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ideath's "Urban Design and Planning Books"

Recommended reading for thinking about cities
1. Green Urbanism: Learning From European Cities
by Timothy Beatley
  
2.
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 The Death and Life of Great American Cities
by Jane Jacobs
  
3. Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
by James Howard Kunstler
  
4. Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design
by Doug Kelbaugh
  
5.
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 Defensible Space; Crime Prevention Through Urban Design.
by Oscar Newman
  
6. Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century
by Peter Hall
  
7. The Economy of Cities
by Jane Jacobs
  
8. Great Streets
by Allan B. Jacobs
  
9. Good City Form
by Kevin Lynch
  
10. Design with Nature (Wiley Series in Sustainable Design)
by Ian L. McHarg
  
11. A Scientist in the City
by James Trefil
  
12. Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh
by Helena Norberg-Hodge
  
13. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition
by Marc Reisner
  
14. Cities People Planet: Liveable Cities for a Sustainable World
by Herbert Girardet
  
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Created by ideath on Aug 31, 2006.