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Rose George

The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters

by Metropolitan Books (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-10-14)
An utterly original exploration of the world of human waste that will surprise, outrage—and entertainProduced behind closed doors, disposed of discreetly, and hidden by euphemism, bodily waste is something common to all and as natural as breathing, yet we prefer not to ...
The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters

The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Modern Library Series)

by Modern Library (Hardcover) (Release Date: 1993-02-09)
Thirty years after its publication, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning....[It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of ...
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Modern Library Series)

Daniel C. Esty, Andrew S. Winston

Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage

by Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD Lib Ed (CD) (Release Date: 2009-01-12)
Green to Gold is an essential guide for forward-thinking business leaders who see the Green Wave coming and want to profit from it. This audio explores what every executive must know to manage the environmental challenges facing society and business. Based on the authors’ ...
Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage

Scott Kellogg, Stacy Pettigrew

Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A do-it-Ourselves Guide

by South End Press (Paperback)
The tools you need to create self-sufficient, ecologically sustainable cities “A surprisingly effective model for connecting people with dreams to the resources they need.” —Austin Chronicle With more than half the world’s population now residing—and struggling ...
Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A do-it-Ourselves Guide

Peter M. Senge, Bryan Smith, Sara Schley, Joe Laur, ...

The Necessary Revolution: How individuals and organizations are working together to create a sustainable world.

by US Green Building Council (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-06-10)
Imagine a world in which the excess energy from one business would be used to heat another. Where buildings need less and less energy around the world, and where “regenerative” commercial buildings – ones that create more energy than they use – are being designed. A ...
The Necessary Revolution: How individuals and organizations are working together to create a sustainable world.

Kate Ascher

The Works: Anatomy of a City

by Penguin (Non-Classics) (Paperback)
The Works: Anatomy of a City

Mike Davis

Planet of Slums

by Verso (Paperback)
Celebrated urban historian's bestselling account of the global explosion of slums, with a major new introduction.According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and influential book, Mike Davis ...
Planet of Slums

Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck

Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

by North Point Press (Paperback)
A manifesto by America's most controversial and celebrated town planners, proposing an alternative model for community design.There is a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and to replace the automobile-based settlement patterns of the past ...
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

Kevin Lynch

The Image of the City

by The MIT Press (Paperback)
What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, ...
The Image of the City

Thomas J. Sugrue

The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton Studies in American Politics)

by Princeton University Press (Paperback)
Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit over the last fifty years has become the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of racial and economic inequality in modern America, Thomas Sugrue explains how Detroit and many other once prosperous industrial ...
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton Studies in American Politics)