12 Best Urban Planning Books
Goal: Find the best Urban Planning books according to the internet (not just one person's opinion).
Method:
- Search for "best urban planning books" and study the top 6+ pages.
- Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
- Rank the results neatly here.
12 Best Urban Planning Books
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
by Jane Jacobs
Also recommended by:
The Power Broker
Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by Robert A. Caro
Also recommended by:
Happy City
Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
by Charles Montgomery
Also recommended by:
Walkable City
How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
by Jeff Speck
Also recommended by:
The Image of the City
by Kevin Lynch
A Pattern Language
Towns, Buildings, Construction
by Christopher Alexander
Also recommended by:
Patrick Collison, Naval Ravikant, Sam Altman, Stewart Brand, Liz Lambert, Gretchen Rubin
The City in History
Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
by Lewis Mumford
Also recommended by:
Cities for People
by Jan Gehl
Great Streets
by Allan B. Jacobs
The High Cost of Free Parking
by Donald Shoup
The Works
Anatomy of a City
by Kate Ascher
Walkable City Rules
101 Steps to Making Better Places
by Jeff Speck
Sources
- 1
6 fascinating books about urban planning – Modern Mrs Darcy
modernmrsdarcy.com
- 2
Top 20 Urban Planning Books (Of All Time) | Planetizen
planetizen.com
- 3
7 Urban Planning Books That Drove Us to Build Local Logic | Local Logic
locallogic.co
- 4
Top 10 Urban Planning and Development Books of 2022 - FindThisBest
findthisbest.com
- 5
Top 10 Urban Planning Books | Planning Tank
planningtank.com
- 6
Top 5 Urban design books (MUST READ)
urbanabroad.com
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