Urban Planning
Cities are living organisms shaped by the complex interplay of architecture, policy, culture and human behavior. Here you'll find compelling explorations of how urban spaces evolve and transform - from walkable neighborhoods and sustainable design to gentrification and the future of metropolitan life.
Urban Planning Book Summaries
Walkable City
How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
Urban Planning
Urbanism
Architecture
Happy City
Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
Urban Planning
Urbanism
Architecture
How to Kill a City
Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
Urban Planning
Politics
Urbanism
Palaces for the People
How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
Sociology
Politics
Urban Planning
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Architecture
Urban Planning
History
Smart Cities
Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
Urban Planning
Technology
Urbanism
Ghetto
The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea
History
Sociology
Race
The Rise of the Creative Class
And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life
Economics
Sociology
Business
Triumph of the City
How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
Economics
Urbanism
Urban Planning
Uses of Disorder
Sociology
Urbanism
Philosophy
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
Politics
Sociology
Urban Planning
Against the smart city
Cities
Urban Studies
Design
The Economy of Cities
Economics
Urban Planning
Urbanism
The Smart Enough City
Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future
Urban Planning
Cities
Technology
The New Urban Crisis
How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class—and What We Can Do About It
Urban Planning
Urbanism
Politics
Escaping the Housing Trap
The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis
Urbanism
Urban Planning
Economics
Tactical Urbanism
Short-term Action for Long-term Change
Urban Planning
Urbanism
Cities
Traffic
Psychology
Science
Sociology
Engineering in Plain Sight
An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
Science
Engineering
Technology
Capital City
Gentrification and the Real Estate State
Politics
Urban Planning
Economics
The Great Reset
How the Post-Crash Economy Will Change the Way We Live and Work
Economics
Business
Politics
Road to Nowhere
What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation
Technology
Politics
Urban Planning
Radical Cities
Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture
Architecture
Urbanism
Urban Planning
Streetfight
Handbook for an Urban Revolution
Urban Planning
Urbanism
Cities
Municipal Dreams
The Rise and Fall of Council Housing
History
Politics
Architecture
Curbing Traffic
The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives
Urbanism
Urban Planning
Urban
How Infrastructure Works
Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
Science
Technology
Economics
Who's Your City?
How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
Economics
Sociology
Urbanism
Zoned in the USA
The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulation
Urban Planning
Urbanism
History
Vital Little Plans
The Short Works of Jane Jacobs
Urban Planning
Urbanism
Cities
The Option of Urbanism
Investing in a New American Dream
Urban Planning
Urbanism
Cities
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
Urban Planning
Architecture
Urbanism
A Pattern Language
Towns, Buildings, Construction
Architecture
Design
Urban Planning
The Just City
Urban Planning
Urbanism
Cities
Life After Cars
Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
Urbanism
Politics
Urban Planning
Nature's Metropolis
Chicago and the Great West
History
American History
Cities
The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City
Urban Planning
Cities
History
Places of the Heart
The Psychogeography of Everyday Life
Psychology
Architecture
Urbanism
Urban Acupuncture
Architecture
Urban Planning
Urbanism
Building and Dwelling
Ethics for the City
Architecture
Urbanism
Urban Planning
