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

Jeff Speck
[...] most American cities have been designed or redesigned principally around the assumption of universal automotive use, resulting in obligatory car ownership, typically one per adult—starting at age sixteen. In these cities, and in most of our nation, the car is no longer an instrument of freedom, but rather a bulky, expensive, and dangerous prosthetic device, a prerequisite to viable citizenship.
Jeff Speck, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
Municipalities that invest in education position themselves to ensure future tax revenue.
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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