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Urban Design Books
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,415 ratings — published 1961
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,624 ratings — published 2012
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,910 ratings — published 2012
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,243 ratings — published 1960
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 34 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,501 ratings — published 1977
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,476 ratings — published 2010
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.39 — 726 ratings — published 2019
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,106 ratings — published 2004
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,004 ratings — published
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.33 — 935 ratings — published 1980
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 — 2,678 ratings — published 2000
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,237 ratings — published 2016
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.44 — 47,353 ratings — published 2017
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 — 4,622 ratings — published 1993
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.39 — 700 ratings — published 2018
Great Streets (Mit Press)
by (shelved 16 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.30 — 418 ratings — published 1993
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 — 7,790 ratings — published 2020
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,438 ratings — published 1971
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 — 6,456 ratings — published 2011
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,548 ratings — published 2023
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.53 — 30,358 ratings — published 1974
How to Study Public Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 388 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 — 1,484 ratings — published 1961
Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.63 — 657 ratings — published 2016
Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.81 — 161 ratings — published 2008
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.11 — 842 ratings — published 2011
A Theory of Good City Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.08 — 301 ratings — published 1981
Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.24 — 791 ratings — published 2019
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 — 695 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 — 895 ratings — published 2011
Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.94 — 192 ratings — published 2007
Design With Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.26 — 649 ratings — published 1969
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.38 — 642 ratings — published 2021
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,304 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 3.84 — 721 ratings — published 1988
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,574 ratings — published 2005
The Timeless Way of Building (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,701 ratings — published 1978
Design of Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.05 — 272 ratings — published 1967
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 — 1,595 ratings — published 2009
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.45 — 509 ratings — published 2022
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 — 1,238 ratings — published 2022
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,555 ratings — published 2021
The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.25 — 363 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 — 242 ratings — published 1987
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,775 ratings — published 2020
Feminist City: A Field Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,383 ratings — published 2019
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,331 ratings — published 2016
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.02 — 993 ratings — published 2018
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,427 ratings — published 2018
101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.23 — 312 ratings — published
“As much as we complain about other people, there is nothing worse for mental health than a social desert.”
― Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
― Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
“Abstractionism exacerbated the problem but sustainability, if intelligently conceived, could heal the rift between garden, landscape and urban design. Absolute sustainability is not possible. But relative sustainability is a practical and desirable proposition.”
― British Gardens: History, philosophy and design
― British Gardens: History, philosophy and design
