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
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
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
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis
A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Het recht van de snelste
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
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
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

Tom  Turner
Single-purposism, as we have seen, tends to create projects that harm the environment. Instead, we should design projects with as favourable an environmental impact as possible. This is the objective of environmental impact design.
Tom Turner, Landscape Planning And Environmental Impact Design

Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good.
Kevin McCloud, Kevin McCloud's 43 Principles of Home: Enjoying Life in the 21st Century.

More quotes...
ThreadATL Books Books about urbanism (urban design, housing affordability, streets) with an Atlanta focus. Compi…more
25 members, last active one year ago
Library of urban planning resources for Metro planners
4 members, last active 6 years ago
Professionals developing effective inquiry, political and civic awareness, and group effectivene…more
1 member, last active 5 years ago
Jenn's Community Planning Book Group A no-pressure, VIRTUAL book group for like-minded lovers of planning for community, sustainabili…more
4 members, last active 5 years ago

Tags

Tags contributing to this page include: urban-planning, city-planning, town-planning, urban-development, and urban-policy