Urban Planning

Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks and their accessibility. Many professional practitioners of urban planning, especially practitioners with the title "urban planner" study urban planning education, while some paraprofessional practitioners are educated in urban stud ...more

Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset
Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System
The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Borderlines: A History of Europe, Told from the Edges
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City
Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places
A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
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 Image of the City
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
Cities for People
The High Cost of Free Parking
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity

E. Michael Jones
To write the history of neighborhood strife during this period of time without describing the efforts of people like Louis Wirth and his collaboration with the psychological warfare establishment during World War II, or the American Friends Service Committee and their work in both Philadelphia and Chicago, or Paul YIvisaker and his creation of the Gray Areas grants for the Ford Foundation and their subsequent takeover by a quintessential establishment figure like McGeorge Bundy, or Leon Sullivan ...more
E. Michael Jones, The Slaughter of Cities: Urban Renewal as Ethnic Cleansing

Jane Jacobs
I just wasn't cut out to be the citizen of an empire. ...more
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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