Most Read This Week In Urban Planning

Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks and their accessibility. Many professional practitioners of urban planning, especially practitioners with the title "urban planner" study urban planning education, while some paraprofessional practitioners are educated in urban stud ...more

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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back

Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile

52 Ways to Walk: The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time

Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity

The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing

Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource

Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System

Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It

Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It

The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America

A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places

Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles

The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back

Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town

Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers

Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns

Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle

Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation

Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis

Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment

Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs

American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest

City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation

Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives

Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis

The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet

Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies

On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America

Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City

The Nature of Our Cities: Harnessing the Power of the Natural World to Survive a Changing Planet

When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency

The Swamp Peddlers: How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream

Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities

Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City

Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America's Broken Housing Systems

Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See

Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality

Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia

The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America

Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City

Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing

City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles

In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities

Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience, and Co-create the Cities We Need

American Urbanist: How William H. Whyte's Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life

Living Disability: Building Accessible Futures for Everybody

Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities

City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America

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Quotes Tagged “Urban Planning”

“ Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet the fact is, physically it has changed remarkably little. People's feelings about it, rather, have changed. The neighborhood shows a strange inability to update itself, enliven itself, repair itself, or to be sought after, out of choice, by a new generation. It is dead. Actually it was dead from birth, but nobody noticed this much until the corpse began ...more ”
― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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“ There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time. ”
― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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