| 1. |  | Last Harvest: From Cornfield to New Town: Real Estate Development from George Washington to the Builders of the Twenty-First Century, and Why We Live in Houses Anyway
from Scribner
Price: $10.20
Customer Review:
An impressive piece of work, which I read at two sittings. The review you want to read is Penelope Green's, at the New York Times -- I'll put the link in a comment, as Amazon won't allow outside links in their reviews.
Rybczynski writes a very nice portrait of the contemporary subdivision... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | Cities and Urban Life (4th Edition) (MySearchLab Series)
from Prentice Hall
Price: $89.28
Customer Review:
Half of the book is citations from other authors. The other half is rambling. If I did not find the subject matter incredibly interesting I probably would have shot myself in the face a long time ago.
There are some parts that are quite amusing and well-written, and the book does succeed in... more info | 2.5 / 5.0
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| 3. | ![]() | Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space
from Hill & Wang Pub
Customer Review:
This is a very thoughtful and provocative collection of eight essays on various simulated spaces which have infiltrated the American landscape. The book's overall thesis is that public space and "authentic" urban life increasingly has been replaced by simulations of urban life, usually as spaces of... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | Rosemary Beach
from Pelican Publishing Company
Price: $25.55
Customer Review:
This book offers an attractive photographic portrait of Rosemary Beach Florida, a Duany Plater-Zybeck (DPZ) designed community. This beautifully executed tome shows the charm and character that can be achieved in a new community when the principles of good urban design are followed.
For anyone... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | Views of Seaside: Commentaries and Observations on a City of Ideas
from Rizzoli
Price: $29.70
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| 6. |  | Mussolini's Rome: Rebuilding the Eternal City (Italian & Italian American Studies)
from Palgrave Macmillan
Price: $21.02
Customer Review:
Rome. The Eternal City. Was there something in its water that Mussolini drank? Painter tells of his maniacal obsession with leaving his mark on this city. With such a storied history, he wanted to add his indelible contributions. So we get a grand tour of Rome. From the 1920s to the present. With... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 7. | ![]() | J.C. Nichols and the Shaping of Kansas City: Innovation in Planned Residential Communities
from University of Missouri Press
Price: $29.95
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| 8. |  | Seaside: Making a Town in America
from Princeton Architectural Press
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| 9. |  | Village Homes: A Community By Design (Landscape Architecture Foundation Land and Community Design Case Study Series)
from Island Press
Price: $25.00
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| 10. |  | Biopolis: Patrick Geddes and the City of Life
from The MIT Press
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