Seeing Trees, A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin by Sonja Dümpelmann
FROM YALE BOOKS… “A fascinating and beautifully illustrated volume that explains what street trees tell us about humanity’s changing relationship […]
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“Transportation for Livable Cities” by Vukan R. Vuchic
Though this book is somewhat dated, now being 20 years since production, the thoughts are clear, well organized, fundamentally sound
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PRE-PONCE FLORIDA, Big Ice, Crashing Plates and Dangerous Crossings.
CONTEXT FOR CURRENT CONDITIONS. The Earth has been around for a while. The current catastrophes of climate change, environmental degradation
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Some Kind of Paradise, A Chronicle of Man and the Land in Florida by Mark Derr
Overview. Mark Derr’s book offers a great perspective on the history of Florida from its geophysical origins to the landing
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The Swamp, The Everglades, Florida and the Politics of Paradise by Michael Grunwald
Chapter One, Grassy Water “The First 300 Million Years (Abridged)”, p14. “The Everglades showed up…around the time the Egyptians started
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The Bentway
About The Bentway. The Bentway is a unique and innovative public space that transforms 1.75km [1.05 miles] underneath Toronto’s Gardiner
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Museums, Launching Pads for the Future.
A Reflection of Downtown Values. Museums can be about anything; mostly they are about the values of the host community.
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Seeing Trees, A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin by Sonja Dümpelmann
From Yale Books: “A fascinating and beautifully illustrated volume that explains what street trees tell us about humanity’s changing relationship
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Cities by Lawrence Halprin
Cities by Lawrence Halprin is one of those books from the 1960s when idealism in city planning was blooming, design was
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The Design and Content of Character Main Streets.
The design and content of nine Central Florida’s Character Main Streets reveals important attributes that entitles these small cities to