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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.28 — 20,927 ratings — published 1961
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,869 ratings — published 2012
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,157 ratings — published 2012
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,299 ratings — published 1960
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 35 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,574 ratings — published 1977
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,530 ratings — published 2010
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.38 — 755 ratings — published 2019
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,138 ratings — published 2004
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,105 ratings — published
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.33 — 947 ratings — published 1980
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,284 ratings — published 2016
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,698 ratings — published 2000
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.38 — 718 ratings — published 2018
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,749 ratings — published 2017
Great Streets (Mit Press)
by (shelved 17 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.31 — 419 ratings — published 1993
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,697 ratings — published 1993
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,469 ratings — published 1971
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,947 ratings — published 2020
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.53 — 31,827 ratings — published 1974
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,520 ratings — published 2011
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,928 ratings — published 2023
Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.62 — 662 ratings — published 2016
How to Study Public Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.11 — 398 ratings — published 2013
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,500 ratings — published 1961
Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.24 — 800 ratings — published 2019
Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.82 — 163 ratings — published 2008
Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.93 — 193 ratings — published 2007
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.11 — 846 ratings — published 2011
A Theory of Good City Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.08 — 303 ratings — published 1981
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.38 — 652 ratings — published 2021
Street Smart: A Fifty-Year Mistake Set Right and the Great Urban Revival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 706 ratings — published 2015
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.37 — 910 ratings — published 2011
Design With Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.25 — 651 ratings — published 1969
The Timeless Way of Building (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,757 ratings — published 1978
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,322 ratings — published 1969
Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.85 — 727 ratings — published 1988
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,579 ratings — published 2005
Design of Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.04 — 273 ratings — published 1967
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.46 — 551 ratings — published 2022
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,601 ratings — published 2009
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,310 ratings — published 2022
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,604 ratings — published 2021
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,611 ratings — published 2018
Urban Street Design Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.53 — 74 ratings — published 2013
The Concise Townscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.25 — 252 ratings — published 1961
The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.24 — 368 ratings — published 1991
A New Theory of Urban Design (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 8 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.16 — 244 ratings — published 1987
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,890 ratings — published 2020
Feminist City: A Field Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,552 ratings — published 2019
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,632 ratings — published 2016
“Much as participatory design and placemaking was a reaction to the lack of citizen involvement in the planning process, the history of incremental city design was a reaction to the utopian master plan that dictated whole scale redevelopment in favor of an incremental approach that gradually affected the status quo. As a theory of policymaking, incrementalism was first introduced by Charles Lindblom in the 1950s.”
― Solving Critical Design Problems: Theory and Practice
― Solving Critical Design Problems: Theory and Practice
“The greatest environmental gains from population density arise once destinations become so close to one another that people elect to get around all by themselves - the urban-transit equivalent of the point at which a nuclear chain reaction becomes self-sustaining.”
― Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability
― Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability
