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The Past and Future City: How Historic Preservation is Reviving America's Communities

5 best books like The Past and Future City: How Historic Preservation is Reviving America's Communities (Stephanie Meeks): The Casual Vacancy, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time, Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution, Your Money or Your Life

The Casual Vacancy
AuthorJ.K. Rowling
ISBN0316228532
A BIG NOVEL ABOUT A SMALL TOWN ...

When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock.

Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war.

Rich...
The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
AuthorAmanda Palmer
ISBN1455581089
Rock star, crowdfunding pioneer, and TED speaker Amanda Palmer knows all about asking. Performing as a living statue in a wedding dress, she wordlessly asked thousands of passersby for their dollars. When she became a singer, songwriter, and musician, she was not afraid to ask her audience to support...
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
AuthorJeff Speck
ISBN0374285810
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...
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
AuthorJanette Sadik-Khan
ISBN0525429840
An empowering road map for rethinking, reinvigorating, and redesigning our cities, from a pioneer in the movement for safer, more livable streets

As New York City’s transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan managed the seemingly impossible and transformed the streets of...
Your Money or Your Life
AuthorVicki Robin
ISBN0140286780
I could and will read and re-read this book, not for its literary value but for its simple explanations of concrete ways to observe your own connection with the material world. Whether or not you fully practice its program, it is the sanest and most convincing account of the importance of financial savvy...
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