Books & Reviews

Is Phoenix's goose cooked? The metabolism of cities.

Review of The Very Hungry City: Urban Energy Efficiency and the Economic Fate of Cities, by Austin Troy, Yale University Press, 2012, 384 pp., $28 hardcover

A nudge towards walking saves a mountain of cash

Review of Intelligent Cities, edited by Susan C. Piedmont-Palladino, National Building Museum, 2011, 120 pp., $25 paperbound.

Deeply lived-in plazas

Edited by Chris Wilson and Stefanos Polyzoides
Photographs by Miguel Gandert
Trinity University Press, 2011, 338 pp. $45 hardcover

Walking Home: The Life and Lessons of a City Builder

Review of a book by Ken Greenberg, Random House Canada, 2011, 394 pp., $29.95 hardcover

How to grow a Garden City

A book by Andres Duany offers a blueprint for what he calls the development tool of the future: Agrarian Urbanism.

Taking the "wonk" out of transportation ideas

Streetfilms recently released a set of videos that explain pioneering street improvements in a way that the general public can get behind.

Does sprawl bring happiness?

A review of Sprawl, Justice, and Citizenship: The Civic Costs of the American Way of Life. A book by Thad Williamson. Oxford University Press, 2010, 416 pp., $35 hardcover

The glories of granny flats

Review of In-laws, Outlaws, and Granny Flats: Your Guide for Turning One House into Two Homes. A book by Michael Litchfield. Taunton Press, 2011, 224 pp., $24.95 paperback

Good developments come in small packages

Review of Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small-Scale Community in a Large-Scale World, a book by Ross Chapin. Taunton Press, 2011, 224 pp., $30 hardcover

Cities for People

Jan Gehl's book offers ideas for how to make cities and the world immeasurably better.