Urban Planning

One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and misshaping) of twentiethcentury New York (city and state) and makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, for almost half a century, the single most powerful man of o...

At the core of A Pattern Language is the philosophy that in designing their environments people always rely on certain ?languages,? which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a formal system which gives them coherence.This book provides a language of this kind. It will enable m...

A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the shortsightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding ...

Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."

A globetrotting, eyeopening exploration of how cities can—and do—make us happier peopleCharles Montgomery's Happy City is revolutionizing the way we think about urban life. After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource cr...

Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability. The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrianfriendly urban core. But in the typical American city, the car is still king, and downtown is ...

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The classic work on the evaluation of city form.What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion im...