General Infrastructure Planning & Engineering
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Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment
Alan A. Altshuler, David E. Luberoff 
ISBN-13: 9780815701293 (paper)
Brookings Institution Press and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2003
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Power, Speed, and Form: Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth Century
David P. Billington, David P. Billington, Jr.
ISBN-13: 9780691102924 (cloth)
Princeton University Press, 2006
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On Risk and Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
Ronald J. Daniels, Donald F. Kettl, and Howard Kunreuther, editors; foreword by Amy Gutmann
ISBN-10: 0812219597 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780812219593 (paper)
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006
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The Limits of Stabilization: Infrastructure, Public Deficits, and Growth in Latin America
William Easterly, Luis Servén, editors
ISBN-10: 0804749728 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780804749725 (paper)
Stanford University Press, 2003
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Globalizing L.A.: Trade, Infrastructure, and Regional Development
Steven P. Erie
ISBN-10: 080474680X (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0804746818 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780804746809 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780804746816 (paper)
Stanford University Press, 2004
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Regulating Infrastructure: Monopoly, Contracts, and Discretion
José A. Gómez-Ibáñez
ISBN-13: 9780674022386 (paper)
Harvard University Press, 2006
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Broken Buildings, Busted Budgets: How to Fix America's Trillion-Dollar Construction Industry
Barry B. LePatner
ISBN-10: 0226472671 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780226472676 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780226472690 (paper)
University of Chicago Press, 2007
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Law, Infrastructure and Human Rights
Michael B. Likosky
ISBN-10: 0521676886 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780521676885 (paper)
Cambridge University Press, 2006
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Success Through Failure: The Paradox of Design
Henry Petroski
ISBN-13: 9780691122250 (cloth)
Princeton University Press, 2006
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The Best Transportation System in the World: Railroads, Trucks, Airlines, and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century
Mark H. Rose, Bruce E. Seely, and Paul F. Barrett
ISBN-13: 9780812221169 (paper)
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010
Public Works: Infrastructure, Irish Modernism, and the Postcolonial
Michael Rubenstein
ISBN-13: 9780268040307 (paper)
University of Notre Dame Press, 2010
The Ethical Engineer
Eugene Schlossberger
ISBN-10: 1566390575 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781566390576 (paper)
Temple University Press, 1993
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Controlling Government Spending: The Ethos, Ethics, and Economics of Expenditure Management
James Warren, editor
ISBN-10: 0195673875 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780195673876 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 2005
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Return to Top Bridges & TunnelsWood, Concrete, Stone, and Steel: Minnesota’s Historic Bridges
Denis P. Gardner
ISBN-13: 9780816646661 (cloth)
University of Minnesota Press, 2008
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Elegant Arches, Soaring Spans: C.B. McCullough, Oregon's Master Bridge Builder
Robert W. Hadlow
ISBN-10: 0870715348 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780870715341 (paper)
Oregon State University Press, 2001
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Catastrophe to Triumph: Bridges of the Tacoma Narrows
Richard S. Hobbs
ISBN-13: 9780874222890 (paper)
Washington State University Press, 2006
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Constructing a Bridge: An Exploration of Engineering Culture, Design, and Research in Nineteenth-Century France and America
Eda Kranakis
ISBN-10: 0262112175 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780262112178 (cloth)
MIT Press, 1996
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The Bridge at Québec
William D. Middleton
ISBN-13: 9780253337610 (cloth)
Indiana University Press, 2001
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Innovation and the Rise of the Tunnelling Industry
Graham West
ISBN-10: 0521673356 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780521673358 (paper)
Cambridge University Press, 2005
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Waterways & Ports Transport: Roads & HighwaysWatching the Traffic Go By: Transportation and Isolation in Urban America
Paul Mason Fotsch
ISBN-13: 9780292714250 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780292714267 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 2007
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Getting There: The Epic Struggle between Road and Rail in the American Century
Stephen B. Goddard
ISBN-10: 0226300439 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780226300436 (paper)
University of Chicago Press, 1996
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Motoring: The Highway Experience in America
John A. Jakle, Keith A. Sculle
ISBN-10: 0820330280 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780820330280 (cloth)
University of Georgia Press, 2008
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Taking the High Road: A Metropolitan Agenda for Transportation Reform
Bruce Katz, Robert Puentes, editors
ISBN-13: 9780815748274 (paper)
Brookings Institution Press, 2005
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Heavy Traffic: Deregulation, Trade, and Transformation in North American Trucking
Daniel Madar
ISBN-13: 9780774807692 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780774807708 (paper)
University of British Columbia Press, 2000
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Interstate 95: The Road to Sun and Sand
Diane Perrier
ISBN-13: 9780813034805 (paper)
University Press of Florida, 2010
Managing Transport Energy
James Warren, editor
ISBN-10: 0199215774 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780199215775 (paper)
Oxford University Press, 2007
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Transport: RailDeath Rode the Rails: American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1828--1965
Mark Aldrich
ISBN-13: 9780801882364 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780801894022 (paper)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009
The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America
Robert G. Angevine
ISBN-10: 0804742391 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780804742399 (cloth)
Stanford University Press, 2004
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Trains across the Continent
Rudolph Daniels
ISBN-13: 9780253214119 (paper)
Indiana University Press, 2001
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The Railway King of Canada: Sir William Mackenzie, 1849-1923
R. B. Fleming
ISBN-13: 9780774804868 (paper)
University of British Columbia Press, 1991
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Twilight of the Great Trains, expanded edition
Fred W. Frailey
ISBN-13: 9780253354778 (cloth)
Indiana University Press, 2010
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Early American Railroads: Franz Anton Ritter von Gerstner's 'Die innern Communicationen' 1842-1843
Franz Anton Ritter von Gerstner, Edited by Frederick C. Gamst, Translated by David J. Diephouse and John C. Decker
ISBN-10: 0804724237 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780804724234 (cloth)
Stanford University Press, 1997
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British Rail 1974-1997: From Integration to Privatisation
Terry Gourvish
ISBN-10: 0199250057 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780199250059 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 2002
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The Railroad That Never Was: Vanderbilt, Morgan, and the South Pennsylvania Railroad
Herbert H. Harwood, Jr.
ISBN-13: 9780253355485 (cloth)
Indiana University Press, 2010
Historical Atlas of the North American Railroad
Derek Hayes
ISBN-13: 9780520266162 (cloth)
University of California Press, 2010
The Electric Interurban Railways in America
George W. Hilton, John F. Due
ISBN-10: 0804740143 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780804740142 (cloth)
Stanford University Press, 2000 (1960)
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The Birth of California Narrow Gauge: A Regional Study of the Technology of Thomas and Martin Carter
Bruce MacGregor
ISBN-10: 0804735506 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780804735506 (cloth)
Stanford University Press, 2003
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A Most Magnificent Machine: America Adopts the Railroad, 1825–1862
Craig Miner
ISBN-13: 9780700617555 (paper)
University Press of Kansas, 2010
New Departures: Rethinking Rail Passenger Policy in the Twenty-First Century
Anthony Perl
ISBN-13: 9780813122113 (cloth)
University Press of Kentucky, 2002
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Urban Mass Transit: The Life Story of a Technology
Robert C. Post
ISBN-13: 9780801893155 (paper)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010
Transport of Delight: The Mythical Conception of Rail Transit in Los Angeles
Jonathan Richmond
ISBN-13: 9781884836947 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781884836954 (paper)
University of Akron Press, 2005
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Order Against Progress: Government, Foreign Investment, and Railroads in Brazil, 1854-1913
William R. Summerhill III
ISBN-10: 0804732248 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780804732246 (cloth)
Stanford University Press, 2003
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Cleveland's Transit Vehicles: Equipment and Technology
James A. Toman, Blaine S. Hayes
ISBN-10: 0873385489 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780873385480 (cloth)
Kent State University Press, 1996
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Horse Trails to Regional Rails: The Story of Public Transit in Greater Cleveland
James A. Toman, Blaine S. Hayes
ISBN-10: 0873385470 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780873385473 (cloth)
Kent State University Press, 1996
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Railways in the Netherlands: A Brief History, 1834-1994
Augustus J. Veenendaal, Jr.
ISBN-10: 0804739471 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780804739474 (cloth)
Stanford University Press, 2001
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Transport: Waterways & PortsBox Boats: How Container Ships Changed the World
Brian J. Cudahy
ISBN-13: 9780823225699 (paper)
Fordham University Press, 2006
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The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal
Noel Maurer, Carlos Yu
ISBN-13: 9780691147383 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9781400836284
Princeton University Press, 2010
The Docks
Bill Sharpsteen
ISBN-13: 9780520261938 (cloth)
University of California Press, 2011
Mixing the Waters: Environment, Politics, and the Building of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway
Jeffery K. Stine
ISBN-13: 9780962262852 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780962262869 (paper)
University of Akron Press, 1993
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Return to Top UtilitiesThe Culture of Flushing: A Social and Legal History of Sewage
Jamie Benidickson
ISBN-13: 9780774812924 (paper)
University of British Columbia Press, 2007
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White Gold: Hydroelectric Power in Canada
Karl Froschauer
ISBN-13: 9780774807081 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780774807098 (paper)
University of British Columbia Press, 1999
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Building New York’s Sewers: The Evolution of Mechanisms of Urban Management
Joanne Abel Goldman
ISBN-13: 9781557530950 (cloth)
Purdue University Press, 1997
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The Thames Embankment: Environment, Technology, and Society in Victorian London
Dale H. Porter
ISBN-13: 9781884836299 (paper)
University of Akron Press, 1998
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The Grid: A Journey Through the Heart of Our Electrified World
Phillip F. Schewe
ISBN-10: 030910260X (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780309102605 (cloth)
National Academies Press/Joseph Henry Press, 2007
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Return to Top Urban Planning and DevelopmentGreater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest
Carl Abbott
ISBN-13: 9780812236125 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780812217797 (paper)
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001
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Philadelphia: Neighborhoods, Division, and Conflict in a Post-Industrial City
Carolyn Adams, David Bartlelt, David Elesh, Ira Goldstein, Nancy Kleniewski, William Yancey
ISBN-10: 0877228426 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 1566390788 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780877228424 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781566390781 (paper)
Temple University Press, 1991
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Before Renaissance: Planning in Pittsburgh, 1889-1943
John F. Bauman, Edward K. Muller, editors
ISBN-13: 9780822959304 (paper)
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006
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Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
Eugenie L. Birch, Susan M. Wachter, editors
ISBN-10: 0812219805 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780812219807 (paper)
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006
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City and Environment
Christopher G. Boone, Ali Modarres
ISBN-10: 1592132839 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 1592132847 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781592132836 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781592132843 (paper)
Temple University Press, 2006
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Metropolitan Philadelphia: Living with the Presence of the Past
Steven Conn
ISBN-13: 9780812219432 (paper)
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006
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Detroit: Race and Uneven Development
Joe T. Darden, Richard Child Hill, June Thomas and Richard Thomas
ISBN-10: 0877224854 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0877227764 (paper)
Temple University Press, 1987
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Urban Leviathan: Mexico City in the Twentieth Century
Diane E. Davis
ISBN-13: 9781566391511 (paper)
Temple University Press, 1994
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Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing
Peter Eisenstadt
ISBN-13: 9780801448782 (cloth)
Cornell University Press, 2010
The Public and Its Possibilities: Triumphs and Tragedies in the American City
John D. Fairfield
ISBN-13: 9781439902103 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9781439902127
Temple University Press, 2010
Metropolitan San Diego: How Geography and Lifestyle Shape a New Urban Environment
Larry R. Ford
ISBN-13: 9780812238389 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780812218985 (paper)
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004
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Japanese Cities in the World Economy
Kuniko Fujita, Richard Child Hill, editors
ISBN-10: 1566390346 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781566390347 (cloth)
Temple University Press, 1993
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Greater New Jersey: Living in the Shadow of Gotham
Dennis E. Gale
ISBN-13: 9780812239546 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780812219579 (paper)
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006
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Between Justice and Beauty: Race, Planning, and the Failure of Urban Policy in Washington, D.C.
Howard Gillette, Jr.
ISBN-13: 9780812219586 (paper)
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006
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Camden After the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City
Howard Gillette, Jr.
ISBN-13: 9780812238976 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780812219685 (paper)
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005
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Metropolitan Phoenix: Place Making and Community Building in the Desert
Patricia Gober
ISBN-13: 9780812238990 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780812219272 (paper)
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005
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Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City
Colin Gordon
ISBN-13: 9780812240702 (cloth)
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008
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New Urban Development
Claude Green
ISBN-13: 9780813547930 (cloth)
Rutgers University Press, 2010
Atlanta: Race, Class, and Urban Expansion
Larry Keating
ISBN-10: 1566398207 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 1566398215 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781566398206 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781566398213 (paper)
Temple University Press, 2000
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Sprawling Places
David Kolb
ISBN-10: 00820329886 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0820329894 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780820329888 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780820329895 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780820336626
University of Georgia Press, 2008
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The New Chicago: A Social and Cultural Analysis
John P. Koval, Larry Bennett, Michael I.J. Bennett, Fassil Demissie, Roberta Garner, and Kiljoong Kim, editors
ISBN-10: 1592130879 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 1592130887 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781592130870 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781592130887 (paper)
Temple University Press, 2006
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Making Equity Planning Work: Leadership in the Public Sector
Norman Krumholz, John Forester; foreword by Alan A. Altshuler
ISBN-10: 0877227012 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780877227007 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780877227014 (paper)
Temple University Press, 2003
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Reinventing Cities: Equity Planners Tell Their Stories
Norman Krumholz, Pierre Clavel
ISBN-10: 1566392098 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 1566392101 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781566392099 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781566392105 (paper)
Temple University Press, 1994
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Beyond the City Limits: Urban Policy and Economics Restructuring in Comparative Perspective
John R. Logan, Todd Swanstrom, editors
ISBN-10: 0877229449 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780877227335 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780877229445 (paper)
Temple University Press, 1990
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How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken
Alex Marshall
ISBN-13: 9780292752405 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 2001
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Beyond Privatopia: Rethinking Residential Private Government
Evan McKenzie
ISBN-13: 9780877667698 (paper)
Urban Institute Press, 2011
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Thinking Planning and Urbanism
Beth Moore Milroy
ISBN-13: 9780774816144 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780774816151 (paper)
University of Washington Press, 2009
Business Improvement Districts and the Shape of American Cities
Jerry Mitchell
ISBN-13: 9780791473092 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791473108 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780791479001
State University of New York Press, 2008
The University and Urban Revival: Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the Streets
Judith Rodin
ISBN-13: 9780812240221 (cloth)
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007
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St. Louis: The Evolution of an American Urban Landscape
Eric Sandweiss, Todd Swanstrom, editors
ISBN-10: 1566398851 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781566398855 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781566398862 (paper)
Temple University Press, 2001
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Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape
David M. Scobey
ISBN-10: 1592132359 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781592132355 (paper)
Temple University Press, 2003
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Urban Sprawl: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses
Gergory D. Squires
ISBN-10: 0877667098 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780877667094 (paper)
Urban Institute Press, 2002
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Chicago: Race, Class, and the Response to Urban Decline
Gregory D. Squires, Larry Bennett, Kathleen McCourt, and Philip Nyden
ISBN-10: 0877224870 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0877226172 (paper)
Temple University Press, 1987
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From Redlining to Reinvestment
Gregory D. Squires, editor
ISBN-10: 0877229848 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0877229856 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780877229841 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780877229858 (paper)
Temple University Press, 1992
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What Is a City?: Rethinking the Urban after Hurricane Katrina
Phil Steinberg, Rob Shields
ISBN-10: 0820329649 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0820330949 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780820329642 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780820330945 (paper)
University of Georgia Press, 2008
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Theory in Landscape Architecture: A Reader
Simon Swaffield, editor
ISBN-13: 9780812218213 (paper)
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002
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Farms, Mines, and Main Streets: Uneven Development in a Dakota County
Caroline S. Tauxe
ISBN-10: 1566390702 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781566390705 (cloth)
Temple University Press, 1993
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Planning Paradise: Politics and Visioning of Land Use in Oregon
Peter A. Walker, Patrick T. Hurley
ISBN-13: 9780816528837 (paper)
University of Arizona Press, 2011
Greater Boston: Adapting Regional Traditions to the Present
Sam Bass Warner, Jr.
ISBN-13: 9780812236071 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780812217698 (paper)
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001
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The Private City: Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth
Sam Bass Warner, Jr.
ISBN-13: 9780812212433 (cloth)
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1968
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Room 4.1.3: Innovations in Landscape Architecture
Richard Weller
ISBN-13: 9780812237849 (cloth)
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005
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The Last Landscape
William H. Whyte
ISBN-13: 9780812217995 (paper)
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002
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Constructed Climates: A Primer on Urban Environments
William G. Wilson
ISBN-13: 9780226901459 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780226901466 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780226901473
University of Chicago Press, 2011
Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
Sharon Zukin
ISBN-13: 9780195382853 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780199794461 (paper)
Oxford University Press, 2009
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