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
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
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
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back
Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It
Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
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

In many discourses, parks are posited as the best of urbanity, as an unmitigated “good” that represents all that cities can and should be. Parks are purportedly natural salves for the disordered immorality and filth of urban life, pools of respite, beauty and virtue. But those complicated and complicating claims make multiple contradictory and dubious arguments for human social and political life that are not easily dislodged or disentangled. Those claims are always bound up with rationalities o ...more
Matt Hern, On This Patch of Grass: City Parks on Occupied Land

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Creating harmonious, thriving societies will be humankind's greatest triumph and without that--everything else we have accomplished will be for naught. ...more
Edmund Mazeika, Blueprint for Local Harmony: A People's Guide to Utopia

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Library of urban planning resources for Metro planners
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