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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 — 20,227 ratings — published 1961
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.36 — 9,529 ratings — published 2012
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,818 ratings — published 2012
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,228 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 — 5,481 ratings — published 1977
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,451 ratings — published 2010
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.39 — 710 ratings — published 2019
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,092 ratings — published 2004
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,965 ratings — published
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 — 2,669 ratings — published 2000
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,222 ratings — published 2016
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.33 — 927 ratings — published 1980
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 — 46,808 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 — 4,607 ratings — published 1993
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.39 — 690 ratings — published 2018
Great Streets (Mit Press)
by (shelved 15 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.30 — 417 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 — 7,694 ratings — published 2020
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,409 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 — 29,803 ratings — published 1974
How to Study Public Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 386 ratings — published 2013
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,425 ratings — published 1971
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,431 ratings — published 2011
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,485 ratings — published 1961
Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.63 — 650 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 — 302 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 — 786 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 — 696 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 4.38 — 890 ratings — published 2011
Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.93 — 191 ratings — published 2007
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.38 — 634 ratings — published 2021
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,294 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 — 718 ratings — published 1988
Design With Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.26 — 647 ratings — published 1969
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,572 ratings — published 2005
Design of Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.05 — 271 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 3.72 — 1,591 ratings — published 2009
The Timeless Way of Building (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,689 ratings — published 1978
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.44 — 493 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 4.14 — 1,201 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 — 1,526 ratings — published 2021
The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.24 — 361 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 — 2,739 ratings — published 2020
Feminist City: A Field Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,326 ratings — published 2019
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.47 — 115,363 ratings — published 2016
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.02 — 982 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 — 5,365 ratings — published 2018
101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.23 — 310 ratings — published
“Planners and designers should encourage as much diversity in human habitats as they find in animal habitats. It is not possible to resolve all conflicts or to gain all ends. Choices have to be made. Different aspects of the public good should be stressed in different places. To achieve variety in land use patterns, there should also be a variety of relationships between the professions, not an institutionalized decision-making tree. Relationships between the constructive professions should, therefore, be deconstructed.”
― City as Landscape
― City as Landscape
“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
