30 Best

Urbanism Books

1

Poverty Safari

2

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

3

How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City

4

In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis

5

On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City

6

A Burglar's Guide to the City

7

Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London

8

Street Smart: A Fifty-Year Mistake Set Right and the Great Urban Revival

9

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

10

London Overground: A Day's Walk Around the Ginger Line

11

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

12

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

13

How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood

14

Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul

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

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

19

The Image of the City

20

Cities for People

21

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

22

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

23

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

24

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

25

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

26

The Economy of Cities

27

Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space

28

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

29

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City