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  • Nicolas A. Valcik The best urban and city planning books for practitioners and scholars Book cover of Introduction to Planning History in the United States Book cover of The History of the City Book cover of Planning the Good Community: New Urbanism in Theory and Practice Book cover of Building the Local Economy: Cases in Economic Development Book cover of Organizational Behavior and Public Management
  • Matthew Carmona The best books about urban design that inspired me Book cover of The Death and Life of Great American Cities Book cover of The Concise Townscape Book cover of The Image of the City Book cover of A New Theory of Urban Design Book cover of Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space
  • Ken Greenberg The best books that have helped me understand cities Book cover of The Death and Life of Great American Cities Book cover of How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City Book cover of The Wisdom of Crowds Book cover of Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution Book cover of The Joy Experiments: Reimagining Mid-sized Cities to Heal Our Divided Society
  • R Bruce Stephenson The best books to understand urban design for human health & happiness Book cover of Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing the American Landscape Book cover of The Culture of Cities Book cover of The Death and Life of Great American Cities Book cover of Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design Book cover of Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change
  • Alexander Stahle The best books on future cities and urban design Book cover of Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution Book cover of Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design Book cover of Tactical Urbanism: Short-Term Action for Long-Term Change Book cover of Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time Book cover of Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
  • Jordan Yin The best books about planning livable cities from the bottom up Book cover of Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life Book cover of Main Street: How a City's Heart Connects Us All Book cover of Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time Book cover of How to Turn a Place Around: A Placemaking Handbook Book cover of Missing Middle Housing: Thinking Big and Building Small to Respond to Today’s Housing Crisis
  • Conrad Kickert The best books about the exciting life of cities Book cover of The Death and Life of Great American Cities Book cover of Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space Book cover of Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention Book cover of The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History Book cover of The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
  • Roberta Brandes Gratz The best books on authentic urbanism Book cover of The Death and Life of Great American Cities Book cover of City: Rediscovering the Center Book cover of The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Book cover of The Economy of Cities Book cover of Getting There: The Epic Struggle between Road and Rail in the American Century
  • Sara Jensen Carr The best books about creating, building, and thinking about healthier places Book cover of Restorative Cities: Urban Design for Mental Health and Wellbeing Book cover of The Architecture of Health: Hospital Design and the Construction of Dignity Book cover of On Immunity: An Inoculation Book cover of Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Well-Being, Equity, and Sustainability Book cover of How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
  • Richard Kyte The best books for building stronger, healthier, friendlier communities Book cover of Celebrating the Third Place: Inspiring Stories About the Great Good Places at the Heart of Our Communities Book cover of Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community Book cover of Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design Book cover of Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity Book cover of Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
  • Müge Akkar Ercan The best academic books about critical urbanism and building sustainable communities Book cover of Collaborative Planning: Shaping Places in Fragmented Societies Book cover of Urban Regeneration and Social Sustainability: Best Practice from European Cities Book cover of Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition Book cover of Toward Sustainable Communities: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy Book cover of Sustainable Communities and the Challenge of Environmental Justice
  • Howard Yaruss The best books to inspire people to improve the world Book cover of The Grapes of Wrath Book cover of Good Economics for Hard Times Book cover of Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us Book cover of The Death and Life of Great American Cities Book cover of Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
  • William A. Fischel The best books that show why zoning isn’t as boring as you think Book cover of The Zoning of America: Euclid V. Ambler Book cover of Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America Book cover of Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulation Book cover of The Environmental Protection Hustle Book cover of Sprawl: A Compact History
  • Joan DeJean The best books on what makes a city great – and in particular on what makes Paris a great city Book cover of Court and Garden: From the French Hôtel to the City of Modern Architecture Book cover of The Death and Life of Great American Cities Book cover of The Seduction of Place: The History and Future of Cities Book cover of The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Paris Book cover of The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers
  • Lynne B. Sagalyn The best books to excite a passion for understanding cities Book cover of Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change Book cover of The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011 Book cover of Icons and Aliens: Law, Aesthetics, and Environmental Change Book cover of Capital City: New York City and the Men Behind America's Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860-1900 Book cover of Miami
  • Jason M. Barr The best books on the real estate titans who built the New York City skyline Book cover of The Empire State Building Book cover of Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers Book cover of Twin Towers: The Life of New York City's World Trade Center Book cover of Skyscraper Dreams: The Great Real Estate Dynasties of New York Book cover of High Rise: How 1000 Men and Women Worked around the Clock for Five Years and Lost $200 Million Building a Skyscraper
  • Bart Van Der Steen The best books on squatting and urban activism Book cover of Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution Book cover of The Autonomous City: A History of Urban Squatting Book cover of Public Goods Versus Economic Interests: Global Perspectives on the History of Squatting Book cover of Migration, Squatting and Radical Autonomy Book cover of Squatting in Europe: Radical Spaces, Urban Struggles
  • Jilly Traganou The best books on travel in premodern and modern Japan Book cover of Breaking Barriers: Travel and the State in Early Modern Japan Book cover of Tokyo, Form and Spirit Book cover of Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology Book cover of Discourses of the Vanishing: Modernity, Phantasm, Japan Book cover of Excursions in Identity: Travel and the Intersection of Place, Gender, and Status in Edo Japan
  • Michelle Facos The best books about Paris for foodies and historians Book cover of How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City Book cover of Paris to the Moon Book cover of Against Nature (À Rebours) Book cover of A Moveable Feast Book cover of L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home
  • Jonathan H. Rees The best books on the history of New York City Book cover of Up in the Old Hotel Book cover of The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Book cover of The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge Book cover of Gotham Book cover of New York Recentered: Building the Metropolis from the Shore
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