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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 — 19,856 ratings — published 1961
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.36 — 9,328 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 — 8,638 ratings — published 2012
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,188 ratings — published 1960
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 36 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,433 ratings — published 1977
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,406 ratings — published 2010
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.39 — 683 ratings — published 2019
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,067 ratings — published 2004
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,883 ratings — published
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.33 — 913 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 — 2,655 ratings — published 2000
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,192 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 — 45,742 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 — 4,575 ratings — published 1993
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.39 — 674 ratings — published 2018
Great Streets (Mit Press)
by (shelved 15 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.30 — 416 ratings — published 1993
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,471 ratings — published 1961
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 — 7,557 ratings — published 2020
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 — 6,384 ratings — published 2011
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.53 — 28,909 ratings — published 1974
How to Study Public Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 381 ratings — published 2013
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,388 ratings — published 1971
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,143 ratings — published 2023
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.37 — 881 ratings — published 2011
Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.81 — 161 ratings — published 2008
Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.93 — 190 ratings — published 2007
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.11 — 838 ratings — published 2011
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 — 776 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 — 694 ratings — published 2015
Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.63 — 641 ratings — published 2016
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 3.84 — 717 ratings — published 1988
Design With Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.26 — 647 ratings — published 1969
A Theory of Good City Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.08 — 301 ratings — published 1981
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.39 — 626 ratings — published 2021
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,278 ratings — published 1969
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,585 ratings — published 2009
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,568 ratings — published 2005
Design of Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.06 — 270 ratings — published 1967
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,482 ratings — published 2021
The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.25 — 358 ratings — published 1991
The Timeless Way of Building (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,646 ratings — published 1978
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.44 — 454 ratings — published 2022
Feminist City: A Field Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,204 ratings — published 2019
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 3.97 — 5,293 ratings — published 2018
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,166 ratings — published 2022
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,660 ratings — published 2020
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.47 — 113,422 ratings — published 2016
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.02 — 964 ratings — published 2018
101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.23 — 305 ratings — published
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.72 — 8,186 ratings — published 2008
“True enough, we need an environment which is not simply well organized, but poetic and symbolic as well... By appearing as a remarkable and well-knit place, the city could provide a ground for the clustering and organization of these meanings and associations. Such a sense of place in itself enhances every human activity that occurs there, and encourages the deposit of a memory trace.”
― The image of the city
― The image of the city
“From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition of buildings with paving, landform, water, vegetation and climate.”
― British Gardens: History, philosophy and design
― British Gardens: History, philosophy and design
