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
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
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The Land Trap: A New H...
 
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Mike Bird
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest
The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet
Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs
52 Ways to Walk: The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time
Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis
A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
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
The High Cost of Free Parking
Cities for People
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
Dark Age Ahead by Jane JacobsThe Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane JacobsVital Little Plans by Jane Jacobs101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School by Matthew FrederickThe Economy of Cities by Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs
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The Color of Law by Richard RothsteinHappy City by Charles MontgomeryThe Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane JacobsPaved Paradise by Henry GrabarArbitrary Lines by M. Nolan Gray
Urban Studies & Planning
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Rebecca Solnit
In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of the design and purpose as is being inside to eat, sleep, make shoes or love or music. The word citizen has to do with cities, and the ideal city is organized around citizenship -- around participation in public life.
Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

E. Michael Jones
Louis Wirth made no bones about his suspicion of the groups that were traditionally known as “ethnic,” ic., the recent immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe. Like Stalin, his mentor on the nationalities issue, Wirth considered ethnics as a fifth column which could not be trusted to serve the interests of the ruling class. Those interests became national security issues once that elite succeeded in maneuvering America into war. In this he shared the political views of the psychological warf ...more
E. Michael Jones, The Slaughter of Cities: Urban Renewal as Ethnic Cleansing

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