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  • Neighbor Power

    Building Community the Seattle Way

    by Jim A. Diers ...
    Building on the lessons of early labor leaders, civil rights volunteers, and political activists, Jim Diers has developed his own models and successful strategies for community development. Neighbor Power chronicles his involvement with Seattle’s communities. This book not only gives hope that participatory democracy is possible, but it offers practical applications and invaluable lessons for ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Walkable City

    How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

    by Jeff Speck ...
    Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability.The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core. But in the typical American city, the car is still king, and downtown is a place that's easy to drive to but often not worth ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Cheap

    The High Cost of Discount Culture

    by Ellen Ruppel Shell ...
    A myth-shattering investigation of the true cost of America's passion for finding a better bargainFrom the shuttered factories of the Rust Belt to the strip malls of the Sun Belt-and almost everywhere in between-America has been transformed by its relentless fixation on low price. This pervasive yet little- examined obsession with bargains is arguably the most powerful and devastating market force ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Urban Planning For Dummies

    by Jordan Yin ...
    How to create the world's new urban futureWith the majority of the world's population shifting to urban centres, urban planning—the practice of land-use and transportation planning to help shape cities structurally, economically, and socially—has become an increasingly vital profession. In Urban Planning For Dummies, readers will get a practical overview of this fascinating field, including ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Suburban Nation

    The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

    by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck ...
    The essential handbook for ending suburban sprawl and automobile-based settlement patternsFor a decade, Suburban Nation has given voice to a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and replace the last century's automobile-based settlement patterns with a return to more traditional planning. Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Our Towns

    A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America

    by James Fallows, Deborah Fallows ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "James and Deborah Fallows have always moved to where history is being made.... They have an excellent sense of where world-shaping events are taking place at any moment" —The New York Times • The basis for the HBO documentary streaming on HBO MaxFor five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The End of the Suburbs

    Where the American Dream Is Moving

    by Leigh Gallagher ...
    “The government in the past created one American Dream at the expense of almost all others: the dream of a house, a lawn, a picket fence, two children, and a car. But there is no single American Dream anymore.”For nearly 70 years, the suburbs were as American as apple pie. As the middle class ballooned and single-family homes and cars became more affordable, we flocked to pre-fabricated ... Read more

    Was $10.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • The Price of a Bargain

    The Quest for Cheap and the Death of Globalization

    by Gordon Laird ...
    A brilliant investigation into the true cost of our bargain economy — and the end of consumerism as we know itOurs is the age of discount: we want more, cheaper, better. But the result is low wages, urban blight, environmental damage, labour abuses, a cookie-cutter model of progress, and now an international economic crisis. With an eye for documentary storytelling and investigative detail, Gordon ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Marketing Places

    by Philip Kotler ...
    Today's headlines report cities going bankrupt, states running large deficits, and nations stuck in high debt and stagnation. Philip Kotler, Donald Haider, and Irving Rein argue that thousands of "places" -- cities, states, and nations -- are in crisis, and can no longer rely on national industrial policies, such as federal matching funds, as a promise of jobs and protection. When trouble strikes, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Climatopolis

    How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future

    by Matthew E Kahn ...
    "Climatopolis documents the thinking of a first-rate economist on one of the most pressing issues of our time" -- NatureWe have released the genie from the bottle: climate change is coming, and there's no stopping it. The question, according to environmental economist Matthew E. Kahn, is not how we're going to avoid a hotter future but how we're going to adapt to it. In Climatopolis, Kahn argues ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Bird on Fire

    Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City

    by Andrew Ross ...
    Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable appetite for unrestrained growth and unrestricted property rights. In Bird on Fire, eminent social and cultural analyst Andrew Ross focuses on the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Are We Screwed?

    How a New Generation is Fighting to Survive Climate Change

    by Geoff Dembicki ...
    A declaration of resistance, and a roadmap for radical change, from the generation that will be most screwed by climate change.The Millennial generation could be first to experience the doomsday impacts of climate change. It's also the last generation able to do something about them. With time ticking down, 31-year-old journalist Geoff Dembicki journeyed to Silicon Valley, Canada's tar sands, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD