Search Results: City Planning from Trevian Books

New York: Office of Upper Manhattan Planning and Development, 1978, 1978. Oblong 8vo; 59 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in original plastic comb-bound wrappers. A survey of proposed transportation options for 125th Street, in conjunction with the proposed redevelopment of the district, most of which was eventually taken by Columbia University. .

New York: Tri-state Transportation Commissiion, 1966 First edition. 4to; 39 pp.; illustrated. A fine copy in original plastic-comb bound wrappers. The Commission considers and makes proposals for dealing with regional transportation issues in the next 20 years..

New York: Dept. City Planning, 1978 First edition. oblong 4to; 123 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans and drawings. A very good copy in original pictorial wrappers. A comprehensive analysis of West 42nd Street and the leafy bowers that surround it. With existing and proposed uses presented in detail, along with photographic building portraits in the tradition of "Both Sides of Broadway", and an invaluable Census of Sleaze..

New York: NYS Urban Dev. Corp., 1984 The first volume of the massive 2-volume report, this with an Executive Summary, Chapter one, and Chapter two, Probably Project Impacts. First edition. 27.5 cm; 370 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Light wear to covers; else a good copy or better in wrappers..

New York: Inventory Press, 2015 The third edtion of this data-centric approach to the analysis of existing urbanisms. With discussions with Ant Farm, Archigram, and Yona Friedman. 3rd edition. 23.5 cm; 143 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in green cloth covers..

New York: Anyone Corporation, 2006 First edition. 8vo; 152 pp.; illustrated. A very good copy in original wrappers. Issue 8 of this journal of architecture and planning, with articles by and/or about Glenn Murcutt, Leon Krier, etc..

Los Angeles: LAHA, 1948. Chapter titles: There's Nothing Sentimental About Your Cash Register; Bad Housing is Bad Business; Public Housing is Good Business. The case made by local civic leaders for slum clearance and the creation of good public housing based solely on increased municipal revenues. Chavez Ravine is cited, as its "bad housing prevents proper development and use of urgently needed residential space" ...until the Dodgers show up. .

Singapore: DP Architects/Select Books, 1980 A collection of Lim’s articles on urban planning and development written between 1975-1980. Lim, a practicing architect in Singapore, focuses on developmental strategies in transportation, housing, and environmental and cultural values, specifically for urban areas in Asian countries. First edition. 21 cm; 183 pp. Owner’s name; else a very good copy in wrappers..

Zurich: Girsberger, 1963 The first volume of the collected works of Finnish modernist Alvar Aalto to 1963, featuring architectural work and furniture designs. Text in English, German, and French. First edition. 23 cm; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A very good copy or better in original gray cloth, in a worn dust jacket separated at the folds..

Florence, Kentucky, U.S.A.: New York: Methuen, (1983), 1983. FIRST EDITION HARDCOVER IN DUST JACKET F/F.

Firenze: Alinea, 2002 Documentation of the efforts of architects and students to propose alternative designs for the enclosure of the Ara Pacis, at risk from the municipally approved anti-classical modernist style enclosure. Contributions from Krier, Rowe,Westfall. Text in Italian and English. First edition. 30 cm; 71 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in wrappers..

Berlin: ArchiTangle GmbH, 2019 An examination of the 20 short-listed projects for the 2019 competition, with a report of the Master Jury for the 6 winning entries. Showing work by Snohetta, IDOM, OMA, others. First edition. 24 cm; 351 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in debossed boards, published without a dust jacket..

Burlington: Ashgate, 2007 A study of the physical architectonic planning of communal and cooperative settlements like the kibbutz and the moshav in Israel. It examines the question of how a utopian settlement organization behaves over a period of time and how ideological changes lead to changes in the physical architectonic layout of the settlement. First edition. 23 cm; 250 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in laminated boards, published without a dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket.

New York: Press of the AIA, Inc., 1926 Brunner was an American architect educated at MIT and active at the turn of the century in New York. His career began with George Post but in1898 he independently won the competition for the Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, and soon after the competition for the Federal Building at Cleveland, as well as for one of the buildings in an aborted plan for a massive renewal of Washington DC. He had a strong interest in city planning and wrote reports for Albany, Rochester, and Baltimore emphasizing zoning and building height limits. A series of interesting, if not overly critical, reminiscences of the man as friend, architect, and city planner is followed by 93 plates of illustrations, including photographs and sketches of executed work and projects, as well as pages of drawing’s from Brunner’s notebooks. First edition. 31 cm; 47 pp.; illustrated from 93 plates of photographs, plans, and drawings, hors texte. A very good copy in gilt-stamped buckram. .

Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1972 A documentation in photographs of the disappearing varieties of street lights in the city of Los Angeles. With essays on the development of the lamp, a historical sketch of street lighting in Los Angeles, and designs of local lamps through the century. First edition. 23.5 cm; 55 pp.; illustrated from 53 photographs hors texte. A very good copy or better in gilt-stamped cloth backed pictorial boards..

Monroe: Library Research Associates, 1972 A1858 topographical survey of the August Tract owned by the Lorillard family. Brief biography of Brooks with his manual; folding reproduction of map laid-in. Repair to spine; else a good copy in boards, in very good slipcase..

New York: Rizzoli, 1988 Monograph of the work of the Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi, With a detailed analysis of his designs from 1955-1988, marked by their harmony with the environment and social geography of the country, and his urbanization which builds on the links between community and nature. Doshi worked for Corbusier in France, returning with him to India to work at Chandigarh before establishing his own practice. First edition. 21 cm; 192 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A very good copy in red debossed boards, in a dust jacket with rubbing to the spine..

Barcelona: MACBA, 2007 Catalog for the 2007 exhibition at MACBA of Laguillo's photographs documenting the reconstruction of the city of Barcelona from 1978-1997. With essays by de Sola-Morales and others. Text in Spanish and English. First edition. 24 cm; illustrated from photographs. A fine copy in wrappers, in a fine dust jacket..

Calcutta: CMPO, 1966 First edition. 4to; 176 pp.; illustrated. A good copy in a good dust jacket. An effort to "...present a coherent and carefully thought out prospectus for the regeneration and development of the CDalcuttta Metropolitan District..."over the next 20 years..

Amsterdam: Visual Arts for Abroad, 1976 First edition. 4to; 15 pp.; illustrated from photographs. Spine beginning to split; light wear to corners; a good copy in original self-wrappers. Booklet for an exhibition at the 1976 Venice Biennale surveying improvements in city planning in the Netherlands, based on the concept that good living environments go beyond shelter. .