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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

Most Read This Week Tagged "Urban Planning"

Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System
The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America
The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places
When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency
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Urban Planning Books

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
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Lists

The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane JacobsWalkable City by Jeff SpeckThe Power Broker by Robert A. CaroThe Image of the City by Kevin LynchHappy City by Charles Montgomery
Top Urban Planning Books of All Time
115 books — 157 voters
The Four Books of Architecture by Andrea PalladioA Pattern Language by Christopher W. AlexanderThe Ten Books on Architecture by VitruviusA Field Guide to American Houses by Virginia McAlesterBrunelleschi's Dome by Ross King
Best Traditional Architecture (nonfiction)
153 books — 53 voters

The Carbon Almanac by The Carbon Almanac NetworkWalkable City by Jeff SpeckDarwin Comes to Town by Menno SchilthuizenSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonBuzz, Sting, Bite by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
Urbanism/Sustainable City Reads
66 books — 11 voters
供不得其所－－香港長遠房屋策略新視野 by 本土研究社Design DNA of Mark I - Hong Kong‘s Public Housing Protoype by Rosman C.C. Wai棕跡 by 本土研究社不是土地供應： 香港土地問題的迷思與真象 by 本土研究社水耕透視： 香港水耕產業初探 by 本土研究社
香港土地/房屋政策/城市規劃
13 books — 2 voters

Never Go With Your Gut by Gleb TsipurskyDoor to Door by Edward HumesHappy City by Charles MontgomerySmart Citizens, Smarter State by Beth Simone NoveckStart-Up City by Gabe Klein
CitizenLab's Book Selection
17 books — 9 voters
The Color of Law by Richard RothsteinUrban Forests by Jill JonnesDetroit by Dan GeorgakasNinety Percent of Everything by Rose GeorgeThe Slaughter of Cities by E. Michael Jones
Urban Planning Histories (nonfiction)
118 books — 7 voters


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Quotes Tagged “Urban Planning”

Jeffrey Eugenides
“ Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency. ...more ”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
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William Gibson
“ Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television. ”
― William Gibson, Spook Country
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Videos Tagged “Urban Planning”

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Groups Tagged "Urban Planning"

Not Exceeding Ten Miles Square A DC Urban Planning Book Club We meet in DC on the first Wednesday of even-numbered months to d…more
29 members, last active 11 months ago
Professionals developing effective inquiry, political and civic awareness, and group effectivene…more
1 member, last active 5 years ago
ThreadATL Books Books about urbanism (urban design, housing affordability, streets) with an Atlanta focus. Compi…more
25 members, last active one year ago
Library of urban planning resources for Metro planners
4 members, last active 6 years ago

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