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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.28 — 21,074 ratings — published 1961
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,937 ratings — published 2012
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,207 ratings — published 2012
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,321 ratings — published 1960
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,546 ratings — published 2010
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 35 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,604 ratings — published 1977
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.37 — 765 ratings — published 2019
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,146 ratings — published 2004
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,130 ratings — published
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.33 — 951 ratings — published 1980
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,702 ratings — published 2000
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,295 ratings — published 2016
Great Streets (Mit Press)
by (shelved 19 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.31 — 420 ratings — published 1993
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.38 — 722 ratings — published 2018
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,712 ratings — published 1993
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 — 49,205 ratings — published 2017
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.53 — 32,455 ratings — published 1974
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,482 ratings — published 1971
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,546 ratings — published 2011
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 — 7,982 ratings — published 2020
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,021 ratings — published 2023
Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.62 — 665 ratings — published 2016
How to Study Public Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.11 — 400 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 — 1,504 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 — 803 ratings — published 2019
Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.83 — 164 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 — 848 ratings — published 2011
A Theory of Good City Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.09 — 306 ratings — published 1981
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.37 — 660 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 — 707 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 — 914 ratings — published 2011
Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.85 — 729 ratings — published 1988
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 — 2,772 ratings — published 1978
Design of Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.05 — 274 ratings — published 1967
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,332 ratings — published 1969
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,584 ratings — published 2005
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.46 — 564 ratings — published 2022
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,331 ratings — published 2022
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,619 ratings — published 2021
The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.24 — 369 ratings — published 1991
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
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.38 — 610 ratings — published 2018
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 — 5,648 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 — 253 ratings — published 1961
The Architecture of Community (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.18 — 167 ratings — published 2009
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 — 2,919 ratings — published 2020
“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
“Stacking and concentrating dwellings and businesses is the easiest way to make communities truly efficient, and it is the only way to achieve deep reductions in per-capita energy use and carbon output in large, prosperous populations...”
― 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
