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The Best Urban Planning Books Of All-Time

“What are the best Urban Planning Books Of All-Time?” We looked at 186 of the top Urban Planning books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!

The top 9 titles, all appearing on 3 or more “Best Urban Planning” book lists, are ranked below by how many lists they appear on. The remaining 175+ titles, as well as the lists we used are in alphabetical order at the bottom of the page.

Also, see our list on The Best Books About Living In The City.

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Top 9 Best Urban Planning Books



9 .) Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives written by Jarrett Walker

Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives

Lists It Appears On:

  • Goodreads
  • Goodreads 2
  • Lvbl City

Public transit is a powerful tool for addressing a huge range of urban problems, including traffic congestion and economic development as well as climate change. But while many people support transit in the abstract, it’s often hard to channel that support into good transit investments. Part of the problem is that transit debates attract many kinds of experts, who often talk past each other. Ordinary people listen to a little of this and decide that transit is impossible to figure out.



8 .) Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities written by Witold Rybczynski

Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities

Lists It Appears On:

  • Brain Pickings
  • Goodreads
  • Goodreads 2

In this new work, prizewinning author, professor, and Slate architecture critic Witold Rybczynski returns to the territory he knows best: writing about the way people live, just as he did in the acclaimed bestsellers Home and A Clearing in the Distance. In Makeshift Metropolis, Rybczynski has drawn upon a lifetime of observing cities to craft a concise and insightful book that is at once an intellectual history and a masterful critique. Makeshift Metropolis describes how current ideas about urban planning evolved from the movements that defined the twentieth century, such as City Beautiful, the Garden City, and the seminal ideas of Frank Lloyd Wright and Jane Jacobs. If the twentieth century was the age of planning, we now find ourselves in the age of the market, Rybczynski argues, where entrepreneurial developers are shaping the twenty-first-century city with mixed-use developments, downtown living, heterogeneity, density, and liveliness. He introduces readers to projects like Brooklyn Bridge Park, the Yards in Washington, D.C., and, further afield, to the new city of Modi’in, Israel—sites that, in this age of resource scarcity, economic turmoil, and changing human demands, challenge our notion of the city. Erudite and immensely engaging, Makeshift Metropolis is an affirmation of Rybczynski’s role as one of our most original thinkers on the way we live today.



7 .) Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution written by Janette Sadik-Khan

Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution

Lists It Appears On:

  • Dexigner
  • Goodreads
  • Goodreads 2

An empowering road map for rethinking, reinvigorating, and redesigning our cities, from a pioneer in the movement for safer, more livable streets As New York City’s transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan managed the seemingly impossible and transformed the streets of one of the world’s greatest, toughest cities into dynamic spaces safe for pedestrians and bikers. Her approach was dramatic and effective: Simply painting a part of the street to make it into a plaza or bus lane not only made the street safer, but it also lessened congestion and increased foot traffic, which improved the bottom line of businesses. Real-life experience confirmed that if you know how to read the street, you can make it function better by not totally reconstructing it but by reallocating the space that’s already there. Breaking the street into its component parts, Streetfight demonstrates, with step-by-step visuals, how to rewrite the underlying “source code” of a street, with pointers on how to add protected bike paths, improve crosswalk space, and provide visual cues to reduce speeding. Achieving such a radical overhaul wasn’t easy, and Streetfight pulls back the curtain on the battles Sadik-Khan won to make her approach work. She includes examples of how this new way to read the streets has already made its way around the world, from pocket parks in Mexico City and Los Angeles to more pedestrian-friendly streets in Auckland and Buenos Aires, and innovative bike-lane designs and plazas in Austin, Indianapolis, and San Francisco. Many are inspired by the changes taking place in New York City and are based on the same techniques.



6 .) Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream written by Andrés Duany

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

Lists It Appears On:

  • Goodreads
  • Goodreads 2
  • Thought Co.

A manifesto by America’s most controversial and celebrated town planners, proposing an alternative model for community design. There is a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and to replace the automobile-based settlement patterns of the past fifty years with a return to more traditional planning principles. This movement stems not only from the realization that sprawl is ecologically and economically unsustainable but also from a growing awareness of sprawl’s many victims: children, utterly dependent on parental transportation if they wish to escape the cul-de-sac; the elderly, warehoused in institutions once they lose their driver’s licenses; the middle class, stuck in traffic for two or more hours each day. Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are at the forefront of this movement, and in Suburban Nation they assess sprawl’s costs to society, be they ecological, economic, aesthetic, or social. It is a lively, thorough, critical lament, and an entertaining lesson on the distinctions between postwar suburbia-characterized by housing clusters, strip shopping centers, office parks, and parking lots-and the traditional neighborhoods that were built as a matter of course until mid-century. It is an indictment of the entire development community, including governments, for the fact that America no longer builds towns.



5 .) The City In History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, And Its Prospects written by Lewis Mumford

The City In History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, And Its Prospects

Lists It Appears On:

  • Brain Pickings
  • Goodreads
  • Goodreads 2

The city’s development from ancient times to the modern age.



4 .) The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape written by James Howard Kunstler

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

Lists It Appears On:

  • Goodreads
  • Goodreads 2
  • Thought Co.

Eighty percent of everything ever built in America has been built since the end of World War II. This tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside is not simply an expression of our economic predicament, but in large part a cause. It is the everyday environment where most Americans live and work, and it represents a gathering calamity whose effects we have hardly begun to measure. In The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler traces America’s evolution from a nation of Main Streets and coherent communities to a land where everyplace is like noplace in particular, where the city is a dead zone and the countryside a wasteland of cars and blacktop. Now that the great suburban build-out is over, Kunstler argues, we are stuck with the consequences: a national living arrangement that destroys civic life while imposing enormous social costs and economic burdens. Kunstler explains how our present zoning laws impoverish the life of our communities, and how all our efforts to make automobiles happy have resulted in making human beings miserable. He shows how common building regulations have led to a crisis in affordable housing, and why street crime is directly related to our traditional disregard for the public realm.



3 .) Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier written by Edward L. Glaeser

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

Lists It Appears On:

  • Brain Pickings
  • Goodreads
  • Goodreads 2

A pioneering urban economist offers fascinating, even inspiring proof that the city is humanity’s greatest invention and our best hope for the future. America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the 3 percent of land that contains our cities. Yet cities get a bad rap: they’re dirty, poor, unhealthy, crime ridden, expensive, environmentally unfriendly… Or are they? As Edward Glaeser proves in this myth-shattering book, cities are actually the healthiest, greenest, and richest (in cultural and economic terms) places to live. New Yorkers, for instance, live longer than other Americans; heart disease and cancer rates are lower in Gotham than in the nation as a whole. More than half of America’s income is earned in twenty-two metropolitan areas. And city dwellers use, on average, 40 percent less energy than suburbanites. Glaeser travels through history and around the globe to reveal the hidden workings of cities and how they bring out the best in humankind. Even the worst cities-Kinshasa, Kolkata, Lagos- confer surprising benefits on the people who flock to them, including better health and more jobs than the rural areas that surround them. Glaeser visits Bangalore and Silicon Valley, whose strangely similar histories prove how essential education is to urban success and how new technology actually encourages people to gather together physically. He discovers why Detroit is dying while other old industrial cities-Chicago, Boston, New York-thrive.



2 .) Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time written by Jeff Speck

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

Lists It Appears On:

  • Goodreads
  • Goodreads 2
  • Lvbl City
  • Thought Co.

Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability. The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core. But in the typical American city, the car is still king, and downtown is a place that’s easy to drive to but often not worth arriving at. Making walkability happen is relatively easy and cheap; seeing exactly what needs to be done is the trick. In this essential new book, Speck reveals the invisible workings of the city, how simple decisions have cascading effects, and how we can all make the right choices for our communities. Bursting with sharp observations and real-world examples, giving key insight into what urban planners actually do and how places can and do change, Walkable City lays out a practical, necessary, and eminently achievable vision of how to make our normal American cities great again.



1 .) The Death and Life of Great American Cities written by Jane Jacobs

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Lists It Appears On:

  • Book Riot
  • Designers And Books
  • Goodreads
  • Goodreads 2
  • Thought Co.

A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Citieshas, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe; about what constitutes a neighborhood, and what function it serves within the larger organism of the city; about why some neighborhoods remain impoverished while others regenerate themselves. She writes about the salutary role of funeral parlors and tenement windows, the dangers of too much development money and too little diversity. Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and always keenly detailed, Jane Jacobs’s monumental work provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities.




The 175+ Additional Best Books For Urban Planners And Designing Cities



#BooksAuthorsLists
10A History of Future CitiesDaniel BrookGoodreads
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11A New Theory of Urban DesignChristopher W. Alexander
Designers And Books
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12A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, ConstructionChristopher W. AlexanderGoodreads
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13A Theory of Good City FormKevin LynchGoodreads
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14Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live NextJohn D. KasardaBrain Pickings
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15Cities for PeopleJan GehlGoodreads
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16Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth CenturyPeter Geoffrey HallGoodreads
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17Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United StatesKenneth T. JacksonGoodreads
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18Design With NatureIan L. McHargGoodreads
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19Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the WorldWade GrahamDexigner
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20Edge City: Life on the New FrontierJoel GarreauGoodreads
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21Great StreetsAllan B. JacobsGoodreads
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22Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban DesignCharles MontgomeryGoodreads
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23Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st CenturyJames Howard KunstlerGoodreads 2
Thought Co.
24How to Study Public LifeJan GehlGoodreads
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25Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the AutomobileTaras GrescoeGoodreads
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26Street Smart: A Fifty-Year Mistake Set Right and the Great Urban RevivalSamuel I. SchwartzGoodreads
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27
Sustainable Nation: Urban Design Patterns for the Future
 Dexigner
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28The American City: What Works, What Doesn’tAlexander GarvinGoodreads
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29The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through HistorySpiro KostofGoodreads
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30The Economy of CitiesJane JacobsGoodreads
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31The Great Inversion and the Future of the American CityAlan EhrenhaltGoodreads
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32The High Cost of Free ParkingDonald C. ShoupGoodreads
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33The Image of the CityKevin LynchGoodreads
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34The Nature of Urban Design: A New York Perspective On ResilienceAlexander Washburn
Designers And Books
Urban Review STL
35The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American DreamPeter CalthorpeGoodreads
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36The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American DreamChristopher B. LeinbergerGoodreads
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37The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New YorkRobert A. CaroGoodreads
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38The Smart Growth ManualAndrés DuanyGoodreads
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39The Social Life of Small Urban SpacesWilliam H. WhyteGoodreads
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40The Works: Anatomy of a CityKate AscherGoodreads
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41Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We DoTom VanderbiltGoodreads
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42Urban AcupunctureJaime Lerner
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43Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American CityAnthony FlintGoodreads
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44101 Things I Learned in Urban Design SchoolMatthew FrederickGoodreads 2
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45A Country of Cities 
Designers And Books
46A Field Guide to SprawlDolores HaydenGoodreads 2
47Against Architecture Book Riot
48
All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou
 Next City
49American Urban Form 
Designers And Books
50ArchPoetry: Urban Architecture of Malè Dexigner
51
Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, its Chaotic Founding…its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis
 Planet izen
52Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City Planet izen
53
Building Smart Cities: Analytics, ICT, and Design Thinking
 Dexigner
54By the City/For the City 
Designers And Books
55
Cairo: Memoir of a City Transformed by Ahdaf Soueif
 Next City
56Care and Design: Bodies, Buildings, Cities Dexigner
57Carfree CitiesJ.H. CrawfordGoodreads 2
58Charter of the New Urbanism, 2nd Edition, editedEmily Talen
Urban Review STL
59Cities Back from the Edge: New Life for Downtown Thought Co.
60Cities in the 21st Century Dexigner
61
Cities in Time: Temporary Urbanism and the Future of the City
 Dexigner
62City Form And Everyday Life: Toronto’s Gentrification And Critical Social PracticeJon CaulfieldGoodreads 2
63City Life: Urban Expectations in a New WorldWitold RybczynskiGoodreads 2
64City of Well-being: A Radical Guide to Planning Dexigner
65City Riffs: Urbanism, Ecology, Place Dexigner
66City Rules: How Regulations Affect Urban FormEmily Talen
Urban Review STL
67City: Rediscovering the CenterWilliam H. WhyteGoodreads
68
Citymakers: The Culture and Craft of Practical Urbanism
 Dexigner
69Civilizing American Cities: Writings on City LandscapesFrederick Law OlmstedGoodreads 2
70Collected Essays by James Baldwin Next City
71Combinatory Urbanism 
Designers And Books
72Comeback Cities: A Blueprint For Urban Neighborhood RevivalPaul S. GroganGoodreads 2
73
Common Ground In a Liquid City: Essays In Defense of an Urban Future
 Book Riot
74
Desalination Plants Produce More Brine Than Fresh Water
 Planet izen
75Designing Suburban Futures: New Models From Build A Better BurbJune Williamson
Urban Review STL
76Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional VisionKirkpatrick SaleGoodreads 2
77Ecological Urbanism 
Designers And Books
78Essentials of Urban Design Dexigner
79Estética da Ginga: A Arquitetura das Favelas através da Obra de Hélio OiticicaPaola Berenstein JacquesGoodreads 2
80Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American CityMatthew DesmondGoodreads
81Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer Book Riot
82
Fortress America: Gated Communities in the United States
 Thought Co.
83Good Cities, Better Lives: How Europe Discovered the Lost Art of UrbanismPeter Hall
Urban Review STL
84Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New YorkTed SteinbergGoodreads 2
85Governing Toronto: Bringing Back the City That WorkedAlan RedwayGoodreads 2
86Green Cities of Europe: Global Lessons on Green Urbanism, editedTimothy Beatley
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87Green Metropolis: What the City Can Teach the Country About True SustainabilityDavid OwenGoodreads
88Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to SustainabilityDavid OwenGoodreads 2
89
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
 Planet izen
90História da arte como história da cidadeGiulio Carlo ArganGoodreads 2
91Housing a divided communityC.E.B. BrettGoodreads 2
92How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re BuiltStewart BrandGoodreads 2
93How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern CityJoan DeJeanGoodreads 2
94How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the NeighborhoodPeter MoskowitzGoodreads
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Imagining New York City: Literature, Urbanism, and the Visual Arts, 1890-1940
 Dexigner
96In the Life of Cities 
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97Instruments of Planning Dexigner
98Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk Next City
99La ciudad vista: Mercancías y cultura urbanaBeatriz SarloGoodreads 2
100Language of SpaceBryan LawsonGoodreads 2
101Life Between Buildings: Using Public SpaceJan GehlGoodreads
102London Starts New Program to Track Air Quality Planet izen
103Loose Fit City Dexigner
104Lost TorontoWilliam DendyGoodreads 2
105Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of TradeHenri PirenneGoodreads 2
106Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great WestWilliam CrononGoodreads 2
107
One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina
 Next City
108Parking and the City Planet izen
109Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American CitiesJeff MapesGoodreads 2
110Planning in the USA: Policies, Issues, and ProcessesBarry J. CullingworthGoodreads 2
111
Planning Sustainable Cities: An Infrastructure-based Approach
 Dexigner
112Planning the Built EnvironmentLarz T. AndersonGoodreads 2
113Principles of Urban Retail: Planning and DevelopmentRobert J. Gibbs
Urban Review STL
114Readings in Planning TheorySusan S. FainsteinGoodreads 2
115
Rebuilding the American City: Design and Strategy for the 21st Century Urban Core
 Dexigner
116Recoded City: Co-Creating Urban Futures Dexigner
117Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work and Family LifeDolores HaydenGoodreads 2
118
Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit by June Manning Thomas
 Next City
119
Research Design in Urban Planning: A Student’s Guide
 Dexigner
120
Retailising Space: Architecture, Retail and the Territorialisation of Public Space (Ashgate Studies in Architecture)
 Dexigner
121Rooftops: Islands in the Sky Dexigner
122
San Juan: Memoir of a City by Edgardo Rodriguez Juliá; translated by Peter Grandbois
 Next City
123Shape of the Suburbs: Understanding Toronto’s SprawlJohn SewellGoodreads 2
124
Sidewalk City: Remapping Public Space in Ho Chi Minh City by Annette Miae Kim
 Next City
125Silent SpringRachel CarsonGoodreads 2
126Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New UtopiaAnthony M. TownsendGoodreads
127Sourcebook of Contemporary Urban Design 
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128Start-Up City: Inspiring Private and Public Entrepreneurship, Getting Projects Done, and Having FunGabe KleinGoodreads
129The Architecture of the CityAldo RossiGoodreads 2
130The Art of City-MakingCharles LandryGoodreads 2
131
The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them)
 Planet izen
132The Carmageddon Myth Planet izen
133The City Assembled: The Elements of Urban Form Through HistorySpiro KostofGoodreads 2
134The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban ConditionJames Howard KunstlerGoodreads 2
135The City of Tomorrow and Its PlanningLe CorbusierGoodreads
136The City: A Global HistoryJoel KotkinGoodreads 2
137The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated AmericaRichard RothsteinGoodreads
138The Culture of Cities (Book 2)Lewis MumfordGoodreads 2
139The Cure for Catastrophe: How We Can Stop Manufacturing Natural DisastersRobert Muir-WoodGoodreads 2
140
The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids
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141
The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America
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142The Dot-Com City 
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143The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream Is MovingLeigh GallagherGoodreads
144The Essential William H. WhyteWilliam H. WhyteGoodreads 2
145The Exploding MetropolisWilliam H. WhyteGoodreads 2
146
The Flexible City: Sustainable Solutions for a Europe in Transition
 Dexigner
147The Just CitySusan S. FainsteinGoodreads 2
148
The Largest Art: A Measured Manifesto for a Plural Urbanism
 Dexigner
149The Last Tenement: Confronting Community and Urban Renewal in Boston’s West EndSean M. FisherGoodreads 2
150
The Lofts of SoHo: Gentrification, Art, and Industry in New York, 1950-1980
 Dexigner
151The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros are Fixing our Broken Politics and Fragile EconomyBruce KatzGoodreads
152The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class—and What We Can Do About ItRichard FloridaGoodreads
153
The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community
 Thought Co.
154
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs and Scott Kurashige
 Next City
155
The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy
 Planet izen
156The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public HistoryDolores HaydenGoodreads 2
157The Practice of Local Government PlanningCharles J. HochGoodreads 2
158The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public SpaceDon MitchellGoodreads 2
159The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday LifeRichard FloridaGoodreads 2
160The Shape of the City: Toronto Struggles with Modern PlanningJohn SewellGoodreads 2
161The Timeless Way of BuildingChristopher W. AlexanderGoodreads 2
162The Trouble with City Planning: What New Orleans Can Teach UsKristina FordGoodreads 2
163The Urban Masterplanning HandbookEric Firley & Katharina Groen
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164
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
 Next City
165The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban LifeJonathan F.P. RoseGoodreads 2
166The Zinester’s Guide to NYC Brain Pickings
167Tokyo Void: Possibilities in Absence Dexigner
168Topologies 
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169Touching the City Dexigner
170Towards Cosmopolis: Planning for Multicultural CitiesLeonie SandercockGoodreads 2
171Towns and Cities: Function in Form Dexigner
172Twenty Minutes in ManhattanMichael SorkinGoodreads 2
173Up Against City HallJohn SewellGoodreads 2
174Urban Design for an Urban Century, Second Edition 
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175Urban Design Since 1945 
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176Urban Design Thinking: A Conceptual Toolkit Dexigner
177Urban Smellscapes: Understanding and Designing City Smell EnvironmentsVictoria HenshawGoodreads 2
178Urban Street Design Guide Lvbl City
179Urban Villagers: Group and Class in the Life of Italian-AmericansHerbert J. GansGoodreads 2
180Urbanity and Density: In 20th-Century Urban Design Dexigner
181Viva Las Vegas: After-Hours Architecture Thought Co.
182
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places
 Planet izen
183Walking Home: The Life and Lessons of a City BuilderKen GreenbergGoodreads
184
Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives
 Dexigner
185Who’s Your City? Brain Pickings
186Why Old Places Matter: How Historic Places Affect Our Identity and Well-BeingThompson M. MayesGoodreads 2


11 Best Urban Planning Book Sources/Lists



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Book Riot How Cities Get Made: 5 Books On Cities & Urban Planning
Brain Pickings Understanding Urbanity: 7 Must-Read Books About Cities
Dexigner Urban Design Books
Goodreads Popular Urban Planning Books – Goodreads
Goodreads 2 Top Urban Planning Books of All Time
Lvbl City Three Recent Urban Planning Books That You Must Read
Planet izen Top 10 Urban Planning Books – 2018
Thought Co. 9 Must-Read Books that will Help You Plan Your City
Urban Review STL Eight Great New Books on Urban Planning
Next City 10 Must-Read Books for Urbanists on Cities, Race and Public Space
Designers And Books 15 Books on Urban Design