For the typical American homeowner, Great Houses on a Budget presents case studies from across the country that achieve high style at an aff...
Since the earliest days of the republic, great engineering projects have shaped American landscapes and expressed American dreams. The ambit...
In this "pathology of planning," Peter Hall briskly recounts the histories of five great planning disasters and two near-disasters and analy...
Describing the knowledge the average person must have to become a top programmer, this volume teaches the important concepts of machine orga...
Allan Jacobs has surveyed street users and design professionals and has studied a wide array of street types and urban spaces around the wor...
Among the 330 feats of engineering genius documented here are bridges found all over the United States, from Brooklyn to the Golden Gate and...
With the demise of WorldCom amidst a flurry of accounting scandals dominating the front pages, and following hotly in the footsteps of the e...
The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their b...