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Urban Planning Books
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 499 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,444 ratings — published 1961
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 373 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.31 — 8,920 ratings — published 2012
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 325 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,639 ratings — published 2012
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 196 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.44 — 47,425 ratings — published 2017
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,244 ratings — published 1960
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.53 — 30,431 ratings — published 1974
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,627 ratings — published 1993
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,679 ratings — published 2000
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 152 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,107 ratings — published 2004
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 151 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,479 ratings — published 2010
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,239 ratings — published 2016
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,458 ratings — published 2011
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 125 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,502 ratings — published 1977
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,907 ratings — published 2017
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,012 ratings — published
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 97 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,566 ratings — published 2023
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,454 ratings — published 2016
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 87 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,555 ratings — published 2021
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,486 ratings — published 1961
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.33 — 935 ratings — published 1980
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.37 — 895 ratings — published 2011
Street Smart: A Fifty-Year Mistake Set Right and the Great Urban Revival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.12 — 696 ratings — published 2015
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,796 ratings — published 2020
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.39 — 727 ratings — published 2019
Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.24 — 791 ratings — published 2019
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.39 — 702 ratings — published 2018
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,091 ratings — published 1985
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,305 ratings — published 1969
Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.84 — 721 ratings — published 1988
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,243 ratings — published 2022
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,431 ratings — published 2018
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,438 ratings — published 1971
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,683 ratings — published 2019
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,576 ratings — published 2005
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,595 ratings — published 2009
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.38 — 645 ratings — published 2021
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.39 — 589 ratings — published 2018
Great Streets (Mit Press)
by (shelved 58 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.30 — 418 ratings — published 1993
Feminist City: A Field Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,390 ratings — published 2019
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.11 — 842 ratings — published 2011
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.72 — 8,226 ratings — published 2008
Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.37 — 614 ratings — published 2020
The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class—and What We Can Do About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.50 — 1,359 ratings — published 2017
Design With Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.26 — 649 ratings — published 1969
Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.63 — 658 ratings — published 2016
Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.13 — 709 ratings — published 2018
Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,047 ratings — published 2009
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.21 — 370 ratings — published 2023
Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.98 — 318 ratings — published 2014
The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,023 ratings — published 1989
“Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.”
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“In many discourses, parks are posited as the best of urbanity, as an unmitigated “good” that represents all that cities can and should be. Parks are purportedly natural salves for the disordered immorality and filth of urban life, pools of respite, beauty and virtue. But those complicated and complicating claims make multiple contradictory and dubious arguments for human social and political life that are not easily dislodged or disentangled. Those claims are always bound up with rationalities of whiteness and colonial ordering: parks bring structured comprehensibility and access to the otherwise unruly “wilds,” cleansed of any savage and uncooperative residents, and disallow any activities that do not adhere to certain orders. A huge amount of work is expended on park design to ensure that they adhere exactly to settler colonial re-orderings of occupation.”
― On This Patch of Grass: City Parks on Occupied Land
― On This Patch of Grass: City Parks on Occupied Land
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city-planning, town-planning, urban-development, and urban-policy
