Imagine one day you receive a letter in the mail that informs you that a large energy company is planning to build a massive pipeline through your property. That surveyors will be coming out soon. That they have the legal right to do so,...
Books
352 pages
6 x 9
6 illustrations
How to Take Back Our Streets and Transform Our Lives
“This book will—no question—make you think in new ways. Why have we surrendered our cities to cars? What might it be like to inhabit a space designed for people instead? It’s exciting and hopeful—this we can do!...
288 pages
6 x 9
Policies that Drive Innovation
Climate tech is critical for averting planetary chaos. Half the greenhouse gas reductions required to reach “net-zero” climate targets in 2050 will need to come from technologies that have not yet been invented. Without...
280 pages
6 x 9
No illustrations
Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
“In this eye-opening debut study, Frerick, an agricultural policy fellow at Yale University, reveals the ill-gained stranglehold that a handful of companies have on America’s food economy…It’s a disquieting critique of private...
248 pages
6 x 9
How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives
Transportation expert Jarrett Walker believes that transit can be simple, if we focus on the underlying geometry that all transit systems share. In Human Transit, Revised Edition, he provides the basic tools and critical questions...
288 pages
6 x 9
Perspectives on Creating Inclusive Spaces
How do you experience a public space? Do you feel safe? Seen? Represented? The response to these questions may differ based on factors including your race, age, ethnicity, or gender identity. In the architecture and design professions, decisions...
208 pages
6 x 9
40 photos
Voices from Native America
For too long, Native American people in the United States have been stereotyped as vestiges of the past, invisible citizens in their own land obliged to remind others, “We are still here!” Yet today, Native leaders are at the center...
320 pages
6 x 9
13 photos, 1 illustration
How Recycled Sewage Is Transforming Our Water
In 2000, a transformative climate-driven “megadrought” swept over the Colorado River watershed. By the early 2020s, levels on the river’s two largest reservoirs were hitting record lows and threatening the water supply for forty...
248 pages
6 x 9
20 photos and illustrations
Tsunamis, Cyclones, Drought, and the Delusion of Controlling Nature
In March 2011, people in a coastal Japanese city stood atop a seawall watching the approach of the tsunami that would kill them. They believed—naively—that the huge concrete barrier would save them. Instead they perished, betrayed by...
264 pages
6 x 9
4 photos, 3 illustrations