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A Pattern Language
Christopher Alexander, et al.
The design equivalent of the Bible
Trees in Urban Design
Henry F. Arnold
The best manual on the subject
The Elusive City
Jonathan Barnett
A history of planning since the 18th Century written by a very
experienced practicing planner
The Fractured Metropolis
Jonathan Barnett
Planning for a New Century: The Regional Agenda
Jonathan Barnett, Editor
How Superstore Sprawl Can Harm Communities
Constance Beaumont
Solving Sprawl: Models of Smart Growth in Communities Across America
F. Kaid Benfield, et al.
Responsive Environments: A Manual For Designers
Bentley, Murrain, Alock, McGlyn,
Smith
The best current manual on urban design technique
Transit Villages: Transportation and Land Use Choices for Communities
Michael Bernick
Place Making: Developing Town Centers , Main Streets, and Urban Villages
Charles Bohl
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
Steward Brand
The Seaside Debates
Todd Bressi, et al.
Discussion for and against the New Urbanism
Bobos in Paradise : The New Upper Class and How They Got There
David Brooks
The Next American Metropolis
Peter Calthorpe
The best current manual on regional planning technique
Above and Beyond
Julie Campoli, Elizabeth Humstone,
and Alex McLean
The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl
Calthorpe, Fulton, Fishman
An update of The Next American Metropolis
At Road’s End
Daniel Carlson
Everyday Urbanism
John Chase, Margaret Crawford, and John Kaliski, Editors
Charter of the New Urbanism
Congress for the New Urbanism
The principles subject to extended discussion
Designing Sustainable Communities: Learning from Village Homes
Judy and Michael Corbett
Car-Free Cities By the Book
J.H Crawford
Uncommon Ground
William Cronon, Editor
Stuck in Traffic: Coping With Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion
Anthony Downs
New Civic Art: Elements of Town Planning
Andrés Duany, Editor
The Lexicon of the New Urbanism
Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company
The techniques categorized
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and Decline of the American Dream
Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck
A popular book for the participants in the public process
Moving Beyond Gridlock: Traffic and Development
Robert Dunphy
The New American Urbanism
John Dutton
The current state of art
Urban Design Compendium
English Partnerships, Publisher
Bourgois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of
Suburbia
Robert Fishman
A very accessible history of suburbia
Cities of Tomorrow
Peter Geoffrey Hall
Architecture of the Everyday
Steven Harris and Deborah Berke
Civic Art
Werner Hegemann and Elbert Peets
The great encyclopedia
Traffic Engineering for Neo-Traditional Neighborhood Design
ITE Technical Council Committee
An official manual which discusses and promotes TND technique
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
The original critique and still the best
Great Streets
Allan B. Jacobs
Beautiful illustrations of some worthy models
The New Urbanism
Peter Katz
Still the current cannon of recent town planning projects
Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America, and How We Can
Take It Back
Jane Holtz Kay
A comprehensive discussion of the economic, environmental and social costs
of building an automobile-dependent landscape
Common Place Revisited: Repairing the American Metropolis
Douglas S. Kelbaugh
Towns and Town-Making Principles
Alex Krieger, Editor
On the principles of traditional neighborhood design, illustrated by the
work of DPZ
Architecture Choice or Fate
Leon Krier
A graphic presentation of principles by the master
The Geography of Nowhere
James Howard Kunstler
A scathing and humorous history and criticism of suburbia
Home From Nowhere
James Howard Kunstler
More of the same and not enough
The City in Mind
James Howard Kunstler
An analysis of 10 world cities
A Better Place to Live
Phillip Langdon
An up-to-date serious overview of the suburban problem, with some discussion of solutions
City Center to Regional Mall 1920-1950
Richard Longstreth
The Drive-In, the Supermarket, and the Transformation of Commercial
Space 1914-1941
Richard Longstreth
Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to
Housing Ourselves
Kathryn McCamant, et al.
The New Exploration
Benton MacKaye, David Mohney,
and Easterling Keller
A technical history with illustrations
Design With Nature
Ian McHarg
Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl
Richard Moe and Wilke Carter
A lively and informative discussion of sprawl and its alternatives, written
by prominent historic preservationists
! Visions for a New American Dream
Anton Nelessen
A book on technique by the developer of the Visual Preference Survey
Defensible Space
Oscar Newman
A classic, explaining how security can be achieved by physical design
Laws of the Landscape
Pietro Nivola
Comparing American and European urban policies
The Wealth of Cities
John Norquist
The Great Good Place
Ray Oldenberg
How semi-public places get you through the day
Courtyard Housing in Los Angeles
Stephanos Polyzoides,
et al.
The Making of Urban America
John Reps
A comprehensive masterwork with great illustrations
Collage City
Colin Rowe, et al.
American Architecture and Urbanism
Vincent Scully
The best general history on both architecture and planning
Greyfields to Greenfields
Lee Sobel
Re-Building
Daniel Solomon
The war stories of an experienced, engaged designer of rare insight
Variations on a Theme Park
Michael Sorkin
Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities
Michael Southworth and Eran
Ben-Joseph
The Anglo-American Suburb
Robert A.M. Stern, Editor
The New Urbanism and Traditional Neighborhood Development
Comprehensive Report and Best Practices Guide
Rob Steuteville, New Urban News
Does what the title says
Town Planning in Practice
Raymond Unwin
Still the best general manual, published in 1909 and reprinted
New Urbanism/Neotraditional Planning –
Selected References InfoPacket No. 338
Urban Land Institute, Editor
The Rise of the Community Builders
Mark A. Weiss
City: Rediscovering the Center
William Whyte
Explains with precision how urban spaces really work socially
The Culture of Nature: North American Landscape From Disney to the Exxon
Valdez
Alexander Wilson
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