Cora Street
Pittsburgh: ACTION-Housing, 1969. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); original brown printed wrappers; [2],77,[1]pp.; illus. Fine. "A Pioneering Demonstration in Rehabilitating Aging but Structurally Sound Housing" (from upper cover). More
Urban Planning
Eleven photographic post card views of Elizabeth, New Jersey, ca 1930s
Elizabeth, NJ: Art Photo Greeting Co, N.d. [1930s]. Views include: The Elizabeth Carteret Hotel; Elizabeth Avenue (showing the original Harmonia Bank Building); Alexander Hamilton Jr. High School; East Jersey Street (looking west); The Hotel Winfield Scott; Hersh Tower (Art Deco masterpiece, built 1931); St. Elizabeth's Hospital; Post Office; City Hall;... More
Metropolis; or, The Destiny of Cities
London: C.W. Daniel Company, [1930]. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); original tan cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine, dark brown topstain; 86,[2](ads)pp. Contemporary ownership inscription on half title, minor foxing to preliminaries and textblock fore-edge, else Near Fine. Brief study of the cities of Great Britain in the early years of the economic..... More
Skid Row in American Cities
Chicago: Community and Family Study Center, University of Chicago, 1963. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); original grey-green cloth, small circular pictorial paper plate mounted to spine; xiv,[4],521pp.; photographs, tables, and graphs throughout. Spine a hint cocked, minor soil to upper cover, else Near Fine. Substantial survey of slums and their derelict... More
Change In The Village
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1912. First American Edition. Classic work on the sociology of rural villages and the changes wrought by advancing technology. Sturt (1863-1927) was a wheelwright by trade, and wrote from a rather unusual perspective - a sensitive, self-educated tradesman, documenting and eulogizing the passing of... More
The Russian City Between Tradition and Modernity, 1850-1900
Berkeley: University of California Press, [1990]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in teal pictorial dust jacket; xiv,253pp.; illus. Just About Fine. More
The City Is the People
[New York]: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1945]. Octavo (21.25cm.); original cloth in black pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; [14],186pp.; frontispiece, illus. throughout. Jacket extremities rubbed and chipped, small half-inch blemish to upper panel. About Fine in Good or better jacket. Examination of the creation of cities by the architect and urban planner. More
Premature Subdivision and its Consequences: A study made for the State Planning Council of New York of the premature subdivision for urban purposes of outlying lands in selected metropolitan areas of New York State [Signed & Inscribed]
New York: Institute of Public Administration, Columbia University, 1938. Reprint. "Authorized Reprint of the Official Report." Octavo (22.5cm.); original maroon buckram, spine lettered in gilt; xxi,[1],346pp.; illus. and maps throughout. Upper cover extremities faintly dampstained, some bubbling to cloth of rear cover. Still, Very Good and sound. Signed and inscribed... More
No Room to Live; Being Papers on the Housing Question in Town and Country [cover subtitle: Overcrowding in Town and Country]
London: "Daily News" 1900. Revised Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's drab printed wrappers; vii,[8]-175pp. Wrappers rather fragile with a few shallow chips and closed tears along extremities, textblock significantly toned and brittle due to poor paper stock. Still, a Near Very Good copy overall. Collected articles first published in the Daily..... More
Mastering a Metropolis: Planning the Future of the New York Region
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1930. Second Printing. Octavo. Maroon cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; 302pp. Spine gilt age-dulled; text clean, tight and unmarked. An attractive, VG copy. More
American Cities: Their Methods of Business
New York: Macmillan, 1918. First Edition. Small octavo. Blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; 240, [6]pp. Spine gently sunned, with mild discoloration to boards; a few instances of pencil underlining to text; Very Good. Survey of factors conducive to creating a positive business environment in... More
The Metropolitan Area As a Racial Problem
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, [1958]. Second (1959) Printing. Octavo (23cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; [4],28pp. Uniformly dust-soiled, previous owner's ink note to upper cover, else Very Good and sound. More
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The University and the City [cover title]
[Cambridge: Harvard Today Publications, 1969]. First Edition. Octavo (24.5cm.); original teal printed staplebound card wrappers; 35pp.; illus. Fine. Second of a series published by the Office of the President "on behalf of the interest of all alumni..." More
European Cities At Work
New York: Scribner's, 1917. First Edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; 370pp. Tight, Near Fine copy, gilt slightly dulled on spine; text clean, tight and unmarked. More
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[YEARBOOK] Hummelstown Bicentennial; 1762-1962 [Pennsylvania]
[Hummelstown, PA]: American Yearbook Company, [1962]. First Edition. Quarto (31cm.); coated paper boards in red, silver, and blue; [166pp]. A yearbook commemorating the 200th anniversary of Hummelstown, PA's founding; contains town history and photographs, plus information on municipal organizations, churches, schools, and businesses (with contemporary ads). Endpapers are slightly yellowed... More
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[YEARBOOK] Hummelstown Bicentennial; 1762-1962 [Pennsylvania]
[Hummelstown, PA]: American Yearbook Company, [1962]. First Edition. Quarto (31cm.); coated paper boards in red, silver, and blue; [166pp]. A yearbook commemorating the 200th anniversary of Hummelstown, PA's founding; contains town history and photographs, plus information on municipal organizations, churches, schools, and businesses (with contemporary ads). Endpapers are slightly yellowed... More
Informe del Desarrollo de una Vivienda Experimental para el Proyecto de Colonizacion del Valle del Rio Aguan
Honduras: Instituto de la Vivienda, [1969]. First Edition. Oblong quarto (21x27cm.); publisher's grey decorative spiral-bound card wrappers; [12],35ll. & 11 plates; illus. throughout, text printed on rectos only. Wrappers a bit worn and dust-soiled, very minor biopredation to front free endpaper fore-edge, else Very Good, internally fine. Text entirely in... More
Urban Renewal Politics: Slum Clearance in Newark
New York: Columbia University Press, 1963. First Edition. Octavo (23.25cm.); original cloth in white photo-illustrated price-clipped dust jacket, green topstain; x,[6],219pp.; illus. Fine. Metropolitan Politics Series no. 1. More
Open Space for the San Francisco Bay Area: Organizing to Guide Metropolitan Growth
Berkeley: Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, 1970. First Edition. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's white and green card wrappers; viii,85pp.; two leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos, color maps in text. Light shelf wear, faint ownership signature to upper cover, else Very Good to Near Fine. More
The Supercity: A Planned Physical Equipment for City Life
Washington DC: [Robert R. Kern], 1924. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original dark green buckram, spine embossed in gilt; [2],349pp.; 4 plates of plans. About Fine. Proposal for the construction of the ideal city, which would be "put...to work to the end that part of the world's work may be accomplished... More
Women in the Mortgage Market: Statistical Methods and Tables for Use in Appraising the Stability of Women's Income
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976. First Edition. Quarto (26cm.); publisher's cream pictorial card wrappers printed in brown; viii,110pp.; tables throughout. Near Fine. Prepared for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research. More
The Politics of Zoning: The New York Experience
New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1966. First Edition. "...a penetrating analysis of the policy and politics of land use zoning in New York City." Octavo (23.5cm); royal blue cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; mauve topstain; dustjacket; 241pp. Fine in a Near Fine, price-clipped dustjacket, with... More
Beneath the Streets of Boston: Building America's First Subway
Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, 2005. Stated First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm x 23.5cm). Red cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in gold on spine and image in gold on cover; pictorial dustjacket; [49pp]; illus. Near Fine copy; very slight shelf wear to extremities, else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper;... More
Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks
New York: Aperture Foundation, 2009. First Edition. Oblong quarto (27.5cm x 31.5cm). Pictorial paper boards (hardcover) with titling on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 300pp; illus. Near Fine copy; slight soiling to bottom textblock corner, else appears new. Near Fine dustwrapper; very slight shelf wear to bottom corner tip, else clean and... More
Solving the Crisis in Transport and Urban Living: Highlights of "The Metropolitan Transportation Problem"
Washington DC: Brookings Institution, 1966. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's blue-grey staplebound wrappers; 9pp. Near Fine. Brookings Research Institute Report no. 52. More