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

The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Abundance
The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City, 1986-1990
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers
Borderlines: A History of Europe, Told from the Edges
52 Ways to Walk: The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time
The Land Trap: The eye-opening new history of the world's oldest asset from the Economist's Wall Street editor
Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
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
Cities for People
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
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

Jane Jacobs
“ Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration, with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves. ”
― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

William Gibson
“ Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television. ”
― William Gibson, Spook Country

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