30 Best

Urban Studies Books

1

For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education

2

Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side

3

The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy

4

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

5

How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City

6

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

7

St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street

8

In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis

9

On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City

10

A Burglar's Guide to the City

11

Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution

12

Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London

13

The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits

14

Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change

15

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

16

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

17

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

18

The Image of the City

19

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

20

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

21

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

22

Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution

23

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

24

The Economy of Cities

25

Planet of Slums

26

The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit

27

A History of Future Cities

28

Cities for People

29

Cities and the Wealth of Nations