Advanced Public Design Damdi
Three Volume Set containing:

After the City Lerup, Lars
 MIT, USA, 2000. HB 200pp $A 60.00 NEW TO PAPERBACK 2001 $A 42.00

After the World Trade Centre Rethinking New York City Sorkin, Michael & Zukin, S (Eds.)
Inevitable, this book looks at the theoretical context of the World Trade Centre disaster and the "War Against Terrorism" from the standpoint of the architect and the urban planner. Great, because it is free from American patriotism and naive statements on the state of world politics. Realistic, because it discusses the events of September 11 without any tones of sympathy or empathy and because it deals with the pragmatic issues of constructing the 'city' in the 21st century, not the nostalgic ones. Routledge, New York, 2002, 236pp, HB $A 60.00

After-Sprawl research for the contemporary city Xaveer de Geyter Architects
Reading somewhat like a series of essays, both visual and literal, this is a book where one firm goes in search of the form and meaning of the contemporary city and demonstrate that urbanity today is defined by the state of sprawl. This book documents and analyses the impact of sprawl on the built space and introduces a new conceptual apparatus and puts forward spatial propositions for the hybrid urbanity of the after-sprawl.
NAi Publishers, Rotterdam, 2002 255pp PB $A 48.00

Alexanderpolder: New Urban Frontiers
 Thoth, Netherlands, 1993, 193pp, PB $A 61.00

American City A Social & Cultural History Monti. D
Blackwell, USA, 1999. 391, PB $A POA

American City What Works What Doesn't Garvin, Alexander
McGraw-Hill, USA, 2002, 560pp HB $A119.95

Architectural Pattern Book: A tool for building great neighbourhoods  Urban Design Associates
From the firm that produced The Urban Design Handbook comes a practical guide to developing & using pattern books, a tradition stretching back to Vitruvius & Palladio & the source of many beautiful houses & the design of neighbourhoods today. Documenting the revival of the traditional architectural pattern book as a means of implementing urban design. it describes techniques & working methods for contemporary development & construction processes. Norton, USA, 2004, 230pp, PB. $PA

Architecture and Urbanism of TOKYO Norihako D
Expansive publication comprising two parts. The first presents a collection of writings by different authors examining Tokyo as a metropolis with all of its ensuing urban and historical characteristics. The second part features case studies of nine landmark architectural projects that have contributed to Tokyo's urban landscape by such names as Herzog & de Meuron, SANAA, Kenzo Tange and Fumihiko Maki.  Illustrated throughout with plans, maps and photographs.
Garden CIty Japan 2008 472pp HB $A 43.45 [04.04.09]

American Playgrounds, Revitalizing Community Spaces Solomon S
The author presents a seriously under developed topic touching on social history, laws, theories of play and childhood and urban planning.
University Press of New England USA 2005 260pp HB  $A52.00

Architecture and the Urban Environment Vision for the New Age Thomas, Derek
Architectural Press, UK, 2002, 224pp PB $A 89.65

Architecture of Community Krier, L
Krier has reconsidered and expanded writing from his 1998 book ‘Architecture: Choice or Fate’. Here he refines and updates his thinking on the making of sustainable, humane, and attractive villages, towns and cities. The book includes drawings, diagrams and photographs of his built works which have not been widely seen until now.
Island Press USA 2009 500pp HB $69.95 [26.11.09]

Architecture of the Information Society The World City Expressed Through the Chaos of Tokyo
 Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts & School of Architecture Publishers, Denmark, 2000, 239pp HB $A 86.00

The Art of City Making Landry C
Earthscan UK 2006 461pp PB $A64.95(16/06)

The Art Of Placemaking: Interpreting Community Through Public Art and Urban Design Fleming RL  
This book offers an engaging and comprehensive introduction to planning, funding and designing public art to enhance a sense of place. The author offers a practical approach to tackling public art and community planning in the US. This is an essential and valuable companion for anyone interested in architecture, deisign and the creation of places in which we live and work Merrel 2007 UK 384pp HB $A99.95 (11/08)

Asia Beyond Growth: Urbanization in the World’s Fastest Changing Continent AECOM
Since the early 2000s Turkey  has undergone a remarkable economic recovery, which has been accompanied by urban development and cultural change. AD tackles the issue of globalization, heritage, design, and features key works by emerging practices.
ORO Editions 2010 484pp PB $69.95 [11.03.10]

Asian New Urbanism Lim, William S. W.
Select, Singapore, 1998, 48pp. HB $A 71.50

Australian Metropolis A Planning History. Hamnett, S (ed.)
A definitive account of the role of planning in the growth and development of Australian cities. Allen & Unwin , Australia, 2000. 230pp HB O/P

Back on Track: Rethinking Transport Policy in Australia and New Zealand
Laird, Newman, Bachels, Kenworthy
Back on Track considers the historic, economic and political issues that have led to high road usage, and concludes that the emergence of such a strongly road-oriented system is not in our national interest, on both economic and environmental grounds. UNSW Press 2001 256pp PB $39.95 [12.05.09]

Back to the City: Strategies for Informal Urban Interventions Lehmann, S
Public space has become a fascinating laboratory for laboratory for interdisciplinary cooperation among artists, architects, urban planners and landscape architects. Here is a documentation of 28 urban projects from Germany and Australia outlining the ever expanding potentials of urban space.
Hatje Cantz Germany2009 262pp HB $90.00 [21.07.09]

Beirut is a Magnificent City: Synoptic Pictures P. Yacoub, M. Lasserre
Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, 2003. 127pp PB $A 56.65

Between the Edges: Street building transition as urbanity interface. Bobic, M
The complex phenomenon of urbanity is riddled with the interchange of spatial relationships between the private and public domain. The book’s focus is on a wide overview of spatial forms of transition zones between the built form and the street-interface that take play at different scales whilst including discussions about urban practise today. Thoth Publishers Netherlands 2007 143 pp. PB A$53.90

Becoming Places Urbanism/Architecture/Identity/Power Dovey, Kim
Melbourne University’s Professor Kim Dovey discusses the practices and politics of place and identity formation - the slippery ways in which who we are becomes wrapped up with where we are. Drawing on the social theories of Deleuze and Bourdieu, the book analyzes the sense of place as socio-spatial assemblage and as embodied habitus. This is supported by a broad range of case studies from nationalist monuments and new urbanist suburbs to urban laneways and avant garde interiors.
Routledge 2009 200pp PB $85.00 [30.09.09]

Bernhard Winking Architecture and the City Weiss, K D (ed.)
 Birkhauser, Switzerland, 1999. 257pp HB $A128.70

The Besos Planning Reform Ajuntament de Barcelona
An account of the Besos redevelopment, which reintegrated degraded areas of Barcelona’s River Besos back into the city with the restoration of public space, and surrounding infrastructures. Actar Spain 2007 PB $A60.00

Between Sea and City Eight Piers for Thessaloniki;   Van Eyck, Geipel, Botta, Siza, Coop Himmelblau, Miralles, Koolhaas and de Carlo
NAI Publishers, Netherlands, 1997.  160pp PB $A 49.50

Beyond the Edge: New York's New Waterfront Gastil, R
Before September 11, 2001, New York City was in the process of transforming its waterfront after decades of neglect. The tragic events of that day brought into sharper focus the issue surrounding the development of the water's edge, along with a host of more complicated issues involving monuments and icons, public space and public safety, reconstruction and renewal. Taking as points of reference the recent reinvigoration of London, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Bilbao - all cities with high-profile waterfronts, where designers, landscape architects, and artists have been instrumental in creating memorable buildings, parks, and spaces - Gastil proposes an approach to the redevelopment of New York's waterfront that is as visionary as it is pragmatic. PAP, USA, 2002. PB 208pp $A 78.50

Berlin Modernism Housing Estates: Inscription on the Unesco World Heritage List Misc
Six residential areas of the interwar Berlin Modern Style have been given the status as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Berlin’s architecture and city planning of the 1920s was considered the avant-garde centre of the world. These world-class projects have had an enduring effect on the definition and spread of social housing.
Braun Germany 2008 286pp HB $115.00 [05.11.09]

Beyond No. 1: Scenarios and Speculation Misc
New series that discusses Architecture through writing. It also explores how fictitious cities are influencing real cities and the other way around. Authors: Bruce Sterling, Lara Schrijver, Kobas Laksa, Shumon Basar, Wes Jones, Superstudio, Aaron Betsky, Pedro Gadanho. Shortstories by Gilles Delalex (Studio Muoto), Michelle Provoost (Crimson), Knut Birkholz, Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, Boris Jensen, Silvia Banchini and Luis Falcon, Antonio Scarpati.
SUN Publishers 2009 128pp PB $55.00 [30.10.09]

Biopolis - Patrick Geddes & the City of Life Welter,V
The Scottish urbanist and biologist Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) is perhaps best known for introducing the concept of "region" to architecture and planning. Geddes's famous analytical triad--place, work, and folk, corresponding to the geographical, historical, and spiritual aspects of the city--provides the basic structure of this examination of his urban theory. His urbanism was informed by his lifelong interest in the theory of evolution and in ecology, cutting-edge areas in the late nineteenth century.  Although Geddes’s work was far-ranging, the city provided the unifying focus of nearly all of his theoretical and practical work. Throughout the book, Welter relates Geddes’s theory of the city to contemporary European debates about architecture and urbanism. MIT Press US 2003 355pp PB $A 49.95

Blueprint for Disaster: Unravelling of Chicago Public Housing D. Bradford Hunt
Now considered a dysfunctional mess, Chicago’s public housing projects once had long waiting lists of would-be residents hoping to leave the slums behind. So what went wrong? To answer this complicated question, D. Bradford Hunt traces public housing’s history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through current mayor Richard M. Daley’s Plan for Transformation. In the process, he chronicles the Chicago Housing Authority’s own transformation from the city’s most progressive government agency to its largest slumlord.
University of Chicago Press 2009 380pp HB $65.00 [22.06.09]

Boiled Frog Syndrome – Your Health and the Built Environment Saunders, T.
A rare insight into the built environment from the physical, human perspective. Not really an architecture book, but incredibly important to the practise and execution of architecture. The book explores the cause and effect process betweens humans and the urban condition. It is based on the notion of a frog continually changing its body temperature in warming water until it is boiled alive. Wiley-Academy, Sussex, 2002, 261pp PB $A 52.95

Boomtown 2050: Scenarios for a Rapidly Growing City Weller, Richard
Perth is a city of 1.5 million people. It is expected that by the year 2050 the population of this rapidly growing city will double – moreover, housing numbers will have to increase, as will infrastructure. A presentation model of the relevant facts and figures clearly demonstrates the product of planning and development. It is crucial information needed to understand the potential future of our cities.
UWA Publishing Australia 2009 452pp HB $99.95 [15.07.09]

Boundaries of the City The Architecture of Western Urbanism   Waterhouse, A.
Toronto UP, Canada, 1993. 342pp HB $A P/A

The Boulevard Book: History, Evolution, Design of Multiway Boulevards
Following up Allan Jacob's renowned "Great Streets", this edition contains plans, drawings, traffic co-ordination and specifications (without being a dry textbook) detailing the concept and construction of effective and acclaimed projects. Focussing on 5 major boulevards from around the world, the book illustrates the planning of multiway streets and how they have become integral to designing a great city. Also including a few pages on Melbourne's St. Kilda Road, the book offers solutions to designing these streets, more liveable cities and ultimately, a better environment. An important book breaking new ground in how we think about urban planning.MIT Press, USA, 2001, 257pp, HB $A 95.00  Now available in Paperback 2004 $A47.95

Breathing Cities The Architecture of Movement Barley, N. Ed.
A book about the way cities move about the flow of people, objects and ideas which give cities their meaning. With contributions from architects including Foreign Office and Zaha Hadid, and artists including Richard Wentworth, Mark Dion and Nathan Coley, Breathing Cities investigates the ideas which are revolutionising urban space. Birkhauser, Swiss, 2000. PB 127pp $A74.50

Brussels: A Manifesto Towards The Capital of Europe
If Europe is a place of irreducible diversity, than Brussels- a city of unparalleled  social, political and cultural difference- is the capital manifestation of Europe in the form of a city. Against the rhetoric of Europe as a neutral ‘mosaic of differences’, this manifesto uses the unequivocal presence of architecture as the constituent element of a new project for the city- a project that ties the representative role of architecture to the future of Europe .
Nai Publishers 2007 Rotterdam 239pp PB $A70.00

Building Jaipur: The Making of an Indian City. Vibhuti Sachdev & Giles Tillotson
 Reaktion Books, UK, 2002. PB 200pp $A 65.95

Building the 21st Century Home The Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood Rudin. D & Falk. N 
 Butterworth, UK, 1999. 271pp PB $A 83.60

Building Zurich Eisinger A, Reuther I, Eberhard F. &  Lüscher R.
Office for Urbanism is a group of urban planners who has kept up with the shifts and changes in the city of Zurich in the recent years, and have worked on specific concepts and basic rules for the development of new public vicinities. First comparing physical changes from early 19^th century with current conditions and observations, this publication then looks at the group’s formation of strategies through processes requiring the sourcing of information, analyses of data, documentation and ways of communication.  Discussion between various parties involved including politicians, land owners, architects and investors are also featured to provide in insight into the rigorous activities behind the planning of Zurich. Birkhäuser 2007 Germany 312pp HB $A87.50

C3: Celebrating the City: Urban Facilities
Urban Facilities' in this edition include, ephemeral structures, viewing points and park equipment, but also extend to include bus and tram stations along with market and airport buildings. A total of nineteen urban facilities are surveyed here with the help of extensive colour photography, plans and elevations. Projects featured include: Kengo Kuma's Chokkura Plaza and Shelter; Durbach Block Architects', Brick Pit Ring; Wilkinson Eyre Architects', Alpine House in the Kew Royal Botanical Gardens; Subarquitectura's Tram Stop, Alicante; and Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, Madrid Barajas Airport C3 Korea 2008 296pp HB $121.00

C3: Public Space: for Amusement & Achievment
Public Libraries, play centres for children, swimming pools, theatres, cultural and neighbourhood centres all receive attention here through full colour photographs, plans, details and elevations. Sixteen projects are presented, including: Aires Mateus' Cultural Centre in Sines; the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art by Diller Scofidio+Renfro; SANAA's Almere Theatre and Cultural Centre; J.Mayer.H's Danfoss Universe; World Classrooms by Future Systems, and the Des Moines Public Library by David Chipperfield . C3 Korea 2008 266pp HB $110.00



Coastal Towns in Transition: Local Perceptions of Landscape Change Green, R
Looks at how changes due to unsympathetic development of the built environment and modification of the natural landscape are perceived to negatively impact on the character of small coastal towns. The book explores the concept of town character, and associated notions of sense of place, genius loci and place identity, as conceptualised by local residents in several coastal town communities along Australia’s Great Ocean Road.
CSIRO Publishing Australia 2010 172pp PB $120.00 [15.02.10]

Canberra 1912: Plans & Planners of the Australian Capital Competition
 MUP, Australia, 1997 494pp, HB $A65.95

Canberra Following Griffin A Design History of Australia's National Capital Ried, Paul
The National archives of Australia have compiled almost all of their material on Canberra and published it in this beautiful definitive volume on our world famous capital. National archives of Australia, Canberra, 2002 378pp, HB $A 90.00

Car Wars Davidson G.
This is the story of our love affair with the car and how it changed a city. Graeme Davison, Australia's leading urban historian, explores the Melbourne he knows so well to show us how the car entered our consciousness - as an object of desire, a symbol of status, a creator of freedoms, a shaper of sexual mores. His is a fascinating journey through landscapes changed and cities redesigned by the car, of mayhem on the road and influence in the world of politics, of communities challenged and the environment threatened, and of an ongoing love affair with a machine. A&U Aust2004 PB308pp $A29.95

Changing Toronto: Governing Urban Neoliberalism Boudreau
Analyses the political, social, and environmental challenges of living in, and governing a major metropolitan city region that bills itself as a multicultural and world-class city.
University of Toronto Press 2009 190pp PB $68.00 [14.09.09]

Challenge of social innovation in urban revitalization Drewe P
This book looks at bottom-up actions, where residents and local organisations took charge, taking risks to improve their living conditions and to build a new future, mobilizing a wide range of resources. A series of case studies are also presented. Techne Press Netherlands 260pp PB AU$99.95

Charcos (Puddles) Bernado, Jordi
In this very small and cute book, Bernado explores the relationships between architecture, landscape and bodies of water that lie within and beyond our urban environment. Based on the small island of Tenerife off the North Western coast of Africa, his research extends into a new and unique territory of architectural thinking and is documented in beautiful photographs and contemplative essays. Actar, Spain, 2001, PB, $A 50.00

CHINA Leach N.
Painting a portrait of this gigantic country through short thematic segments this latest offering from Neal Leach (including photography from Laurent Gutierrez & Valerie Portefaix) portrays China as a fast growing industrial nation, but also as a dynamic centre of world culture. Map HongKong2004 PB 128pp $A26.40

Chinese Architecture and Planning: Ideas, Methods, Techniques Guo Q
This book presents a thematic discussion of architectural history and a critical evaluation of city planning, with a focus on the issues of ideas, methods and techniques in the context of the culture, politic and religion of pre-modern China. Axel Menges Stuttgart/London 2005 166pp HB AU$120.00

Cities From Zero Basar S (Ed)
Vision plus Money plus Historical Circumstance Equals Cities From Zero: Unapologetic Expressions of New-Found Economic- and therefore Political- Prowess in the 21^st Century.
A collection of essays about urban design and the 21^st century in response to a select group of cities experiencing rapid growth. AA UK 2008 128pp PB A $40.70

Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems: Principles and practices. Newman, P & Jennings, I
Taking cues from living systems for sustainability strategies and drawing from examples from around the world, Cities as sustainable ecosystems demonstrates how cities and their residents can begin to reintegrate into a bioregional environment and why cities should be planned with nature’s organizing principles in mind. Island Press Washington 2008 284pp PB A $69.95

City Building: Nine Planning Principles for the Twenty-First Century Kriken, J
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s proactive, green-focused, user-friendly guide to city building. Divided into three parts, it: examines the past and defines the current practice of city building, translates this framework into nine best-practice principles and how properly organised cities can be the mechanism for can be a mechanism for sensible, sustainable uses of increasingly scarce resources.
Princeton Architectural Press 2010 260pp PB $70.00 [25.03.10]

Cities of Change: Addis Ababa Angelil and Hebel
Transformation strategies for Urban Territories in the 21^st Century. Addis Ababa Urban Laboratory – A research lab launched by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology investigating sustainable strategies for urban development.
Birkhauser Basel 2009 120pp PB $103.50 [20.11.09]

Cities Full of Space: Qualities of Density Uytenhaak, R
In a period when expanding and evolving populations are placing pressure on both cities and resources, Rudy Uytenhaak's research into urban structures, their potential densities, and the specific qualities that can be achieved with them, is invaluable. 010 Publishers 2008 120pp PB $76.45 [12.05.09]

Cities People Planet: Urban Development and climate change 2^nd Ed Girardet Herbet
Ninety case studies of leading-edge city initiatives are supplemented by a new chapter that looks at how cities are constructively tackling climate change. As the changes to both the biosphere and the atmosphere have become undisputed and as the depletion of natural resources are becoming a major constraint, this book explores in-depth the role urban planning has to play.
John Wiley England 2008 320pp PB AU$64.95

Cities X Lines: A New Lens for the Urbanistic Project Busquets, J & Correa, F
Documents three years of faculty research at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, that focused on the development of a pedagogic taxonomy to frame the methods and tools with which designers currently shape cities and open territories. It examines new techniques in working with the built environment, in multiple settings, interacting with a wide array of cultures, scales and intensities.
Harvard University UK 2006 445pp PB $A100.00

City Edge: Contemporary Discourses on Urbanism Charlesworth, E.
This series of essays outlines a number of case studies from Europe, North America, Australia and Asia and provides first hand accounts of the experiences that planners, architects and politicians have had in reshaping cities. Archil Press, UK, 2005, 272pp, PB. $A 77.00

City of Collision: Jerusalem and the Principles of Conflict Urbanism   Waldheim, C. (Ed.)
Presenting a thorough exploration of the current situation in Jerusalem from a trilateral perspective: Israeli, Palestinian, and international experts air their views. Focusing on the production and use of urban space under the conditions created by the conflict, this book looks to Jerusalem as a prototype in the age of new urban violence. Birkhäuser Switzerland 2006 PB 400pp $A93.50

Cities and Gender Jarvis, Kantor and Cloke
A systematic treatment of urban and gender studies combined. It presents both a feminist critique of mainstream urban policy and planning and a gendered reorientation of key urban social, environmental and city-regional debates. It also looks behind the ‘headlines’ on issues of transport, housing, uneven development, regeneration and social exclusion.
Routledge 2009 364pp PB $69.95 [07.10.09]

Cities for a Small Country Richard Rogers & Anne Power
Following on from the popular Cities for a Small Planet, this new book examines the British urban situation and proposes radical solutions. With comprehensive research and information, this book looks as much at the social aspects of a city, as it does at urban infrastructure and planning. Faber & Faber, UK, 2000. 310pp PB $A 40.00

Cities for a Small Planet: Richard Rogers & Gumuchdjian, P
 Faber & Faber, UK, 1997. 180pp PB $A 28.00

City Gardens: Creative Ideas for Small Spaces Nessmann P
An excellent and pictorially comprehensive guide for designing and decorating small outdoor spaces.
Stewart, Tabori & King USA 2008 104pp PB AU $29.95

Cities in Transition Graafland, Arie. Hauptmann, Deborah.
010 Publishing Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2001 430pp. PB $A POA

Cities on Rails the Redevelopment of Railway Station Areas Bertolini, L & Spit, T. 
E & FN Spon, UK, 1998.   236pp $A 115.50

Cities of Tomorrow Updated edition. Hall, P.
Blackwell, UK,, 1996. 502pp PB $A75.00

Cities People Planet  Girardet, H.
Through a fast moving text and ninety case studies, the author presents initiatives and policies on how to make cities around the world both liveable and sustainable. Starting with a concise environmental and cultural history of cities, the book continues as a contemporary global survey and analysis of the challenges of an urbanising world. The ecological redesign of cities, where practiced, is already showing substantial economic and social benefits and is now starting to be implemented across the world. Wiley, USA, 2004, 304pp, PB. $A 57.95 (11/01)

City Reborn: architecture & regeneration in London, from Bankside to Dulwich  Powell K.
Telling the story of one of Britain’s most dynamic & successful areas of regeneration. Highlighting the story of architecture's role in the renaissance and renewal throughout all of the Southwark area, one of London’s most historic districts. Merrell, UK, 2005, 128pp, PB.  $A 49.95 (18/02)

Cities, Design & Evolution Marshall S
Cities, Design & Evolution offers an engaging fresh approach to urban planning. With reference to Geddes, Le Corbusier, Darwin and Dawkins, Marshall develops a new evolutionary perspective that recognises both the ‘designed’ and ‘organic’ nature of cities. Routledge UK 2009 341pp PB $A98.00

China, China… Western Architects and City Planners in China Lu X
With Western architects and planners flocking to China, difficulties arise between professionals with different cultural and social backgrounds. Lu has compiled this handbook after extensive research and experience on the topic. It is full of valuable advice and will hopefully contribute to better inter-cultural cooperation. Hatje Cantz Germany 2008 108pp PB $AU 50.00

Critical Seventies: Architecture & Urban Planning in The Netherlands 1968-1982  de Vletter M.
NAi The Netherlands2004 PB 258pp $A57.00

City Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the 20thCentury. Scott, J & Soja, E. eds
California UP, USA 1996. 483pp HB $A 76.95  PB $A P/A

City Assembled The elements of urban form through history S. Kostof
Thames & Hudson, UK 1992. 320pp HB $POA

City in Literature an Intellectual and Cultural History. Lehan, R.
Cal UP, USA, 1998. 330pp PB $AP/A

City in History It's Origins, it's Transformations and it's Prospects Mumford, Lewis
Harvest, USA (First Ed 1961) 657pp PB $A 66.00

City Life Rybczynski, W.
Touchstone, USA, 1995. 256pp PB $A P/A

City of Collective Memory Its historical imagery and architectural entertainments M.C. Boyer
MIT, USA, 1994. 560pp PB $A P/A

City of Quartz Excavating the Future in Los Angeles Davis. M,
Pimlico, UK, 1998. 461pp PB $A POA

City as Landscape A Postmodern View of Design and Planning Turner. T
  UK, 1996.  $AP/A

City and Port Transformation of Port Cities - London, Barcelona, New York and Rotterdam. Meyer, H
 International Books, Holland, 1999. HB 424pp $A 125.00

City Reader 3rd Edition. LeGates, Richard T and Stout Frederic
The third edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best of publications on the city. It has been extensively updated to reflect the latest thinking on globalization, information technology and urban theory. Classic writings from such authors as Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs and Le Corbusier, meet the best contemporary writings of, among others, Peter Hall, Saskia Sassen and Manuel Castells. The City Reader provides the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of Urban Studies, old and new. Routledge UK 2003 PB 520pp $A 79.00  

City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History     Kostof, S.  
Thames, UK, 1991. 352pp PB $AP/A

City Space Sculptures and Installations Made for Copenhagen 96
City Space, Denmark, 1996. 120pp PB $A P/A

City of Tomorrow and Its Planning Le Corbusier
Dover, USA, 1987. 302pp PB $A 36.50

City Transformed - Urban Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century Powell, K
Investigating specific urban projects divided into Urban Regeneration, Urban Extension, Transport, and Cultural Developments. Each of the 4 chapters is prefaced by an introduction examining historical causes, the views of critics and reformers, and the symptoms and problems of each urban space. Laurence-King, UK, 2000. HB 255pp $A POA

Civic Realism Rowe, P.
 MIT, USA, 1997. 255pp PB $AP/A

The Co-Housing Book: Building a Place for Community Scotthanson C & Scotthanson K
A wealth of information and practical hints on how to put an end to the isolated suburban home. This book shows how to create a modern village within an urban or rural setting, with a balance of community and personal privacy NSP 2005 Canada 290pp PB $A45.00

Jo Coenen: From urban design to architectural detail
The first comprehensive monograph on the Dutch architect Jo Coenen. He is not only an architect, but also a city planner, university lecturer, artist & until very recently, the Dutch Government Architect. Comprising of six interviews with him, each are on central themes to do with his work & extensive documentation. It is an inspiring reference book on an highly individual architect. Birkhauser, Switzerland, 2005, 448pp, HB. $A 170.00 (23/03)

The Compact City A Sustainable Urban Form?  Jenks. M, Burton. E and Williams. K ed.  T
 UK, 1996.  $A P/A

Consuming Architecture   Diller & Scofidio, Alsop & Stormer, OMA, Martin Pawley etal  Sandercock, L, (forward),
Academy Editions,UK, 1998. 96pp PB $AP/A

Consuming Cities Urban Environment in the Global Economy. Low, N (ed.)
 Rouledge, UK, 1999.  315pp PB $A 54.95

Contemporary (Greek) City Metapolis 2001 Yannis Aesopos, Yorgos Simeoforidis
Metapolis Press, Athens, 2001, 300pp, PB $A96.80

Copenhagen Spaces Dirckinck-Holmfeld, K. (Ed.)
This book looks at the city of Copenhagen in four sections: The harbour, The city centre, The bridge quarters and the new ørestad quarter. Between these sections are three themes: the city's squares, parks and environmental engineering complexes.The Danish Architectural Press, 1996, 176pp, PB $A 61.60

Creating a Vibrant City Center, Urban Design and Regeneration Principles Paumier Cy
Written by a leading expert in urban design who has worked with more than 50 cities in the USA, UK and continental Europe. A comprehensive action plan for creating a lively and appealing city centre.
ULI 2004 USA 206pp PB $A85.00

Creative City: Dynamics Innovations Actions Carta M
A research review atlas of urban, landscape and architectural projects, which collect some good creative practices for transforming the contemporary city.
List Spain 2007 160pp PB AU$53.00

Creeping Conformity. Harris, R
A major contribution to North American urban history, Harris analyses the transformation of Canada’s suburbs between 1900-1960. Everyone with an interest in class, gender and metropolitan building patterns should read this remarkable book. University of Toronto Press. Canada 205pp. PB A$43.95

Cross-Cultural Urban Design: Global or Local Practice? Bull C (ed)
Through a series of short essays this book explores how urban design has responded to recent trends toward global standardisation. Following an analysis of practice in many places and at many scales the book suggests how urban design and planning could move towards the future.
Routledge UK 2007 241pp PB AU$90.00

Death and Life of Great American Cities Jacobs, J
Vintage – A Critique of early urban planning theories.
Random House Vintage Books 1992 458pp PB $29.95 [13.08.09]

De Boompjes: Four Visions on a Waterfront Duursma, Jan (Ed)
010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 2002, 95pp, PB $A 38.50

Debating the City An Anthology. Barrett J, Butler-Bowdon D Editors
Debating the City examines current city and urban issues in Australian cities - and specifically Sydney. Organized into 3 chapters titled; City Living & Cosmopolitanism; Urban Visions - Public Space; and Consuming Spaces. Writers include Philip Goad, Kim Dovey, Jane M Jacobs, Michael Mobbs and many more. A very useful text.HHT/Uni of Western Sydney, Aust, 2001. PB 255pp $A 34.95

Decent Homes for All Gallent N & Tewdwr-Jones M
“Decent Homes for All” provides students, planners and researchers with an accessible and comprehensive narrative of the evolving relationship between planning policy and housing provision, showing how we have arrived at our present situation and examining how current issues might evolve in the years ahead.” Routledge USA 2007 300pp PB $90.00

Density Projects (a+t) Arpa J & Fernandez per A
The third book to the a+t Density series, with 36 new concepts on collective housing by architects such as Jean Nouvel, Oppenheim, Steven Holl, MGM Moralles and AOC.
A+T Spain 2007 397pp PB AU $87.45

Design First: Design-based Planning for Communities Walters D. & Brown L.L.
With the objective of reintegrating three-dimensional design, firmly back into planning practice this well-grounded history & theory of Anglo-American urbanism illustrates & sets out objectives, policies & design principles for planning new communities & redeveloping existing urban neighbourhoods. Drawing from their extensive experience, the authors explain how better plans, & consequently better places, can be created by applying their principles of urban design & physical place making. The book is aimed at architects, landscape architects, planners, developers, & students. ElsevierUSA2004PB 277pp$A102.30

Design Out Crime - Creating Safe & Sustainable Communities Colquhoun, Ian
Architectural Press UK 2004 PB 325pp $A92.40

Designing Australia’s Cities: Culture, Commerce and the City Beautiful, 1890-1930 Freestone R
Designing Australias Cities chronicles and celebrates the ideas, influences, outcomes and enduring legacies from the international City Beautiful movement. During this time architects and planners became actively aware of a need to make the country's cities not just efficient, productive and safe to live and work in, but also works of art.UNSW Press 2007 Australia 325pp PB $A49.95

Designing Public, Erlhoff, Heidkamp & Utikal
Designing public looks at different perspectives of our cities and the individual design elements that contribute to these. The book explores the juxtaposition of private and public spheres and the defining factors of the two realms. Birkhauser, Germany, 2008, 200pp AU$54.50

Designing Towards a More Sustainable Urban Form the City Frey. H
Spon, UK, 1999. 148pp PB $A 117.00

Developing Australia’s Regions: Theory and Practice Beer, Maude and Pritchard
Looks at the often negative media headlines and stereotypes about regional Australia, and considers the true state of Australia’s regions, including metropolitan regions, and what can be done to improve their economic, social and environmental well-being. UNSW Press 2003 310pp PB $56.95 [12.05.09]

Developing sustainable planned communities Gause, J.A
This practical guide packed with examples and lavish illustrations provides down to earth, reality based insights into designing and developing sustainable planned communities that are environmentally responsive, attractive, marketable and profitable. Urban Land Institute. Washington 2007 220pp HB A $130.00

Dimension of Sustainability Scott. A ed.  This illustrated book gives a comprehensive revue of the contemporary ideas, innovations and emerging attitudes to Sustainability and Architecture and Urban design. Spon, UK, 1998. 147pp PB   $A P/A

Dispersion: A Study of Global Mobility and the Dynamics of a Fictional Urbanism D. Barajas.
Episode, Rotterdam 2003. 139pp HB $A 41.80

Dutch Dialogues: New Orleans Edited by Meyer, Morris and Waggonner
In the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina that laid waste to large parts of New Orleans, a number of large infrastructure and research projects have been initiated to improve flood prevention in the region. With a similar flood prone, urbanised delta area the Dutch have considerable experience with water management. 'Dutch Dialogues' provides a condensed narrative of the fruits of a workshop dealing with this common theme and provides a collection of insightful papers, planning solutions, water strategies and other sketches
SUN Publishers 2009 80pp PB $50.60 [30.10.09]

e-city: Digital Networks and Cities of the Future Fusero, P
An analysis of the significant changes in urban planning brought on by the development of new technologies and innovation in industry.
List Publications 2009 160pp PB $52.00 [22.09.09]

Eastern Harbour District Amsterdam: Urbanism & Architecture NAi Publishers in association with the City of Amsterdam’s Department of Physical Planning
Amsterdam’s Oostelijk Havengebied or eastern docks consist of a number of artificial archipelagos laid out around 1900. When the once-flourishing docks fell into disuse, it was decided to transform the area in the 1970s into a high-grade residential district. This transformation is now almost completed. Jo Coenen, Sjoerd Soeters & Adriaan Geuze were among those who made the varied assortment of master-plans for the different areas. Many big-name Dutch architects contributed to fleshing out these plans with housing. So the eastern docks area is not just a successful &highly sort-after residential district, it is as much a catalogue of 20 years of Dutch architecture & urbanism of the highest quality. This book gives a complete overview in words a& images of the planning & architecture of these eastern harbour docklands supplemented by themed essays by specialists. NaiPub Netherlands 2003 HB 228pp $A120.00

Eccentric Architecture Casebere, J
The new configurational of the urban space (hypertextual, signing, a space of messages, drifts and paths), the non-places, the large traffic networks and the ceaseless flows, uprooting the traditional concept of a permanent habitat. This book collects 5 artists, and their works commenting on ideas surrounding these ideas in the built environment. Koldo, Spain 2003 PB 152pp $A 44.00

Ecocells Landscapes & master plans by Hamzah & Yeang Leon van Schaik
This pocket-sized book explores the idea of the ecocell as a vertical integrating device to bring landscape elements, daylight, rainwater, natural ventilation and sewage recycling vertically across all levels of the built form. The concept is explained in two master plan projects by Hamzah & Yeang (registered T. R. Hamzah & Yeang Sdn. Bhd, the Amsterdam Center of Science & Technology and the West Kowloon Waterfront Development.Wiley, UK, 2003. PB 144pp $A 26.95

Ecopolis: Architecture and Cities for a Changing Climate Paul F. Downton
Written by Dr. Paul F Downton, a practising architect and Director of Ecopolis Architects in Adelaide, Ecopolis explores the role of the city in out environment. Sourcing key theorists, practitioners and academics, and combining the knowledge of a range of fields, he presents a series of design and planning strategies to achieve ‘ Sustainable Human Ecological Development’. 
CSIRO Publishing 2009 600pp PB $A130.00

The Economics of Urban Transportation. Small, K.A & Verhoef, E.T
This newly expanded edition of Small’s seminal textbook on the economics of transportation covers new areas of parking policies, reliability of travel times and the privatization of transportation services, as well as updated treatment of congestion modelling, environmental costs and transit subsidies. An essential read for researchers in any aspect of urban transportation. Routledge New York 2007 276pp. PB A $81.00

EcoUrbanism Sustainable Human Settlements: 60 Case Studies.  Ruano, M
 GG, Spain, 1999. 192pp PB $A 95.00

Ecology of Fear Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster   Davis. D
Metropolitan , USA, 1998. 484pp HB $A 60.50

Economics of Urban Transportation Small and Verhoef
With international studies, Urban Transportation’s newly revised edition discusses the economics of urban transportation, covering topics such as parking policies, privatization, congestion modelling and more.
Routledge Press 2009 266pp PB $104.00 [14.09.09]

Edgeless Cities: Exploring the elusive metropolis Lang, Robert.E
Americas new metropolitan form is the basis of this book. Examining Growth and spatial structure of suburban office space across the nation. Data, Illustrations, maps, and photos are used to distinguish between two types of suburban office development - bounded and edgeless. Langs conceptual approach reframes the current thinking on suburban sprawl. Brookings, USA, 2003. 149pp PB $A 42.00

E-topia:"Urban life Jim-but not as we know it."  Mitchell, W
 MIT, USA, 1999.  184ppPB $A29.95

Europan 9 Misc
European Urbanity – Sustainable City and New Public Space. Gives an overview of the winning plans for the four Europan sites in the Netherlands: Amsterdam, Almere, Groningen, and Nijmegen.
NAi Publishers 2009 128pp PB $60.00 [18.11.09]

European Cities 1890-1930's History Culture & the Built Environment. Meller, H
This book studies urban and city planning at the time of modernisation in Europe. With industrialisation, population movement, and the war and its associated technological shift, this era in its richness and variety was instrumental in the formation of modern architecture and urban planning. With examples of Garden Cities, Seaside towns, housing estates and much more from England, Spain, Germany, France and Eastern Europe, this book is an excellent source for the history of modern urban planning. John Wiley, UK, 2001. PB 287pp $A 69.95

Euroscapes Broesi, R., Jannink, P., Veldhuis W. and Nio I. (Ed.s)
This book is an exploration of the landscape of 21st-Century Europe.  MUST, Netherlands, 2003, 217pp $A 53.35

Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of NeoLiberalism Davis M & Bertrand Monk D (eds)
Evil Paradises is a global guidebook to phantasmagoric but real places being constructed as “utopias” in a capitalist era. These developments-in cities, deserts and in the middle of the sea—are worlds where consumption surpass our worst nightmares.New Press NY 2007 336pp HB $A49.95

Evolution of American Urban Design Gosling, David
Offering a comprehensive survey of American Urban design, beginning with an account of it’s origins from the 17th to early 20th centuries & continuing with a decade by decade analysis of developments from the 1950’s to the present. The author’s far-reaching examination extends beyond architectural &planning issues to a wider picture of the times, & he sets the development of urban planning theory & practise in the context of the cultural shifts that shaped them.JWileyUSA2002 PB $A103.95

A Field Guide to Sprawl Hayden, D.
A small dictionary of urban sprawl; from zoomburbs to rural slammers, with aerial photographs and definitions that convey the impact of uncontrolled growth in America.Norton 2004 USA 125pp HB $A38.95

FLUID CITY: Transforming Melbourne’s Urban Waterfront Dovey K.
Tracing the transformation of Melbourne’s urban waterfront from 1983 to2003. It portrays the fluid city in terms of intersecting flows of “desire” – for identity, views, power & profits, whilst asking how we reconcile these “desires” with public interests. UNSW Aust 2004 PB 277pp $A59.95

Framing Places Mediating Powers in Built Form.  Dovey, K
 Routledge, UK, 1999.  218pp PB $A60.50

Framing Urban Renewal in Flanders Loeckx, A
Issue number One of the new ‘explorations’ series.  As a series, Explorations in/of Urbanism has the ambition to document and critically analyse a worldwide spectrum of changing urban conditions in interaction with the development of urbanism.
SUN Publishers 2009 272pp PB $100.00 [30.10.09]

From the Suburbs - building a nation from our neighbourhoods Latham, Mark
"From the Suburbs" is a collection of Mark Latham's papers over the past two years, reflecting his work as a creative and assertive Labor frontbencher. It is a fantastic to begin the design process for delivering socially responsible spaces and structures to the Australian public. Pluto Press, Australia, 2003, 150pp PB $A24.95

FUN! – Leisure and Landscape Metz, Tracey
Exploring the consequences of the leisure industry for the physical appearance of the Netherlands. Tracy Metz investigates, describes and analyses how the demand for entertainment leads to changes in the historic city centres, the marketing of nature and the cultural heritage, and the development of leisure centres and attraction parks. NAi Publishers, Rotterdam, 2002, 285pp PB $A60.00

Future City  Read, S. (Ed) et al
Mixing the experience of particular urban places with a more general discourse about the nature of urbanism today and cities as the dominant, even universal, form of human settlement in the future. The book focuses on understandings of inherently dynamic urbanisation processes; from the making of cities, present transformations of cities & our ability to influence or even define the urban future by planning & design. Spon, UK, 2005, 296pp, PB. $A96.00

GAM Architecture Magazine 05: Urbanity not Energy
Number 5 in the GAM Magazine Series
Springer Wien New York UK 2009  PB $52.00 [12.05.09]

GENO(V)A: developing & rebooting a waterfront city. Edited by Carnevali G. et al
Of all European cities, Genoa is perhaps the one which has undergone the most radical changes in appearance over the last decade. This book combines the original ideas for the master plan, by the likes of MVRDV, Foreign Office Architects, OMA & Tschumi, with the final international competitions winners UN Studio & their three-dimensional plaza that provided the city of Genoa with both a port and a heart for their city. Netherlands 2003 282pp HB $A100.00

Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape.    Ladd, B.
Chicago UP, USA 1997. 271pp, PB $A P/A

Great Planned Communities The urban Land Institute Gause, Jo Allen ed
Drawing on the pioneering ides of Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. Clarence Stein and j>C. Nichols. These planned communities incorporate a mix of housing types and price points, retail space, offices community gathering places, and open space such as parks and bicycle trails A documentation of gated communities. Urban Land Institute USA 2002 HB 286pp $A160.00

Great Streets A.B.Jacobs
MIT, USA 1993. 352pp PB $A P/A

Green City, The: Sustainable homes, sustainable suburbs  Low, N., Gleeson, B., Green, R. & Radović, D.
In “The Green City” a multi-disciplinary team of Australian professionals explain how ecological sustainability can be embodied in the everyday life of homes, communities and cities. UNSW Press, Aust, 2005, 247pp, PB. $A 39.95

Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment Kahn M.E.
This publication traces the environmental effects of economic, population and geographic growth in cities that are experiencing the expanding dilemma. Are economic growth and environmental health mutually exclusive? Kahn addresses this ongoing debate and defines the idea of a “green” city. Brookings 2006 USA 160pp PB $A35.95

Ground-Up City Play as a Design Tool Lefaivre L & Dőll
Maps the continuing history of an urban design strategy for play in the city. Lefaivre has developed a theoretical model for tackling playgrounds as an urban strategy by focusing particularly on post-war playgrounds realised in Amsterdam. The architecture firm Dőll explored the possibility of applying the model in two urban re-development areas in Rotterdam. 010 Holland, 2007 125pp PB $A64.35

Guide to ECSTACITY Coates N.
In this encyclopaedic book, Nigel Coates unfolds his view of the contemporary metropolis in the form of an hypothetical place described by The Guardian as "a gloriously dynamic vision of what a city might be if only we stretched out imagination". This book constructs an urban kaleidoscope marked by cultural diversity, accessibly written yet vigorous & as complex as the city itself. It is a sourcebook, architectural survey, novel & autobiography. LKing 2003 HB 464pp $A125.00

Halfway to Everywhere: a portrait of America's first-tier suburbs. Hudnut, William H
America's first-tier suburbs that ring large central cities were often left behind during the extraordinary revitalization of the downtown 1990's. This book look at the cycles of first tier suburbs in the USA, and provides his hopes and strategies for rejuvenation of such places. Urban Land Institute USA 2003 PB 478pp $A 37.50

hiCat Research Territories
Analysing every component of a territory, using Catalonia as a case study but saying as much or more about the entire world. Part one of this dynamically designed two-volume set (which holds together magnetically) takes a statistical approach to territorial research. Bursting with inventive charts & graphics, it makes use of statistics to compare the facts of Catalonia to those of territories around the world, from Djakarta to Chicago to Finland. Variables are cross-referenced with others to form suggestive connections between, for instance, education and cultural consumption. ~Part two takes an architectural and urban planning tack, inviting a world of innovative designers to propose projects and strategies, specifically for application in Catalonia, but with obvious relevance to anywhere and everywhere. Participants include FOA, Abalos & Herreros, MVRDV, NL Architects, UN Studio, and West 8, among others. Proposed scenarios consider such issues as senior tourism, sport cities, university campuses, industrial parks, airports, and suburbia. Actar, Spanish, 2004, Vol 1 192pp, Vol 2 704pp, HB. $A 130.00.

HK LAB Gutierrez, Manzini, Portefaix (Eds.)
Hong Kong is one the largest, densest and most fascinating of urban metropolis's. Exploring the condition of housing, planning, development, access, environment, culture and identity. Map Book Publishers, Hong Kong, 2002, PB $A 104.50

Hot Towns: Future of the Fastest Growing Communities in America   Wolf, P.
Rutgers, USA, 1999. 283pp HB $A 55.00

*Housing Policy in Europe Balchin. P ed.
 UK, 1999.  $A P/A

*Housing the Essential Foundations Balchin. P & Rhoden. M ed.
 UK, 1998.  $AP/A

Hybrid Zones: art & architecture in Basel & Zurich Edited by Omlin S. & Frei Bernasconi K.
Kunst-und-Bau commissions, awarded by the state or private developers, are an important means of promoting art in public space. They provide artists with the opportunity to realize projects in a concrete architectural space outside the museum. The artists who create a Kunst-und-Bau project are the first interpreters of the constructed space. The hybrid zones that evolve perform a concrete architectural function while merging with the public artistic sphere & museum space via the artwork. Birkhauser Germany2003 PB 160pp $A42.50

Hyperborder: The Contemporary U.S-Mexico Border and its Future. Romero, F / LAR
The United States-Mexico border is one of the most complex and dynamic areas of the planet today. Fernando Romero provides a multi-disciplinary account of this dynamic region and begins to examine issues faced by other border regions; North-South Korea, Israel and Palestine, France, Switzerland and Germany by using current economic, political, social and environmental trends to project potential scenarios for the border at the midway mark of the twenty-first century. Hyperborder is a non partisan report from the front line of the border debate. Princeton Architectural Press New York 2008 317pp. PB A$59.50

International Master Plan Competition for Public Administration Town
Competition submissions for the 2007 International Master Plan Competition for Public Administration Town. Archiworld 2007 297pp HB $89.95 [22.06.09]

IJburg: Haveneiland and Rieteilanden Claus, van Dongen & Schaap
As MVRDV created the imaginary Meta-City/Data Town, the authors of this book have documented the actual statistics and designed conditions of this part of the Netherlands - IJburg. Dealing with both the discussions surrounding Holland's "Artificial Landscape" and the need for highly sophisticated urban planning, the strength of this book is the beautiful graphics and images used to describe the architecture in question.  010 Publishers, Netherlands, 2002, 155pp, PB $A 84.15

Japan. Towards Totalscape Kira M, Terada M Eds.
Locating Japanese architecture, urban design and landscape architecture in the social and cultural context of present-day Japan. More than a collation of contemporary work, this book seeks to examine the relationship between the architectural work and its surroundings. There is also discussion and analysis of the Metropolitan, Urban, Rural, Natural and Artificial Landscape and how it influences architecture. NAI, Holland, 2001 PB 332pp $AP.O.A

I am a Monument: On Learning from Las Vegas Aron Vinegar
Aron Vinegar argues that ‘Learning from Las Vegas’, one of the most influential and controversial books of its time, is of less importance to history, and more relevant to the space and time we live in today.
MIT Press Massachusetts 2008 208pp HB AU$43.95

Idea of the Functional City a Lecture with Slides 1928. van Eesteren, C.
NAI, Holland, 1997. 160pp HB $A P/A

In Search of Public Space Four Architects from London  Fretton, T. Parry, E. Ronalds, d'Avoine, P.
The British Council Catalogue, UK, 1997. PB 278pp $A 104.50

Ideal Cities: Utopianism and the (Un)Built Environment Eaton, Ruth
Thames & Hudson, UK, 2002 HB $A 140.00

Insights 2030
From the 2008 Large Practice Forums on the people and politics shaping Melbourne. 10 insights from Karl Fender, John Denton, Rob Pradolin, Justin Madden MLC, Jane Monk, Daryl Jackson, Andrew Jaspan, Stewart Nankervis, Geoffrey London and David Young. Australian Institute of Architects 2008 PB $A20.00

IImages of the Street Planning, Identity and Control in Public Space  Fyfe, N.
How are social identities and practices shaped by peoples' experiences of the street?  Rout. UK, 1998. 286pp PB $A P/A

Infrastructure: The Book of Everything for the Industrial Landscape Hayes B.
Explaining all there is to know about infrastructures, from the everyday roads and bridges, to the rarely accessible mining sites, oil rigs, power and waste management plants. Highly readable and the complimenting photographs undoubtedly project the beauty of these often overlooked objects. Norton 2006 USA 536pp PB $A53.95

In Search of New Public Domain / Analysis & Strategy Hajer, Maarten & Reijndorp, Arnold
This is a report of an intensive quest to establish the preconditions for the design of new public spaces. On the basis of an analysis of the cultural geography of the network city, the authors develop a new perspective of cultural exchange as a typical urban quality. Although highly critical and theoretical, the insightful text is driven by a series of fascinating and informative images. NAi Publishers, Rotterdam, 2001, 142pp, PB $A 50.00

In The Chinese City: Perspectives on the Transmutations of an empire
Conceived as a compliment to the exhibition of the same title, first shown at the Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine (Paris) during summer 2008, and then at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona(CCCB) the following autumn. This publication explores both the enthusiasm and the concerns surrounding the Beijing Olympic games with its unprecedented construction activity of an unknown scale and volume. China’s fragility and vulnerability, along with its grandeur and beauty, are central to the texts composing this publication.
Actar Spain 2008 340pp HB $A90.00

The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles Edited by Kazys Narnelis
Once the greatest American example of a modern city served by infrastructure, Los Angeles is now in perpetual crisis. Infrastructure has ceased to support architecture's plans for the city and instead subordinates architecture to its own purposes. This out-of-control but networked world is increasingly organized by flows of objects and information. Static structures avoid being superfluous by joining this system as temporary containers for the people, objects, and capital. ACTAR 2009 240pp HB $A80.00 [14.04.09]

Instant China Notes on an Urban Transformation
2G International Architectural Review N.10 Works and projects including Paul Andreu, Massimiliano Fuksas, HOK, Arta Isozaki, Toyo Ito, Rem koolhaas, Kisho Kurokawa and Cesar Pelli and essays by Miguel Ruano, Saskia Sassen, Jianfei Zhu et al  GG, Spain, 1999.  144pp PB $A 60.00

Instant Cities Wright H
Instant Cities is both authoritative and visually rich with information that reads simply and succinctly. The phenomenon of the contemporary metropolis is explored with thematic chapters of opposing concepts and ideas: Growth/Master-plan; Utopia/Dystopia; Fantasy/Reality; Nuclear/Distributed; Nomadic/Rooted; Global/Local and Humanity/Environment. Black Dog UK 2008 237pp $A105.00

Integration or Fragmentation The Housing Generator Competition for South Africa. Tilman, H. editor
NAI, Netherlands,1997. 120pp PB $A P/A

The Intermediate Size: A Handbook For Collective Dwellings Bijilsma L & Groenland J.
Recent shifts in housing developments demand an evaluation of existing models of parcelling. The growing diversity of living arrangements calls for a greater variety of housing typologies. The Intermediate Size shifts the focus from individual plots and separate dwellings, thereby challenging the existing relationship between architecture and urban planning. The Intermediate Size is a reference work and handbook separated into two sections: Catalogue (Additives, Monoliths and Ensembles) and The Collective Strategy (Studies).
Sun 2007 Netherlands 216pp HB $A74.80

Interpreting Environments Tradition, Deconstruction, Hermeneutics. Mugerauer, R
UTP, USA, 1995. 186pp PB $A P/A

Invented Cities The Creation of Landscape in Nineteenth Century New York and Boston Domosh, M.
YUP, USA,1996. 185pp HB $A 57.20

Invented Edens: Techno cities of the 20^th Century R.H Kargon and A. P Molella
Introduces the notion of a ‘techno-city’ a term coined by the authors to describe the development of the urban environment. The ‘techno-city’ is influenced by large technological or industrial advances, in a mix of rural landscape and farmland, something of the Twentieth century we are all familiar with. The authors then use historical studies to interpret and present fantastical visions for the future.
MIT Press US 2008 HB 190pp $36.95

Kienast Vogt: Open Spaces Kienast, D & Vogt, C.
Birkhauser, Switz. 2000 262pp HB $A POA

Kop Van Zuid Various
This book looks at the urban renewal and redevelopment of the Kop Van Zuid dockland area in Rotterdam. The focus of this publication is open-space design, and includes six essays outlining the theoretical and practical approaches followed, critical reaction, and extensive plan documentation relating to some 20 different open-space projects by various practices. 010, Netherlands, 2000. 160pp $A POA

Krzysztof Wodiczko Critical Vehicles Wrtings, Projects and Interviews
 MIT, USA, 1999.  227pp PB $A 69.00

Kumming Project: Urban Development in China-a Dialogue Fingerhuth, C. & Joos, E.
The challenge of joint projects between East and West lies in the interaction of the traditional and historical background in large Asian cities with their sense of modernity. The Kumming is an excellent document of a joint project of urban planning, important to anyone involved in collaborative ventures. Birkh, Switz., 2002. 224pp PB $A54.00

Landscape Architecture & Town Planning in the Netherlands 01-03
This is the fifth in a series of bi-annual publications that aim in giving a critical overview of the most current landscape architecture & town planning projects in the Netherlands. With forty projects assembled that focus on themes of the reconstruction of city centres, districts & parks, & the so-called “new collectiveness” in town planning. THOTH, NL 2004, 247pp, PB. $A 88.00

Landscape Architecture/ Town Planning in the Netherlands: 2003-07 Misc
Over 30 projects selected by a jury for their innovative and contemporary projects. Demonstrates a variety of drawn examples with complete renders and project development.  
Blauwdruk Publishers 2009 224pp PB $90.20 [07.10.09]

Landscapes of Desire: Anglo Mythologies of Los Angeles William Alexander McClung
UCP, USA, 2000, 277pp, PB $A 43.00

Layered Urbanisms Rappaport N & Stanat J (eds)
Layered Urbanisms presents the work of three design studios run by visiting professors at the Yale School of Architecture. With New York as the focus of the first two and the third addressing a wider urban context,  the three projects are of Gregg Pasuarelli with “Versioning- 6.0”, Galia Solomonoff with “Brooklyn Civic Space” and Mario Gooden with “Global Topologies”. Yale School of Architecture USA 2008 144pp PB AU$40.95

Learning from China - The Tao of the City  Fingerhuth, C
 In part, the title of this book pays playful homage to Learning From Las Vegas, more importantly the title refers to the compelling connection between the tenets of Taoism and the principles that might inspire a new approach to urbanism today. Using projects and anecdotes Carl Fingerhuth, in collaboration with Michael Alder, Santiago Calatrava, Roger Diener, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, explores directions in which cities might develop as they evolve beyond Modernism. Birk, Germany, 2004, 215pp PB $A79.00

Learning from the Japanese City West Meets East in Urban Design.   Shelton., B
 Spon, UK, 1999 210pp HB $A132.00

Life Between Buildings Using Public Space Gehl, Jan (Translated by Joh Koch)
Arkitektens Forlag, (The Danish Architectural Press) Denmark, 2001, 202pp, PB $A 56.50

Light for Cities: Lighting Design for Urban Spaces Brandi, I
This book serves as an actual guideline for better lighting in urban streets, gardens, squares and buildings, by discussing and illustrating the design process leading to new lighting, as well as technical, photographic and diagrammatical information of completed schemes. Birkhauser Germany 2006 168pp HB $115.00

Lighting Design For Urban Environments and Architecture. Mende, K + Lighting Planners associates inc.
Lighting Planners Associates were formed in 1990 and are dedicated to producing superior lighting environments.  Their eleventh publication showcases works that include religious buildings, pedestrian zones, retail environments, museums, hospitals and public spaces. Rikuyosha Japan 2007 207pp. HB $A89.95

The Limitless City A Primer on the Urban Sprawl Debate Gillham, Oliver
Island Press, USA 2002, 309pp, PB $A 75.00

Livable Cities Urban Struggles for Livlihood and Sustainability Evans, Peter (Ed)
California University Press, Berkeley, 2002, 277pp, PB $A 42.00

Living Cities, An Urban Myth? Government and Sustainability in Australia Smith G & Scott J
Rosenberg 2006 Australia 348pp PB $A29.95

Living Streets Ebner P & Klaffke J
Documents and analyses recent international examples of spaces/thresholds between private and public to do with multi-story housing. Putting them in the context of well-known reference projects of this typology.
Springer 2009 PB $110.00 [25.06.09]

Log: Observations on Architecture and the Contemporary City Davidson, C. (Ed.)
Log fills the gap in North American architectural press since the closure of the Anyone project, ANY magazine and the long standing journal Assemblage. Anyone Corporation, USA, No. 1 Autumn 2003, 151pp. PB. $A 21.45

Looking for Los Angeles: Architecture, Film, Photography and the Urban Landscape. Salas & Roth (eds.)
This book explores the symbolic and historic terrain of a city which resists easy definition. The twelve contributors focus on dramatic shifts in the urban landscape of Los Angeles and on the role of the image in this Mecca of image makers. Getty Research Institute, USA, 2001, 329pp, PB $A 108.00  

Los Angeles, The Architecture of Four Ecologies Banham R
Banham examined the built environment of Los Angeles in a way no architectural historian before him had done. This edition Includes a new introduction by Joe Day.
U California Press Berkeley 2009 281pp PB $50.95 [13.06.09]            

Made in Tokyo
"This is the beginning of "Made in Tokyo", a survey of nameless and strange buildings of this city." A guidebook of the un-architectural B-buildings that define Tokyo's urban space, the car parks, batting centres, sewage courts, taxi building, pet architecture, etc. Kajima, Japan, 2001 192pp $A60.50

Making Cities Work
Making Cities Work showcases 28 initiatives from around the world that have enhanced the quality of urban life. The projects are presented in three sections, each tackling a different area of the urban design challenge. The first, ‘Arriving in the City’, profiles some of the world’s most successful gateways and transport interchanges.  The second section, ‘Enjoying the City’, highlights the ingenious approaches that can be taken to parks, shopping malls and public spaces, demonstrating that it is a large number of small-scale amenities that make a city fun. Finally, ‘Getting Around the City’ addresses what is the biggest challenge for most urban leaders. Wiley UK 192pp HB $A101.95

MAKING THE CITY BY THE SEA: forum & workshop Marseille 2001 Berlage Institute/Fundacio Mies Van Der Rohe / ETSAB/Institut Francais D'architecture.
ACTAR 2003 PB $A65.00

Making the Invisible Visible A Multicultural Planning History. Sandercock, L. ed
CalUP, USA, 1998. 270pp PB $A 34.05

Making Mega-City Regions Visible! Förster A & Thierstein A (ed)
“Mega-city regions are an emerging large scale urban phenomenon of strategic importance for economic, social and cultural development, at the European and national level. However to many politicians, administrators and citizens these regions remain invisible and intangible in many respects.”
Lars Müller Publishers Switzerland 2008 288pp PB AU $70.00

Making Cities Work Inman, R.P.
Brings together leading writers and scholars on urban America to offer critical perspectives on how to sustain prosperous, liveable cities in today's fast-evolving economy.
Princeton University Press  2009 382 pp PB $64.00 [23.05.09]

Mapping HK Guiterrez, L. & Portefaix, V.
MAP OFFICE presented the project "mapping HK' at the 7th Venice Architecture Biennale on the theme, "The City; Less Aesthetic, more Ethic" in 2000. The book takes us right to the heart and meaning of their project, exploring the architecture, particularly high density housing, the natural landscape and hence, the ultimate urban condition of Hong Kong. Because of it's particular history and geography, HK represents a unique synthesis of both global city and local territory. The question of space and place, and the specific pressure of accelerated time, make HK a moving platform of exchange within the Asian and world markets. This fascinating book uses Hong Kong as a prototype for a new critical experiment. mapoffice, Hong Kong, 2000, 167pp, PB. $A81.40

Married to the Mouse Walt Disney World and Orlando Foglsong, Richard E.
 Yale University Press, USA, 2001, 251pp, HB. $A O/P

Meta City Data Town MVRDV
...A city that knows no topography, no prescribed ideology, no representation, no context. Only huge, pure data: MEGACITY/MEGATOWN.  What are the implications of this city? To what conclusions can it lead? What agenda for architecture and urbanism could this numerical approach provoke? This book wants to examine that area.010, The Netherlands, 1999.  224pp PB $A 32.45

MetroBasel: A Model of a European Metropolitan Region Herz and Zhou  
A comic style book realised by the urban research unit ETH StudioBasel, conceived by Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron and Manuel Herz. It narrates Basel’s architectural and urban history while analysing the region according to urban themes and activities such as living, working, moving or recreation
Eth Studio Basel 2009 305pp PB $25.85 [29.10.09]

Metrogreen: Connecting Open Space in North America Erickson D.
Examining how open-space networks have performed in real scenarios in U.S. and Canadian cities, MetroGreen examines the political and social issues affecting implementation of open-space systems. This publication would be particularly useful to planners, landscape architects, conservationalists and municipal officials, amongst others.Island Press 2006 USA 333pp PB $A69.95

Metropolis Now! Ramesh Kumar Biswas (ed)
Portraits of 15 cities, their bustling centres and wild peripheries, their troubles and aspirations, their hot pavements and cold nights, have been written by prominent urbanists from the feilds of architecture, geography, sociology and contemporary history.  SpringerWienNewYork, USA, 2000, 239pp. PB $A 74.00

Mutations/Rem Koolhaas + Harvard Project on the City Koolhaas R, Boeri, S, Kwinter S, Tazi N, Obrist H
A book on cities, shopping, urban space, population growth, new media and much more. Similar in scale to SMLXL, this book refers to staggering information and resources ranging from Roman Empire city operation and building systems, new media and net media, investigations into the city of Lagos, the American City, European Cities, the Pearl River Delta and much more. This latest book contains the latest information, research, graphic documentation and photography on new urbanism, city building, and the future of the city, and is certain to be much referred to by the architectural and urban design community. Actar, Spain, 2001. 721+pp PB $A 100.00
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Myth and the Metropolis  Walter Benjamin and the city. Gilloch, G.
Polity, UK, 1997. 227pp PB $A P/A

Nano City: International Architecture Workshop Van Schaik
This book questions the evolution of contemporary cities, coping with the background of classic cities and through the universe of networks. International Workshop of Architecture at the ENSAM.
Montpellier Edition Publishing France 2008 165pp HB AU$60.00

Neighborhood Recovery Reinvestment Policy for the New Hometown Kromer, J.  
Rutgers, USA, 2000 262pp PB $A49.50

NETZSTADT: Designing the Urban Oswald F. & Baccini P.
Netzstadt stands for model. It facilitates the differentiated portrayal of an urban development which has characterized cities & landscapes since the middle of the twentieth century. The model's foundation is the elucidation of criteria of durability & urbanity. Netzstadt is the title of a text book on designing cities. It addresses students & practitioners in the fields of city planning & city construction, in architecture, engineering & the natural sciences & the social sciences & economics. BirkhauserGermany2003 HB303pp $A106.00

New American Urbanism Dutton, John A.
In this provocative study, John Dutton shows how American Urban Models, whose influence has been essential in the shaping of cities worldwide since 1945, are currently recovering at home from the crisis of the 1970s and 1980s. He masterfully analyses the theoretical inputs and the design solutions that have shaped a collection of experimental town landscapes that deserve all of our attention today. Skira, Italy, 2000, 223pp. PB $A 70.00

New Bridges Roig. J
GG, Spain, 1996. 192pp PB $A 82.50

New City Life Gehl J, Gemzøe L, Kirknæs S & Søndergaard B
The latest publication from Jan Gehl sees a continuation of his passion to make cities more pedestrian orientated by drawing on the vast qualities of city spaces when it facilitates human interaction. Following on from the ideas introduced in “New City Spaces” and using Copenhagen as the base model of this case study, current conditions are observed and documented with photographs of everyday use, establishing what needs to be understood in order to make the city more accommodating for the users. Twenty eight representative city spaces are analysed as examples of what can be achieved in any city, and to support the idea that to  “facilitate the meeting between people is the most important collective function of  a city”.DAP  Denmark 2006 180pp HB $A99.00

New City Spaces  Gehl, Jan & Gemzoe, Lars
An overview of public spaces, city plans, public space strategies and designs. Providing a detailed description of architecturally interesting and inspiring public space and projects worldwide. Special reviews include; Barcelona, Lyon, Strasbourg, Freiburg and Copenhagen, Portland (Nth USA), Curitiba and Cordoba in (Sth USA) and Melbourne (Aus). In addition, 39 International public space projects discussed and presented. Drawings, plans and photographs illustrate city strategies and public space projects in detail.PAP, Denmark, 2001. 261pp HB $A 106.50

The New Civic Art- Elements of Town Planning Duany, Plater-Zyberk & Alminana
Patterned on The American Vitruvius: An Architects Handbook of Civic Art (1922), one of the most successful & well-known architecture books ever published, The New Civic Art, with all new text for over 1000 entries & 1200 new illustrations, exemplifies the very best contemporary urban planning & town design schemes. This entirely new book updates & thoroughly details the most important recent trends in civic planning & architecture, but does not limit itself to this; time-honoured precedents, in some cases centuries old, are referenced. Rizzoli USA2003HB 384pp$A170.00

New Collective Spaces in the Contemporary City The West Arc for Thessaloniki. Simeoforidis, Y.
Organisation for the Cultural Capital of Europe Thessaloniki 1997 EUROPAN and UNTIMELY BOOKS, Greece, 2000, PB $A P/A

The New Shape of Suburbia: trends in residential development Et al
Featuring close studies of 11 projects that describe how top developers are incorporating these trends into innovative & financially successful developments. Covers the development of residential properties ranging in size from only a few units to large master-planned communities. Urban Land Institute USA2003 PB 221pp $A131.00

The New Suburban History. Kruse, M & Surgue, T.J
Kruse and Sugrue present ten essays that recast important political and social issues in the context of American suburbanization that draw from original research on locales across the country. The New Suburban History reveal the role suburbs have played in the transformation of American liberalism and conservatism; debates about the environment, land use and taxation; and the contentious politics of race, class and ethnicity. The University of Chicago Press Chicago 2006. 289pp. PB A$ 37.95

New Urban Environments British Architecture and its European Context. Murry, P. Stevens, M.
Prestel, UK, 1998 190 pp HB $A P/A

New Urbanisms 7: Geothermal Larderello: Tuscany, Italy  Plunz, R. (Ed) et al
Investigating contemporary urbanism by looking at the evolution of human settlement patterns in relation to geothermal energy in Larderello, Italy. Larderello is "off the map,"& virtually unknown to Tuscan residents & tourists, but is one of the world's centres of geothermal power research. Alternative futures for this industrial town, which was planned by Giovanni Michelucci in the 1950s, are discussed within the context of sustainability, economics, programming & environment. PAP USA, 2005, 146pp, PB. A$39.50

New Urbanism: Towards an Architecture of Community Katz, P.
McGraw, USA 1994. 245pp HB $A 98.95

New Waterfront A Worldwide Urban Success Story Breen, A. Rigby, D.
Thames & Hudson, UK, 1996. 224 pp HB $A 115.50

Next American Metropolis  Ecology, community and the American dream P. Calthorpe
PAP, USA.1993. 175pp PB $A P/A

*The New Urban Frontier Gentrification and the Revanchist City Smith. N
Why have so many central and inner cities in Europe, North America and Australia been so radically revamped in the last three decades, converting urban decay into new chic and what does this mean for the people who live there?  Macmillan, UK, 1996. 262pp PB $A 54.95

New York Changing: revisiting Berenice Abbott’s New York Levere D.
In 1935 the renowned photographer Berenice Abbott set out on a five-year, WPA-funded project to document New York's transformation from a nineteenth-century city into a modern metropolis of towering skyscrapers. The result was the landmark publication Changing New York, a milestone in the history of photography that stands as an indispensable record of the Depression-era city. More than sixty years later, New York is an even denser city of steel-and-glass and restless energy. Guided by Abbott's voice and vision, New York photographer Douglas Levere has revisited the sites of 100 of Abbott's photographs, meticulously duplicating her compositions with exacting detail; each shot is taken at the same time of day, at the same time of year, and with the same type of camera. The results are a remarkable commentary on the evolution of a metropolis known for constantly reinventing itself. PAP USA2004 HB 192pp$A79.95

New York for Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate Tom Angotti
Angotti provides an interesting and informative read with his deep knowledge of New York’s development policies and his years of active personal involvement in New York community planning.
MIT Press 2008 301pp HB $A44.95

Nurturing Dreams: Collected Essays on Architecture and the City Maki F
Maki brings to his writings on architecture a perspective that is both global and uniquely Japanese with this collection of essays documenting the evolution of architectural modernism and Maki’s own fifty-year intellectual journey. His treatment of the two overarching themes- the contemporary city and modernist architecture- demonstrate strong linkages between urban theory and architectural practice.
MIT USA 2008 273pp HB $A62.00

Occupying Architecture Between the Architect and the User Hill, J (ed.)
Routledge, UK, 1998.  253pp PB $A P/A

Olympic Cities: City Agendas, Planning and the World’s Games, 1896- 2012   Gold, J & M
A collection of original essays explore the historical experience of hosting the Olympics. Separated into three parts the authors look at issues of urban impact, place promotion, finance, urban regeneration and provide an assessment of the importance of the Olympics as a mega-event within our cities.
Routledge UK 2007 348pp $80.00

One Hundred Mile City Sudjic, D.
HB, USA, 1992. 313pp PB $A 46.50

One Place After Another: site specific art and locational identity Miwon Kwon
Offering a critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960's. Informed by urban theory, postmodern criticism in art and architecture, and debates concerning identity politics and the public sphere. It examines site specificity as a complex cipher of the unstable relationship between location and identity in the era of late capitalism. MIT Press, US, 2002. 214pp HB $A 68.00

On the Plaza: The politics of public space and culture  Low, S.
In this wide-ranging, multidisciplinary study, Low explores the interplay of space and culture in the plaza, showing how culture acts to shape public spaces and how the physical form of the plaza encodes the social, political and economic relations within the city. TUP, USA, 2003, 274pp, PB. $A45.00

Open City: Designing Coexistence Rienjets, Sigler and Christiaanse
Accompanying the 4th International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam, which carries the same theme as the title of this publication, ‘Open City’ provides an in-depth study of the role that architecture and urban planning can play in enhancing the quality of life in a city.
Sun Publishing 2010 464pp PB $86.35 [25.03.10]

Open Spaces Schneider, J & Baumgartner, C
Axel Menges, Germany, 2000. 217+pp HB $A 140.00

Opportunistic Urbanism Ramirez- Lovering D
This book is the result of an academic exchange undertaken in 2006 between the Architecture program at RMIT and Escuela Superior de Arquitectura in Guadalajara, Mexico. Case studies analyse the city of Guadalajara and present the various layers of occupation, day to day juxtapositions and subsequent social structures. RMIT Melbourne 2008 135pp PB $A35.00

Places Not Spaces Place making in Australia . Winikoff, T.  ed
Australia Council, Aust 1995. 117pp PB $A27.45

Placemaking The art and practice of building communities L. Schneekloth & R. Shibley
Wiley, USA 1995. 263pp PB $A P/A

Place Making: Developing Town Centres, Main Streets, & Urban Villages Bohl C.C.
One of the hottest trends in real estate is the development of town centres and urban villages that include a mix of uses in a pedestrian friendly setting. This new book will help you navigate the unique development issues and options and show you how to make all of the elements work together. You will learn about the economic and social forces driving this trend; how these projects are being developed in master planned communities, infill, & redevelopment areas; special regulatory, market & finance issues; & how suburban planners & developers are pursuing town centre concepts to create attractive gathering places for their communities. Illustrated in full colour, the book includes case studies & examples that describe how leading professionals met the challenges & developed innovative &successful projects. ULI USA 2004 PB305pp $A132.00

Planetizen: Contemporary Debates in Urban Planning
With contributions from over 25 experts in the field, this interesting and broad range of essays covers topics such as: Sprawl, Transportation, Design, Disaster Planning and Social Planning. Island Press USA 2007 183pp PB AU$39.95

Planning for Coastal Resilience: Best Practice for Calamitous Times Beatley, T
argues that, in the face of such threats, all future coastal planning and management must reflect a commitment to the concept of resilience.
Island Press USA 2009 182pp PB $59.95 [22.12.09]

Planning and Housing in the Rapidly Urbanising World Jenkins P et al
This book “explores a range of international approaches to this trend”. It is set out into three sections.  Section one covers the general context; section two looks at planning and urban housing from pre capitalists settlement to post-1990; section three contains case studies in South America, Asia and Africa.
Routledge UK 368pp PB $80.00

Planning Amsterdam: scenarios for urban development 1928-2003 City of Amsterdam, Physical Planning Department.
Concentrating on a 75-year span in Amsterdam's spatial & physical development, rather than discussing only Amsterdam's structure plans. Alongside essays & illustrations, this book presents a specially produced series of maps, as an aid to tracing the development of Amsterdam over the last 75 years - in the city centre & the garden suburbs, in the intensification & expansion of the city, for traffic & transportation, & with green & recreational amenities. NAi N.L.2003 PB 208pp $A66.00

Planning Beyond 2000 Allmendinger, P. & Chapman, M.
Young academics examine all areas of current debate pertainng to urban planning. Wiley, UK, 1999. 309pp PB $A 71.50

Planning & Design Strategies For Sustainability & Profit Pitts, A
A practical guide which demonstrates the benefits of sustainable design by emphasising its development as an economically viable and profitable option. This title identifies the current problems which demand that a new holistic approach to sustainability be taken on. It details the issues, and provides a range of potential solutions and techniques that can be applied by the architect and urban designer at both the building, and urban scale. It goes on to provide examples of good practice and guidelines for future development - essential information that shows how sustainability has been developed to provide tangible benefits, not only to the environment, but also to users and designers. Archil Press UK 2004 PB 244pp $A94.60

Planning the Twentieth Century City Advanced Capitalist World Ward, Steven
This volume takes a fascinating look at the cities of Europe, America & Asia, focussing on their influential styles that were gradually diffused throughout the world. Ward charts the changing centres of influence in urban planning & identifies the cities, which will lead the way in the next century. J WileyUK 2002,PB 470pp$A 89.95

The Place for a Village: How Nature has Shaped the City of Melbourne Presland, G
The Place for a Village looks at the growth of Melbourne’s suburbs from it early days, and the influence on urban development by nature and its surrounding environment . With colour plates depicting original environment of areas such as Surrey Hills, Collingwood and the Yarra River, as well as explorers depictions of native flora and fauna. Museum Victoria 2008 265pp HB $A60.00 [02.03.09]

Planning for Urban QualityUrban Design in Towns and Cities Parfect, M & Power, G,
Routledge, UK, 1997.  241pp PB $A 57.15

The Playbook MacLean A.S.
Produced by architect/photographer MacLean as a document documenting the history and evolution of the American landscape, his latest offering is a collection of aerial photographs of the world of American leisure. With over eighty photographs this is a great little book that gives you a birds-eye view of the America. Thames UK 2006 HB 125pp$A45.00

Plus Druot F, Lacaton A & Vassal JP
An analysis of French and European Housing projects built during the 60s and 70s, led Druot, Lacaton and Vassal to identify possible transformations of these buildings in order for them to adapt to current lifestyles. Utilising existing elements rather than destroying and replacing became their major premise.
GG Spain 2007 246pp HB AU$95.00

Boris Podrecca Offene Raume/Public Spaces Boeckl,M
The disappearance of urban squares and public spaces in many European cities has led to a critical awareness of the social significance of this traditional zone of community exchange. Boris Podrecca has played a great part in the recent cultivation of urban zones. His designs for squares in Verona, Salzburg, and Piran subtly reflect contemporary modes of living in public spaces. This book offers comprehensive coverage of 40 projects and work executed in Germany, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, and Croatia. Springer Verlag Austria 2003 230pp HB $A 137.50

Poetics of CitiesDesigning neighborhoods that work. M.Greenberg
Ohio UP, USA 1995. 288 pp PB $A P/A

Politics of Public Space  Low, S. & Smith, N. (Ed’s)
Public spaces, once democratic sites of dissent and cultural transformation, have become centres of private commerce and consumption. New technologies for communication and new forms of social organisation are constantly creating alternative forms of public space. This book highlights the historical, cultural and geographical specificity of privatised and re-politicised space and a re-imagined public sphere.
Routledge, USA, 2006, 186pp, PB. $A42.00

Possible Urban Worlds Urban Strategies at the End of the Twentieth Century Conference papers for the conference of The International Network for Urban Research and Action, Birkhauser, Switzerland, 1998. 268pp PB $A P/A

Post- It City: Occasional Urbanites
This tri-lingual text refers to the different temporary occupations of public space, be it commercial, re-creational, sexual or of any other type. The common characteristic being they barely leave a trace and self manage their appearance and disappearances.
CCCB Barcelona 2008 214pp PB AU$42.00

Postmodern Cities and Space Watson, S. & Gibson, K. editors
Blackwell UK 199  PB $A P/A

Postmodern Urbanism (revised edition) Ellin. N
 PAP, USA, 1999.  392pp PB $A 49.50

Preserving the Worlds Great Cities: The destruction & renewal of the historic metropolis  Tung, A.
The fabric of our cities tells the story of our civilizations & the tale of their preservation has never been told as poignantly or as skilfully told until now. This book is the perfect combination of architecture, history, & cultural studies, produced by the former New York City Landmarks Preservation Commissioner Anthony Tung. Weaving a compelling story about preservation & loss within the urban landscape, it also examines the struggle to reconcile preservation of our historical foundations together with the advancements of the future. Three Rivers, USA, 2001, 470pp, PB. $A 39.95

Postsuburban California: The Transformation of Orange County since World War 2. Kling, R, Olin, S and Poster, M
Neither a city not a traditional suburb, Orange County, California represents a striking example of a new kind of social formation. This multidisciplinary volume offers a cogent case study of the “post-suburban” phenomenon. University of California Press. 1995 308pp. A $52.95

The Practice of Modernism: Modern Architects and urban transformation, 1954 to 1972  Gold, J
Gold looks at modern architecture and urban planning in the UK during the 1950s and 1960s. Municipal councils routinely devised and implemented radical schemes to reshape and modernise their towns and cities. The book traces the architects involvement in this process and investigates the “relationship  between vision and subsequent practice”. “The Practice of Modernism provides an incisive and timely view of the true complexity of the processes and agencies that brought about change.”   Routledge USA 2007 336pp. PB $96.00

Privately Owned Public Space; The New York City Experience. Kayden, Jerold S.
Through words, photographs, scaled site plans, maps, and analysis of newly assembled data, this book examines the history, law, design, and use of the city's privately owned public spaces. Each of the more than 500 spaces is individually discussed to provide far-reaching comparative information about this unique category of public space.John Wiley and Sons, New York, 2000, pp.348, HB $A 103.90

Projects on the City 1: Great Leap Forward - Harvard Design School/Rem Koolhaas
Edited by Chuihua Jenny Chung, Jeffrey Inaba, Rem Koolhaas, Sze Tsung Leong
It's finally here, as well as the companion volume on shopping (see below), and in the SMLXL and Mutations mould, it is huge, comprehensive, complex, exhaustively researched and highly propositional. This book analyses the development, design and infrastructure of the Pearl River Delta region in China, and how the government and affiliated designers are going to cope with 300% population growth from 12 million today, to 36 million in 2020. Each chapter analyses a different aspect of the "project", namely chronology, politics, architecture, money, landscape, policy, infrastructure and ideology. Includes an introduction by Rem Koolhaas, who is the director of the project, and a glossary of new concepts. The books primary aim is to elucidate the new urban condition that is the result of this massive reconditioning, and as such will be of interest to architects, urban planners and students. Taschen, 2001, Germany/USA. 723pp Flexible Paperback $A P.O.A

Project Zagreb: Transition as Condition, Strategy, Practice. Blau, E & Rupnik, I
In collaboration with the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, Project Zagreb moves between texts, maps and diagrams to provide a reading of the city as an open network, dynamic and coherent in which architecture plays and active role in the formation of both urban practices and the city itself.
ACTAR Barcelona 2007 335pp. PB A $66.00

The Provisional City- Los Angeles Stories of Architecture & Urbanism. Cuff, Dana
MIT Press, 2001, USA. HB $A O/P

Public Space Design, Layout and Management of Public Open Space in Rotterdam.  Various
 010, Netherlands, 1995. 184pp PB $A 37.40

Public Spaces Public Life Gehl, J & Gemzoe, L
Danish Architectural Press, 1999, Copenhagen, PB, 96pp, $A 66.00

The New Civic Art- Elements of Town Planning Duany, Plater-Zyberk & Alminana
Patterned on The American Vitruvius: An Architects Handbook of Civic Art (1922), one of the most successful & well-known architecture books ever published, The New Civic Art, with all new text for over 1000 entries & 1200 new illustrations, exemplifies the very best contemporary urban planning & town design schemes. This entirely new book updates & thoroughly details the most important recent trends in civic planning & architecture, but does not limit itself to this; time-honoured precedents, in some cases centuries old, are referenced. Rizzoli USA2003HB 384pp$A170.00

Quantum City Arida, Ayssar
Pure theory, this title explores the relationships between quantum theory, urban design and the concept of the city. The increasingly hotter discussions revolving around physics and inhabitation is documented clearly and insightfully by Arida. The author has previously published many articles on the relationship between worldviews and the development of cities. Architectural Press, Oxford, 2002, 257pp, PB $A 68.20

Ranches, Rowhouses & Railroad Flats American Homes:  How they Shape our Landscapes and Neighbourhoods Hunter. C  
WW Norton, USA, 1999.  336pp HB $A P/A

Reaching beyond the Gold : The impact of Global Events on Urban Development Vrijaldenhoven, Tim Van
An account on the impact of global events on 6 cities of the World – Genoa, Barcelona, Athens, Bilbao, Shanghai and London. Through the use of diagrams, photography and graphics, Reaching Beyond the Gold explores the political and urban implications of these events, through discussions with visitors, economy, environment and various other means. 010 Publishers, Netherlands, 2008 PB AU $ 75.35

Readings in Planning Theory Campbe 4ll. S & Fainstein. S ed.
Blackwell, UK, 1998.  543pp PB $A 55.00

Readings In Urban Theory Fainstein,S. & Campbell, S editors
Blackwell, UK, 1996 447pp PB $A 55.00

Real Places An Unconvential Guide to America's Generic Landscape Clay, G.
University of  Chicago Press, USA, 1994. 297pp PB $A P/A

Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster, Birch & Wachter
This book reveals approaches to the challenges of facing natural disasters, with contributions from the fields of regionalism and environmental planning. Birch & Wachter address issues such as temporary housing and permanent reconstruction whilst taking into account various contributing economic considerations. Although this book looks at lessons learnt specifically from Hurricane Katrina, the information it contains is transferable.
University of Pennsylvania Press USA 2006 PB 375pp AU $55.00

*Regional Policy and Planning in Europe Balchin. P, Sykora. L & Bull. G
 UK , 1999.  $A P/A

Remaking NL Cityscape/Landscape/Infrastructure S @ M
Amsterdam firm S @ M Stedebouw & Architectuurmanagement has compiled in one volume projects from leading Dutch architects and designers. The book takes on the issues of the spatial layout and designed dynamics of the Netherlands and how the current architectural climate affects, and is affected by these. A number of essays and interviews complement the incredible body of images and drawings and offer a panorama of opinions on the nation and it's reconstruction. S @ M, 2000, N.L. 228pp, PB $A 70.95

Renewable City: A Comprehensive Guide to an Urban Evolution Droege P.
Urging a conscious departure from all forms of unsustainable energy generation, this publication is an unprecedented guide aimed to inspire changes in cities through decision making strategies in planning, design and management, in order to make urban developments sustainable. A highly structured reference text, it opens with a definition of renewable energy, and moves on to explain the fundamentals and philosophical framework of the urban energy revolution, while highlighting past and current successful examples of sustainable communities and developments as possible directions for future urban and city planning. This book also sheds light to spatial implications of changes such as the utilisation of new technologies in urban areas and the application of performance ratings to buildings, and Droege concludes by offering a practice-template for local governments to help implement change in their organisations. Wiley 2007 UK 322pp HB $A74.95

Representing the State
Wolfgang Sonne examines the relationship between city planning & politics. He analyses a handful of exemplary cities—Washington, D.C., Berlin, Canberra, & New Delhi —each of which underwent major reconstruction during the years spanning the turn of the twentieth century & the advent of World War I. He also discusses the failed plans for the World Centre of Communication, an attempt at creating an international city of peace in 1913. Because this era was marked by the heyday of Imperialism & its related illusions of grandeur, the book evokes the clashing & melding of political & architectural ideals. Prestel USA 2004 336pp $A 110.00

Repressed Spaces: the Poetics of Agoraphobia. Paul Carter
Reaktion Books, UK, 2002. PB 252pp $A 49.95

Responsive Environments A Manual for Designers Alcock. A,
Reed Educational, UK, 1998 (reprint).  151pp PB $AP/A

Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs Dunham- Jones E & Williamson J
A comprehensive guidebook for architects, planners, urban designers, and developers that illustrates how existing suburbs can be redesigned and redeveloped
JWiley USA 2008 242pp HB $A125.00

Richard Haas: The City is My Canvas Dunlop, Beth
More Artist than Architect, or Sculptor than Urban Designer. the unmistakable work of Richard Haas adorning buildings throughout the United States is documented superbly in this book, capturing the space, depth and life the paintings of buildings give to the cities. Prestel, New York, 2001, 96pp, HB $A 99.00

The Rise of the Creative Class   Florida R.
Based on extensive research, Florida shows how the Creative Class- scientists, architects, engineers & artists- are transforming everyday life in cities that attract them: building community spirit, attracting new investment & transforming the local economy. To attract these creative people local authorities must focus on the three T’s of economic development- technological infrastructure, diversity of talent, & tolerance. PlutoPressAus 2003 PB 404pp $A34.95

Riverscapes: Designing urban Embankments Montag Stiftung Urbane Räume
In cultural cities of the world today, river banks are often being remodelled and designed to form havens and attractive urban environments. Riverscapes looks at the riverside projects of cities such as London and Paris. The question of finance is also mentioned, as is the ongoing risk of rising sea levels and the dangers of building in high risk flood areas. Birkhauser Basel 2008 574pp PB AU$115.00

Roma Meno è più: The New Sequence of Urban Transformations Misc
Over the last 10 years, Rome has initiated an extensive process of urban transformation involving important changes in both the city's centre and suburbs. The ‘MenoePiu' competition proposes a system of new parks, squares, schools and buildings in the new periphery. Presents 12 of the best projects, including 5+1AA, Labics, Ricci&Spaini, Actar/Nabito, Gianfriddo, Grafton and more.                 
List-Laboratorio Editoriale Italy 2009 240pp PB $53.00 [21.12.09]

Scents of the City Naegele I. & Baur R.
A result of an obsession of many years to collect what visually denotes the flavour of a city that is so difficult to describe with words. Without claiming completeness, this collection represents a pictorial archive documenting two very different kinds of expeditions through large & small cities of the world It beautifully exhibitions the collection of everyday items, small details & patterns, from within the wide range of public spaces, that make up a city. Lars Muller Swiss2004 PB478 pp $A64.50

Sea Change: Movement from Metropolitan to Arcadian Australia Burnley I. & Murphy P.
Integrating demographic, economic & sociological perspectives, this book addresses the scale of this movement, that encompasses the enduring power of the bucolic myth of escaping the city & creating a new, simpler, life, in an Arcadian setting, as well as its variation over time & place, & the types of people involved. It considers their motivations for moving, the places they colonise & the public interest implications of these moves. UNSWPress Aust2004 PB271pp$A49.95

The Sea Ranch Lyndon D. & Alinder J.
A hundred miles north of San Francisco on California Coast Highway 1, the Sonoma County coast meets the Pacific Ocean in a magnificent display of nature. This is the location of The Sea Ranch, an area covering several thousand acres of large, open meadows & forested natural settings interspersed with award-winning architecture. Renowned landscape designer Lawrence Halprin's master plan for The Sea Ranch community accordingly incorporated a set of building guidelines that minimized the visual as well as physical impact upon the landscape. This beautiful monograph, lavishly illustrated with over 300 newly commissioned photographs & including maps, plans, detailed descriptions of the houses, & essays by Donald Canty and Lawrence Halprin, presents the definitive record of The Sea Ranch community. PAPUSA2004 HB 304pp$A123.50

Seaside Debates: a critique of the new urbanism   The Seaside Institute
This series of presentations & critiques, which took place at the Seaside Institute in Seaside, Florida, highlights the major issues of New Urbanism as they were discussed by the key players in the field, such as Andres Duany, Elizabeth PlaterZyberk, Stefanos Polyzoides, & Daniel Solomon, as well as such academic critics as Witold Rybczynski, Colin Rowe, Judith DiMaio, Alex Krieger, Alan Plattus, & others. Issues of growth management, promotion of civic life, land conservation, & rational transportation were discussed, focusing on eight U.S. & Canadian cities as examples. Rizzoli Pub USA2002 HB 160pp $A80.00 
2nd Ed. NOW AVAILABLE$A 37.95

Seduction of Place: The History and Future of the City Rykwert, Joseph
Vintage, 2002 (Updated), USA 301pp, PB $A 35.00

Seeing Like a State How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. Scott, J,
YUP, USA, 1998. 443pp HB $A P/A

Seoul Scenarios  Sanin, F. et al
Winners of the 22^nd space prize for international students in architectural design. Space Korea 2005 PB 320pp  $A57.20

Sense of the City: An alternate approach to urbanism  Zardini, M.
Challenging the dominance of the visual in the urban environment, this exhibition catalogue Sense of the City proposes a re-thinking and re-presenting of the city, and offers a more complex analysis of the qualities, comforts, communication systems, and sensory dimensions of urban life. Lars Müller/Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2005, 352pp, HB. $A96.50

Serve City Interactive Urbanism  Sonnabend, R.
Technical progress and social change have traditionally ranked amoung the main challenges to creative disciplines. Do we simply tolerate the changes in our living conditions or do we make as active attempt to influence them?. Three areas of exploration aim to explore solutions; the growing focus on services in the economy and society, the digitisation of the communication media and the resulting iinternsification of global interaction.
Jovis/Edition Bauhaus,Germany, 2005, 150pp PB $A39.95 (12./07)

Seven Million Cubic Metres of Sand: Creating IJburg Schot, Jan
This photographic essay is supported by theoretical and critical text on the fascinating process of pushing back the sea to create land, now known as IJburg, the newest part of the Netherlands. Stichting Touching Visuals, Netherlands, 2001, HB 240pp $A 92.40

Shape of the Suburbs: Understanding Toronto’s Sprawl Sewell
Examines the relationship between the development of suburbs, water and sewage systems, highways, and the decision-making of Toronto-area governments to show how the suburbs spread, and how they have in turn shaped the city.
University of Toronto Press 2009 208pp PB $56.50 [14.09.09]

Shaping London: The Patterns and Forms that make the Metropolis Farrell, T
Illustrated with original sketches, maps, archive photographs and paintings, this book provides a vibrant and intriguing collage of London’s patterns and its history.
John Wiley 2009 288pp HB $97.95 [04.12.09]AD Series AD New in from the AD series
Patterns of Architecture
Architectures of the Near Future
John Wiley 2009 PB $54.95 [04.12.09]

Shanghai Reflections. Architecture Urbansim, and the search for an Alternative Modernity.
Shanghai-China's largest industrial city and the fifth largest port in the world-is in the midst of a rapid revitalization. Shanghai Reflections examines the transformation of the old city into a modern metropolis from a broad cultural and architectural perspective. Student projects, created in a joint studio sponsored by Princeton, Hong Kong, and Tongji universities and reviewed by critics such as G.C. Spivak, Diana Argest, and Jennifer Bloomer, envision the renaissance of the city in concrete terms. Princeton Architectural Press US 2002 208pp PB $AP.O.A

Shrinking Cities Volume 1: International Research Oswalt P. (ed)
With much talk focused on the growth of the megapolis, there are places where the reverse of this is happening. Initiated by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, the Shrinking Cities Project is aimed to shed light to this increasingly common phenomenon so to understand the cause, effects and cultural perspectives for shrinking cities. This volume examines four urban regions: Detriot, Halle/ Leipzig, Ivanovo and Manchester/ Liverpool,  of which an international team of curators, architects, artists, cultural anthropologists, city geographers, cultural scholars and local experts studied over the course of three years.  HatjeCantz Germany 2005 736pp PB $A99.00

Shrinking Cities Volume 2: Interventions Oswalt P. (ed)
Having established the idea of shrinking cities, designers have now to face the challenge of coming up with new concepts and strategies in order to appropriately approach the fields of architecture, landscape design, urban planning, the media, performance and art. In dealing with shrinking cities, the “hard” tools of construction are often merged with the “soft” tools of political, social, cultural and communicative interventions, as demonstrated in projects including those of Will Alsop, Gordon Matta-Clark, muf, Cedric Price and Robert Smithson. In four main sections: deconstructing; reevaluating; reorganising and imagining, this publication also includes a series of essays discussing current projects as well as the historical take on architecture and art in North American, Europe and Japan. HatjeCantz Germany 2005 735pp PB $A99.00

Shanghai Transforming Gil, I
Looks at the development of Shanghai, and the future implications of this International status. The fringes where the city meets the surrounding neighbourhoods has become a source of inspiration for many up and coming architects.
ACTAR Spain 2008 333pp HB $A35.00

The Socius of Architecture Graafland A.
This book is composed as a three part investigation of architecture, urbanism & design proposals; or, critical analysis, sociological research and architectural projects respectively. Part one investigates architecture's potential to engage in current socio-political discourse through selected works by Rem Koolhaas. In the second part of the book, the cities of Amsterdam, New York and Tokyo are descriptively analysed in relation to part one. From part two, several design proposals are generated. The projects are developed as a mediating, potentially performative critique of the combined architectural analysis and urban research.  010, N.L. 2000. 256pp PB $A 53.90

Solar City: Sustainable Urban Development Treberspurg M
The solarcity is a model for a sustainable future. To be more precise, it is a complex, conscientiously planned, constructed used and inhabited urban model which at all levels and in all aspects represents the latest of development.
Springer-Verlag/Wein 2008 Austria 215pp AU$98.50

Solving Sprawl: Models of Smart Growth Accross America Benfield, Terris & Vorsanger
Natural Resources Defence Council, USA, 2001, 200pp, PB $A 50.60

Space Condition: International Architecture Symposium  Riewe, R.
The International Architecture symposium invited renown contemporary architects, designers & critics to elaborate upon the most important issues concerning architecture today & tomorrow. Is it conceivable that architecture can provide concepts that not only determine forms, contents & spaces but also evoke self generating structures? This publication documents the various positions in discussion minutes, pictures & interviews & provides in-depth insight into current architectural theory discussions. Springer Wien, USA, 2005, 180pp, PB. $A 58.50 (03/02)

Space is the Machine Hillier
Cambrige University Press, UK, 1998 PB 463pp $A49.45

Spacefighter : The Evolutionary City (Game) MVRDV/DSD
Conceived by Winy Maas in collaboration with the Delft School of Design, the Berlage Institute, cThrough, MIT and the Department of Architecture in Cambridge, Spacefighter questions the permanence of cities and landscapes that flourish/mutate/adapt to continuous change as reflects and compares models of interactive urban developments. Actar Spain 2007 302pp PB $A65.00

Albert Speer and Partners Manifesto for Sustainable Cities, Think Global, Act Global Gaines and Jager
A generously illustrated monograph on the planning, development, and construction of sustainable cities by one of the world’s most forward-thinking architectural and urban planning practices.
Prestel 2009 240pp HB $95.00 [25.03.10]

Spirited Cities: Urban Planning, Traffic and environmental management in the nineties.Robert Freestone, (editor)
Federation Press, Australia, PB $A P.O.A

Squares: a public place design guide for urbanists  Childs, M.
Vital public places – squares, post office steps, playgrounds, street corners – are centres celebration, communion, civic discussions, hanging out… This book is intended to help designers, planners, students & community leaders understand the history& theories of public commons, elicit community dialog & respond to the natural &  built environment & design compelling places. UNMP  Mexico 2005 HB 208pp $A85.00

Stadien/Stadiums Wimmer A
A close look at the architecture of sports stadiums, this book looks at the underlying functional, economical and social frameworks and conditions involved in stadium projects through a collection of essays, photographs and drawings. Projects featured include Tivoli Stadium Innsbruck, a project by Albert Wimmer.
SpringerWien New York 2008 160pp PB $A65.00

Stalking Detroit Daslakias G, Waldheim, Young J, Editors
Stalking Detroit is an anthology of essays, images, design projects & critiques, each offering a purchase from the urban milieu of Detroit in the 1990's. Forget what you know about this place. Detroit is the most relevant city in the US for the simple reason that it is the most unequivocally modern & therefore distinctive of (the) national culture. Actar, Spain, 2001 PB 157pp $A 66.00

Street Furniture Krauel J
An up-close look at all of the elements that go into the design of urban space. Every element shown in colour photographs was custom-designed for a specific project, and all are explained from the drawing board up, original sketches and lists of materials to finished product in its setting.
Links Spain 2007 179pp HB AU$70.00

Street Reclaiming Creating Livable Streets and Vibrant Communities Engwright. D
Pluto Press, Australia, 1999. 207pp PB $A P/A

Sustainable Communities: New Design Synthesis for Cities, Suburbs and Towns Van der Ryn and Calthorpe
Offers examples, real and proposed, of sound environmental planning for communities, with three case studies: Sunnyvale, California; Golden, Colorado.
NCP Publishers 2009 240pp PB $68.00 [03.09.09]

Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood: Building the 21^st Century Home Rudlin
Describes the way that environmental and demographic change, economic pressures and the needs of community could change urban areas forever just as the garden city movement did a century ago.
Elsevier 2009 344pp PB $80.00 [05.09.09]

Suburban Nation Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream Duany, A. Plater-Zyberk, E. and Speck, J.
Written by the founders of the 'Congress for the New Urbanism' in the U.S. assessing urban sprawl's costs to society; Ecological, Economic, Aesthetic and Social. Critical, lively and entertaining with practical solutions for new urbanism. North Point, USA, 2000.  289pp HB $AP/A

The Suburbanization of New York Hammett J, Hammett K. (eds)
Is the World’s Greatest City Becoming Just Another Town? A compilation of essays discussing  transformations that this tightly knitted city is going through. Princeton 2007 USA 185pp PB $49.50

Suburban Transformations. Lukez, P
Smart growth advocates, environmentalist and New Urbanist have all tried in various ways to spread the message of reforming current land use patterns. Their solutions are often criticised for being overly prescriptive, anti-growth and nostalgic. “Suburban transformation” offers an alternative to these practises by exploring a process of planning that embraces the forces of time and change, encouraging natural transformations which make communities unique while synthesizing many of the ideas and proposals that have been put forth. Five case studies provide fully expressed examples of an adaptive design process, beginning with a sophisticated system of mapping, computer projections of future outcomes, allowing the designer the ability to envision changes in the community fabric and adding that knowledge as a tool for place-making. PAP USA  2007 192pp PB $A68.00

Sustainability and Cities Overcoming Automobile Dependence Newman, Peter & Kenworthy Jeffrey
Island Press, USA, 1999, 440pp, PB $A 97.90

Tour-isms: the Defeat of Dissent
An exhibition catalogue that through a cross-disciplinary approach has investigated different manifestations of mass-tourism, in an attempt to reach a critical analysis of the influence of this global, political & cultural phenomenon in contemporary society. Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Spain, 2004, 350pp, PB. $A 129.80

Towards an Urban Renaissance Final Report of the Urban Task Force Chaired by Lord Rogers of Riverside
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions,   UK, 1999. 325pp PB $A 58.25

Towards Cosmopolis Planning for Multicultural Cities  Sandercock, Prof. L.
 Wiley, USA, 1998  258 pp PB $A P/A

Toward the Healthy City: People Places and the Politics of Urban Planning Corburn, J
Jason Corburn argues that city planning must return to its roots in public health and social justice. Provides a detailed account of how city planning and public health practices can reconnect to address health disparities. It also offers a new decision-making framework called "healthy city planning" that reframes traditional planning and development issues and offers a new scientific evidence base for participatory action, coalition building, and ongoing monitoring
MIT Press 2009 282pp PB $39.95 [15.10.09]

Towards An Eco-City Calming the Traffic  Engwicht, D,
Southwood Press, Sydney, 1992.190pp $A P/A

Towns and Town-Making Principles Duany, A &
Plater-Zyberk, E. Rizzoli, UK, 1991. 117pp PB $A P/A

Town Spaces: Contemporary Interpretations in Traditional Urbanism Krier R.
”In response to the sense of crisis in today's towns the proponents of new traditionalism offer a form of urban planning which looks back to more traditional styles whilst firmly integrating the requirements of modern life. Their designs are characterised by a sense of public spirit, identification and order. The contributions in this book reveal how these principles relate to the specific European city in the 20th century as well as to the writings of theoreticians from Camillo Sitte up to Rem Koolhaas. The authors reveal why the provocatively conservative approach has enjoyed so much success. They draw comparisons with the New Urbanism found in the USA and develop a systematic approach to town planning. The examples from the Krier Kohl office demonstrate in detail the design process up to the architectural realization by architects such as Michael Graves and Cesar Pelli. They show that new traditionalism in urban planning can fruitfully work together with a wide range of architectural approaches.” Birkhauser Germany 2003 HB 288pp Now available in paperback $A92.00

Trans(ient) City
A project on the theme of migration, is structured in three parts, Urban lab, Urban landmarks and Community life, and it explores the city Luxembourg at different but complementary levels. How does the local population use its living space, the city, how can we experiment with it, confront it with different practices? Transient City highlights the interdependence of art and society, the political, economic and social aspects of art.
BOM 2008 PB AU$100.00

Transitions: Pathways Towards Sustainable Urban Developments in Australia Newton PW [ed]
Transitions identifies 21^st century challenges to the resilience of Australia’s cities and regions that flow from a range of global and local influences. With contributions from 92 researchers, a portfolio of solutions to these critical problems and vulnerabilities is offered which include fundamental transitions in order to move forward on the issue. CSIRO Australia 2008 691pp HB AU$195.00

Transport for Suburbia: Beyond the Automobile Age Mees, P
Written by RMIT University lecturer in transport planning Paul Mees. He argues that the secret of 'European-style' public transport lies in a common  model of network planning that has worked in places as diverse as rural Switzerland, the Brazilian city of Curitiba and the Canadian cities of Toronto and Vancouver. It shows how this model can be adapted to suburban, exurban and even rural areas to provide a genuine alternative to the car, in cities such as Melbourne. It also outlines the governance, funding and service planning policies that underpin the success of the world's best public transport systems.   
Earthscan UK 2010 224pp HB $80.00 [28.01.10]

Transport Spaces a Pictorial Review of Significant Interiors Vol 1
Air, Rail, Road, Shipping are represented in projects by Australian and overseas companies. Projects include Sydney Airport  Control Tower, Brisbane International Passenger Terminal, Bilbao Metro, Seoul High Speed Rail Station, Hong Kong Terminal West 8, and Inner Harbour Master Plan Duisberg.
Images, Aust., 2000 220pp HB, $A 76.95

Transportable Environments Theory, Context, Design and Technology Kronenburg. R ed. 
E & Fn Spon, UK, 1998.  213pp PB $A P/A

Transportation and Sustainable Campus Communities: Issues Examples Solutions Toor, W and Havlick, S.W.
North American examples. Island Press, USA, 2004, 293pp, PB. $A 49.50

TransUrbanism Mulder, Arjen (ED)
Another fabulous Dutch book that explores the contemporary global architecture condition under the influences of the virtual, information and progress. It describes itself as ‘urbanism’ plus ‘transformation’ plus ‘globalisation’ and explores the condition of the city for the twenty first century. Includes works and writing from prominent figures such as Arjun Appadurai, Rem Koolhaas, Mark Wigley, Lars Spruybroek and Scott Lash. A must have book for those truly dedicated to the future of architecture.NAi Publishers, Rotterdam, 2002, 240pp PB $A50.00

Twenty Minutes in Manhattan Sorkin, M
Sorkin’s personal, anecdotal account of his casual encounters with the physical space and social dimensions of Manhattan. It offers a practical set of solutions that are relevant to not only the preservation and improvement of New York but to urban environments everywhere.
Reaktion Books UK 2009 216pp HB $49.95 [22.10.09]

Urban Apartment Blocks Broto, C
A collection of the freshest and most innovative urban housing projects. Respect for both the occupants and for every city dweller passing the building has produced apartment buildings that are appealing both inside and out, and generous living spaces. With full color photographs and plans.
LINKS 2008 240pp HB $A69.95

The Urban Connection: An Actor-Relational Approach to Urban Planning Boelens, L
Develops a promising model for an actor-relational approach to urban planning. With respect to the usual governmental planning, the thesis is focused on an approach that is driven by an outside-in relationship with civil society and investors, instead of inside-out.
O10 Publishers Netherlands 2009 308pp PB $88.00 [25.11.09]

Urban Design Krieger and Saunders
Looks back on the evolution of the discipline of urban design; assess the current state of the field; and anticipate the challenges posed by the unprecedented rate of urbanization, particularly in the developing world.
University of Minnesota Press 2009 368pp PB $44.95 [18.08.09]

Urban Ecology: Detroit and Beyond Kyong Park/ iCUE
Detroit is a city which demonstrates the harsh effects of urban decline through rapid development, technology and the general economy. Kyong Park runs the International Centre of Urban Ecology, a group that aim to address these issues and provide solutions and alternatives through various explorations of media, and the impact on the future of the city. Map Book Publishers/IDEA Hong Kong 2005 192pp PB AU$45.65

Urban Landscape Design Flannery J & Smith K
These carefully researched projects demonstrate high quality solutions to our human spatial needs. Each project depicts transformed urban areas based on context, culture and site specific need. Innovation and regeneration are the fundamental themes linking the public open spaces, waterfronts, boulevards and squares.
TeNeus Germany 2008 218pp HB $110.00 [13.06.09]

Urban Planning Theory since 1945 Nigel Taylor
A great book for students outlining the history of town planning theory since the end of the Second World War. It outlines and critiques the main theories often portrayed in developed countries, analysing the way in which planning has changed and developed.
Sage Publications 2008 184pp PB AU$67.00

Urban Spaces, Environments for the Future Krauel J
This collection of projects for public spaces is an excellent overview of current trends in urban planning. With 25 examples from internationally renowned professionals, projects from Sydney to London, Spain and more are shown. Links Spain 2009 300pp HB $AU 110.00

Urban Spaces : New City Parks Krauel, J
Takes a look at fifteen innovative projects that blur the distinction between landscaping and art, between artificial and natural. These projects explore the possibilities of landscape architecture with more than fifteen innovative, imaginative solutions to urban challenges. With colour photography, diagrams and plans.
LINKS 2008 300pp HB $A85.00

Urban Style Misc
27 sustainable and ecological residential projects implemented within an urban framework. With colour photography, some plans and diagrams demonstrating the pragmatics of the design.
Evergreen Koln 2008 254pp PB $A39.99

Urbanisms: Working with Doubt Holl, S
Argues that urban planners need to realize that the experiential power of cities cannot be completely rationalized and must be studied subjectively. With a selection of urban and architectural projects from his 30 year practice, Holl stretches urban planning into the domain of uncertainty, from prose into poetry.
Princeton Architectural Press 2009 288pp HB $100.00 [18.11.09]

Unbuilding Cities: Obduracy in Urban Sociotechnical Change  Hommels, A.
In Hommels' book he looks at the tension between the malleability of urban space & its obduracy, focusing on sites & structures that have been subjected to "unbuilding" - redesign or reconfiguration. Hommels examines the tensions between obduracy & change in three urban redesign projects in the Netherlands:a city centre, a highway system & a high-rise housing project. MIT, USA, 2005, 288pp, HB. A$58.95

Understanding Cities & Regions Stilwell, F,
Pluto Press, Australia, 1992, 247pp PB $A P/A

Unreal Estates of China Map Office
A series of line drawings which look at the life of a city in China. Each images describes an alternative urban…
Map Book Publishers Hong Kong 2008 160pp PB AU$26.95

Urban Conversion ed: Boeckl, Matthias
This generously illustrated book presents internationally exemplary projects within what is as important part of architecture today. Essays on the basic aspect of urban conversion complete this up to date review of what is taking place in Europe and North America. Springer Germany 2003 HB 172pp $A 107.00

Urban Design: A typology of procedures & products  Land, J.
With a selection of 50 international case studies from the past 5 decades, this title authored by Jon Lang, the Professor of Architecture at the Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales, facilitates the understanding urban design. This will be an essential guide to a variety of projects from around the world that will not only define the subject, but aid in the ideas for the future direction of the field whilst retaining the lessons learnt from the past. ArchiPress, UK, 2005, 420pp, PB. A$77.00

The Urban Design of Impermanence Peter Cookson Smith
A collection of sketches and illustrations detailing various urban situations in Hong Kong. Chinese and English Parallel Text. MCCM China 2008 192pp PB AU$65.00

Urban Design: Method & Techniques Cuesta, Sarris, Signoretta 2nd Edition
Architectural Press UK2003 PB $A82.25

Urban Design Reader Carmona M & Tiesdell S
Essential reading for students and practitioners of urban design, this reader draws together the key works that have provided the foundations for the place-making view of urban design. The collection introduces six key dimensions of urban design and supplements these with discussions of what urban design means and how it is implemented. Architectural Press UK 2007 432pp PB $A78.50

Urban Design: Street & Square Moughtin C. 3rd Edition
Architectural Press UK2003 PB $A82.25

Urban Development The logic of making plans Hopkins, Lewis D
Island Press, USA, 2001, 293pp, PB $A 64.35

Urban Elements Furniture and Micro Architecture.  Serra, J.
This book brings together a selection of 132 pieces of European street furniture and microarchitecture that each provide a service to the public, that encompasses a great variety of uses and functions. GG, Spain, 2007. 304pp PB $A 108.00

Urban Forms Samuels, I. Castex, J. Depaule, J. C. and Panerai, P.

The authors link changes in urban form to shifts in socio-economic structures through five key interventions of 20th-century urbanism. Architectural Press, UK, 2004, 240pp. $A 82.00