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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
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4.35 avg rating — 1,875 ratings
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
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3.99 avg rating — 98,640 ratings
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Historic Preservation: An Introduction to Its History, Principles, and Practice
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3.88 avg rating — 262 ratings
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A Field Guide to American Houses
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4.36 avg rating — 1,361 ratings
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The Architecture of Happiness
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3.86 avg rating — 14,536 ratings
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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America
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4.17 avg rating — 11,508 ratings
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Cityscapes: San Francisco and Its Buildings
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3.82 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Science and Technology in Historic Preservation
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Why Old Places Matter: How Historic Places Affect Our Identity and Well-Being
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4.07 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Disappearing Motels, Niagara Falls, Ontario: Cultural Decline of a Post-War Travel Icon
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Beyond Preservation: Using Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities
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3.77 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.94 avg rating — 74,731 ratings
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Guide to Florida Pioneer Sites
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Lost Movie Theatres, Niagara Falls, Ontario: Movie-Going in a Cross-Border City
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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This House, This Town: One Couple's Love Affair with an Old House and a Historic Town
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Housing a divided community
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A Sense of Place: Montgomery's Architectural Heritage
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Buildings, Landscapes, and Memory: Case Studies in Historic Preservation
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3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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3.89 avg rating — 56,373 ratings
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Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic: Looking at Buildings and Landscapes (Creating the North American Landscape)
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4.06 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Sustainability through Soccer: An Unexpected Approach to Saving Our World
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3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Old Buildings, New Forms: New Directions in Architectural Transformations
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4.38 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The London Companion (A Think Book)
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3.57 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Patina Of Place: The Cultural Weathering Of A New England Industrial
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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Where We Want to Live: Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities
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3.80 avg rating — 275 ratings
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SynergiCity: Reinventing the Postindustrial City
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Scallop: Studies of a Shell and Its Influences on Humankind
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4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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City on the Verge: Atlanta and the Fight for America's Urban Future
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3.87 avg rating — 297 ratings
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Saving Wright: The Freeman House and the Preservation of Meaning, Materials, and Modernity
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Grandfather's London
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Not Just Anywhere: The Story of W.H.A.L.E. and New Bedford's Waterfront Historic District
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
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4.13 avg rating — 1,359 ratings
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The Things Things Say
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3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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London Under London: A Subterranean Guide
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4.15 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Colonial Revival Maine
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives
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3.62 avg rating — 403 ratings
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The Timeless Way of Building
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4.37 avg rating — 2,664 ratings
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Children of the Tipi: Life in the Buffalo Days
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4.26 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Strawbery Banke: A Seaport Museum 400 Years in the Making
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4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Writing Architecture: A Practical Guide to Clear Communication about the Built Environment
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3.94 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community
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3.86 avg rating — 1,012 ratings
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Abandoned New England: Its Hidden Ruins and Where to Find Them
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4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Superbia: 31 Ways to Create Sustainable Neighborhoods
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3.71 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Historic Rural Churches of Georgia
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4.79 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Skinny Streets and Green Neighborhoods: Design for Environment and Community
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3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Georgia's Lighthouses and Historic Coastal Sites
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4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs
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3.81 avg rating — 161 ratings
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The Georgia Catalog: Historic American Buildings Survey
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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work and Family Life
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4.19 avg rating — 134 ratings
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The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
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3.44 avg rating — 525 ratings
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A Better Place to Live: Reshaping the American Suburb
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4.09 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
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4.04 avg rating — 72 ratings
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
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4.42 avg rating — 5,450 ratings
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How to Read Churches: A Crash Course in Ecclesiastical Architecture
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3.94 avg rating — 355 ratings
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Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950
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3.96 avg rating — 107 ratings
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The Tao of Architecture
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3.92 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
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4.05 avg rating — 4,586 ratings
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Main Street to Miracle Mile: American Roadside Architecture
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3.67 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000
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3.84 avg rating — 361 ratings
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Anasazi Architecture and American Design
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3.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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4.29 avg rating — 19,967 ratings
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Precolumbian Architecture in Eastern North America (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series)
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The Architecture of Francis Palmer Smith, Atlanta's Scholar-Architect
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods
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3.84 avg rating — 450 ratings
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Building the Past: Prehistoric Wooden Post Architecture in the Ohio Valley Great Lakes
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Community: The Structure of Belonging
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4.06 avg rating — 1,746 ratings
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The Architecture of James Means
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Architecture of Middle Georgia: The Oconee Area
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3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Ghostly Ruins: America's Forgotten Architecture
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4.03 avg rating — 332 ratings
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The Architecture of the Shakers
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4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Savannah Revisited: History & Architecture
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3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Maya Architecture: Temples in the Sky
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3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit
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3.74 avg rating — 404 ratings
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Buildings without Architects: A Global Guide to Everyday Architecture
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3.73 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Vernacular Architecture
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3.91 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Buddhist Art and Architecture
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3.84 avg rating — 131 ratings
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The Courthouse and Depot in Georgia, 1833-1910: The Architecture of Hope in an Age of Despair
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Art and Architecture of Insects
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4.03 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Finest Building in America: The New York Crystal Palace, 1853-1858
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3.58 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl
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3.73 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings
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4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Secret Language of Churches & Cathedrals: Decoding the Sacred Symbolism of Christianity's Holy Building
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4.15 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture
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4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings
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A History of Architecture in 100 Buildings
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3.69 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Bricks & Mortals: Ten Great Buildings and the People They Made
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3.76 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Michael Graves: Buildings and Projects 1982 - 1989
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3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Folk Housing in Middle Virginia: A Structural Analysis of Historic Artifacts
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3.97 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States
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3.65 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Sacred Places of the Lowcountry: Lost Photographs from the Historic American Buildings Survey
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City
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4.02 avg rating — 972 ratings
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Lost Buildings
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4.34 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Remembering Roadside America: Preserving the Recent Past as Landscape and Place
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3.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
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We Come for Good: Archaeology and Tribal Historic Preservation at the Seminole Tribe of Florida
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Penn Center: A History Preserved
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4.60 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Lost Savannah: Photographs from the Collection of the Georgia Historical Society
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4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Savannah Renaissance
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Tangible Past in Athens, Georgia
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Vanishing Landmarks of Georgia: Gristmills & Covered Bridges
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4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Antebellum Homes of Georgia
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4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Courthouses of Georgia
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http://www.onbeing.org/blog/five-simp.... Thinking about reads related to local democracy and community led me to this list. Thanks, Kelli