🏘️ Urban Design / Community

Book Author (first listed)
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design Charles Montgomery
The city after the automobile Moshef Sadie
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space Jan Gehl
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction Alexander, Christopher
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces William H. Whyte
The Death and Life of Great American Cities: 50th Anniversary Edition Jane Jacobs
Building Small: tools for developing different Jim Heidt
Fragile Neighborhoods Seth Kaplan
Messy Cities: why we cant plan everything Zahra Ebrahim
Building Optimism: why our world looks the way it does Coby Lefkowitz
A city is not a computer: other urban intelligences Shannon Mattern
The community economic development handbook Mihailo Temali
The high cost of free parking Donal Shoup
Dark age ahead Jane Jacobs
The Works: Anatomy of a City Kate Ascher
The Tourist-Historic City G. J. Ashworth
The Practice of Social Research Earl Babbie
Design of Cities Edmund Bacon
Our Shawnee Precious Barnett
Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities Timothy Beatley
The History of the City Leonardo Benevolo
Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing the American Landscape Charles E. Beveridge
Perverse Cities: Hidden Subsidies, Wonky Policy, and Urban Sprawl Blais, Pamela
Cities Back from the Edge: New Life for Downtown Roberta Brandes Gratz
The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream Peter Calthorpe
Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change Peter Calthorpe
Invisible Cities Italo Calvino
Visualizing Density Julie Campoli
Public Places Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design Matthew Carmona
Silent Spring Rachel Carson
A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America Vishaan Chakrabarti
Architectural Graphics Francis D.K. Ching
Close-Up: How to Read the American City Grady Clay
Crossing the American Grain Grady Clay
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West William Cronon
The Concise Townscape Gordon Cullen
The Environmental Planning Handbook for Sustainable Communities and Regions Tom Daniels
Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Health, Well-being, and Sustainability Andrew Dannenberg
Agricultural Urbanism: Handbook for Building Sustainable Food & Agric Systems in 21st Century Cities Janine de la Salle
Understanding Amsterdam: Essays on economic vitality, city life and urban form LΓ©on Deben
Miami Transformed: Rebuilding America One Neighborhood, One City at a Time Manny Diaz
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream Andres Duany
The New Civic Art : Elements of Town Planning Andres Duany
The Smart Growth Manual Andres Duany
Retrofitting Suburbia, Updated Edition: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs Ellen Dunham-Jones
A Reader in Planning Theory Andreas Faludi
Market Analysis for Real Estate: Concepts and Applications in Valuation and Highest and Best Use Stephen F. Fanning
Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With Nature Douglas Farr
Cities and the Creative Class Richard Florida
The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Richard Florida
Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950 Robert M. Fogelson
The Spaces between Buildings Larry R. Ford
Health and Community Design: the Impact of the Built Environment on Physical Activity Lawrence D. Frank
Retracking America John Friedmann
Images of the Street Planning, Identity and Control in Public Space Nicholas R. Fyfe
People And Plans Herbert J. Gans
Cities for People Jan Gehl
How to Study Public Life Jan Gehl
Promise And Betrayal: Universities And The Battle For Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods John I. Gilderbloom
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Hap Edward L. Glaeser
Modern Public Land Law, 3rd Ed Robert L. Glicksman
Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World Wade Graham
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It Nolan Gray
Walking Home: The Life and Lessons of a City Builder Ken Greenberg
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile Taras Grescoe
Neighbourhoods for the Future: A Plea for a Social and Ecological Urbanism Maarten Hajer
Cities in Civilization Peter Hall
Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century Peter Hall
The Geography of Urban Transportation Susan Hanson
Sustainable Communities: A New Design Synthesis for Cities, Suburbs, and Towns Peter Calthorpe
Redesigning the American Dream: Gender, Housing, and Family Life Dolores Hayden
The Permaculture City: Regenerative Design for Urban, Suburban, and Town Resilience Toby Hemenway
Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future Matt Hern
Design for Ecological Democracy Randolph T. Hester Jr
The Nearly Forgotten History of Portland, Kentucky James Higdon
What Planners Do: Power, Politics & Persuasion Charles Hoch
The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape Katie Holten
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States Kenneth T. Jackson
Great Streets Allan B. Jacobs
The Boulevard Book: History, Evolution, Design of Multiway Boulevards Allan B. Jacobs
Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life Jane Jacobs
Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape Jill Jonnes
The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community Peter Katz
Knowing the Trees: Discover the Forest from Seed to Snag Ken Keffer
The Pedestrian Pocket Book: A New Suburban Design Strategy Doug Kelbaugh
Biophilic Design: The Theory, Science and Practice of Bringing Buildings to Life Stephen R. Kellert
Nature by Design: The Practice of Biophilic Design Stephen R. Kellert
Community Planning: An Introduction to the Comprehensive Plan Eric Damian Kelly
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Declin Eric Klienenberg
The City Assembled: The Elements of Urban Form Through History Spiro Kostof
The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History Spiro Kostof
Geography and Trade Paul Krugman
Visionaries: The 20th Century's 100 Most Inspirational Leaders Satish Kumar
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape James Howard Kustler
The Urban Cliff Revolution: New Findings on the Origins and Evolution of Human Habitats Douglas W. Larson
The City Reader Richard T. LeGates
The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream Christopher B. Leinberger
Urban Design Downtown: Poetics and Politics of Form Anastasi Loukaitou-Sideris
Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder Louv Richard

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