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

Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
52 Ways to Walk: The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time
Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis
The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The Image of the City
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
The High Cost of Free Parking
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
Cities for People
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
Dark Age Ahead by Jane JacobsThe Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane JacobsVital Little Plans by Jane Jacobs101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School by Matthew FrederickThe Economy of Cities by Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs
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Philadelphia Books
17 books — 5 voters
La Grande Arche by Laurence CosséBuilding and Dwelling by Richard SennettConcrete Vaulted Construction in Imperial Rome-FTPB for Pre-S... by Lynne LancasterBuilding Atlanta by Herman J. RussellConcrete and Culture by Adrian Forty
Best Books about Building Cities
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Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
At Mayflower-Plymouth, we treat municipal bond holding as both a path to profit and an investment into social progress.
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
Municipalities that have Permaculture Economies can issue more investable bonds.
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

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