Urbanism

Urbanism is the study of how inhabitants of urban areas, such as towns and cities, interact with the built environment.

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
52 Ways to Walk: The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time
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Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It
Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough
A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
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
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
Cities for People
The Image of the City
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
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
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
The High Cost of Free Parking
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Making the Second Ghetto by Arnold R. HirschBlueprint for Disaster by D. Bradford HuntAmerican Project by VenkateshOff the Books by Sudhir VenkateshGang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
Chicago Housing (nonfiction)
17 books — 1 voter
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

Career's Quest by Shubham ShuklaStreetfight by Janette Sadik-Khan101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School by Matthew FrederickSubdivided by Jay Pitter101 Things I Learned® in Urban Design School by Matthew Frederick
Planning & Women Reads
29 books — 4 voters


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Christopher    Brown
The idea of the frontier runs so deep in American culture that we internalize the idea that to find nature—real nature—you have to get in your car and drive out of town.
Christopher Brown, A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places

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