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Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as land-use)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,029 ratings — published 2012
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as land-use)
avg rating 4.31 — 37,448 ratings — published 1949
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as land-use)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,642 ratings — published 1961
Urban Land Use Planning (Fourth Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as land-use)
avg rating 3.89 — 84 ratings — published 1979
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as land-use)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,278 ratings — published 2022
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as land-use)
avg rating 4.19 — 28,235 ratings — published 2021
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as land-use)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,741 ratings — published 2012
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as land-use)
avg rating 4.53 — 30,982 ratings — published 1974
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as land-use)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,652 ratings — published 1993
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as land-use)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,688 ratings — published 2000
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as land-use)
avg rating 4.09 — 272,175 ratings — published 1980
The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.42 — 631 ratings — published 2016
House of Day, House of Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,654 ratings — published 1998
Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.32 — 25 ratings — published
Winter Witness (Batavia-on-Hudson Mystery Book #1)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.10 — 135 ratings — published 2020
Waiting for Gautreaux: A Story of Segregation, Housing, and the Black Ghetto (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.71 — 42 ratings — published 2006
Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,287 ratings — published 2016
Rabbit Hill (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.80 — 8,435 ratings — published 1944
Just Imagine (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.77 — 8,771 ratings — published 1984
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,598 ratings — published 2009
Anatomy of a Park: The Essentials of Recreation Area Planning and Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published 1992
Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities (Historical Studies of Urban America)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.34 — 38 ratings — published 2013
Urban Pattern (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.12 — 42 ratings — published 1982
Living above the Store: Building a Business That Creates Value, Inspires Change, and Restores Land and Community (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.14 — 7 ratings — published 2009
Retrofitting Sprawl: Addressing Seventy Years of Failed Urban Form (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published 2015
Creating Wealth Through Probate: The Best-Kept Secret in Real Estate Investing (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 1.83 — 6 ratings — published 2005
Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.46 — 1,506 ratings — published 2008
The Architect's Brain: Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.04 — 47 ratings — published 2009
Over: The American Landscape at the Tipping Point (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.18 — 38 ratings — published 2008
Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.00 — 69 ratings — published 2005
How to Sell Your Home in 5 Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.37 — 43 ratings — published 1993
Death by Suburb: How to Keep the Suburbs from Killing Your Soul (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.30 — 340 ratings — published 2006
Butterflies of the Colorado Front Range: A Photographic Guide to 100 Species (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.80 — 5 ratings — published
The Wealth Of Cities: Revitalizing The Centers Of American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.85 — 53 ratings — published 1998
The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City (Chicago Visions and Revisions)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.51 — 467 ratings — published 2006
Het recht van de snelste (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,919 ratings — published 2020
Ike's Road Trip: How Eisenhower's 1919 Convoy Paved the Way for the Roads We Travel (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.29 — 168 ratings — published
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,901 ratings — published 1994
Human Transit (Revised Edition): How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.53 — 133 ratings — published
Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.99 — 323 ratings — published 2014
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,580 ratings — published 2021
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,258 ratings — published 2016
The Killing Fields of East New York: The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.78 — 500 ratings — published 2025
Carbon Neutral Indiana: A Practical Guide to Climate Optimism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.11 — 692 ratings — published 2024
Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.37 — 515 ratings — published
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,055 ratings — published
There Are No Accidents (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,340 ratings — published 2022
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,123 ratings — published 2004
Worn: A People's History of Clothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,627 ratings — published 2022
“The fallacy the economic determinists have tied around our collective neck, and which we now need to cast off, is the belief that economics determines all land-use. This is simply not true. An innumerable host of actions and attitudes, comprising perhaps the bulk of all land relations, is determined by the land-users’ tastes and predilections, rather than by his purse.”
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
“Landed interets also successfully staged a fightback around this time by reviving the language of stewardship, and by claiming to be the voice of rural Britain. Older organisations like the NFU and CLA were joined by new lobby groups such as the Moorland Association and Countryside Alliance. These lobbyists still claim to speak for the countryside, despite most of them representing only tiny numbers of people with huge power and wealth: the 27,000 members of the CLA who own around a third of the land of England and Wales; the 150 or so grouse moor estates that that own at least half a million acres of the English uplands Even the 45,000 members of the NFU and the 100,000 who belong to the Countryside Alliance comprise but a small fraction of the rural population. By shouting loudly, they have occluded the fact that farming, forestry and fishing make up just 7 percent of employment even in rural areas of England. Across the UK as a whole, agriculture generates just 0.5 per cent of GDP and employs only 1.5 per cent of the workforce, yet takes up 71 per cent of the land. Land use decisions remain disproportionately dominated, therefore, by a small number of people.”
― The Lie of the Land
― The Lie of the Land