Urban Planning

Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks and their accessibility. Many professional practitioners of urban planning, especially practitioners with the title "urban planner" study urban planning education, while some paraprofessional practitioners are educated in urban stud ...more

The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs
52 Ways to Walk: The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time
Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Justice, Power, and Politics)
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
Brave New Home: Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing
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
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The Image of the City
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
The High Cost of Free Parking
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
Cities for People
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane JacobsWalkable City by Jeff SpeckThe Power Broker by Robert A. CaroThe Image of the City by Kevin  LynchHappy City by Charles Montgomery
Top Urban Planning Books of All Time
115 books — 158 voters
Dark Age Ahead by Jane JacobsThe Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane JacobsVital Little Plans by Jane Jacobs101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School by Matthew FrederickThe Economy of Cities by Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs
17 books — 4 voters

The Carbon Almanac by The Carbon Almanac NetworkWalkable City by Jeff SpeckDarwin Comes to Town by Menno SchilthuizenSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonBuzz, Sting, Bite by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
Urbanism/Sustainable City Reads
66 books — 11 voters
A Pattern Language by Christopher W. AlexanderThe Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane JacobsPalaces for the People by Eric KlinenbergThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel WilkersonThe Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
Urban Planning/Social Ecology
113 books — 8 voters


Rebecca Solnit
Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller's, only to know that one might. A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination. ...more
Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
Municipalities that invest in education position themselves to ensure future tax revenue.
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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