Nature-First Cities
Restoring Relationships with Ecosystems and with Each Other
Nature-First Cities recognizes nature as the lead architect in the most essential of restoration projects – our cities.
- Copyright year: 2024
Modernism’s Magic Hat
Architecture and the Illusion of Development without Capital
- Copyright year: 2024
Broken City
Land Speculation, Inequality, and Urban Crisis
Broken City argues that skyrocketing urban land prices drive our global housing market failure – so, how did we get here, and what can be done about it?
- Copyright year: 2024
Movement
How to Take Back Our Streets and Transform Our Lives
Making our communities safer, cleaner, and greener starts with asking these fundamental questions: who do our streets belong to, how do we want to use them, and who gets to decide? To truly transform mobility, we need to look far beyond the technical aspects and put people at the center of urban design. Movement will change the way that you view our streets.
- Copyright year: 2024
Creating the Hudson River Park
Environmental and Community Activism, Politics, and Greed
- Copyright year: 2024
Sites of Conscience
Place, Memory, and the Project of Deinstitutionalization
Sites of Conscience charts the importance of public engagement with histories, memories, and lived experiences of institutions in forging new directions in social justice with and for disabled people and people experiencing mental distress, in a context where deinstitutionalization has failed to fully recognise, redress, and repair the ongoing impacts of institutions.
- Copyright year: 2024
Empathic Design
Perspectives on Creating Inclusive Spaces
Contributors explore broader conceptual approaches and highlight design projects including the Harriet Tubman Memorial in Newark, which replaced a long-standing statue of Christopher Columbus; and restoration of the Freedom Center in Oklahoma City, first built by civil activist Clara Luper to provide a safe place for gathering and youth education; and The Camp Barker Memorial in Washington, D.C., which commemorates a “contraband camp” used to house former slaves who had been captured by the Union Army.
Empathic Design provides essential approaches and methods from multiple perspectives, meeting the needs of our time and holding space for readers to find themselves.
Climate Resilience for an Aging Nation
Arigoni explores how to integrate age-friendly resilience into community planning and disaster preparedness efforts through new planning approaches. These include an age-friendly process, and a planning framework dedicated to inclusive disaster recovery.
Climate Resilience for an Aging Nation will help professionals and concerned citizens understand how to best plan for both the aging of our population and the climate changes underway to create communities that serve the needs of older adults better, not only during disasters but for all the days in between.
- Copyright year: 2023
Beyond Greenways
The Next Step for City Trails and Walking Routes
Searns introduces two models—grand loop trails and town walks. Grand loop trails are 20 to 350-mile systems that encircle metro areas. Town walks are shorter—2 to 6-mile routes in cities. He then lays out how to plan, design, and build support for them, drawing inspiration from trails in the US and abroad.
Planners, trail advocates, and community leaders will find the tools here to develop successful and affordable trails. Now is the time to pursue accessible pedestrian routes for this, and future, generations.
- Copyright year: 2023
Condoland
The Planning, Design, and Development of Toronto’s CityPlace
In an era of frantic vertical urbanization known as “condoism,” Condoland explores the planning and design of Toronto’s CityPlace, one of North America’s largest residential development projects – and reveals what can happen when the real estate industry comes to dominate city planning.
- Copyright year: 2023
Crossing Paths Crossing Perspectives
Urban Studies in British Columbia and Quebec
- Copyright year: 2023
The Freedom of the City
Campanella writes “The Freedom of the City was prescient in 1926 and timely now. Certainly, the essentials of good urbanism extolled in the book—human scale, diversity, walkability, the serendipities of the street; above all, density—are articles of faith among architects and urbanists today.”
Lay’s words are relevant today as density and congestion are once again under siege, especially in our most productive and thriving cities.
- Copyright year: 2023
Place and Prosperity
How Cities Help Us to Connect and Innovate
Fulton has been writing about cities over his forty-year career as a journalist, professor, mayor, planning director, and the director of an urban think tank in one of America’s great cities. Place and Prosperity is a curated collection of his writings with new and updated selections and framing material.
Fulton shows that at their best, cities not only inspire and uplift us, but they make our daily life more convenient, more fulfilling, and more prosperous.
- Copyright year: 2022
Managing the Climate Crisis
Designing and Building for Floods, Heat, Drought, and Wildfire
Managing the Climate Crisis: Designing and Building for Floods, Heat, Drought and Wildfire by design and planning experts Jonathan Barnett and Matthijs Bouw is a practical guide to addressing this urgent national security problem. Barnett and Bouw draw from the latest scientific findings and include many recent, real-world examples to illustrate how to manage seven climate-related threats: flooding along coastlines, river flooding, flash floods from extreme rain events, drought, wildfire, long periods of high heat, and food shortages.
- Copyright year: 2022
Making Healthy Places, Second Edition
Designing and Building for Well-Being, Equity, and Sustainability
Making Healthy Places is a must-read for students, academics, and professionals in health, architecture, urban planning, civil engineering, parks and recreation, and related fields.
- Copyright year: 2022
City Forward
How Innovation Districts Can Embrace Risk and Strengthen Community
Institutional leadership, business owners, and professionals will find experienced direction here. City Forward is a refreshing look at the brighter futures that we can create through thoughtful collaboration—moving forward, together.
- Copyright year: 2022
Arbitrary Lines
How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
Gray lays the groundwork for this ambitious cause by clearing up common misconceptions about how American cities regulate growth and examining four contemporary critiques of zoning (its role in increasing housing costs, restricting growth in our most productive cities, institutionalizing racial and economic segregation, and mandating sprawl). He sets out some of the efforts currently underway to reform zoning and charts how land-use regulation might work in the post-zoning American city.
Arbitrary Lines is an invitation to rethink the rules that will continue to shape American life—where we may live or work, who we may encounter, how we may travel. If the task seems daunting, the good news is that we have nowhere to go but up.
- Copyright year: 2022
The Heart of Toronto
Corporate Power, Civic Activism, and the Remaking of Downtown Yonge Street
From the sidewalk to City Hall, in the corporate boardroom, and around the kitchen table, The Heart of Toronto traces the power dynamics and projects that have transformed downtown Toronto.
- Copyright year: 2022
Climate Change and U.S. Cities
Urban Systems, Sectors, and Prospects for Action
A follow-up to the Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA), Climate Change and U.S. Cities documents the current and future climate risk for U.S. cities, urban systems, and their residents. It is an examination of research findings since early 2012, with a critical emphasis on the cross-cutting factors of economics, equity, and governance.
Urban stakeholders and decision makers will gain an understanding of climate risks and a set of conclusions and recommendations for action. Climate Change and U.S. Cities boldly lays out the tools that cities must harness to effect decisive, meaningful change.
- Copyright year: 2021
Dream Play Build
Hands-On Community Engagement for Enduring Spaces and Places
For twenty years, James Rojas and John Kamp have been using art, creative expression, and storytelling to shake up the classic community meeting. In Dream Play Build, they share their insights into building common ground and inviting active participation among diverse groups. Their approach, “Place It!,” draws on three methods: the interactive model-building workshop, the pop-up, and site exploration using our senses. Inspirational and fun, this book celebrates the value of engaging with the dreams we have for our communities.
- Copyright year: 2022