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

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

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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 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

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

Making the Second Ghetto by Arnold R. Hirsch

Blueprint for Disaster by D. Bradford Hunt

Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh

Chicago Housing (nonfiction)

17 books — 1 voter

In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Asian architecture/design/urban planning

50 books — 2 voters

The Peoples of Philadelphia by Allen F. Davis

Philadelphia Books

17 books — 5 voters

Inventing Future Cities by Michael Batty

Planning Support Methods by Richard E Klosterman

Recent Books on Urban Futures

5 books — 1 voter

Best Books on 21st Century Cities (nonfiction)

24 books — 11 voters

Public Transportation and Why It Is Awesome

123 books — 10 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Urban Planning”

“ 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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