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  • Seeing the Better City: How to Explore, Observe, and Improve Urban Space by

    In order to understand and improve cities today, personal observation remains as important as ever. While big data, digital mapping, and simulated cityscapes are valuable ...

    1 in stock - ships Thu 21st!
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    Boomtown 2050: Scenarios for a Rapidly Growing City by

    Perth, a city of 1.5 million relatively complacent people, is changing at a phenomenal rate. Latest predictions are that the city will grow from ...

    5+ in stock - ships Thu 21st!
  • Running the City: Why public art matters by

    Leading Australian curator Felicity Fenner profiles activity-based and

    pop-up contemporary public art projects from Australia and around the

    globe. Running the City explores art projects ...

    3 in stock - ships Thu 21st!
  • Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs by

    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 ...

    2 in stock - ships Thu 21st!
  • Traffic: Object Lessons by

    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Speed. Bump. Speed. Traffic considers the history and ...

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    Made In Australia: The Future of Australian Cities by &

    How do you creatively plan for a population of 62 million by 2100? Australia’s current major city planning frameworks only account for an extra ...

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  • The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life by

    In the vein of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Edward Glaeser's Triumph of the City, Jonathan F ...

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  • Soft City: Picador Classic by

    With an introduction by Iain Sinclair

    In the city we can live deliberately: inventing and renewing ourselves, carving out journeys, creating private spaces. But in ...

    due for release Oct 2017
  • The Language of Cities by

    The director of the Design Museum defines the greatest artefact of all time: the city We live in a world that is now predominantly urban ...

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  • City Dreamers: The Urban Imagination in Australia by

    I became an urban historian

    because I believed that our cities deserved more of our curiosity and idealism.

    In City Dreamers Graeme Davison restores

    Australian ...

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  • The Language of Cities by

    Most of us now live in cities. But what makes a city? Is it a place - or an idea? How should we define the city ...

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  • Resilient Cities: Overcoming Fossil-Fuel Dependence by , &

    What does it mean to be a resilient city in the age of a changing climate and growing inequity? As urban populations grow, how do ...

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  • Bike Boom: The Unexpected Resurgence of Cycling by

    Bicycling advocates envision a future in which bikes are a widespread daily form of transportation. While many global

    cities are seeing the number of bike ...

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  • Remaking Cities: An Introduction to Urban Metrofitting by

    Unprecedented challenges await the future of the world's cities. Accelerating population pressure, climate change, food insecurity, poverty and geopolitical instability - in the face of ...

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  • The Art of Building a Garden City: Designing New Communities for the 21st Century by

    The Art of Building a Garden City is a well-researched guide to the history of the garden city movement and the delivery of a new ...

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