (October-November, 2007)
Planetizen Contemporary Debates in Urban Planning (September, 2007)
The Great Neighborhood Book: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Placemaking (September, 2007)
Boomburbs: The Rise of America’s Accidental Cities (July-August, 2007)
SmartCode Solution to Sprawl (July-August, 2007)
Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville (June, 2007)
Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Sacred (June, 2007)
Visualizing Density (June, 2007)
Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina (April-May, 2007)
Casa Y Communidad: Latino Home and Neighborhood Design (March, 2007)
Australian New Urbanism: A Guide to Projects (March, 2007)
MetroGreen: Connecting Open Space in North American Cities (January-February, 2007)
Tomorrow’s Cities, Tomorrow’s Suburbs (October-November, 2006)
The Cape Cod Cottage (October-November, 2006)
The Charrette Handbook: The Essential Guide for Accelerated, Collaborative Community Planning (September, 2006)
Ritual House: Drawing on Nature’s Rhythms for Architecture and Urban Design (July-August, 2006)
This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America (July-August, 2006)
A Guidebook to New Urbanism in Florida 2005 (June, 2006)
Planning and Urban Design Standards (April-May, 2006)
Planning Policy and Politics: Smart Growth and the States (April-May, 2006)
New Towns for Old: Achievements in Civic Improvement in Some American Small Towns and Neighborhoods (April-May, 2006)
The Code of the City: Standards and the Hidden Language of Place Making (March, 2006)
Sprawl: A Compact History (January-February, 2006)
Sprawl Costs: Economic Impacts of Unchecked Development (January-February, 2006)
Zoned Out: Regulation, Markets, and Choices in Transportation and Metropolitan Land-Use (December, 2005)
The Power of Ideas: Five People Who Changed the Urban Landscape (December, 2005)
The Architecture of Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company (October-November, 2005)
It’s a Sprawl World After All: The Human Cost of Unplanned Growth — and Visions of a Better Future (October-November, 2005)
The Iconic Building (October-November, 2005)
New Urbanism & American Planning: The Conflict of Cultures (September, 2005)
New City Spaces (September, 2005)
Intown Living: A Different American Dream (July-August, 2005)
Werner Hegemann and the Search for Universal Urbanism (July-August, 2005)
Sprawl Kills: How Blandburbs Steal Your Time, Health and Money (June, 2005)
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (June, 2005)
Michigan Debates on Urbanism: Volumes I, II, and III (June, 2005)
Abrams Guide to American House Styles (April-May, 2005)
Santiago Calatrava: The Complete Works (April-May, 2005)
Yale in New Haven: Architecture & Urbanism (April-May, 2005)
Squares: A Public Place Design Guide for Urbanists (March, 2005)
Celebration: The Story of a Town (January-February, 2005)
Traditional Construction Patterns: Design & Detail Rules of Thumb (December, 2004)
Transportation & Sustainable Campus Communities: Issues, Examples, Solutions (December, 2004)
Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning and Building for Healthy Communities (October-November, 2004)
Design First: Design-based Planning for Communities (October-November, 2004)
Building Security: Handbook for Architectural Planning and Design (September, 2004)
Windsor Forum on Design Education: Toward An Ideal Curriculum to Reform Architectural Education (September, 2004)
A Field Guide to Sprawl (September, 2004)
Masterpieces of Chicago Architecture (July-August, 2004)
The Architectural Pattern Book: A Tool for Building Great Neighborhoods (July-August, 2004)
Toward the Livable City (June, 2004)
The Steps of Pittsburgh: Portrait of a City (June, 2004)
True West: Authentic Development Patterns for Small Towns and Rural Areas (April-May, 2004)
America’s Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake: The Failure of American Housing Policy (March, 2004)
Urban Spaces No. 3: The Design of Public Places (March, 2004)
Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design (March, 2004)
City Comforts: How to Build an Urban Village (January-February, 2004)
City: Urbanism and Its End (January-February, 2004)
The New Civic Art: Elements of Town Planning (December, 2003)
Making Places Special: Stories of Real Places Made Better by Planning (October-November, 2003)
Halfway to Everywhere: A Portrait of America’s First-Tier Suburbs (September 2003)
Edgeless Cities: Exploring the Elusive Metropolis (July-August, 2003)
Health and Community Design: The Impact of the Built Environment on Physical Activity (July-August, 2003)
Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette (July-August, 2003)
The New Shape of Suburbia: Trends in Residential Development (July-August, 2003)
Global City Blues (June, 2003)
Sidewalks in the Kingdom: New Urbanism and the Christian Faith (April-May, 2003)
Redesigning Cities: Principles, Practice, Implementation (April-May, 2003)
William Rawn: Architecture for the Public Realm (April-May, 2003)
Fifty Houses: Images from the American Road (March, 2003)
The Provisional City: Los Angeles Stories of Architecture and Urbanism (March, 2003)
The Urban Design Handbook: Techniques and Working Methods (March, 2003)
Inventing the Charles River (March, 2003)
Place Making: Developing Town Centers, Main Streets, and Urban Villages (January-February, 2003)
A Modern Arcadia: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and the Plan for Forest Hills Gardens (January-February, 2003)
The American Porch: An Informal History of an Informal Place (December, 2002)
Repairing the American Metropolis: Common Place Revisited (December, 2002)
The Seaside Debates: A Critique of the New Urbanism (October-November, 2002)
Habitat for Humanity: How to Build a House (October-November, 2002)
Smart Growth: Form and Consequences (October-November, 2002)
The Designer’s Eye: Visual Problem-Solving in Architecture (October-November, 2002)
Solving Sprawl: Models of Smart Growth in Communities Across America (March, 2002)
The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition (January-February, 2002)
The Vanishing Automobile and Other Urban Myths: How Smart Growth Will Harm American Cities (September, 2001)
Community by Design: New Urbanism for Suburbs and Small Communities (September, 2001)
New American Urbanism: Re-forming the Suburban Metropolis (April-May, 2001)
The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl (December, 2000)
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (May-June, 2000)
Crossroads, Hamlet, Village, Town: Design Characteristics of Traditional Neighborhoods, Old and New (March-April, 2000)
Charter of the New Urbanism: Region/Neighborhood, District, and Corridor/Block, Street, and Building (January-February, 2000)
The Lexicon of the New Urbanism (November-December, 1999)
The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Property Value in Disney’s New Town (September-October, 1999)
Celebration, U.S.A.: Living in Disney’s Brave New Town (September-October, 1999)
Main Street Revisited: Time, Space, and Image Building in Small-Town America (March-April, 1999)
The Wealth of Cities: Revitalizing the Centers of American Life (September-October, 1998)
The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Community Centers, Beauty Parlors, General Stores, Bars, Hangouts and How They Get You Through the Day (May-June, 1998)
Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design (November-December, 1997)