Bourgeois Utopias
Robert Fishman explores the origins and evolution of suburban life, showing how 19th-century middle-class ideals, particularly in places like London and the U.S., shaped the suburban dream and reshaped urban development around values of domesticity, privacy, and separation from the city.
A Paradise of Small Houses
The Philadelphia row house. The New York tenement. The Boston triple-decker. Every American city has its own iconic housing style, structures that have been home to generations of families and are symbols of identity and pride. Max Podemski, an urban planner for the city of Los Angeles and lifelong architecture buff, has spent his career in and around these buildings. Deftly combining his years of experience with extensive research, Podemski walks the reader through the history of our dwelling spaces — and offers a blueprint for how time-tested urban planning models can help us build the homes the United States so desperately needs.
City: Rediscovering the Center
For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major cities. With a group of young observers, camera and notebook in hand, he conducted pioneering studies of street life, pedestrian behavior, and city dynamics. City: Rediscovering the Center is the result of that research, a humane, often amusing view of what is staggeringly obvious about the urban environment but seemingly invisible to those responsible for planning it.
