The Architecture of Community
By: Leon Krier
4.15
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
"No architect has explored architecture's claim to universality better than Léon Krier, and it is t…
Want to Read $ 31.72"A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims."-Leon Krier, The Architecture of Community
"A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims."-Leon Krier, The Architecture of Community
"The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains."-Leon Krier, The Architecture of Community
"The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains."-Leon Krier, The Architecture of Community
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1. The Death and Life of Great American Cities
By: Jane Jacobs
4.30
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arroganc… read more
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- architecture
- urban studies
- urban planning
- nonfiction
- design
- urbanism
- cities
- sociology
"We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
2. Treatise on Law (Hackett Classics)
By: Thomas Aquinas , Richard J. Regan
3.72
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
This new translation of the Treatise on Law offers fidelity to the Latin in a readable new version … read more
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- nonfiction
"Unde omnis lex humanitus posita intantum habet de ratione legis, inquantum a lege naturae derivatur. Si vero in aliquo a lege naturali discordet, iam non erit lex sed legis corruptio."-Thomas Aquinas, Treatise on Law (Hackett Classics)
3. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
By: Erik Larson
4.00
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such… read more
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- nonfiction
"I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold."-Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
"No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck."-Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
"How easy it was to disappear: A thousand trains a day entered or left Chicago."-Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood. Daniel H. Burnham"-Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
4. Towards a New Architecture
By: Le Corbusier , None
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
For the Swiss-born architect and city planner Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, 1887-1965), … read more
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- architecture
- nonfiction
- urbanism
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5. Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
By: Johan Huizinga
3.80
Format: None pages,
Discusses the cultural phenomenon of the human play instincts and play acting in modern western soc… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
6. The Design of Everyday Things
By: Donald A. Norman
4.11
Format: 559 pages, Paperback
Anyone who designs anything to be used by humans -- from physical objects to computer programs to c… read more
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- nonfiction
- design
7. Meditations
By: Marcus Aurelius , Martin Hammond , Diskin Clay
3.75
Format: 148 pages,
Written in Greek, without any intention of publication, by the only Roman emperor who was also a ph… read more
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- nonfiction
8. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writ… read more
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9. Steppenwolf
By: Hermann Hesse , Basil Creighton , کیکاووس جهانداری
4.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Steppenwolfis a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. Th… read more
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10. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
By: Serhii Plokhy
3.87
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more
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11. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
By: Christopher W. Alexander , None , None , None , None , None
4.14
Format: None pages, Hardcover
At the core of A Pattern Languageis the philosophy that in designing their environments people alwa… read more
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12. The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses
By: Juhani Pallasmaa
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Since the book's first publication, interest in the role of the body and the senses has been emergi… read more
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13. The Natural Law: A Study in Legal and Social History and Philosophy
By: None
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
Originally published in German in 1936, The Natural Lawis the first work to clarify the differences… read more
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14. A Walk in the Woods
By: Bill Bryson
3.20
Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Subtitle: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail. The Appalachian Trail stretches from Geor… read more
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15. The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
By: Catherine Nixey
4.06
Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition
The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and… read more
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- nonfiction
"Un mártir podía empezar el día de su muerte como una de las personas de más baja categoría en el imperio y acabar como una de las más eminentes en el cielo."-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
"El cristianismo contó a las generaciones posteriores que su victoria sobre el viejo mundo fue celebrada por todas, y las siguientes generaciones lo creyeron."-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
"For every classical work that sat comfortably with Christian minds and morals, there was another that grated unbearably on them. ‘Carmen 16’ by the poet Catullus was a particular thorn. This poem ope…"-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
"The very memory that there was any opposition at all to Christianity faded. The idea that philosophers might have fought fiercely, with all they had, against Christianity was – is – passed over. The …"-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
16. The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
By: Byung-Chul Han
4.05
Format: 186 pages, Hardcover
Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century cris… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
17. No-cosas: Quiebras del mundo de hoy
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.85
Format: 109 pages, Kindle Edition
«Hoy estamos en la transición de la era de las cosas a la era de las no-cosas. No son las cosas, si… read more
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- sociology
18. Law and Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative State
By: Cass R. Sunstein
3.58
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2021 Scribes Book Award From two legal luminaries, a highly original framework for r… read more
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19. The Architecture of Community
By: Leon Krier
4.15
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
"No architect has explored architecture's claim to universality better than Léon Krier, and it is t… read more
Want to Read $ 31.72Similar categories in Leon Krier's The Architecture of Community book and Leon Krier's The Architecture of Community
- architecture
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- urban planning
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- urban
- design
- urbanism
- cities
- urban design
- sociology
"A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims."-Leon Krier, The Architecture of Community
"The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains."-Leon Krier, The Architecture of Community
"Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop."-Leon Krier, The Architecture of Community
"Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land."-Leon Krier, The Architecture of Community
