Demolition is Not Enough: Design After Decline Author Brent Ryan on Redevelopment in Philadelphia
06/18/2012
Barring a miraculous rebirth of neighborhood real estate markets, city officials should think twice before creating more vacant lots.
Category: Urban Studies
Divided Cities–Now in Paperback
06/05/2012
Divided Cities: Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia Jon Calame and Esther Charlesworth. Foreword by Lebbeus Woods 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 44 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN… READ MORE
Design After Decline–Now Available
06/05/2012
Design After Decline: How America Rebuilds Shrinking Cities Brent D. Ryan 288 pages | 6 x 9 | 57 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4407-6 | $45.00 | £29.50 A… READ MORE
Porta Pallazo–Now Available
06/01/2012
Porta Palazzo: The Anthropology of an Italian Market Rachel E. Black. Foreword by Carlo Petrini 240 pages | 6 x 9 | 11 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4406-9 |… READ MORE
A Glorious Enterprise–Now Available
04/03/2012
A Glorious Enterprise: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Making of American Science Robert McCracken Peck and Patricia Tyson Stroud. Photographs by Rosamond Purcell 464 pages |… READ MORE
Good News Comes in Threes from Foundation for Landscape Studies
02/16/2012
Hot on the heels of the Foundation for Landscape Studies announcement that a forthcoming Penn Press book will receive a David Coffin Publication Grant, we learned today two of our… READ MORE
NYPD’s Mitchell Silber on the Brian Lehrer Show
01/31/2012
Mitchell Silber, author of The Al Qaeda Factor: Plots Against the West and Director of Intelligence Analysis for the New York Police Department, was a guest on yesterday's episode of… READ MORE
My Storm–Now Available
12/22/2011
My Storm: Managing the Recovery of New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina Edward J. Blakely. Foreword by Henry Cisneros 208 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus. Cloth… READ MORE
Global Downtowns – Now Available
12/21/2011
Global Downtowns Edited by Marina Peterson and Gary McDonogh 376 pages | 6 x 9 | 13 illus. Cloth Dec 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4384-0 | $59.95 | £39.00 A volume… READ MORE
Why Don’t American Cities Burn–Now Available
12/07/2011
Why Don't American Cities Burn? Michael B. Katz 240 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4386-4 | $29.95 | £19.50 A volume in the… READ MORE
