30 Best

Urban Planning Books

1

Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life

2

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

3

Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car—And How It Will Reshape Our World

4

The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World

5

No Small Plans

6

In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis

7

Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies

8

How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City

9

A Burglar's Guide to the City

10

City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World

11

Why Place Matters: Geography, Identity, and Civic Life in Modern America

12

City on a Grid: How New York Became New York

13

Americans Against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century

14

This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live

15

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

16

Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

17

Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

18

The Image of the City

19

The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape

20

Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier

21

Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

22

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

23

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

24

Cities for People

25

The High Cost of Free Parking

26

The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects

27

Green Metropolis: What the City Can Teach the Country About True Sustainability

28

Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century

29

Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution