Best Urbanism Books

The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
4.29 average rating, · 20.6k ratings
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Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
Charles Montgomery
4.35 average rating, · 9.7k ratings
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Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
Jeff Speck
4.31 average rating, · 9k ratings
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The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
Roman Mars
4.03 average rating, · 7.8k ratings
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
Christopher W. Alexander
4.42 average rating, · 5.5k ratings
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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Henry Grabar
4.18 average rating, · 5.7k ratings
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
Mike Davis
4.21 average rating, · 5k ratings
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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
James Howard Kunstler
4.04 average rating, · 4.6k ratings
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The Image of the City
Kevin Lynch
4.05 average rating, · 4.3k ratings
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Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
Rem Koolhaas
4.24 average rating, · 3.8k ratings
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Thinking Architecture
Peter Zumthor
4.23 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
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How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
Peter Moskowitz
4.07 average rating, · 3.9k ratings
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Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
Charles L. Marohn Jr.
4.25 average rating, · 3k ratings
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Planet of Slums
Mike Davis
4.00 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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The Timeless Way of Building
Christopher W. Alexander
4.37 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
Ben Wilson
4.13 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
Conor Dougherty
4.07 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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Cities for People
Jan Gehl
4.34 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
Andrés Duany
4.12 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
Robert Venturi
4.01 average rating, · 2.6k ratings
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Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
Janette Sadik-Khan
4.26 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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Experiencing Architecture
Steen Eiler Rasmussen
4.03 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
Stewart Brand
4.35 average rating, · 1.9k ratings
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Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
Kenneth T. Jackson
4.04 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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