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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

Most Read This Week Tagged "Urban Planning"

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
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Urban Planning Books

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
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Lists

Building Optimism by Coby LefkowitzRecreating the World by Michael Bopp and Judie BoppMessy Cities by Dylan ReidOrder without Design by Alain BertaudWorld of Malls by Unknown Author
Urban Planning and Planning Adjacent
33 books — 2 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

Walkable City by Jeff SpeckHow to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. KendiEvicted by Matthew DesmondThe Hidden Life of Trees by Peter WohllebenThe Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Bibliography for Walkable City
52 books — 1 voter
The Living House by Roxana WatersonIn Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō TanizakiSoutheast Asian Houses by Seo Ryeung JuBecoming Places by Kim DoveySoutheast Asian Houses by Seo Ryeung Ju
Asian architecture/design/urban planning
50 books — 2 voters

The Four Books of Architecture by Andrea PalladioA Pattern Language by Christopher W. AlexanderThe Ten Books on Architecture by VitruviusA Field Guide to American Houses by Virginia McAlesterBrunelleschi's Dome by Ross King
Best Traditional Architecture (nonfiction)
153 books — 53 voters
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


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Quotes Tagged “Urban Planning”

Ben Wilson
“ Deep underground, microbes turn half a century's worth of city waste into methane. The gases and leachate are extracted through an extensive network of subterranean pipes and then used to power 22,000 nearby homes. While 150 million tons of garbage gradually decomposes unseen below the surface, above ground, the former dump reverts to meadows, woodland and saltwater marshes, providing a haven for wildlife and a massive park for the people of New York. This is Fresh Kills in the 2020s. In 2001, ...more ”
― Ben Wilson, Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City
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Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
“ Cities should be leveraging technologies in service to residents as businesses do in service to customers. ”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr
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Groups Tagged "Urban Planning"

ThreadATL Books Books about urbanism (urban design, housing affordability, streets) with an Atlanta focus. Compi…more
26 members, last active one year ago
The Global Grid Reads Reading group of The Global Grid. Here we will share the books we review on The Global Grid, the…more
38 members, last active 8 years ago
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
29 members, last active one year ago
Feel free to post about related books that you've read and think that others would benefit from …more
2 members, last active 9 years ago

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