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Recommended
Reading: The Complete List |
These
are all our favorite books, sorted
alphabetically by author. If you’d rather just see our Top
Ten List, click here.
Many of the book listings below include an image of the cover, but not
all do. Like in the Top Ten List, you’ll also find a direct
link to each book’s specific page at Amazon.com, if you would
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We’ll read it and put it on the list if we like it too.
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Trouble in Paradise: The Suburban
Transformation in America |
Baldassare,
Mark
(Columbia University Press, 1988)
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The
Elusive City: Five Centuries of
Design, Ambition and Miscalculation |
Barnett,
Jonathan
(Harper & Row, 1986)
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The
Fractured Metropolis: Improving the
New City, Restoring the Old City, Reshaping the Region |
Barnett, Jonathan
(Harper Collins, 1995)
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Once
There Were Greenfields: How Urban
Sprawl is Undermining America’s Environment, Economy, and
Social Fabric. |
Benfield,
F. Kaid and Raimi, Matthew D, and Chen,
Donald D.T.
(Natural Resources Defense Council, 1999)
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(This is also one of our Top Ten books. If you like, you can read our
review on the Top
Ten list.)
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Solving Sprawl: Models of Smart Growth
in
Communities |
Benfield,
F. Kaid and Terris, Jutka, and Vorsanger,
Nancy
(Natural Resources Defense Council, 2001)
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Designing the American Landscape |
Beveridge,
Charles E., et. al. Frederick Law
Olmstead
(Rizzoli, 1995)
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Visionaries
and Planners: The Garden City
Movement and the Modern Community |
Buder,
Stanley
(Oxford University Press, 1990)
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Plan of Chicago |
Burnham,
Daniel
(Princeton Architectural Press, 1994)
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The
Regional City: Planning for the End of
Sprawl |
Calthorpe,
Peter and Fulton, William and Fishman,
Robert
(Island Press, 2001)
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(This is also one of our Top Ten books. If you like, you can read our
review on the Top
Ten list.)
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings,
Construction |
Christopher,
Alexander
(New York University Press, 1977)
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For the Common Good: Redirecting the
Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future |
Daly,
Herman E. and Cobb, John B Jr.
(Beacon Press, 1994)
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New Visions for Metropolitan America |
Downs,
Anthony
(Brookings Institution/Lincoln Institute of Land Poilicy, 1994)
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Towns and Town-Making Principles |
Duany,
Andres and Plater-Zyberk, Elizabeth
(Rizzoli, 1991)
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Suburban
Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and
the Decline of the American Dream |
Duany,
Andres and Plater-Zyberk, Elizabeth, and
Speck, Jeff
(North Point Press, 2000)
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review on the Top Ten
list.)
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American Town Plans: A Comparative Time
Line |
Easterling,
Keller
(Princeton Architectural Press, 1993)
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The
Spirit of Community: The Reinvention
of American Society |
Etzioni,
Amitai
(Simon and Schuster, 1994)
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Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of
Suburbia |
Fishman,
Robert
(Basic Books, 1989)
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America |
Friedman, Thomas
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008)
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The American City: What Works and What
Doesn't |
Garvin,
Alexander
(McGraw-Hill, 1996)
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Life Between Buildings |
Gehl,
Jan
(Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1987)
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Getting
There: The Epic Struggle Between
Road and Rail in the American Century |
Goddard,
Stephen B.
(University of Chicago Press, 1994)
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Cities Back From the Edge: New Life for
Downtown |
Gratz,
Roberta Brandes and Norman Mintz
(John Wiley and Sons, 1998)
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Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next
Industrial Revolution |
Hawken,
Paul and Lovins, Amory B. and Lovins, L.
Hunter
(Back Bay Books, 2000)
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(This is also one of our Top Ten books. If you
like, you can read our review on the Top Ten list.)
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American Vitruvius: An Architect's
Handbook of Civic Art |
Hegemann,
Werner and Peets, Elbert
(Princeton Architectural Press, 1988)
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Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization
of
the United States |
Jackson,
Kenneth T.
(Oxford University Press, 1987)
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Cities and the Wealth of Nations:
Principles of Economic Life |
Jacobs,
Jane
(Random House, 1985)
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The Death and Life of Great American
Cities |
Jacobs,
Jane
(Vintage Books, 1992)
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The New Urbanism: Toward an
Architecture
of Community |
Katz,
Peter
(McGraw-Hill, 1994)
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Dharma Rain: Sources of Buddhist
Environmentalism |
Kaza,
Stephanie and Kraft, Kenneth
(Shambhala Publications, 2000)
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Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and
Regional Design |
Kelbaugh,
Doug
(University of Washington Press, 1997)
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The
Pedestrian Pocketbook: A New Suburban
Design Strategy |
Kelbaugh,
Doug
(Princeton Architectural Press, 1989)
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Community and the Politics of Place |
Kemmis,
Daniel
(University of Oklahoma Press, 1990)
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The Good City and the Good Life |
Kemmis,
Daniel
(Houghton Mifflin, 1995)
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The
City Assembled: The Elements of Urban
Form through History |
Kostof,
Spiro
(Bulfinch Press, 1992)
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The
City Shaped: Urban Patterns and
Meanings through History |
Kostof,
Spiro
(Bulfinch Press, 1994)
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Home
from Nowhere: Remaking our Everyday
World of the 21st Century |
Kunstler,
James Howard
(Simon & Schuster, 1996)
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The
Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and
Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape |
Kunstler,
James Howard
(Simon & Schuster, 1994)
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(This is also one of our Top Ten books. If you like, you can read our
review on the Top
Ten list.)
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A Better Place to Live: Reshaping the
American Suburb |
Langdon,
Philip
(Harper Perrennial, 1995)
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Charter of the New Urbanism |
Leccese,
Michael and McCormick, Kathleen
(McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing, 1999)
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review on the Top
Ten list.)
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The New City |
Lejeune,
Jean-Francois (editor)
(University of Miami School of Architecture/Princeton Architectural
Press, 1994)
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A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on
Conservation |
Leopold,
Aldo
(Oxford University Press, 2002)
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The New Exploration |
MacKaye,
Benton
(University of Illinois Press, 1994)
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Changing Places: Rebuilding Community
in
the Age of Sprawl |
Moe,
Richard and Carter Wilkie
(University of Oklahoma Press, 1990)
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Wilderness and the American Mind,
Fourth
Edition |
Nash,
Roderick Frazier
(Yale University Press, 2001)
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Visions
for a New American Dream: Process,
Principles and an Ordinance to Plan and Design Small Communities |
Nelessen,
Anton
(Planners Press, 1993)
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How
to Turn a Place Around |
Project
for Public Spaces
(Project for Public Spaces, Inc., 2000)
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review on the Top Ten
list.)
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The
Wealth of Cities: Revitalizing the
Centers of American Life |
Norquist,
John
(Addison Wesley, 1998)
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Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for
Community and Stability |
Orfield,
Myron
(Brookings Institution/Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 1997)
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The
Sierra Club Guide to Community
Organizing: How to Save Your Neighborhood, City, or Town |
Pick,
Maritza
(Sierra Club Books, 1993)
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Courtyard Housing in Los Angeles: A
Typological Analysis |
Polyzoides,
Stefanos, et. al.
(Princeton Architectural Press, 1992)
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Bowling
Alone: The Collapse and Revival of
American Community |
Putnam,
Robert D.
(Simon & Schuster, 2000)
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review on the Top Ten
list.)
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The Work of Nations: Preparing
Ourselves
for 21st Century Capitalism |
Reich,
Robert B.
(Random House, 1992)
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The Making of Urban America |
Reps,
John
(Princeton University Press, 1965, 1994)
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Cities Without Suburbs |
Rusk,
David
(Woodrow Wilson Center, 1995)
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Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if
People
Mattered 25 Years Later... With Commentaries |
Schumacher,
E. F.
(Hartley & Marks, 1999)
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Architecture: The Natural and the
Manmade |
Scully,
Vincent
(St. Martins Press, 1993)
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review on the Top Ten
list.)
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The
Conscience of the Eye: The Design and
Social Life of Cities |
Sennett,
Richard
(W.W. Norton, 1992)
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The
Shape of the City: Toronto Struggles
With Modern Planning |
Sewell,
John
(University of Toronto Press, 1993)
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Rebuilding |
Solomon,
Daniel
(Princeton Architectural Press, 1992)
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Town
Planning in Practice: An Introduction
to the Art of Designing Cities and Suburbs |
Unwin,
Raymond
(Princeton Architectural Press, 1994)
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City: Rediscovering the Center |
Whyte,
William
(Anchor Books, 1990)
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review on the Top Ten
list.)
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The Social Life of Urban Spaces |
Whyte,
William
(Project for Public Spaces, 2001)
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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family
and Place |
Williams,
Terry Tempest
(Vintage Books, 1992)
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