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Titles of interest to academics and researchers.

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Urban Agriculture (PAS 563)  

This PAS Report provides authoritative guidance for dealing with the implications of this cutting-edge practice that is changing our cities forever.

List Price: $60.00

Planners Guide to CommunityViz  

Here is an authoritative and accessible guide to a tool to let planners and citizens "see" the future impacts of a plan or development.

List Price: $39.95

Member Price: $27.95

Reconsidering Jane Jacobs  

Reconsidering Jane Jacobs reminds planning professionals of the full range and complexity of her ideas and offering thoughtful critiques on the unintended consequences of her ideas on cities and planning today.

List Price: $69.95

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Reconsidering Jane Jacobs  

Reconsidering Jane Jacobs reminds planning professionals of the full range and complexity of her ideas and offering thoughtful critiques on the unintended consequences of her ideas on cities and planning today.

List Price: $29.95

Member Price: $19.95

The Endless City  

The late twentieth century was the age of economic globalization. The first part of the twenty-first century will be the age of the city, the urban age. For the first time in the history of humanity, more than half of the earth+s population is living in urban areas. Questions regarding the shape, size, density and distribution of the city have become increasingly complex and politicized, and the impact of the built environment on social inclusion and quality of life are at the forefront of discussions about urban planning.

List Price: $49.95

Planners and Planes (PAS 562)  

The premise of this PAS Report is that airport planners and community planners must work together as partners during the development of planning processes.

List Price: $40.00

The Evolution of Urban Form  

This book provides a fundamental understanding of how physical environments are created, changed, and transformed through ordinary processes over time.

List Price: $46.95

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Fiscal Impact Analysis (PAS 561)  

Fiscal impact analysis is a critical tool for communities of all sizes. A well-prepared FIA can help a community understand the pros and cons of a proposed development and enable well-informed decision making.

List Price: $40.00

Sustainable Solutions for Water Resources  

Sustainable Solutions for Water Resources takes a practical approach to head off a global water catastrophe by offering sensible measures that can be put in place immediately to promote a clean, plentiful flow of the Earth's most precious resource.

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Genius of Common Sense  

Here is the first book for young people about this heroine of common sense, a woman who never attended college but whose observations, determination, and independent spirit led her to far different conclusions than those of the academics who surrounded her.

List Price: $17.95

The Abundant Community  

The Abundant Community reveals the invisible but immense impact that consumerism has had on the fabric of our families and communities, and recommends how we can create richer, more fulfilling lives and break our dependency on the consumer economy.

List Price: $16.95

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Hazard Mitigation (PAS 560)  

Hazard Mitigation: Integrating Best Practices into Planning, prepared by APA and supported by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), seeks to close the gap that often exists between hazard mitigation planning and other local planning and regulatory land-use processes.

List Price: $60.00

Complete Streets (PAS 559)  

Drawing on lessons learned from more than 30 communities around the country, this report provides insight into successful policy and implementation practices that have resulted in complete streets.

List Price: $60.00

Traffic  

An engaging look at why we drive the way we do and what it says about us.

List Price: $16.00

Clear as Mud  

As both observers of and participants in the creation of the Unified New Orleans Plan, Olshansky and Johnson bring unparalleled detail and insight to this complex story.

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Delta Urbanism: New Orleans  

This volume of APA's Delta Urbanism series traces the development of New Orleans from precolonial times to post-Katrina realities, in the context of the deltaic plain on which it lies. 2011 Bronze Medal, Independent Publisher Book Awards, Science.

List Price: $22.47

Envisioning Better Communities  

Randall Arendt's work has shaped a generation of planners, designers, and landscape architects. In Envisioning Better Communities, he brings his insights to a broader public, with a profusely illustrated demonstration of how local officials, planning commissioners, and everyday citizens can work to make their communities more attractive, more habitable, and more sustainable.

List Price: $59.95

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Becoming an Urban Planner  

Here is a completely up-to-date guide to today's careers in urban planning -- a clear and concise survey of the urban planning field and advice for navigating a successful career. Filled with interviews and guidance from leading urban planners, it covers everything from educational requirements to planning specialties and the many directions in which a career in urban planning can go.

List Price: $39.95

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My Kind of Transit  

In America's car-dominated landscape, public transit has long played second fiddle, but rising gasoline prices and the global warming crisis point to a need for alternative means of transportation. Darrin Nordahl sets the stage for these efforts by proposing that the experience of public transit and the quality of the ride are pivotal to the success of public transit.

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Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects Vol. 2  

The goal of this book, the second in a series, is to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, reforms, and experiments in addressing key social and economic problems facing cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas.

List Price: $29.95

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