All Time Top 20 Urban Planning Books
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- The death and life of great American citiesJane Jacobs
- The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its ProspectsLewis Mumford
- The Practice of Local Government Planning (Municipal Management Series)Charles Hoch
- Civilizing American Cities: Writings on City LandscapesFrederick Law Olmsted
- The Image of the CityKevin Lynch
- The American City: What Works and What Doesn'tAlexander Garvin
- Good City FormKevin Lynch
- The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American DreamPeter Calthorpe
- Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth CenturyPeter Geoffrey Hall
- A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, ConstructionChristopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New YorkRobert A. Caro
- Edge City: Life on the New FrontierJoel Garreau
- The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made LandscapeJames Howard Kunstler
- The Urban VillagersHerbert J. Gans
- The Essential William WhyteWilliam Hollingsworth Whyte
- Design With NatureIan L. McHarg
- Nature's Metropolis : Chicago and the Great WestWilliam Cronon
- Planning in the USA: Policies, Issues, and ProcessesJ. Barry Cullingworth
- Silent SpringRachel Carson
- Great StreetsAllan B. Jacobs
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