Urban Planning (Michelle TBR)

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Highly idiosyncratic list of books on urban planning that I might read
1
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
by Lewis Mumford
1,566 members
9 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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2
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
by Annalee Newitz
777 members
31 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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3
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
by Ben Wilson
427 members
4 reviews
4
2 Members
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5
Medieval Cities : Their Origins and the Revival of Trade
by Henri Pirenne
841 members
9 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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6
Cities in civilisation : culture, innovation, and urban order
by Peter Hall
394 members
4 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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8
The Works: Anatomy of a City
by Kate Ascher
885 members
10 reviews
3.9
Member
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9
The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History
by Spiro Kostof
400 members
4 reviews
4
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10
Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World
by Wade Graham
134 members
4 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
michelleqcy
11
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (The MIT Press)
by Alain Bertaud
99 members
½ 4.3
Member
michelleqcy
12
101 Things I Learned® in Urban Design School
by Matthew Frederick
62 members
1 review
3.8
Member
michelleqcy
13
Design of Cities
by Edmund N. Bacon
388 members
3 reviews
4
Member
michelleqcy
14
The Image of the City
by Kevin Lynch
1,053 members
6 reviews
4.1
Member
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15
What Makes a Great City
by Alexander Garvin
26 members
1 review
Member
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16
The BLDGBLOG Book
by Geoff Manaugh
188 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
michelleqcy
17
The Urban Pattern: City Planning and Design
by Arthur B. Gallion
82 members
1 review
4
Member
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18
A Burglar's Guide to the City
by Geoff Manaugh
614 members
21 reviews
½ 3.4
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19
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places
by Jeff Speck
86 members
1 review
½ 4.4
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michelleqcy
20
Great Streets
by Allan B. Jacobs
269 members
2 reviews
4.2
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21
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
by Tom Vanderbilt
1,966 members
78 reviews
½ 3.6
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22
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life
by David Sim
63 members
½ 4.5
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24
The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them)
by Lucy Jones
199 members
7 reviews
3.9
Member
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26
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
by Rebecca Solnit
1,014 members
32 reviews
½ 3.7
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28
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
by Jane Jacobs
4,814 members
47 reviews
½ 4.3
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29
The American City : What Works, What Doesn't
by Alexander Garvin
123 members
1 review
4.8
Member
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30
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
by Deirdre Mask
882 members
36 reviews
3.9
Member
michelleqcy
32
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
by James Howard Kunstler
1,489 members
26 reviews
4.1
Member
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33
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
by Charles L. Marohn, Jr.
185 members
4 reviews
3.9
Member
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36
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
by Charles Montgomery
583 members
12 reviews
4.1
Member
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37
The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids
by Alexandra Lange
112 members
4 reviews
½ 4.7
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38
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
by William H. Whyte
247 members
1 review
½ 4.5
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