Urbanism

Urbanism is the study of how inhabitants of urban areas, such as towns and cities, interact with the built environment.

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It
Fitopolis, la città vivente
The Nature of Our Cities: Harnessing the Power of the Natural World to Survive a Changing Planet
A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
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
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
Cities for People
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
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
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
The High Cost of Free Parking
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
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
A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos OzUrshalim by Nir HassonAnno 2020 by James MorcanPalestinian Dissident by Sam ShomanThey Called Me a Lioness by Ahed Tamimi
Jerusalem
41 books — 18 voters

River Cities, City Rivers by Thaïsa WayShaping the Postwar Landscape by Charles A BirnbaumA Valley Grows Up by Edward OsmondFrom Rails to Trails by Peter HarnikLandscape Fieldwork by Gareth Doherty
Landscape Architecture and Design
29 books — 5 voters
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


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Umberto Eco
The advantage of a big city, move on a few meters and you find solitude again.
Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

Every neighborhood must be allowed to grow and change... The reality is that a place that is not changing is dying.
Charles Marohn

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