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SUBURBAN NATION
by DPZ - (A must read)

TOWN PLANNING IN PRACTICE
by Raymond Unwin - (An Introduction to the Art of Designing Cities and Suburbs)

CIVIC ART - THE AMERICAN VITRUVIUS
by Elbert Peets & Werner Hegemann - (American Vitruvius: An Architect's Handbook of Civic Art)

NEW AMERICAN URBANISM
by John A. Dutton - (Re-forming the Suburban Metropolis)

REPAIRING THE AMERICAN METROPOLIS
by Douglas Kelbaugh - (Common Place Revisited)

GLOBAL CITY BLUES
by Dan Solomon - (New Urbanism and fresh architectural thinking)

THE NEW URBANISM
by Peter Katz - (Toward an Architecture of Community)

POWERDOWN
by Richard Heinberg (Options and Actions for a Post Carbon World )

THE LONG EMERGENCY
by James Howard Kunstler - (Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century)

BUILDING CITIES
by Crowe, Economakis, & Lykoudis - (Towards a Civil Society and Sustainable Environment)

CHARTER OF THE NEW URBANISM
by The Congress For The New Urbanism

GEOGRAPHY OF NOWHERE
by James Howard Kunstler - (The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape)

HOME FROM NOWHERE
by James Howard Kunstler - (Remaking Our Everyday World for the Twenty-First Century)

CITY IN MIND
by James Howard Kunstler - (Meditations on the Urban Condition)

URBAN VILLAGES: THE MAKING OF COMMUNITY
by Peter Neal
 
CITY COMFORTS: HOW TO BUILD AN URBAN VILLAGE
by David Sucher
 
NEW DEPARTURES
by Anthony Perl - (Rethinking Rail Passenger Policy in the Twenty-First Centruy)
 
CAR FREE CITIES
by J.H. Crawford

NEW URBANISM: COMPREHENSIVE REPORT AND BEST PRACTICES GUIDE
by New Urban News
 
ECO-ECONOMY
by Lester R. Brown - (Building a New Economy for the Environmental Age)
 

MAKING CITIES LIVABLE
by Lennard, von Ungern-Sternberg, & Lennard - (How to Make Cities Livable, and Appropriate Strategies for Controlling Urban Sprawl)
 
TOWARD THE LIVABLE CITY
by Emilie Buchwald - (Strategies for creating successful cities)

A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE
by Philip Langdon - (Reshaping The American Suburb)

URBAN DESIGN, CONSERVATION, AND PRESERVATION
by Nahoum Cohen - (Comprehensive presentation of the wide range of issues involved in urban conservation)

FUNDAMENTALS OF URBAN DESIGN
by Richard Hedman - (A standard reference on urban planning and design)
 
CRUELTY AND UTOPIA
by Jean Francois Lejeune - (Cities and Landscapes of Latin America)
 
SMART GROWTH
by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, & Jeff Speck - (New Urbanism in American Communities)

 
 

BUILDING THE 21ST CENTURY HOME
by David Rudlin & Nicholas Falk - (The Sustainable Urban Neighborhood)

COMMON PLACE
by Doug Kelbaugh - (Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design)

THE REGIONAL CITY
by Calthorpe & Fulton - (Planning for the End of Sprawl)

THE NEXT AMERICAN METROPOLIS
by Peter Calthorpe - (Ecology, Community, and the American Dream)

ARCHITECTURE: CHOICE OR FATE
by Leon Krier

THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN CITIES
by Jane Jacobs - (A Classic)

TOWNS AND TOWN MAKING PRINCIPLES
by Andres Duany & Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk

THE SEASIDE DEBATES
(A Critique of the New Urbanism)

THE CITY SHAPED
by Spiro Kostof - (Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History)

THE CITY ASSEMBLED
by Spiro Kostof - (The Elements of Urban Form Through History)

THE CITY SQUARE
by Michael Webb - (A Historical Evolution)

DESIGN OF CITIES
by Edmund Bacon

THE ART OF BUILDING CITIES
by Camillo Sitte - (City Building According to its Artistic Fundamentals)

 

THE CITY AS A WORK OF ART
by Donald J. Olsen - (London, Paris, Vienna)

 

LIVABLE CITIES OBSERVED
by Lennard & Lennard - (Excellent survey of cities around the globe, and what makes them livable)

 

HOW CITIES WORK
by Alex Marshall - (Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken)


THE CITY IN HISTORY

by Lewis Mumford - (Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects)

 

REDESIGNING CITIES
by Jonathan Barnett - (Principles, Practice, Implementation)

 

THE IMAGE OF THE CITY
by Kevin Lynch - (One of the most important modern contributions to large-scale design theory)

 

GOOD CITY FORM
by Kevin Lynch - (A major work exploring city form)

GREAT STREETS
by Allan Jacobs - (Excellent study of the greatest streets from around the world)

THE BOULEVARD BOOK
by Jacobs, MacDonald, & Rofe - (History, Evolution, Design of Multiway Boulevards. Follow up to 'Great Streets')

PLACE MAKING
by Charles Bohl - (Developing Town Centers, Main Streets, and Urban Villages)

COURTYARD HOUSING IN LOS ANGELES
by Stefanos Polyzoides - (A comprehensive study of this wonderful housing type)

HOW BUILDINGS LEARN
by Stewart Brand - (What Happens After They're Built)

THE AMERICAN PORCH
by Michael Dolan - (An Informal History of an Informal Place)

SIDEWALKS IN THE KINGDOM
by Eric O. Jacobsen - (New Urbanism and the Christian Faith)


 
 
 

TRANSIT VILLAGES IN THE 21st CENTURY
by Michael Bernick & Robert Cervero - (Comprehensive study of this exciting trend in land planning, including an extensive history of early American trains & trolleys)

BULLET TRAINS
by Brian Solomon - (A profile of the world's fastest trains)

SUPER-TRAINS
by Joseph Vranich - (Solutions to America's Transportation Gridlock)

NOTHING LIKE IT IN THE WORLD
by Stephen Ambrose - (The men who built the transcontinental railroad 1863-1869)

GETTING THERE
by Stephen Goddard - (The Epic Struggle Between Road and Rail in the American Century)

URBAN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
by Sigurd Grava - (Comprehensive Analysis of all Forms of Transportation)

BREAKING GRIDLOCK
by Jim Motavalli - (Moving Towards Transportation That Works)

ASPHALT NATION
by Jane Holtz Kay - (How the Automobile Took Over America, and How We Can Take It Back)

DIVORCE YOUR CAR
by Katie Alvord - (Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile)

BEYOND THE AUTOMOBILE
by Tabor Stone - (Reshaping the Transportation Environment)

 

SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
by Van der Ryn & Calthorpe - (A New Design Synthesis for Cities, Suburbs, and Towns)

 

ECO-CITY DIMENSIONS
by Mark Roseland - (Healthy Communities, Healthy Planet)

 

ECOLOGICAL DESIGN
by Van Der Ryn & Cowan - (A vision of how the living world and humanity can be reunited by making ecology the basis for design)

 

ECO-ECONOMY
by Lester R. Brown - (Building a New Economy for the Environmental Age)

 

STATE OF THE WORLD 2007
by the Worldwatch Institute - (Our Urban Future)


 
 
 
 
 
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