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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 4.32 — 8,671 ratings — published 2012
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as land-use)
avg rating 4.31 — 36,264 ratings — published 1949
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as land-use)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,909 ratings — published 1961
Urban Land Use Planning (Fourth Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as land-use)
avg rating 3.93 — 82 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 4.14 — 1,172 ratings — published 2022
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as land-use)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,230 ratings — published 2021
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as land-use)
avg rating 4.36 — 9,366 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 — 29,057 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 — 4,581 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 4.12 — 2,652 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 — 265,961 ratings — published 1980
Winter Witness (Batavia-on-Hudson Mystery Book #1)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.12 — 129 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 — 41 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 — 2,242 ratings — published 2016
Rabbit Hill (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.80 — 8,357 ratings — published 1944
Just Imagine (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.77 — 8,674 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 3.72 — 1,585 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 — 1,507 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 3.99 — 68 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 — 339 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 3.52 — 460 ratings — published 2006
Het recht van de snelste (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,873 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 3.27 — 147 ratings — published
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,873 ratings — published 1994
Human Transit, Revised Edition: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.47 — 107 ratings — published
Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.99 — 314 ratings — published 2014
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,487 ratings — published 2021
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,198 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 3.79 — 381 ratings — published 2025
Carbon Neutral Indiana: A Practical Guide to Climate Optimism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.25 — 4 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 4.15 — 555 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 4.38 — 449 ratings — published
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,903 ratings — published
There Are No Accidents (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,290 ratings — published 2022
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,069 ratings — published 2004
Worn: A People's History of Clothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,392 ratings — published 2022
When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.43 — 168 ratings — published 2024
What Time is This Place? (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.90 — 105 ratings — published 1973
Prairie Up: An Introduction to Natural Garden Design (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.49 — 327 ratings — published
“Thanks to the centrifugal pump, places like Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas had thrown on the garments of fertility for a century, pretending to greenery and growth as they mined glacial water from ten-thousand-year-old aquifers. They'd played dress-up-in-green and pretended it could last forever. They'd pumped up the Ice Age and spread it across the land, and for a while they'd turned their dry lands lush. Cotton, wheat, corn, soybeans -- vast green acreages, all because someone could get a pump going. Those places had dreamed of being different from what they were. They'd had aspirations. And then the water ran out, and they fell back, realizing too late that their prosperity was borrowed, and there would be no more coming.”
― The Water Knife
― The Water Knife
“The increasingly one-dimensional use of land stands in stark contrast to the mixed arable and pastoral economies of the bailtean which, in turn, sustained socially complex communities. These township populations nurtured knowledge production systems that enabled mixed land management strategies. This was underpinned by communal, rule-based approaches to foreshores, grazing, and fuel assets which were taken to be common pool resources. Local resources could then be exploited through a consciously integrated and diverse set of micro-economies.”
― Plantation Slavery and Land Ownership in the West Highlands and Islands
― Plantation Slavery and Land Ownership in the West Highlands and Islands
