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
The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset
Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System
The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Borderlines: A History of Europe, Told from the Edges
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City
Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places
A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
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
Cities for People
The High Cost of Free Parking
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
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
Career's Quest by Shubham ShuklaStreetfight by Janette Sadik-Khan101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School by Matthew FrederickSubdivided by Jay Pitter101 Things I Learned® in Urban Design School by Matthew Frederick
Planning & Women Reads
29 books — 4 voters
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
17 books — 4 voters

Making the Second Ghetto by Arnold R. HirschBlueprint for Disaster by D. Bradford HuntAmerican Project by VenkateshOff the Books by Sudhir VenkateshGang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
Chicago Housing (nonfiction)
17 books — 1 voter
The Urban Mystique by Josh StephensCities for People by Jan GehlGroundswell by Peter ReedRadical Cities by Justin McGuirkThe Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler
Urban/Urban Landscape (nonfiction)
94 books — 15 voters


Jane Jacobs
Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Rebecca Solnit
Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller's, only to know that one might. A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination. ...more
Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

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Not Exceeding Ten Miles Square A DC Urban Planning Book Club We meet in DC on the first Wednesday of even-numbered months to d…more
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Library of urban planning resources for Metro planners
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Books about transportation, cities and the built environment.
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Feel free to post about related books that you've read and think that others would benefit from …more
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