Planning


The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
The Image of the City
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
Cities for People
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
The High Cost of Free Parking
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
Dancing with Cinderella by Jeff HarlowAdvanced Strategic Planning by Aubrey MalphursThe Mission Driven Hospital by Chris BartSimple Church by Thom S. RainerMission Drift by Peter Greer
Church Planning and Growth
25 books — 7 voters

How Buildings Learn by Stewart BrandAt Home by Bill  BrysonHistoric Preservation by Norman TylerA Field Guide to American Houses by Virginia McAlesterDisappearing Motels, Niagara Falls, Ontario by Joan Nicks
Built Heritage
140 books — 7 voters

Dejan Stojanovic
To hear never-heard sounds, To see never-seen colors and shapes, To try to understand the imperceptible Power pervading the world; To fly and find pure ethereal substances That are not of matter But of that invisible soul pervading reality. To hear another soul and to whisper to another soul; To be a lantern in the darkness Or an umbrella in a stormy day; To feel much more than know. To be the eyes of an eagle, slope of a mountain; To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon ...more
Dejan Stojanovic

J.R.R. Tolkien
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

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